Create a dynamic voice using these techniques

I promised you we were going to walk away with skills so let's talk about that vocal power where does power come from when we're speaking thank you excellent excellent you heard that I was on The Today Show very exciting very surreal after they prepped me for about 10 hours the week during the week it came down to one minute one minute it's on my website you can all look at it one minute and this is what we talked about that's how important it is the powering up I can't tell you how many people called me and said I didn't realize that's where you have to speak from this is our power source source so let's practice I want everyone to sit up and all we're going to do is take a nice breath when I say I want you to take a breath in for the count of three and then exhale five accountants erase everyone together one two three exhale one two three good now we're going to do the same thing five okay in half two three four five exhale two three four five excellent now what is to do with speech we speak on the exhalation so let me show you what I mean by that 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 the people in the mezzanine did you hear me count to 14 and 15 in a loud strong voice yes okay that's the power from just one breath I didn't take another breath the more you work that out just like going to the gym the stronger more powerful your voice becomes this is something that has to be practiced every day so let's start first we're going to all do it together I'm going to take a breath and when I say you're gonna inhale and then everyone count to 15 on the exhale don't over think this okay people are like wait I don't know how to let out the air and then speak don't overthink you do it without realizing it but I am making it a little bit more conscious now because I wanted coming from here so everyone together one two I heard somebody wanted to go with the 16 and we're going to do that now I'm easy right did anyone have trouble going to 15 excellent now we're going to do the same thing going to 20 I'll do it first 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 in the back row did you hear me okay on 20 okay so it's like going to the gym you start with a certain amount of weight and then you build on to it so we're all going to go to 20 now ready excellent good job seemed like it was easy there's a lot of power in this room that you all didn't know you had by the way in the next 90 minutes you're also gonna get a lot of homework everyone shrug now ah so your first homework assignment is practice this every day if you don't think you've project your voice practice this every day you all can start with 20 and then go as far as you can don't expect miracles the other day I went to 24 I'm not asking you to go to 110 but just keep building it okay just keep building in mm-hmm that's one exercise but I promised you I'm going to give you as many techniques into this time frame so here's another exercise that we have another speech pathologist in the room cheering so roll her eyes and smile now because we learn things these exercises like the first day when you're studying to be a speech pathologist now we are going to hold a vowel ah for as long as you can I'm going to go first and then we're all going to do it maybe we'll see okay watch me take a nice breath again you're not doing it you're just watching okay now you all think oh my god she did it for so long and I'll do it just as long this is the most fun part of the session because you're all going to stand up and do it wait not yet don't jump out of your seats yet I want you to hold your papers put them down wherever you're going to stand when I say and look at the leadership I learned right I'm very demanding now two days ago I wasn't but now I just spent two days at this forum so what I want you to do is take that breath hold it for as long as ten the reason why I need you to stand is as soon as you run out of air just sit down just sit down no competition no anything just sit down anyone trained in CPR okay good good so then push yourselves so just it's it's this is just a fun exercise just so you get it but this is going to be something else to practice and absolutely build on so everybody take a breath stand up it's been a long day so as soon as you're you run out of there sit down okay everyone take a nice breath the most I've ever seen anyone go and I do this all the time 39 seconds 35 seconds I can't hold it that long I won't ask you but you either probably do martial arts or yoga meditation something of the sort okay the people who sat down really early really fast about 13 14 seconds and I promise you it's only because it felt awkward and you felt like you couldn't do it if you press if we did it a second time you'd hold it longer the rest of you well within normal limits 17 18 19 we just had some superstars tonight but when you practice this on your own cuz it's homework assignment number two when you practice this you really want to get at least 17 seconds you want to be able to hold it for at least 17 seconds and go ideally about 22 23 24 you

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Keywords: speech, speech therapy, presentation skills, keynote speaker, professional speaker, national speaker, vocal projection, voice projection, dynamic voice, change the way I sound, speech coach, voice coach, voice and diction, diction, speech trainer, speech improvement, accent reduction, accent modification, esl, hceeps

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Length: 7min 52sec (472 seconds)

Published: Thu Mar 20 2014