Speaking with Confidence: Using Nervous System Voice Techniques
Channel: Emily Binder
Date: 2022-09-21

How fast should you speak in a presentation or podcast? Why do certain voices annoy you? Do you want your voice to be more impactful in meetings or phone / Zoom calls? 

The state of your nervous system can make or break how effective your voice is because other people are picking up on YOUR nervous system.

Laura Larios shares simple exercises to improve your speaking voice by working with your nervous system.

About Laura Larios: Burnout Prevention Expert. Executive Nervous System Coaching for High Growth Leaders & Professionals. Sustain Peak Performance without Burning Out. Improve your HRV. She has consulted and coached Google, BSI Group, and Grow Marketing.

Timestamps:
3:11 monotone hurts perception - lack of confidence, fear
3:45 Lack of pauses = anxiety, fight or flight, decreases critical thinking ability
4:34 the biology / anatomy piece of this: vagus nerve, the tenth cranial nerve runs from base of skull through ear into throat to heart and into digestive system
Low tone is heard through the jaw bone and signals threat
Safe sounding is heard through floating ear bones in inner ear (inflection, and prosity)
5:54 how do you work on your voice?
6:36 before a meeting: neurological fitness
7:02 eye exercise to engage vagus nerve toward ventral state
8:00 tongue exercise that even helps posture
8:48 what do you do if you don't like the sound of your voice?
9:55 how quickly should you speak? 
your listener's nervous system picks up energy and clues from the sound of your voice and impacts your ability to present, speak, or share a message
10:50 our nervous systems mirror each other
12:04 A 30-second clip of a doctor's voice predicted whether they'd be sued for malpractice (study link below)
13:06 Zoom: we are not meant to be able to see ourselves while we're speaking. Zoom fatigue - why is it a problem?
13:50 a lot of this technology is new for our biology, this is why we need ways to work with our nervous system to avoid overload
14:10 high functioning freeze response - go go mixed with shut down
14:57 Sensory pauses (Laura's Instagram)
15:18 our nervous system is binary: safe or unsafe

Three states of the nervous system:
1) Ventral vagal = you feel safety and connection to meet demands of the day
2) Fight or flight - speaking fast
3) Dorsal vagal - shut down response, drained energy, numbness, feeling of disconnect = monotone, less prosity of the voice

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Books and studies mentioned:
1) The Laws of Human Nature by Robert Greene: https://amzn.to/3TVpsXv
2) Podcast: Body language and tone of voice: "The 7-38-55 Rule for Better First Impressions"
 (4-minute episode): https://open.spotify.com/episode/6hgIXKtiSEOBD1Aj7ZIYNx?si=cd8b52d8a5fb4358
3) 2022 study on surgeons' tone of voice predicting malpractice claims:
"Surgeons' tone of voice in routine visits is associated with malpractice claims history. This is the first study to show clear associations between communication and malpractice in surgeons. Specific types of affect associated with claims can be judged from brief audio clips, suggesting that this method might be useful in training surgeons." 
BigThink study summary: https://bigthink.com/surprising-science/how-research-into-the-reasons-doctors-get-sued-can-explain-why-people-believe-in-quacks/
Study by Nalini Ambady, Debi Laplante, Thai Nguyen, Robert Rosenthal, Nigel Chaumeton, Wendy Levinson: https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/12110787/

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