Diagnosis of Your Own Voice and Feedback from Others

• 00:05 Now I want you to listen to your voice at 60 seconds,
• 00:09 at two minutes of audio, and I want you to really take some notes.
• 00:13 I want to know exactly what you don't like about your voice.
• 00:20 I don't want some, everything is off.
• 00:23 That's too general, that's too vague.
• 00:25 You can't fix something that general, that vague.
• 00:29 I need you to write down exactly what it is you don't like.
• 00:34 Are you too high pitched?
• 00:36 Is it too scratchy?
• 00:38 Is your energy too low?
• 00:40 Are you too monotone?
• 00:42 Are you too soft?
• 00:43 Do you sound like you're scared of yourself?
• 00:46 Do you sound robotic?
• 00:47 What is it?
• 00:48 There's no right or wrong answer here.
• 00:51 Yes, subjective, but it's about you.
• 00:53 I want you to be happy with your voice.
• 00:56 So there's something that doesn't make you happy, write it down.
• 00:59 It's critically essential for you to know exactly what it is you don't like.
• 01:05 We can't fix something if we don't know what the problem is.
• 01:09 So you've gotta be the first step in this diagnosis.
• 01:13 Write down every single thing you don't like about your voice.
• 01:17 Do it now.
• 01:19 I know you didn't like recording your own voice and listening to it, but
• 01:23 this next step is even more important and you're not going to like it.
• 01:26 I need you to take that audio file you just created, whether one on your cell
• 01:31 phone or on your computer, I need you to email it to a couple of friends.
• 01:36 Now, pick friends of yours that you know will give you some honest feedback.
• 01:43 Not people who are just always so happy telling you how wonderful you are,
• 01:46 how great you are.
• 01:47 Let's face it.
• 01:48 Most of us have somebody in our life, we could just splatter our face with mud,
• 01:53 put a pillow under our shirt, and they would say, well, you look great and
• 01:57 you've lost weight.
• 01:59 I need you to find somebody who will give you honest feedback and
• 02:04 ask them to tell you what they don't like about your voice,
• 02:09 any weaknesses, any areas for improvement.
• 02:13 I need you to get some kind of objective feedback from others,
• 02:17 because it may be there's ten things you absolutely hate about your voice and
• 02:21 everyone else completely agrees with you.
• 02:25 But in my experience in helping people with their voices and voice issues for
• 02:31 the last 30 years that I've been doing presentation coaching
• 02:36 is the vast majority of the time, 99.5% of the time, roughly,
• 02:42 the problems we hear in our own voice are not the problems other people hear, right?
• 02:49 They don't notice that.
• 02:50 So, again, I'm not prejudging you.
• 02:53 You may have very specific real problems with your voice and everyone else agrees.
• 03:00 But we don't know till we ask.
• 03:01 So I need you to take that audio file and
• 03:05 I need you to send it to others, ask them for their feedback.

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