138. How to speak like YOU!

When I ask people to describe how they want to sound when they speak, I always get at least one of the following words - authentic, genuine, natural, down-to-earth, real. Because we want to sound like ourselves when we speak, we want to create that real connection and speak from our soul! In this episode I explain how you can achieve a voice that sounds like the true YOU and why it matters. You'll leave this ep with specific exercises to practice and a whole new appreciation for your voice.

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Hey Hey I’m Sal and it is great to have you with me for episode 138 of That Voice Podcast.

And this one is all about how to speak like YOU.

When I ask people to describe how they want to sound when they speak, I always get at least one of the following words - authentic, genuine, natural, down-to-earth, real.

Because we want to sound like ourselves when we speak, we want to create that real connection and speak from our soul!

In this episode I explain how you can achieve a voice that sounds like the true YOU and why it matters. You'll leave this ep with specific exercises to practice and a whole new appreciation for your voice.

Before we get into it, I have an exciting announcement – a brand new event called MANIFEST WITH YOUR VOICE.

Everyone is manifesting their life, whether they’re aware of it or not.

And the way I call in things in my life is through using my voice.

Things like Patrick my boyfriend, manifested him. Well if not him, then the relationship. I manifested my multi-six figure year in business, and a few other things.

So in Manifest with your Voice I’m going to take you through the exact strategy I used to do this.  I’ll teach you three ways to use your voice to manifest what you want and I’ll also explain what sound boarding is, you may have heard of a vision board …. Wait till the sound board comes into your life.

It’s an online workshop on Dec 20 – the 19th if you’re in the states. It’s $22 and the link to register is in the show notes. This is already proving to be a very popular topic, so I am excited for the energy we’ll be creating.

And hot tip, the first step to manifesting with your voice is to speak like YOU!

Now some people have said to me.

You’re a voice coach - WHY do you change people’s voices, there’s nothing wrong with people’s natural voice.

Why do you make them put a voice on?

OMG this could not be more polar opposite to what it is I do.

YES, there is absolutely nothing wrong with your natural voice – in fact your natural voice is bloody gorgeous and exactly where we want it to be.

The reality is that many people’s air-quote “natural” voice is actually a fake voice. Yep the voice you might hear as natural, could be you faking it.

What people mean, is it’s the voice that’s familiar.

And they’ve become so used to speaking that way, they don’t believe they can do anything differently.

And if your voice is working for you and you feel alive and free and like a conduit for divine energy when you’re expressing through your voice – then carry on, that’s fucking awesome.

I know, this isn’t the case for everyone.

For some people, perhaps you, that familiar voice is unpleasant, it’s restricted, it’s weak, it’s stuck in the head. The land of high-pitched, frenetic, disconnected energy.

And I get why –

 💻 In online meetings the frame literally cuts people off at the neck
📱 If your head is always in your phone, that screw with your peripheral vision.
😷 The pandemic stopped people from breathing on each other, which stopped breath flow through the voice.

And then of course if you’re at the mercy of capitalism, consumerism, the patriarchy, the grind. All this fosters burn-out and pushes the voice up and out.

So many people have said they are limping to the Christmas ‘finish line’ and lacking the headspace to make any decisions.

It’s really sad. I’ve been there in the past – oh I’m so busy, the Christmas deadline, god I need a holiday, It’s been such a stressful year, I’m counting down the days.

Sounds a lot like burnout.

And when you don’t have headspace, one of the things clogging up your head is usually your voice – and it’s not YOUR SOUL voice, it’s stress head voice.

So if this is you.

For the love of speaking drop your voice back into your body. Return your voice to where it belongs.

How do you do that?

I have three exercises for you now.

🫁 Take a deep low breath into the body and a long, guttural, fiery sigh out.

💃🏼 Shake your shoulders up and down and say ‘ah’ feeling the vibrations in your belly and chest.

🌳 Ground yourself in nature and feel the energy flow through you from the earth right up to your lips.

These are a powerful embodiment practices to access your true soul voice.

If you want to feel in tune with your body and in tune with your life, start with your inbuilt master tuning fork - your VOICE.

Now you might be like, Sal even if I go into the stress head voice, that’s still me speaking like me, right?

Well, I believe People are not their behaviours. And in the same way I believe your soul voice is not your naughty misbehaving voice. As in the rogue voice.

Not as in the naughty sexy come fuck me now kind of voice, which by the way have you noticed, especially women, that when your true sexual energy flows, your vocal energy flows – go back and listen to episode 129 – Sexpression with Tamica Wilder.

Ok bit of a sexy aside there, sorry not sorry.

So even though we don’t want to live or speak in that voice stuck up in the head, or restriction or heavy or any number of other things, I want you to welcome those voices.

This is how our voice is a beautiful diagnostic tool, because it doesn’t sound the same two days in a row, and the more in tune we are with our voice in full alignment, the more easily we’re able to recognise when it’s gone rogue.

The more we understand our instrument, the more we’re able to self correct. You can feel when your voice needs hydration or rest – because you’ll get that scratchy feeling and your whole body will be crying for hydration and rest.

What if you could go deeper? What if you were so attuned to your own tune that you could hear when your voice needed more breath, when you could feel your voice retreat around certain people, certain topics, certain times of the month. What if you could feel that throat restriction before it takes complete hold and you could intervene and bring your voice back into your body and recalibrate.

This might sound all woo woo – and it IS AND this is HOW you answer all those practical questions like how do you calm your nerves before public speaking, how do you stop saying ums and ahs, how do you not get a mental block when you’re put on the spot, how do you produce a voice that sounds resonant and powerful not weak and like a little squished budgie.

These and so many more questions are answered by what we’re talking about today.

How do you do it?

By returning to your voice, bringing your voice back to your body, relaxing into the spa of your own sound.

When your voice is aligned with your content, that’s when it comes alive with emotion. That’s when the energy is in motion.

How do you get the wheels of sounding like you in motion?

You evoke the MIND, BODY, BREATH connection.

Your self talk is positive,

Your body is relaxed and ready,

Your breath in rolling in and cruising out.

And THAT – is speaking in FLOW.

That is speaking like YOU.

Let’s just take a pause, this episode is huge – and if you are resonating with this, I’d invite you to join me in Speak from your Soul, my six week online group program where I not only teach you step by step how to find and release the depths of your soul voice – I get to hear it from you. Yep it’s taught live. We start on Feb 19th, Iink is in shownotes, and if you want a magical deal on this, you have to come to my special event MANIFEST WITH YOUR VOICE.

We go further, after mind, body, breath we bring in those beautiful vibrations that only YOU can create. Your voice is as unique as a fingerprint, and no two voices on this planet are identical.

So once you are vibrating at your unique frequency, then the thoughts you have become not only the words you say, but the vibrations you feel in your body.

And this is a key step in how to manifest with your voice.

That’s my new workshop I’m running on December 20th, it’s the 19th if you’re in the states – and in this class I’ll be taking you through how to manifest with your voice, including –

Three ways to use your voice to manifest what you want.

I’ll explain more about how to raise your frequency to receive what you want using your vocal vibrations.

You’ll learn all about sound boarding – the sister of vision boarding.

And of course the exact manifestation strategy I use – and have used to call in my amazing relationship, business revenue, collaborations, even a new luxury apartment.

So what are you wanting to call into your life for the new year? I’ll guide you through the strategy live on the call so you can have your vocal manifestation with you ready to go by the end of the session.

This is one you want to be at, I know a lot of you are away this time of year, so the replay will be going out. Register via the link.

I hope you’re feeling inspired, motivation, more in your body and closer to your voice.

So when you speak you can hand on heart, with pride, with power, sound like YOU.