Winter Park Toastmasters

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Winter Park Toastmasters Toastmasters International is a world leader in communication and leadership development. Members improve their speaking and leadership skills.

Come join us every Friday at the Winter Park Community Center for 90 minutes of personal and professional development. We begin each Friday morning at 7:30 sharp and conclude by 9:00a. Arrive 15 minutes early to give yourself the opportunity to meet our members and other visitors. This will also give you time to grab a continental breakfast and learn more about how Toastmasters can help you reach your personal and professional goals. To find us at the Winter Park Community Center, take either the Fairbanks Road exit from I-4. Travel east on Fairbanks to 17/92 (S Orlando Ave). Head north to W Morse Blvd (the Trader Joe's intersection). Follow Morse past Denning to S Capen Ave. We are located between Morse and New England Ave. Follow the white "Toastmasters" directional signs. While we are a professional group, we are NOT a networking group. Toastmasters is an organization dedicated to helping its members become better speakers, listeners, and leaders. Our focus is on your personal and professional development. Winter Park Toastmasters caters to professionals, so come dressed for success and get ready to rub elbows with a multitude of talented speakers and business leaders. Every week you'll have the opportunity to listen to four speeches from members working on developing their own communication skills. Our diverse membership includes everyone from accomplished Toastmasters sharpening their skills, to brand new Toastmasters just starting on their journey. In addition to the prepared speech segment, we provide everyone with a chance to improve their impromptu speaking skills during our Table Topics segment. Looking to get feedback on your speech? We conclude every meeting with an evaluation segment where each Toastmaster who delivered a prepared speech is provided with feedback and recommendations on what to continue doing, and what to improve to become a better communicator. We provide all of our members with mentors, manuals, and a safe environment to become the speaker, listener, and leader you always dreamed of becoming. Come dressed for success, and get ready to embark on your own Toastmasters journey. We look forward to meeting you and helping you become the communicator and leader you want to be. Club Officers,
Winter Park Toastmasters

10/15/2026

Congratulations to our last Friday award winners👏:

🏆🥇 Best Table Topics: Nicholas Sterling
🥈Runner-up: Helen Fredette

📝🥇Best Evaluator: Sean Esler

🗣🥇Best Speaker: Maria Garton
🥈Runner up: Amanda Saxton

And tomorrow… we will be having both the Humorous Speech Contest and the Evaluation Contest. 🙌

Join us at Winter Park Toastmasters for another morning of speaking, learning, connection, and fun.

⏰ Friday 7:30–9:00 AM
📍 Winter Park Community Center
☕ First-time guests enjoy complimentary breakfast!

Come see what Friday mornings with us are all about.

SAVE THE DATE! 10/30🎃👻 Our October Birthday Celebration is getting a SPOOKTACULAR twist! Join us for our last meeting of...
10/15/2026

SAVE THE DATE! 10/30
🎃👻 Our October Birthday Celebration is getting a SPOOKTACULAR twist!

Join us for our last meeting of the month 10/30 and stay afterward for birthdays, laughs, costumes, and a little friendly competition.

🏆👻🧙‍♀️🤡 Best Costume Award
🎃 Best Carved Pumpkin Award

Bring your best costume. Bring your best carved pumpkin. Bring your competitive spirit. 😄

We want to see creativity, personality, and maybe a little harmless Halloween drama.

📍 Winter Park Country Club
⏰ Meeting: 7:30–9:00 AM
🎉 Celebration immediately after

Who’s taking home bragging rights this year?

Come celebrate, compete, and have some fun with your fellow Toastmasters!

10/14/2026

🏆 Best Table Topics Winner: Nicholas Sterling! 🎤👏

Nicholas took a simple movie question and turned it into something completely unexpected: “forgiveness movies.” 😂

Instead of the usual revenge arc, he imagined stories where characters work through anger, choose forgiveness, and stop treating conflict like it always has to end in a fight. He even tied it back to friendship, loyalty, and the idea that maybe we’re a little too quick to discard people.

Funny, thoughtful, and memorable — congratulations, Nicholas!

🎯 TABLE TOPICS TIP:
Don’t be afraid to take the question somewhere deeper.

Nicholas answered the prompt, then used it as a launchpad for a bigger idea. That’s a great Table Topics strategy:
Answer → Expand → Make a Point → Land the Ending

The strongest impromptu answers don’t just fill the time — they give the audience something to think about.

10/13/2026

🎷 Our next Winter Park Toastmasters social is coming up!

Join us for a fun Jazz & Blues Evening at Blue Bamboo — good music, great company, and a chance to connect beyond our Friday meetings. 🎶✨

🗓Date: October 29th
⏰️Meet up time: 7:30pm
End: 9:30pm
📍The Blue Bamboo Center for the Arts
460 E. New England Ave. Winter Park, FL 32789

RSVP to Susana Fuertes: check email/roster for 📞 # or rsvp here.

10/09/2026

Tomorrow's word of the Day is Ambivalent (adj): having mixed feelings or contradictory ideas about something.

👏 Congratulations to last Friday’s winners!

🏆 Best Speaker: Lauren Mendelsohn
🥈Speaker Runner-Up: Meredith Meyers
📝 Best Evaluator: Jeff Osborn
🎤 Best Table Topics: Allex McGriff
🥈 Table Topics Runner-Up: Amy White

Every Friday brings new voices, fresh perspectives, and reasons to celebrate one another. 💙

🎤 Want to join the fun?
Join us every Friday at 7:30 AM at the Winter Park Community Center!

📍 721 W. New England Ave., Winter Park, FL
☕ First-time guests are welcome, and breakfast is on us!

Come for the speeches, stay for the connections!

10/07/2026

🏆 Best Table Topics Winner: Al​lex McGriff

Asked what he’d do first, Allex went straight for a Bugatti or Ferrari — definitely not a Lambo because “that’s for the younger generation.” 😂

Then came the pivot… back to an earlier question about who he’d haunt as a ghost.

His answer? His ex-girlfriends. 👻
Just to tell them: “You were wrong.” 😂

Quick thinking, a hilarious callback, and full commitment made this one unforgettable.

🎯 TABLE TOPICS TIP:
Answer your question first, then pivot with purpose.

Answer → Bridge → Callback → Finish

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Winter Park Community Center
Winter Park, FL
32789

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