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How to use your voice

Pace, pitch and pause. Most interviewees rush, drone or apologise with their voice. The right pace, the right depth, and one deliberate pause makes you sound twenty percent more authoritative.

Voice is the channel everything else has to travel through. Pace: most untrained speakers go too fast under nerves. Pitch: men drop too low, women go too high, both lose authority. Pause: a deliberate two-second pause before a point lands the point. Training fixes all three with breath work, recording and playback.

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