Area 33 Director, 2024-25

  Toastmasters Club 1746748 on behalf of Diane W. Windingland, DTM We’re excited to announce our upcoming event: From Toastmaster to Professional Speaker & Podcaster Saturday, May 10 2:30–4:30 PM CDT Hybrid – In person at Eden Prairie Library and online via Zoom Cost: FREE! This event is a key membership-building opportunity for our club and part of Sarah Bateman’s High-Performance Leadership (HPL) project. We need your help to promote it! Subject: Great Free Event for Toastmasters & Aspiring Speakers From Toastmaster to Professional Speaker & Podcaster May 10 | 2:30–4:30 PM CDT | Free | Hybrid (Zoom & Eden Prairie Library) It’s a fantastic opportunity to learn how others have made the leap into paid speaking and podcasting. Check it out and register here: In-Person Registration Link Online Registration Link Hope to see you there!

  Area 33 Club Members, I enjoyed seeing many of you at a very well organized District 106 conference in Thunder Bay, Ontario.  Our district speech champions were Peter Tartaro (International) and Jim Emery (Tall Tales).  Congratulations to Carmen Barnes (Mills Early Risers) and Julianna Hoffman (CrossTown Talkers) for representing Division D well.  Daniel DeJoode (PowerTalk) was also among the featured speakers.  Anna Gaichas was elected Club Growth Director. It was announced that this would be the final D106 trio election and that there is a TI masterplan to make districts larger.  Likely, D106 combines with D6 which will expand our district back to roughly the 200 clubs from Minnesota and Thunder Bay.  I hope you, like me, were inspired by the conference. Are you are seeing huge benefits from participating in your clubs?  There are always leadership opportunities!  Can you get your club to the membership level that is required to be distin...