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fellow W.I.F.S. board member introduced me to the wind come in like a breeze that gently gave
Toastmasters for Speaking Professionals (TSP) life to the small flame of my new brand. I created
President, Dorice Horenstein, by inviting me a new logo, communicated with members, and
to a Synagogue where she launched her first launched an entirely new website for a company

book, Moments of the Heart. She later asked me that I believed in. A company that is proudly
to join her Toastmasters club. Then, I attended inclusive, ethical, and welcomed the community
a Mastermind hosted by TSP member, Arlene with open arms in any way I could help them. My
Cogen, where I uncovered my core ethics new brand would inspire innovation, cultivate

and values. Suddenly the wind began to shift confidence, and help teams work together to lift
direction. everyone up. With the support of my community
Toastmasters found me on my hands and in TSP, I became immersed in an environment
knees, crying and asking what I had done when I of powerful dynamic individuals who inspired

had shut the doors on opportunity. The members me. These members empowered me to take a
of TSP gave me the inspiration I needed to forge chance on myself.
my own path built on the ethics and values that I have learned that the journey is just as
I grasped passionately by leading with my heart. important as the achievement because it gave me

Toastmasters taught me how to participate the power to realize I can do and be anything I
as an evaluator that gives constructive feedback want and help others to do the same leading by
while delivering digestible messages personally example. While I am still a work in progress, I
and professionally. I leaned in and found recognize that I could not have done it without

the direction and patience to communicate my community at TSP. My new company has
productively in a more kind and compassionate now launched and the foundation of its house
way. is strongly supported by the inspiring dynamic
The COVID-19 experience offered me the individuals who helped to lift it up. I am a

time and space to build the technical skills compassionate and inclusive individual, I am an
and practice through TSP for the new virtual embracer of positive intelligence, and thanks to
environment we find ourselves in. Instead of the right direction of the wind, I am a member
opening the doors, I opened the windows and let of Toastmasters.

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