Page 30 - January 2019 Voices

LEANNA LISTENS

I stay in Toastmasters because it gives me may not know we have. That’s what happened
a place to rehearse presentations and to keep for me with poetry. I started writing a bit of

my coaching skills sharp. I love giving back poetry in the nineties as I experienced brain
to the organization that helped me in my first balances in Edu-K. I got more focused on it when
career. My Toastmaster group, Jefferson State I began to write my book. Whenever I was not
Toastmasters, has helped me launch my book, sure what what I wanted to present in the book,

Design and Live the Life YOU Love: A Guide for writing poetry bridged one chapter to the next.
Living in Your Power and Fulfilling Your Purpose. I am part of a poetry circle that helps me create
I emphasize YOU in the title because I invite a poem about once a month.
the reader to recognize that they can choose to
create from childhood conditioned behaviors Congratulations on your recent DTM.

and beliefs or from their Greatest Self. What would you say to others who would
My Toastmaster community continues to like to achieve that recognition?

be there for me as I explore other ways to teach Toastmasters is a wonderful resource that

what I write about. It is a place where I practice rewards us in many ways. Letters after our name
being my Best Self, since I am learning, one day is one small piece of it. I don’t participate in
at a time what that really means in life. Toastmasters for the recognition. I get recognized
Tell us about your poetry. as I do what I love within the Toastmaster

My poetry opens each chapter of my book, community and incorporate my Toastmaster
inviting a more whole-brain approach to skills into my life. This and lots of inner healing
learning what is read. One of the benefits of work has enabled me to find my voice, self-
doing activities that activate a whole-brain way appreciation and a deep level of compassion

of being in the world is that it awakens gifts we for life.

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