Jevon
Jevon, interviewed during a visit to Shenzhen, talks about giving up a stable career path to pursue an MBA abroad and eventually starting his own business.
我见过这种“可能”，于是我也能成为这种“可能”。
The club spent five years interviewing itself.
Somebody would decide they wanted to know how a member had got here, ask them for a coffee or a meal, and write up what was said. Then the next person did it. There was no schedule and no brief. The pieces that came out of it are uneven in length, wildly uneven in register, and better than anything written to order would have been.
They are about the ordinary parts of people’s lives, which is why they are worth keeping: a member who practised one speech ten times on the bus and in the shower; a member who spent years playing everything safe and then went abroad at thirty to start over; a member whose son learned to stand on a stage because she kept turning up on Tuesdays.
Nothing here has been rewritten, shortened or corrected. Each one carries an English line saying who it is about and roughly what it covers, so that a reader who does not read Chinese knows what they are looking at.
2024
Josh
Josh, SZTM's newly elected VPM, traces his three-decade relationship with English, from a rural middle school English class to studying for IELTS during the pandemic while pursuing a law degree.
Josh 是一个目标感很强且要做就去挑战最难的人
Stella
Stella, outgoing club treasurer, reflects on her run of officer terms at SZTM, from recruiting 18 members as VPM to running for treasurer again to help preserve the club's history through written meeting recaps.
这世界上所有的成长并不一定是以礼物是形式出现
Sampson
Sampson, SZTM's outgoing president, discusses why he ran for president, how his leadership style changed during his term, and his plan to focus more on his own speeches after stepping down.
主席是要支持别人（其他官员或者会员）在俱乐部内实现自己的想法。
Edwin
Edwin, who first joined SZTM around 2016 and stopped attending due to work travel, describes why he came back to the club to keep improving his presentation skills.
对于那些曾经离开过的老会员来说，回归头马代表着重新点燃热情和全身心投入的机会。
2023
Min
Min talks about her six months as VPM, recruiting ten new members with President Sampson's backing, and about growing up in Shanxi before an unplanned move to Shenzhen for work.
期待寻找工作和生活的平衡。世界那么大，得抽时间去看看啊！
Jason
Jason, praised across the club for his reliability and his warmth toward newcomers, talks about why he values novelty and daily self-discipline over comfort and repetition.
很多人夸 Jason 自由，是因为 Jason 是个不追溯过往、不过分期待未来的人。
Olivia
Olivia, a former SZTM president now serving as an Area Director, talks about leaving a stable teaching job in the northeast for Shenzhen, and why she keeps taking on club leadership roles.
头马很成功的一个地方在于其认可和激励，国内教育体系或者学校很难有这种鼓励的文化
Mike
Mike reflects on completing a full Pathways learning track in about fifteen months, describing which levels were hardest and how getting feedback from evaluators sped up his progress.
头马系统很好的一个原因，就是有点评和反馈这么好的机制
Brent
Brent, a longtime SZTM member, discusses why he stays in the club for the English practice and the members who inspire him, and reflects on why some members eventually leave.
The collision of different ideas can produce a better approach！
Max
The narrator recounts a walk along Shenzhen Bay with fellow member Max, during which Max describes how Toastmasters helped her grow from a shy, reserved person into someone confident on stage.
在被充分包容、充分鼓励、充分欣赏的氛围里，你完全可以做真实的自己
2021
Adrian
Adrian, SZTM's second member to earn the DTM (Distinguished Toastmaster) award, walks through his path from a seven-year break from Toastmasters to serving as club president and Area Director to complete the requirements.
getting your DTM within 3 or 4 years is hard, but it is doable.
Tao
SZTM president Tao recounts the night the club's meeting venue fell through with no warning, and how officers scrambled to relocate 25 members and guests to a new room mid-meeting.
遇事不慌，做最坏的打算，但是用最积极的心态应对
Eric
Eric, a five-year SZTM member known as the club's "living fossil," talks about leaving a decade-long trade industry career to pursue psychology and what keeps him coming back to the club.
这个世界上最值得你信任，最值得你欣赏，最值得你热爱的永远都是你自己！
Louis
Louis, a member for over six years known as "Mr. Almost," discusses a speech about near-misses in his academic and business life, and how self-doubt rather than ability held him back.
我就像一个盲人，已经拿到了想要的东西，但是却不知道，还在到处去找。
Vivian Pan
Vivian Pan looks back on her six months as VPM (Vice President Membership), during which she recruited 17 new members and made monthly birthday videos for the club.
路一样，不一样的是态度。
2020
Harry Wang
Harry Wang, an English teacher, reflects on how growing up valuing knowledge shaped him, and how that knowledge let him keep teaching and earning during the COVID-19 outbreak when many others could not work.
I know knowledge can definitely change my destiny .
Eleven Liu
Eleven Liu explains the story behind his unusual English name and how being called "a number" went from a childhood embarrassment to an icebreaker he now uses with pride.
Our names don’t define who we are. WE define our names.
Megan
Megan tells the story of her three trips to Shenzhen, from a difficult first visit after failing the National College Entrance Examination to eventually settling there and joining Toastmasters.
I had to see a bigger world and meet more different and interesting people
Ten meeting managers
Ten SZTM members who have each served as meeting manager share their reflections on organizing a full club meeting for the first time.
很多时候你学到的不是没用，而是有可能你把自己局限了，以为哪里学到的东西只能哪里用。
SZTMers' 333 stories
Three SZTM members share "333" stories: Zoe Zhang on delivering her third General Evaluator speech without notes, Fish Liu on placing third in three separate speech contests, and Sunny Wang on being an active member of three different clubs at once.
正所谓，是英雄自有驱弛，不论他踢雪乌骓，追风赤兔；自世界枉多琪骥，只少塞翁胸境，伯乐眼光。只好枕戈待旦，明天再战！
2019
Adrian
Adrian reflects on rejoining Toastmasters after a seven-year break, becoming SZTM president, and pursuing the DTM (Distinguished Toastmaster) award as an Area Director.
Always try to challenge yourself, prove yourself and grow yourself.
Five new male SZTM members
Five new male members introduce themselves: Alex (Sun Kongzheng), a sales manager transferring from Shenyang Toastmasters; Frank (Zhou Ke); business partners Kai and Time; and Jeff (Wu Danshu), a practitioner of traditional Chinese medicine.
我的使命是成为一个医学大师和演讲家，把中医文化发扬光大，让更多的人真正健康并幸福起来
Vivian 刘微
Vivian (Liu Wei) reflects on five years at SZTM, from a first visit in 2015 where she barely understood the speeches to becoming a comfortable, active member.
头马之路漫漫其修远兮，吾与诸君上下而求索。
Four new SZTM members
Four new SZTM members introduce themselves: Daenerys (Liu Xiaoli), an anesthesiologist; Wind (Deng Weifeng), a badminton player; Ada, an avid reader; and Leah (Liu Jiaying), who joined the club's PR team.
Let's make some cool things happen!
Orfila 王冰冰
Orfila (Wang Bingbing), SZTM's VPM nicknamed "Zhi Ling Jiejie" after actress Lin Chihling, talks about procrastinating on her speeches and wanting to bring more people into the club.
希望大家可以加入我们一起 变成更好的自己 还可以一起吃喝玩乐
Zoe
Zoe describes going from someone who avoided the stage her first year at SZTM to VPPR, handling the club's posters and promotion.
当你用心参与后，发现了很多优秀的小伙伴
Ree
Ree, SZTM's treasurer nicknamed "big cousin" for her height, talks about joining Toastmasters to practice speaking up and taking charge of the club's finances.
try more, risk more.
Fish
Fish, SZTM's SAA officer, talks about how joining the club changed him from a quiet programmer into someone known for cooking elaborate meals for fellow members.
好看的皮囊千篇一律，有趣的头马万里挑一。
Joan 张梦竹
Joan (Zhang Mengzhu) recounts her path from feeling like an orphaned new member to serving as VPE and then president of SZTM.
Nothing is worthy if you are not happy.
Sunny Wang Lian
Sunny Wang Lian recounts her four years at SZTM, from Table Topics newcomer through SAA, VPM, VPE, President and Immediate Past President, to her current role assisting Area A2.
这些选择很大原因是我认识了一群积极向上，互助互爱的头马小伙伴们。
Michelle Yang
Michelle Yang describes how years of near-perfect meeting attendance turned overcoming her fear of public speaking into a habit, and how it also built her son's confidence performing on stage.
想要得到进步—于是我试着坚持—坚持变成了习惯—习惯带着我进步—进步让我离不开这个习惯。
Jane
Jane, known in the club as "Amazing Jane," reflects on her time serving as VPE (Vice President Education) and what weekly meetings came to mean to her.
每次会议结束，整个人都像打了鸡血一样，晚上回家还可能兴奋得睡不着。