Welcome To My Blog!

Welcome to my blog!

 

I hope you will join me as I explore the speaking world as well as the networking world.  I put these two items together because, although the ability to speak in public is important to advancing in your career or business, networking makes the opportunities to speak possible.  Networking also gives you the ability to find those you need to help advance your public speaking abilities.

 

I know this, because it is networking that gave me the ability to find the people necessary to help me win the Toastmasters District 38 Public Speaking Championship.  It is also networking that got me ready to compete in the Toastmasters Region 7 Speech contest.

 

On this blog, I plan to share with you all of the secrets I have learned in my trip to the Regional Contest in this past year as well as the secrets I still have to learn as I work my way toward the International Speech Contest Championship.

 

I will be sharing with you all of the networking skills necessary for anyone to become successful at what they want to do.  I used my network to get to where I ended up in the speech contests and I am continuing to build a network to help me to get farther.

 

I must confess, I am still learning all of these skills, myself, but, then again, I guess I will always be learning.  This blog will be useful to me, because through teaching others how to be successful in these realms I will learn more which will help me to collect the information and contacts I need to reach my ultimate goal of being a professional speaker.

 

Between mid-February and June 28th of this year, I had the honor to be on a public speaking journey in which I have learned more about public speaking then I had in the previous four years.  In my first few blogs I will write about my adventures over that time and on the way, I hope to be able to impart some knowledge of public speaking to you.

 

Some of the people I’ve learned from were; Pat Rocchi, three time winner of the Toastmaster District 38 Speaking Championship; Jean Shippos, 2003 International Speech Championship Contender and Lance Miller, 2005 Toastmasters International Speech Championship winner.

 

I learned from them as well as many experienced speakers and speech coaches.  The knowledge they gave me was priceless and I believe you will agree.

 

So, please join me over the next few weeks as I tell the story of my trip to the Toastmasters Region 7 Speech Contest.