Talk of the Town Toastmasters Club #2555

08/31/2023

Time to speak up! Join Talk of the Town Toastmasters on Wed., Sep. 6 at 6:30 pm on Zoom [see first comment for Zoom URL] and listen to some first-class speeches and have some first-class fun!

05/08/2023

Join us on Wednesday, May 10, for another meeting of Talk of the Town Toastmasters! Our virtual format makes it easy to get involved no matter where you are. Reach out here if you have questions. Send us a message to get the Zoom link.

See you Wednesday at 6:30 pm ET.

01/10/2022

Join us virtually this Wednesday, January 12th @ 6:30PM for our first meeting of the year! The theme, "New Beginnings", reflects our intention for a fresh start to a fabulous year of fun, growth, and friendship! Email Ruth at [email protected] for the Zoom link! We can't wait to see you there!

07/25/2021

Join us virtually on Wednesday, July 28th at 6:30 PM as we hear amazing speeches from members Sandy Teska and Graciela Heintz! Theme: Movie Night! Email Jennifer Winton at [email protected] for details on how to join our virtual Zoom meeting!

03/06/2020

Join us on the 2nd and 4th Wednesday every month at the Mauldin Community Center at 6:30pm.

02/14/2020

Here are some of the sights from Wednesday's meeting. We will have our evaluator contest at the next meeting, on Wednesday, February 26 @ Mauldin Cultural Center. Congratulations to Debbie Letters for Best Table Topics. We had 3 guests, Linda Burton and Dustin and Tiffany Kimball. Hope to see more of you.

12/15/2019

We ended 2019 with a bang!!! Great speeches and friendly guests. Congratulations to Sharon Durgin for Best Speaker and Alison Boyce for Best Evaluator.

11/11/2019

05/04/2019

Zena Grahm, Ruth Witty and Rolande Sumner represented TOTT at the Lockheed Martin and Peachtree Youth Leadership Speech Contest today as guest judges.

05/04/2019

Congratulations to Sharon Durgin for being the 2nd place winner of the Division G District 58 Elevaulator Contest at the International Speech and Evaluation Contests today. She is representing the Flour club.

04/19/2019

March 27, 2019: Talk of The Town congratulations Rolande S Sumner and Tacey Bailey for winning the evenings Evaluator and Speaker ribbons for the evening. We want to also than Naeem Ahmad for being such a fun Toastmaster of the Day.

06/17/2018

Thoughts from my friend, Kevin Parent (shared with his permission):

One thing of many I've learned in Toastmasters #3.

One of the biggest moments in the journey of many Toastmasters comes when they risk going it without notes.

'But, what if I forget my next line?' you ask. Don't. It's the wrong question.

You will forget something. If not this speech then in another one. But that moment when you forget is when you really become a speaker. You cannot rely on notes and connect with the audience. If your lips are saying one line while your brain is buffering up the next line, you're not communicating, or at least you're not communicating what you think you are.

The question isn't 'What if I forget' It's 'How am I going to handle it?'

It'll probably help if you try to answer that before the speech, but ultimately, you won't know until it happens. And that moment, like it or not, when you realise you've forgotten what you had planned to say next, you're going to be real.

And the more opportunities you give yourself to be real, on stage, before a group of people, the more you're going to grow.

Using notes means you don't trust yourself. And if you don't trust yourself, why should your audience?

So you can use your notes to give a pitch-perfect performance, or you could give an imperfect speech where you trust yourself enough to forget something. I know which kind of mistake I'd rather watch a speaker make.

And the more you do it, the more you'll forget lines, and you'll not only learn how to deal with that without people realising you've forgotten anything, but you'll also learn to make speeches that don't have to be memorised.

Speak from your heart, not your working memory.