2 mins read Home is not a place, home is a feeling. In the Summer of 2016, I was seriously thinking of moving out of Wroclaw. It was not because of the city, I still loved the city, it was because the people that made this...
The key to authenticity starts with I
3 mins read I've learned that people will forget what you said, people will forget what you did, but people will never forget how you made them feel. - Maya Angelou One complaint that I hear the most often about speakers from audience is, “he was fake”, “she was acting”, “they were NOT AUTHENTIC”. Authenticity as a speaker means, being...
Two brothers and a man from faraway land
3 mins read Once upon a time, in the south of Asia, lived two brothers. They were same but also very different. They had the same skin color, they dressed similarly, they sang the same music, spoke the same language. Yet there were some differences. One...
Do you lead by example OR you let examples of others lead?
2 mins read “Setting an example is not the main means of influencing others, it is the only means.” ~ Albert Einstein July 2017, was my first month as President of my Toastmasters club WrocLove Speakers. It had already been few weeks for me as President...
To Memorize or Not to Memorize
4 mins read Speaker A: In the middle of giving a spectacular speech, he suddenly stops talking, his face looking blank, his hands shaking nervously. Speaker B: He doesn't know when to stop. He seems to keep talking and talking and talking long beyond anyone is...
Preparing a speech in 10 mins
3 mins read Imagine your boss comes to you and tells you to get ready to present the strategy of your department, that you had been working on for weeks, in 10 mins from now, to the whole leadership team. Scary, right? That is what I...
Hiding like a turtle
2 mins read It all started in March of 1997, on a beautiful spring day in Pakistan. When my 6-year-old younger sister stood on a chair, behind a lectern, with her head barely visible, as she gave a thunderous speech to an audience of 1000 at...