Recently a 21-year-old man who had stuttered horribly from an early age and had already worked with many speech pathologists, psychologists and medical doctors, called hoping that I might have a different voice training approach that could help him.

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Use Your Voice and Attract What you Want in Your Life.

President Obama said in his speech to congress, “If you drop out of school you are not only hurting yourself but you are hurting your country”.  I feel that learning to speak well is the core of your communication and without it you are hurting yourself and your chances for success in whatever it is you want to do in your life.

Let me give you two examples of how a voice/speaking skill has become a differentiator in today’s market place.

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This Holiday season let your voice attract the people, circumstances and money you want in your life.

Your Voice has tremendous potential to attract because it sends a powerful signal to others when you speak. It is to your advantage to have control of your voice quality, which is the essence of your speaking sound.

Your Voice Quality expresses your emotional color. And that color is what you use to convey the feelings associated with your thoughts. Your thoughts are a form of energy that is transmitted through the quality of your voice. That quality establishes the tone of your relationship with an audience, or with an individual to whom you’re meeting for the first time. If your voice is full, clear, mellow and enthusiastic you can create an unbreakable bond of friendship and acceptance.

A positive voice quality works best when networking at Holiday events, chatting over Holiday dinners, or singing and praying in the service of your choice.

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My goal is to be at my peak performance every day, especially in a down economy.  I believe, that even in our information technology age, business success boils down to excellent communication skills and voice training and voice coaching are the doors to developing those skills.  

My experience as a professional voice coach has shown me over and over again world wide that the employee who communicates with a voice that sounds engaging, professional, trustworthy, confident, knowledgeable and caring, has the competitive edge in the market place.

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I know many of you have had to deliver a speech when the stakes were high. And for whatever reason, you got a flu bug, bad cold or sinus condition. To top it off, you couldn’t cancel. This can be a terrifying!

Well! A couple of weeks ago, I was scheduled to give a 2 day voice training workshop in the Midwest and two days before I get the worst cold and sinus condition I have had in years. You know, blowing your nose, coughing, ears all plugged up, a tickle in the throat and the beginnings of a hacking cough. People, were excited about voice training workshop and traveling from all over the Midwest. There was no way to cancel. I needed to get on a plane, travel through airports, stay in an air-conditioned hotel with windows that can’t be opened, (no fresh air), give the workshop and get back home.  Exhausted at the prospect, I thought, lucky, I asked for a lapel mike!

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