How do you turn things around?

 'THE BIG SHOW' JUNE 2014

I feel a strong need to be a role model, I think I even met myself at

 age 13, the class clown/trouble maker.  Meeting yourself  is such

a new challenge!  This is when you reach down deep in your

experience as a Toastmaster, father, and teacher, because you

understand, you were there!

You understand the lack of a role model, maybe a parent who 

lacks education?   You must take the lead because you know

how hard life is without a education!

Rory Vaden opens his speech 'Slam' with his back to the audience.

"He asks have you ever been slammed?  I know i'm being judged

right now, because they say never turn your back on the

 audience." As he turns around he asks " how is it that you turn 

things around.
In his close he says,as he turns around
"and that's how you turn things around" !

So how do you turn things around? 

• First you open the door to public speaking
• You give our future leaders a voice
• Involve them in school speech programs
• Contact a Toastmasters club, and ask if this child can be
• a guest speaker?
• Find or ask a Toastmasters club to present the 
• Youth Leadership Program.
• Contact a  school or your students teacher.

I have seen how students, as young as nine, gain confidence and

 overcome this fear of public speaking.  Find out what the students
say.  http://goo.gl/w3hlUl 

We are the teachers of the future, please step- up. If you need more
information on how to start this program,
email me: york.ysta@gmail.com or search Youth Leadership at
www.toastmasters.org.
See you at 'The Big Show'  http://goo.gl/kYtLkR

York

Today I started my tenth Youth Leadership Program.  This group of 17, 8th graders will be my biggest challenge.
After I explained what Toastmasters was all about, I showed two videos from the 2007 Toastmasters International Speech contest.
Second place: Rory Vaden 'Slam'
First Place:Vikas Jhingran 'The Swami's Question'