One week after my first Speak the Rainbow workshop for the Division A Toastmasters Conference in Paris, here are the three lessons I learnt: REPEAT the question! You heard the question. Before answering it, make[…]
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Month: September 2016
Blue
Your eyes, like your fingerprints, are unique. And so is your vision. Blue is the color of your unique vision. Everyone who speaks and performs has blue in their rainbow. Your voice, accent, and style[…]
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Green
Hope grows out of your words and optimism. Hope has its roots in faith in the future. Hope is a seed planted for tomorrow, an idea shared to make people grow, a goal set. Hope[…]
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Let your imagination run wild
What a week! Launching my blog, Speak the Rainbow, came faster than planned as, to my surprise, I learnt I will be presenting a workshop about rainbow speaking to all the Toastmasters at the Division[…]
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Rainbow Example 2 – Aleen Andreou
My second rainbow example comes from a Toastmasters club meeting and proves rainbow speaking is not only for world champions or international speech contests. Aleen Andreou shows us how a Table Topic Speaker can use[…]
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The WTF – a rainbow!
I have seen one rainbow this year. I was crossing a busy street in Paris when I suddenly looked up and stopped. Coming out of the metro station, I had not even noticed it had[…]
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Madrid! Mad, Fun & Sun
This weekend, I will be in Madrid for the Mad, Fun, and Sun Toastmasters District 59 Fall Conference. How could I not go? When I look at the bulletin board near my desk, I see[…]
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The Who and the Why
As a teen in Calgary, Canada, I fell in love with one of the greatest British rock groups of all time: The Who. And as a teen with energy to burn, I cranked the stereo[…]
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Rainbow Example 1 – Darren Tay
Let’s analyse the speech Darren Tay made to win the 2016 World Championship of Public Speaking. Does Darren’s speech Outsmart, Outlast look like a rainbow? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EjGCetdtknU Using my speak the rainbow colors, you see how[…]
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