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What I Learned from a 7-Minute Speech

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About four weeks ago, something happened that definitely wasn’t on my 2025 bingo card: I won the District 30 Toastmasters Championship. Which means…I’m now a quarterfinalist in the 2025 World Championship of Public Speaking. That sentence still feels surreal. Why?

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What I Learned About Public Speaking From Two Psychiatrists

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“San Diego has to be the worst place to attend a medical conference,” I thought several years ago as I walked into another big, brightly-lit but gray, windowless room in another big, gray convention center. Outside it was bright and

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