What Happens Working with a Voice Coach?

 Are you afraid to find your best voice, be more confident, or get a better reaction when you speak? If so, then you don’t need to fear getting a voice coach to help you discover your best voice to speak and present with confidence so your listeners trust you and want to follow you. Let me share with you what happens when a client comes to me for help.

First, since both of us are strangers to each other, it’s important to me to have an initial friendly conversation about each other just as if we met at a friend’s home for a coffee break. It’s breaking-the-ice so we can see other on the same wavelength. As a voice coach, it also let’s me hear your voice in a casual conversational setting. Everyone’s voice is different and I notice right away what wonderful strengths your voice offers. It’s these positive elements that anchor my feedback to you.

Second, I ask you to share some of your concerns about your speech: what, when, where, and why. I find out about how you think I might be able to help you. The feedback I present to you is based on what we discuss plus a few questions I ask. We even share doing an exercise together, such as, how to discover any excessive nasality, and how to discover your breathing style.

You can try these now:
1. Place your thumb and forefinger gently on the side of your nose and say aloud “low” 5 x to determine if you feel any vibration in your fingers coming from your nose while you say it. If you sense vibration, then it means that your sound of the vowel “o” is exiting through the nose. However, to be fully resonant it needs to exit the mouth not the nose. The nasal sounds of ‘m’, ‘n’, and ‘ng’ (sing, ring) are supposed to be nasal; but the others are not.

2.Do your shoulders rise if you take a deep breath? If so, then you are only getting a minimum of breath power.  People will not hear you as well as if you were using diaphragmatic breathing to speak and present.

Some of the exercises we do throughout our sessions are exaggerated or silly; but we laugh and have fun doing them all; because we know there’s a purpose with a tool you can take with you.

Third, we set out a plan of action to include voice exercises, practice materials, drama exercises, presentation rehearsals so all the individual parts come together easily. In the process, I certainly learn a great deal from you while entering your world of topics and messages. Plus, you learn from me what the audience hears and sees; and how they might react to your presentation style. Together we go about adjusting and fine tuning until we are happily satisfied.

You also learn how to protect your voice so you don’t strain it over time. We are no longer strangers but become mutual friends or colleagues sharing our passions and developing our expertise. The best thing about working with a voice coach is now your vocal strengths will become the star, and you will perform with presence, power, and pizazz! 

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Brenda C. Smith, Author, Founder of Voice Power Training Services
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