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MEET THE CHAMPIONS: NIKHIL BADWAIK & JAMES WANTZ

Nikhil Badwaik, 2020 District International Speech Champion, and James Wantz, 2020 District Speech Evaluation Champion, answer questions posed by the editor about who they are and their perspective why they do
what they do.

English speaking but later I wanted to validate realization that we all have a limited number of
my speaking from native speakers which is where days on earth. The only day we have is TODAY to

I was introduced to Toastmaster from my online work on our most important idea. Make it count.
research. I joined Toastmasters in 2015 and today
I am a member of Sporty Speakers Club. People always want to know how you prepared
for the District contest – do you have a special

Your Speech topic–what prompted you to choose routine you follow, certain lucky socks you wear
the one you did? or something like that?
Being a young nomad, I lived with the Haha, I wish I had some lucky socks. Three
stubborn attitude that I’ll always have tomorrow things I majorly focus on:

to work on my most important and valuable 1. Judges Ballot: After preparing my speech, I
IDEA. I filled my days, months and years video record my speech and judge it using
with least important things. After reading the the Judges Ballot.
book Die Empty by Todd Henry I came to the 2. I watch previous world champion speeches.

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