Finding Your True Voice: Authority Without Strain
Hey friend, Does your voice feel tired, achey, tight, or croaky by 3pm? … if people ask you to repeat yourself… if you end a day of meetings with a sore throat and a headache—this is fixable. Not by pushing harder. By changing how you use your voice. Clear, confident, heard: for women at work: What’s The Problem? Speaking lower than is natural for you… Plenty of women (and men) try to hold the voice down to sound “serious.” It often backfires. The deeper-voice myth (and why forcing your voice is counter productive) While some listeners may hear lower pitch as having more authority, It makes speech harder to understand, it invites throat push and creak, and leaves you fatigued by day’s end. You don’t need a “man voice.” You need speaking structure rhythm, resonance, and clean endings to words. Here are some reasons why it doesn’t work… Trying to get your voice to sound deeper is a moving target. While for some listeners, lower may read “serious”, to others it will sound ...
