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Toastmaster meetings is what I owe to help others “When we love what we do the time flies, we
to find their voices. I do not think of myself as are in a state of flow. When the avocation and
an evangelist, but I am. I love what I do, and it is vocation meet, we are cooking.”

contagious. I have found my community service. When we are on fire with what turns us on,
I do not employ the hard sell to ask others to visit other people get a whiff of our excitement, and
or to join Toastmasters, but I use the soft sell. It they want some, too.
pays to be a straight talker by being honest and Warren Buffet has stated, that if you want to

direct with a velvet glove. up your value 50%, become a competent public
Often, I am asked, “If I go to Toastmasters, speaker. I am convinced.
will I be able to speak like you?” I say, not like Many people would like to overcome
me, but you’ll speak like you would like to! glossophobia.

At Portland Rotary Toastmasters, we Am I an evangelist? Guilty as charged. I have
are on the road to becoming “The Greatest never had so much fun learning how to become
Toastmaster Club in The Universe”, and our a storyteller, as a competent public speaker.
fellow Toastmasters members believe it because Terry Beard is a Portland, Oregon, businessman,

they believe in themselves and the vision. entrepreneur, Toastmaster, Rotarian, and author of
Reaching out to others, “each one reaches Squelched - Succeeding in Business and Life by
one,” the return is beyond one’s imagination. Finding Your Voice, an autobiography of his journey

We are building a community for others while from “never good enough” to success that was significantly
building another community for ourselves. enabled by his efforts to master public speaking. It was
We find our voices, in return, we have a published in 2017 and is available on Amazon.com. Visit
community through connectivity and those his book website at squelchedbook.com. You can reach him
that have found their voices, pass it on to the at terry@squelchedbook.com.

next person.
We can have it all. All we need to do is the
work. To quote University of Chicago Professor
Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi (Chick-sent-me-high),

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