Back to School as a Mid-Career Professional, Where Do You Find the Courage?

[Sara/Ying Gao]

Hello everyone,

Hope you are enjoying the start of fall season! We are hosting Bell Noontime Toastmaster Club's first open house of the 2022-2023 season with the theme: 
Back to School as a Mid-Career Professional, Where Do You Find the Courage?

Do you know any friend/colleague/family members who have a life long learning mindset, who are curious to further their studies and who need a bit of extra courage to make a move? Please forward the below open house invitation to them!!! We will have a fun evening packed with discussion and takeaways!!!

As your toastmaster of this Wednesday's meeting, I am also thrilled to announce that our newest member Matej Stehlik will give his ice breaker speech this week! He also signed up to be Ah-Counter. What a way to kick start your journey with Bell Noontime Matej! Welcome home! 

Call volunteers to take up the rest of the meeting roles. You can either sign up through logging in to our member site below, or just email me directly. Besides Matej's ice breaker and our featured speaker Rachel's speech, we have one more speaker slot if you are interested, please either sign up directly or work with Eloise (weeze...@gmail.com), our brilliant VP of Education!!! You are free to choose a topic that is inspired by our theme of the meeting, or on a different topic. 

https://bellnoontime.toastmost.org/  

See you this Wednesday! 

Sara

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Back to School as a Mid-Career Professional, Where Do You Find the Courage?

• Are you a professional who is passionate about life long learning?
• Are you interested in a career transition through completing an advanced degree?
• Are you trapped by daily work, family duties/child care and financial constraints, it feels impossible to make a decision to go back to school?    

As a new school year starts in September, several members of Bell Noontime Toastmasters Club are going back to school to pursue their advanced degrees while working full time. Come to join the discussion and learn from their experience. Find the courage to pursue your next breakthrough with confidence and resources! 

Time: Wednesday Sept 14, 7:30 - 8:30 pm EST
All guests are welcomed. RSVP for zoom link
https://forms.gle/XyvewYAvEEvNNrgt9

Featured speaker: 

Rachel Hao is an associate director at Merck and has spent the past 9 years working in the chemical and pharmaceutical industry. She graduated from the University of Houston with a PhD degree in Cell/Cellular and Molecular Biology. She was accepted by the executive MBA program at University of North Carolina Chapel Hill this fall.