03/24/2026 Club Meeting Minutes

Meeting called to order: 7:00

Attendance:

	Alex	x	Jacque		Niki L.
x	Alicia	x	John	x	Nikki M.
	Art	x	Justine		Rayven
x	Angela		Lana		Sehee
	Art		Larry
	Audrey		Lien		Inactive
x	Ben	x	Mariah		Michael M.
x	Cami		Matthew		Andrew
x	David	x	Michael B.		Diana
x	Don		Mike B.		Eddie
x	Elise	x	Michelle		Pietro
x	Emi		Mona		Rahul

Guests:

Amy		1st Visit or	x	Return Visitor
Hediah	x	1st Visit or		Return Visitor

Meeting Theme: Speech-a-thon

Functionaries:

• Presiding Officer: Mariah H.

• Toastmaster: Emi B.

• Timer: Nikki M.

  
  

Speeches:

• Speaker #1: Michelle T. and Speaker #2: Alicia K.

  Speech Title: Which Pet is Better: Dogs or Cats?

  Path: Visionary Communication ; Motivational Strategies Level #: 3; 1 Project Name: Connect with Your Audience; Writing a Speech with Purpose Summary: Alicia and Michelle hosted a debate each trying to convince the audience that in Alicia's case, dogs are better than cats. In Michelle's case cats are better than dogs.
  

• Speaker #3: Don R.

  Speech Title: What is Love

  Path: Presentation Mastery Level #: 3 Project Name: Connect with Storytelling Summary: Don shared some of his own stories with about love. Transactional love is not real love, most examples we have in front of us are not real love. What Don has learned? Love is a verb, is the action of love.

  
  

• Speaker #4: Jacque B.

  Speech Title: It's hard to Wait

  Path: Presentation Mastery Pathway

  Level #: 2

  Project Name: Connect With Your Audience

  Summary: Jacque shared with us how se got her dream job by just letting go and trusting in God to unfold the very best for you.

• Speaker #5: Elise R.

  Speech Title: The Glow Must Go on...My Obsession with Skincare Products

  Path: Effective Coaching

  Level #: 1

  Project Name: Introduction to Vocal Variety & Body Language

  Summary: Elise shared how essential skincare is to not just her skin, but what the routine provides her mentally and emotionally. In addition, the importance of self-care and how your own self-care and self-confidence affects others, too.

• Speaker #6: Justine R.

  Speech Title: Claustrophobia

  Path: Presentation Mastery

  Level #: 2

  Project Name: Effective Body Language

  Summary: Justine shared how she developed the fear of claustrophobia. How she defines the word.

• Speaker #7: Mariah H.

  Speech Title: The Art of Picking Something to Say

  Path: Presentation Mastery Pathway

  Level #: 4

  Project Name: Successful Club Series

  Summary: Mariah discussed how to derive speech topics and how you can find inspiration for your speeches. She also discussed best practices for different scenarios and different speech timings to help her audience be more successful in speeches.

• Speaker #8: Angela

  Speech Title: Smile

  Path: Impromptu Speech

  Level #: n/a

  Project Name: n/a

  Summary: Angela took us on a journey about how smiling thought of as an expression, is not nearly as important as the physical action of smiling which helps secrete hormones and truly make you feel happy.

Table Topics:

• Michael B.

• John C.

• David H.

Club Business & Announcements:

• Open house coming up on April 14th. A potluck; the last one for the Toastmaster's year.

• April 7th; an evening social event; event itself TBD.

• Division contest this Saturday- go and support Matthew as our contestant!

• Reviewed schedule for next week.

• Pay your dues- Due on the 30th.

• Club officer election will be the second meeting in May. Open roles are: President, Membership, Mentorship, PR, Secretary.

Meeting Adjourned: 8:29pm

Minutes taken by: Justine R.