Marisa Shadrick stands on a backyard patio-sized stage at the front of an intimidatingly gargantuan ballroom at Caesars Palace and begins delivering her speech to a hundred-plus eagerly awaiting ...

Three years ago, if someone had told me that I would one day win the First Prize at the Club level International Speech ...

Ninety years ago, when Toastmasters founder, Dr. Ralph C. Smedley held the first meeting in the basement of a YMCA in Santa Ana, California, only a few people showed up. Now, with membership exceeding ...

Spend 10 minutes with 31-year-old Olya Johnson and you’ll find it hard to believe that Russian is her native language. Software designers such as Johnson tend to be known more for technological ...

Toastmasters International, founded almost a century ago in 1924, has 364,000 dues-paying members in over 16,200 clubs in 145 countries. There are over 70 Toastmasters clubs already in Korea, offering ...

Toastmasters Holly Santara Farrow (left), Sarah Hambek, Danny Macia and Kimberly Parker were the top contestants in the Maui Area Speech Contests. They advanced to the state contests on Oahu on ...

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Toastmasters Maui Area 3 Speech Contest winners Chris Marzoeki (from left), Malia Bohlin and Daniela Fournier are shown with their awards. Maui Toastmasters clubs’ members competed at the Maui Area 3 ...