Destination 101

This “pitstop edition” focuses on techniques for audience participation, and to involve your audience in your presentations. Join host Birgit Starmanns to hear about tips you can use for both live and online audience interactions!

This "pitstop edition" focuses on techniques for audience participation, and to involve your audience in your presentations. Join host Birgit Starmanns to hear about tips you can use for both live and online audience interactions!

This “pitstop edition” focuses on tips for toasting! Yes, Toastmasters can help you with tips on how to toast your friends and colleagues, especially now that we are in the holiday season. Join host Birgit Starmanns to find out! 

This “pitstop edition” focuses on things to think about as you prepare to move from an exclusively virtual meeting environment to taking the next step to being in-person again – through hybrid meetings. Should you stay virtual? Should you go hybrid? And what should you consider and investigate before going hybrid? Join host Birgit Starmanns to find out!

Continuing our new short format, this "pitstop edition" focuses on quick tips and tricks for Toastmasters and non-Toastmasters alike; listen in as host Birgit Starmanns discusses Zoom backgrounds, from the real to the virtual, and some creative ways in which Zoom backgrounds can be used.

In a new short format, the "pitstop editions" of Destination 101 will focus on quick tips and tricks for Toastmasters and non-Toastmasters alike. Listen in as host Birgit Starmanns, DTM (Distinguished Toastmaster) discusses ways in which you can improve your eye contact in Zoom meetings, and ways to practice and self-evaluate.

Birgit Starmanns, DTM, producer and host, welcomes Ashley Gonzales, who is part of the Club Growth Team in Toastmasters District 101. We discuss why members may want to start a new club and the benefits they can gain by doing so. Ashley also introduces the new 101% Toastmaster program that will provide members with assistance in creating new clubs. #District101​​ #Toastmasters​​ #District101Toastmasters​​ #Destination101​​ #Destination101podcast​​ #podcast​​ #D101ToastmastersPodcast​​ #ToastmastersInternational #ClubGrowthToastmasters #NewToastmastersClubs #101PercentToastmasters

Birgit Starmanns, DTM, D101 Public Relations Manager, welcomes two guests from bi-lingual and foreign language clubs: Brian Dugay from Silicon Valley JETS (Japanese-English) Toastmasters, and Ashok Handigol from Vakpatugalu. They are joined by Yifang Xu, D101 Club Growth Director. Hear about how they started their clubs, structure their meetings, interact with the home countries of those languages, plans for post-pandemic meetings - and even hear all participants speak a message in their native tongues!

Birgit Starmanns, DTM, D101 Public Relations Manager, welcomes our special guest, Toastmasters International President Richard E. Peck, DTM, and is joined by District Director Vaibhav Singh, DTM. We discuss Richard's Zoom-setting as he visits clubs globally and hear several anecdotes; the effects of the pandemic and what we learned; to the recovery and its impact on how Toastmasters meetings may take place in the future. Richard also shares how passions of drag racing motorsport and nature photography relate to Toastmasters.

Episode 09 features Birgit Starmanns, DTM, D101 PRM, speaking with the District 101 Spring Conference keynote speaker, John Bates. John speaks about his Toastmasters experience, and how he found his niche in his journey to become a speaker and executive speech coach. He also provides insight into what it takes to be a TED speaker. He also provides a quick insight into his keynote sessions and workshop that he will present at the conference. They are joined by Shyamala Sista, DTM, PQD, and Kari Lyne Morgan, District Conference Digital Moderator.