On February 13, 2026 I had the opportunity to present a short presentation, “Let Education Live…In You” to a group of University of Regina students as part of the “Alumni in the Classroom” program. This is the conclusion of that presentation.
On February 13, 2026 I had the opportunity to present a short presentation, “Let Education Live…In You” to a group of University of Regina students as part of the “Alumni in the Classroom” program. After being an average high school student everything changed when I could take the classes I wanted. It’s amazing the difference it makes when you are in the right environment!
This clip is another excerpt from my Keynote Speech, “A Winning Dish” that I delivered at The SME Show in Regina, Saskatchewan on September 19, 2025. In this clip I speak about how challenges are opportunities to evaluate (your direction).
This clip is from my Keynote speech “A Winning Dish” that I delivered in Regina Saskatchewan at The SME Show on September 19, 2025. This clip is my reaction to dad’s confession that he accidently put cinnamon in the chili instead of chili powder!
This video is the opening story for my Keynote Speech, “A Winning Dish” which I delivered at The SME Show in Regina, Saskatchewan on September 19, 2025! Something doesn’t taste quite right with my dad’s chili recipe!
This video clip is the introduction of my Keynote Speech, “A Winning Dish” that I delivered on September 19, 2025 at The SME Show in Regina, Saskatchewan. The audience is set to discover three ingredients for their winning dish!
WESK (Women Entrepreneurs Saskatchewan) held an Open Mic Night on April 16, 2025. Here I demonstrate for the audience how to open their speech with a bang, creating curiosity in their minds and gaining their attention. Watch this video to find out how I did it!
I first competed this Tall Tale (this video is a practice version I did at home) titled “My Piano Teacher Is Missing!” at the Club level in District 42 on Oct. 21, 2021. I made it all the way to the District level but did not place. Fast forward to 2024 and I competed it again on behalf of a newly chartered Club in District 123. I won at Area and placed 2nd at Division on Dec. 3. The audience loved the speech; got some laughs. Had a wonderful journey with this speech. Enjoy!
I am a member of WESK (Women Entrepreneurs Saskatchewan) and they held an Open Mic Night on Nov. 13, 2024 where members could give a 3-minute pitch on their business. This is my pitch for my coaching business, DW Coaching, and it could not have gone any better! It was a great experience and I loved every minute of it!
This is a humorous speech I delivered in person at the Toastmasters Division B (D42) event on Saturday, Sept. 14/24. The journey with this speech began in 2017 with a Toastmasters project titled, "My Man Dave."
It then evolved to a Toastmasters Humorous Speech Contest speech in 2022 titled, "It's Mine and I'm Stickin' With It!" making it all the way to the District level.
For the Sept. 14 Division event I pulled out and worked with a coach to revamp it and it was very well received!
In early 2024 I had been invited to speak to the “Downtowners” Toastmasters Club in Regina on the topic of Networking. I was immediately inspired by the topic and did this custom speech just for their Club.
This is my Toastmasters Pathways project speech titled, “From There to Here.”
This is the the recording of my speech, “Two Words” at the District 42 Toastmasters International Speech Contest. The contestants were not provided copies of the recordings of their contest speeches. As the contest was pre-recorded (prior to the District Conference) I was able to record my speech on my iPad when it was played at the Conference. For best results, please turn up the volume.
This is a recorded practice of my 2023 Toastmasters International Speech Contest speech titled, “Two Words.” It was recorded on my iPad and you can see the grey “foot” of the iPad stand at the bottom of the screen. The iPad was sitting on top of several packages of paper (that is the white surface underneath the iPad).
This is a practice run-through of my speech for the District 42 Humorous Speech Contest in the Fall of 2022. I recorded this on my iPad at home.
This is my Toastmasters speech for the 2022 International Speech Contest titled, “Where Do You Live?” That year I competed in District 123 (Ontario, Canada) and placed third. That was the first time I had placed in the top three at the District level and I was thrilled!