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LOVE LETTERS

that Speech?

Get it Published!

,
Dottie Love, DTM

How do you bottle up your excitement to use it so overwhelmed, so captivated by the message
again after you have nailed a great speech? You I wanted to bottle it up to repeat it. When the
publish it! room wasn’t filled with cheers and shouts, the
The first speech I ever wrote about, I didn’t anticipation was pin-drop quality. I hear pins—

give, but I heard. This particular speech was not dropping to the floor but writing so intently
being given by Professor Muhammad Yunus. to capture the messages for the speakers.
He’s nicknamed the Banker to the Poor because After Professor Yunus speech I turned to
he only lends money to those who

are extremely poor. Customers of his
bank wouldn’t be able to walk into a
bank because they would not be credit
worthy. He told the story of lending as

little as $50 so that the person could
buy a goat to sell the milk to earn
money to feed their family. The type
of loans he provides are called “Micro

credit” and he would tell customers:
“You must repay so that I can use that same a friend, Allison Bennett,
money to help someone else like you”. who traveled with me to the
That simple philosophy of his is changing conference and said, “We

the world: He has over nine million borrowers, have got to document this
with a repayment rate of 99.6%. Everybody and bring back our experiences; possibly create
repays their loans. There isn’t a single traditional a newsletter for our club.” She agreed with me.
bank anywhere that has that type of repayment. I then turned to the person to the right of

Professor Yunus won the Nobel Prize for his me and said, “We are going to write a newsletter
banking philosophy. about this amazing conference.”
Professor Yunus was 1 of 10 speakers at the That person said to me, “If you do, I will
3-day Toastmasters Annual Convention. I was publish it in our magazine!” That person was

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