Your voice plays a vital role in making you likable and influential, so it's important to address common issues like vocal fry, speaking with an airy voice, and nasality.
Developing a powerful speaking voice is achievable for anyone by understanding key elements such as breath control, melody, volume, and pace, and actively working on improving it can positively impact your relationships and career.
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The Importance of Voice in Personal Presentation
In this episode, voice coach Roger Love discusses the significance of voice in personal presentation. He argues that the voice plays a vital role in making a person likable and influential, yet it is often overlooked. Love explains common voice-related issues such as vocal fry, speaking with an airy voice, and nasality, and provides tips on how to address these problems. He emphasizes the importance of having a clear, confident, and pleasant speaking voice for success in both personal and professional life.
Learning to Speak with Authenticity and Power
Roger Love shares his journey of becoming a vocal coach and highlights the similarities between singing and speaking. He emphasizes that anyone can learn to develop a powerful speaking voice by understanding key elements such as breath control, melody, volume, and pace. Love dispels common misconceptions about speaking, such as the belief that people are stuck with the voice they were born with. He encourages individuals to actively work on their voices to transform their communication skills and have a positive impact on their relationships and career.
Breaking Bad Vocal Habits and Enhancing Enunciation
Love addresses vocal habits such as mumbling and poor enunciation and provides practical solutions to improve them. He stresses the importance of dropping the jaw to improve clarity and address mumbling. Love explains the benefits of diaphragmatic breathing and offers vocal warm-up exercises to strengthen the vocal instrument. By focusing on essential techniques like jaw movement and breathing, individuals can improve their enunciation and project their voice with confidence and clarity.
When it comes to your personal presentation, there’s one aspect that often gets overlooked: your voice.
Your voice is a big part of what makes you, you, and what makes you likable and influential. Yet you probably don't think too much about it.
Not to mention, my guest today argues, you’re likely not even using your true voice thanks to bad habits you’ve picked up throughout your life.
His name is Roger Love, he’s a voice coach who's worked with some of the world's most famous singers and speakers, and the author of Set Your Voice Free. Today on the show, Roger explains why having a clear, confident, pleasant speaking voice is important for success in your career and your life, the the biggest ways people sabotage their voice, including voice fry, uptalk, and being nasally, and how these issues can be addressed and eliminated. Roger also shares how to speak in a more masculine way, and why you're probably not speaking loudly enough.