Woo hoo!!! I placed second in an Area Toastmasters speech contest. Gave my alopecia story and the best thing was afterwards quite a few congratulated me for being to courageous to speak about it and a couple had family members or friends who were dealing with it or had dealt with it in the past. So all in all I feel I managed to get some awareness of alopecia out there and also its affects on our emotional health. Without the support of alopecia world and the inspiration I get from reading… Continue

I'm giving a speech at a Toastmaster Conference about my experience with alopecia. I've done one before at a club level and used a diagram to show the various types of alopecia but in a bigger venue I'm not sure the diagram would work well - not so intimate an atmosphere, on a stage etc. Part of the criteria of the speech is that it has to have a message. I'd love some input from you people as to how to get a message across and what that message could be. I suppose for me the message of… Continue