Welcome! Welcome!! Welcome!!
“Welcome! Welcome! Welcome!” That was the title of the email that I received on June 19, 2019, from DTM Jennifer Ghosh, District Director (Elect) 2019-2020, District 41. This was the official email recognizing that I was going to be Area Director (AD) for Area A1 for the term 2019-20. I was overjoyed to see that […]
Looking back at the year
When I started my journey as Area A6 Director on 1st July 2019, I had very little idea about what to expect from this leadership journey. Having joined Toastmasters Int’l in 2008, my journey of Toastmasters was more focused on lifting myself. When I was asked to take the challenge of leadership role, I thought […]
Feeling the pulse
I thought a lot about it before sharing my plan with the six Area Directors and club mentors in July 2019. I wanted to visit all clubs, first existing 18 and thereafter every new club as they opened. Learning from the AD role I took up two years ago, I wanted to understand directly from […]
Being a better storyteller with Toastmasters
I always had interesting stories to tell people: the incredible adventures in my childhood, the enormous pressure to score distinction in SLC, a terribly frightening encounter with scary wild jackals near my house, and heartbreaking denials by gorgeous girls. Wherever I told my stories, while sipping tea in a bakery, traveling long distances with my […]
The Leader in Me: Club VPE Experience
Around September of 2019, The Association of Chartered Accountants of Nepal under the strong leadership of President TM Ananda Raj Sharma Wagle came up with the idea of chartering ACAN Toastmasters club and had their first meeting accompanied and coordinated by fellow Toastmasters from Nepal Toastmasters Forum. Noticing the platform coming to my side of […]
A stress buster
To start with, Toastmasters, for me, was a stress buster. The weekly meeting of Kathmandu Toastmasters shifted from Monday to Tuesday and then to Friday and once again finally to Monday. My six years with the club was an amazing experience. Later in the year 2018, I realized the advantages of a local Toastmasters Club […]
Be a club officer to sharpen your leadership quality
In my early years as a member of Everest Toastmasters Club in around 2009, I was fully confident that my Toastmasters experience would improve my communication skill but was unsure of the positive impact on my leadership skill. As our Club’s SAA for the year 2010/11, I realized the importance of logistic planning for the […]
Rise and Shine!
Defeating the introversion and uneasiness, and suppressing the assemblage of shyness, I sought to extend the demand of an optimistic and confident speaker uncovering the riddle of an achiever. The inferiority that I had since I was a little girl glazed me with the belief that I was not good enough to be someone who […]
A More Confident Me
One day a friend of mine asked me, do you know what Toastmasters is? I swear I had no idea about Toastmasters. I promptly searched Google, and I knew that this was the right platform that I was searching for to boost up my confidence in the area of leadership, communication, and public speaking. With […]
Joining Toastmasters amidst the Lockdown
I always thought I was good at speaking until I joined Toastmasters- which is the wisest decision I made in lockdown. I craft educational experiences as a lecturer in the classroom for undergraduate and postgraduate students. Amid current circumstances, virtual classes have become a dominant trend in the contemporary scene. I was in the transformation […]