Don't tell me you're someone who spent their life recycling other people's ideas. Okay, that's enough. Apart from anything else, my app where I have the speech written out a C stop. So I'm going to stop there and I'm going to add more on a follow up. Swell. But what do you think of that for the beginning?
Rocío (Ro) Christensen
@rocio · 1:17
Hey, Paul. I don't know much about, you know, giving toasts or speeches. I like that you start with a question. I feel like that's a good way to engage an audience. Don't know. I guess it depends for what you're making the speech. But I think it'd be interesting if after that question of have you noticed how long it's been since you've had an original idea, one that no one has ever had? I don't know
Paul OMahony
@omaniblog · 0:58
Hey, Ro, thank you very much for chipping in here. Responding. By the way, I'm in a pub. That's why all the background noise is here. But I will do that. I'll run record the next bit. Now, you've already got me thinking, but I'll persist with the whole of what I've written when I get back tonight or maybe tomorrow morning, but I'll definitely do it and swell
Swell Team
@Swell · 0:15
Paul OMahony
@omaniblog · 3:42
My story was all over the place. In Limerick, Ireland. London, England. Palo Alto, California. In Limerick, I was well known because my family owned a bookshop. I reinvented myself as an unknown bus conductor in London, reinvented myself again when I met Ralph Chestnut Smedley. My stories were all over the place until I fell in love with your company, with the way toastmasters pulled me into one personal story. In other words, mentored me
Rocío (Ro) Christensen
@rocio · 1:08
Hey. I really liked it. I was definitely intrigued, and I like that you laid out kind of the structure for us in the beginning. I found that I trusted you while you took us on this journey. So it's nice that even though you kind of, like, had told us what was going to happen in your speech, you still managed to weave a tale that was still engaging and kept me excited to hear the next thing. And I think the pacing is really good