I have a policy of competing in all Toastmaster club speech contests. My theory is this: Someone’s going to win, so why not me? Since joining TOT three years ago, I’ve competed in five club competitions and won two of them, including the 2010 Humorous Speech Competition. Unfortunately, after winning the TOT International Speech Contest [...]

Wow, to compete at the District level among the top speakers out of 170 clubs around the Seattle metropolitan.  What a journey! I would not have believed it could ever happen to me. First, the club level competition for Table Topics. Not really any prep involved – just show up. Now, that is my kind of contest, [...]