Category: Meetings
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Meeting – Road Trips
July 18, 2023 Our July 18 Road Trip đŁď¸ meeting was a fun journey. Speaker Giyora Barzilay shared his speech, A Worrier’s Choice. He brought us all the way all the way back through his family history as worriers in this moving story about how worry can cause you to miss life as it happens…
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Meeting – Follow the Sun
July 12, 2023 âFollow the Sunâ was our theme for July 12 meeting, and it was luminous. Preetha Menon shared a leader profile of Virginia Holsinger, an unsung hero of food science. As a chemist and nutritionist, she improved and saved lives by developing milk substitute and powdered drink mix to relieve lactose intolerance and…
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Meeting – Ignite the Light
July 5, 2023 đ âIgnite the Light,â in honor of the 4th of July was the theme of our July 5 meeting. đ In her speech,đť âChange is Beautifulâ, Anushree Ramanath shared her journey from her hometown to the US to pursue her doctoral degree and her career as a researcher. Her story was full…
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Meeting – Follow Your Excitement
June 14, 2023 Our  meeting began with Maurya providing an interesting leader profile of Lisa Su, the CEO of AMD, who provides inspiration to all in her company in the way she models servant leadership. We also conducted our annual Toastmaster elections where we elected Sarah Tang (VP Education), Helen Josephine (VP Public Relations) Ramya Radhakrishnan…
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Meeting – Adventure Time
June 7, 2023 Our new club emprise: a New Member Induction led by our VPM, Ramya. We officially welcomed Ruhina, Jun, and Gail as club members. Abhijeet led a workshop, “How to Craft a Speech” and told us to start in Media Res, bare our souls, and dig deep! Table Topics Master Liz asked two of our…
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Meeting – Freedom
May 24, 2023 At our second hybrid meeting, Freedom was the theme. Ramya presented the Leader Profile on Maria Telkes, the Sun Queen. Priya taught from experience as a club mentor and sponsor how to set up a successful corporate Toastmaster club. Ruhina gave us a road map to help manage change in our lives. Table…
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(Hybrid!) Meeting – I Hope You Dance
May 17, 2023 We hosted our first hybrid meeting! Abhijeet invited members local to Santa Clara to bring their laptops to his workplace, Nvidia. From there we used our personal laptops to sign into our individual Zoom accounts, and designated one laptop at the front of the room for presenting. Our Toastmaster Liz welcomed both our…
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Meeting – Stop & Smell the Roses
May 3, 2023 Our May 3rd meeting began with an interesting leader profile by Farryl who spoke about Indira Nooyi, the CEO who revolutionized Pepsico. Indira Nooyi’s goal was to improve the healthiness of the food manufactured by Pepsico and to support environmental sustainability.  During her speech, Saumya described our increased dependence on smartphones by interweaving humorous encounters with…
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Meeting – Gardening
April 26, 2023 We had a succulent meeting full of plant friends and gardening thoughts led by Toastmaster Risa. Priya presented on Melanie Perkins, CEO of Canva — the reason why we have nice flyers. Liz gave a touching tribute to her mentors and role models. Abhijeet asked if himself and us “are you a…
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Meeting – Earth Day
April 19, 2023 SamJam gave tribute to her great-grandmother’s bravery in hiding Jews from persecution during WWII. Abhijeet told a harrowing story of his fight with stillness at a recent meditation retreat. Ramya rallied us at Women L.E.A.D. to up our game and get financially literate. Risa led a rousing round of Table Topics that…
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