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Ramona J. Smith is a dynamic international speaker who holds the prestigious title of the 2018 World Champion of Public Speaking. She is based out of Houston, Texas, and she is on a mission to inspire, connect and transform lives globally using the power of words (and she's really great at it too)!

In this episode, Ramona shares her journey to winning the World Champion title, and she also talks about what life was like pre- and post title. She also reveals that there was an unexpected, improvised moment during her World Champion Contest speech titled "Still Standing."

Ramona coaches Toastmasters speakers who are competing in the speech contests, and she also helps speakers outside the Toastmasters world become more authentic and genuine on stage. She graciously puts her coaching hat on for most of this episode and gives very helpful tips and suggestions for improving your presentations and speeches. 

While the World Champion of Public Speaking Contest happens once a year with one person winning the title, you can be a World Champion Speaker on every stage that you step on. They key is to practice, practice, and practice some more, and also continue to grow and try new things, even when you're nervous and scared. 

You can find out more about Ramona here: 

• Website - https://www.ramonajsmith.com/
• Youtube - https://www.youtube.com/@ramonajsmith1
• I Dream of Speaking Podcast - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hwycxI1Fw2w 
• LinkedIn - https://www.linkedin.com/in/ramona-j-smith-61390743/
• IG - @ramonajsmith1 - https://www.instagram.com/ramonajsmith1/
• Twitter - @LadybugSpeaker - https://twitter.com/LadybugSpeaker
• Tiktok - @ramonajsmith1 - https://www.tiktok.com/@ramonajsmith1
• Ramona's 2018 World Champion of Public Speaking Winning Speech - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7Tev43VNRIc

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LaTonya Bynum, MPH, CHES shares her humble story from being secretary to becoming a Rural Health Senior Analyst at the Arkansas Department of Health. She is a serial entrepreneur with a successful book and another on the way as well as a CHES guide app and her own company. She talks about her path from undergraduate with tips on getting exempt from the GRE to get into her Master of Public Health degree. She highlights the two important transferable skills that accelerated her public health career that she learnt from ToastMasters International - communication and leadership - and how that transformed her life. She then talks about her transition to starting her own company and transferring her public health skills to the tech field. She is a true public health entrepreneur.

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New ways — Journalism and Media Studies Lecturer Hannah Tarindwa Radio TI | Where Leaders Talk Hannah Tarindwa tells Elizabeth Viljoen about her passion for teaching, writing, reading, talking, travelling - LIFE. As a lecturer she finds creative ways to stimulate critical thinking and exposes her students to all kinds of new things - new experiences, new books, new ways of doing things, new ways of thinking. She always looks at life from different angles. As the Vice President of Public Relations, Hannah vigorously promotes her Windhoek club, Tarentaal Toastmasters, on the Southern African Toastmasters Facebook group, showing fellow Toastmasters how it can be done - with video clips and lively conversations.

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In this episode of Creating Culture, Elizabeth Viljoen interviews Adolph Kaestner, a Distinguished Toastmaster who has been District 74 Governor in 1988/89. He joined Toastmasters in 1983 and for 37 years has been instrumental in the growth of Toastmasters Southern Africa. After years in banking, Adolph became a Professional Speaker and Trainer. Throughout his career he has mentored other leaders and speakers, and considers Toastmasters as excellent training for any career. Although retired, he is still actively involved in Toastmasters and his community as a mentor and an inspirational speaker. His mantra is: 'What gets recognised, gets repeated.'

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Radio TI | Where Leaders Talk Nikki Quinn, current Toastmasters International District 74 Director, is interviewed by Elizabeth Viljoen on Radio TI's podcast program 'Creating Culture.' Our Southern African District Director answers important questions about the annual Council Meeting and International Prepared Speaking Contest - the highlight of the local Toastmasters's year. Due to measures implemented to prevent the spread of Covid-19, the important meeting and contest will be held online. What is the vision if the District Council meeting? Why can't the meeting be postponed? What District business must be conducted? Who will attend? May I as a regular member attend? And most importantly: Will the meeting be fun?

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Radio TI | Where leaders talk Elizabeth Viljoen of Creating Culture interviews Erich Viedge, who has been a Toastmaster for many years and has been the Toastmasters International District 74 Director for 2011/12. He is a business improvement coach, an international speaker, and a consultant focusing on business improvement, leadership, innovation, team effectiveness and motivation. Erich is also a polyglot. The difference between a polyglot and a multilingual person is that a polyglot loves languages for their own sake, while a multilingual person learned languages due to external factors. How has Toastmasters influenced his career? Who are his mentors? How do we inspire through speaking? How will digital media such as podcasting and online meetings shape our culture?

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Radio TI | Where Leaders Talk In this episode of 'Cappuccino Catch-ups and Meaningful Mochas,' Teresa Huber interviews Rachelle Da Silva from the Christian Counselling Centre in Harare, Zimbabwe. Rachelle is confident in the skills and techniques that she uses to bringing out positive outcomes. Her work as a counsellor has brought so much joy in herself and in those she works with. Through this passionate work, she has been able to recognise miracles that helped around her. If anyone needs to speak to Rachelle, please contact her through the website.

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Radio TI | Where Leaders Talk In this episode of 'Creating Culture,' Elizabeth Viljoen of One Hour Toastmasters Club, Auckland, interviews fellow Radio TI podcaster, Wendy Khumalo (Accenture Toastmasters Club, Johannesburg). They talk about the Toastmasters rituals Wendy loves most, and how Wendy wants to create culture in her community. Covid-19 is shaping a new world, and the kind of play we choose will determine how our future culture will look. Hannah Tarindwa from Tarentaal Toastmasters Club in Windhoek, Namibia, is the guest podcaster. She talks about our processes that are more important than our goals.

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Radio TMI | Where Leaders Talk In this eighth episode of 'Cappuccino Catch-ups and Meaningful Mochas' Teresa Huber of Radio TMI (Radio Toastmasters International, District 74) interviews Chris Fourie (teacher and coach), Nicole Grant (special needs teacher and coach), two Zimbabwean teachers. They talk about the support teenagers need from their coaches, teachers and parents, and touch on the problem of teenage suicide.

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Radio TMI | Where Leaders Talk In the second episode of 'Creating Culture,' Elizabeth Viljoen interviews fellow Radio TMI podcaster Teresa Huber of Executive Toastmasters Club in Harare, Zimbabwe. They talk about overcoming fears such as talking in front of people or becoming a leader, and how Toastmasters help them to find their voices. They discuss how they are creating culture through play (such as the rituals during a Toastmasters club meeting). Hannah Tarindwa of Tarentaal Toastmasters in Windhoek, Namibia, is a guest podcaster on the show. Hannah talks about our community responsibilities in an age of fear.

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Radio TMI | Where Leaders Talk In this sixth episode of 'Cappuccino Catch-ups and Meaningful Mochas' Teresa Huber of Radio TMI (Radio Toastmasters International, District 74) interviews Tinashe Kingsley Mariga. As the uncle of a nephew who lost his parents at a young age, he stepped into the role of parenting. During this interview he talks about his role as a single dad and shares tips such as how to attentively listen to teenagers and how to help them with problem solving. Toastmasters helped to form him into the person he is today - and through Toastmasters he practiced exactly those skills he needed to become such a good parent. Leadership and listening skills are some of the transferable skills we need in everyday situations like parenthood.

Toastmasters International Youth Leadership Program https://www.toastmasters.org/education/youth-leadership-program

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Radio TMI | Where Leaders Talk In this fifth episode of ""Cappuccino Catch-ups and Meaningful Mochas"" Teresa Huber of Radio TMI (Radio Toastmasters International, District 74) interviews three Zimbabwean schoolgirls who found a voice by participating in youth clubs and learned how to cope with peer pressure.

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Radio TMI – Where leaders talk. In this episode of Coffee With Toastmasters by Wendy Khumalo, Emma El-Karout, a former HR Director and founder of One Circle, talks about One Circle, hard career choices, career changes and unemployment solutions. She also gives her word of advice to job seekers and professionals seeking change and new purpose. Emma El-Karout is a Johannesburg-based future work innovator who founded One Circle, an online platform connecting businesses with freelance HR experts, from around the world and on-demand. As an HR Director she worked with some great individual talent, but always found specialist gaps in the corporate HR teams she led, which she had to plug with expensive consultant resources provided by big brands. Expecting smores and double chocolate chips for these fees, she normally got vanilla. Emma knew there had to be a better way for her to access the specialist HR expertise she needed, at real market prices. As an ex-consultant herself, she knew as well that there’s no shortage of specialised talent globally. A way to bring those project opportunities closer to where the people are would be a winning formula. Combined with her belief that the new workforce would be based on an on-demand model, when people would decide when, where and for how much they worked, she created One Circle to enable direct relationships between HR professionals and the corporate leaders in need of their skills by leveraging technology and cutting out the middleman. Emma aspires to combat few of the major societal issues in South Africa, being unemployment, gender and age bias, and the retention of experienced workers in the economy post-retirement.

Learn more about One Circle https://onecirclehr.com

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Radio TMI – Where leaders talk. In this second episode of Coffee With Toastmasters by Wendy Khumalo, Yoke Van Dam, Distinguished Toastmaster and CEO at Y-Connect shares her expert insights on Emotional Intelligence. In the beginnings the episode, she talks about her journey and experience in Toastmasters International giving a full insight on how she learned about Toastmasters, her involvement with the district and inspirations drawn to her professional life through Toastmasters International. She then discusses the concept of emotional intelligence. What it means to her, why she specializes in this subject and how we can all act better and become better with the application of emotional intelligence. Yoke is a catalyst for change, whether in a person, team or an entire company. She is a qualified behavioural change and leadership coach, public speaker, facilitator, trainer and sales consultant with more than 16 years’ experience. Specialising in neuro linguistic programming, Yoke trains and coaches business leaders, executives, sales teams and individual staff members the tangible skills that can deliver the outcomes they want. She also presents keynotes in corporate and other settings to bring about positive change. Yoke has written for Entrepreneur magazine and contributes articles on emotional intelligence to the Female Entrepreneurship Collective. The video of her talk at Disrupt HR in Sandton, Johannesburg, in August 2018 became the most watched worldwide in the two weeks following the event. She is often interviewed on Mix FM and Radio Today.

To learn more about Yoke Van Dam’s business, Y-Connect, click on this link. https://www.y-connect.biz/

To be a part of our Toastmasters International community click on the link below and find a club close to you. https://www.toastmasters.org/find-a-club

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