SHILLING SPEAKERS

Philippa’s wise thoughts on how to help people; Violeta’s challenges on giving a speech when receiving an award; Andrea Righi, incoming Division A Director in D91, is our special guest - a big football fan and a guitar aficionado. Philippa’s Soap Box on Bureaucracy.

This week Violeta reflects on TM Pathway; Philippa shares her thoughts on Leadership; our special guest this week is Gerard Manix, DTM, past D71 District Director reveals his biggest challenges in Toastmasters and what outlets he enjoys ; Violeta is on the soap box talking about Personal Branding and why it is important.

Philippa shares her journey to being elected a Councilor, Paul talks about upcoming conference problems, Violeta reveals her thoughts on AI. Our special guest is Sam Warner, DMT and TEDx speaker, who shares her experience on Youth Leadership Programme and TEDx.

Violeta is trying to get back the balance in life, Philippa enjoys living in the suburbs, Paul debates about storytelling. Our special guest this week is Phillip Khan-Panni, a Toastmaster, who won the District 71 title a record four times and the Silver Medal in the World Championship of Public Speaking.

Paul, Phillipa and Violeta debate on Politics of Water in different countries.

Our special guest is Ciaran Blair, a DTM and Humorous speech contest District winner. His winning speech on YouTube has had 83000 viewings in 80 countries. Just search for Ciaran Blair on YouTube, after you have listened to teh podcast, of course.

Violeta and Philippa celebrate our first year of podcasts with Paul O'Mahony, one of the launch team, Anthony Garvey, President of Shilling Speakers on the soapbox and our very special guest Ted Corcoran, author and former International President of Toastmasters International.

Ted's three published books are "The Leadership Bus" (2008), "Hiring a Car and Walking After It" (2019) and " A Comprehensive History of Toastmasters in Great Britain and Ireland" (2022).

You can find Ted's speech "How to Write a Speech in 10 Minutes on You Tube.

Don't take your speaking voice for granted. Listen to learn how to keep it is good condition. Plus what it can feel like to take part in Table Topics during a Toastmaster's meeting and a real-life story from Violeta.

Pat and Philippa discuss the value of mistakes and Pat takes a lighthearted view on the concept of infinity for non-mathematicians.

In Part 2, they follow up on Anthony Garvey's contest speech "Come to the Edge" and link it into Carol Bausor's ideas on limiting beliefs. 

In Part 3, Philippa is on the soapbox discussing the knotty problem of water supply in the UK. 

Pat and Philippa discuss the value of poetry and then their favourite poems and Pat recites Yeats's The Stolen Child and then analyses it.

Poems mentioned

Aedh Wishes for the Cloths of Heaven, by W. B. Yeats

Violeta shares some of the good material to be found in Toaster magazine. Pat talks about his delayed evaluation project in his Masters of Evaluation Club and what he wants to achieve from it. Eric shares some thoughts about getting into business as a presenter and facilitator. Pat explains why he believes asking better questions enriches your life.