CHAPTER 11

The Importance of Your Voice

  • The sound of your voice.
  • How to use your diaphragm; the proper way to breathe.
  • A strong voice can create credibility.
  • The voice affects the way messages are received.
  • How to slow down, if you speak too fast.

The Sound of Your Own Voice

Whenever I video-record a client in a private session and play it back, I always get the same response: “That doesn’t sound like me! It sounds too thin and high.”

Why is there such a difference between what we sound like internally to what we hear when we are recorded? In our heads, our voices sound full and have a bass sound to it. One of the reasons we sound better in our heads is that our voice reverberates in our skulls. Internally we hear the full richness of our ...

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