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Welcome everybody to the podcast answers show. Today we are going to be talking about finding

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your voice in podcasting. But first, what do we do? We are a show that helps you start

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and grow your podcast, answering any podcasting questions along the way.

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So without further ado, let's go.

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So without further ado, let's get into it.

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Let's talk a little bit today about finding your voice in podcasting and

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the way that we can do that.

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So I know a lot of people struggle with, how do I talk to myself?

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How do I make this sound good?

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How do I get in there and I actually just do it?

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Because let's be honest, a lot of people don't like their voice when it comes to

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when it comes to podcasting, you know, when, when it comes to listening to

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themselves, a lot of people, a lot of people are going to hear themselves and go,

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This is not myself. This is not how I sound.

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So how do you do that?

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How do you go about, what are some tips and tricks

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that you can use to get used to your voice

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and just kind of your style as you're podcasting?

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So thought for their do, let's go.

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So one of the first ways that I say you can get used

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to your voice and podcasting is record yourself

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and listen to it.

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So this may be before you put out your first episode,

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But guys, I've been listening to myself podcast

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every single episode that I've ever done,

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not just editing, like I obviously edit it

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and when I listen to it and trim the ends and things,

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I don't do a whole lot of editing,

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but if, because I want my podcast to sound real,

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I don't want to cut out all of the ums and the ayes

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because that's one way that you can get to better

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is listening to yourself.

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So for me, I'm listening to myself

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and every single episode that I've ever produced,

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I listened to it after it comes out.

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So make sure a couple of things.

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And I didn't screw up in editing

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because I've seen a lot of people that

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you think the job is done

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and then you get it and there's long pauses

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or as they left something in, they shouldn't have left.

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So for me, as one last quality check,

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even after it's gone out, I listened to it.

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But so I listened to all of my episodes back again.

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I listened to every single one of them.

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And yes, for the first several times,

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that made me cringe.

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That made me go, "Oh my goodness, my voice stinks.

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My voice is terrible."

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And you know what?

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The more I listen to it, the more I get used to it.

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But one of the good things about listening to yourself

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is it allows you to pick up on the nuances

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of things that you want to change.

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So it may be terrible.

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There may be things that you were actually doing

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that don't sound good, that aren't helping you.

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And so by listening back to your episodes, listening to yourself, you get that.

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You get, you understand what you're sounding like.

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So for me, I didn't, I, when I listened to myself, I listened and I realized that I

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have a lot of filler words, like um, and ah.

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And so one of the things that I've been trying to do is be conscious when I'm

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talking and slow down a little bit and actually think about what I'm saying before I say it.

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of a sentence. I don't completely think about my sentences before I start saying them. So

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it's me slowing down a little bit and thinking about what I want to say before I say it helps

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me come across as a better communicator. And so it also, as listening to myself, I realize

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that I say those filler words quite a lot. So what do I do to get rid of those? I don't

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cut them out in post because that for one takes a lot of time and it's not helpful because

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you don't actually get any better by not listening to yourself in post. You actually are going

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to be the same. And so what I do, I leave those in, I listen to myself and I say, "Hey,

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Andy, you don't want to say all of those filler words. So think about them and cut

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them out. So that's one way that you can get better and find and get used to your voice.

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Because again, you're going to listen to yourself and you're going to listen back and you're

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going to find out the things that you don't like the nuances that you don't like the way

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that you didn't necessarily put a tone in the way you that you said filler words. So

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listening back is going to be one of those ways that helps you out when you're when you're

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doing a podcast. Another good way to thing to do is also... There I said my

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filler word because I didn't think of my word. So there you got it. Got it. Another

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good way to make yourself better at communicating. So I'm doing a solo show

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now and again this depends on what kind of show that you do because a lot of

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it's just like a conversation.

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But for me, which is fine, I have no problem

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having a conversation with my co-host.

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But when I started this show,

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this is my first solo show ever.

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I've been doing podcasting since 2007.

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I've had a lot of different shows that I've started,

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but all of them have been co-hosted shows.

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So for me, this is my first solo show.

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And so I'm doing this show

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because I wanted to prove to myself that I could do a solo show and not just have a show where I had a co-host that I had to bounce my communication off.

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And so for me, when I started this show, a lot of the times that I was talking, it was just very matter of faculty.

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So for me, for help, what I do in this show is I normally have a, I don't really have my Notion app up, which has my notes for the show.

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And by notes for the show, I usually just have a bullet points on the topics that I want to talk about so that I can make sure that I can get through them.

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But I don't use that as a crutch. I don't want to be able to have my app or my talk scripted out because scripted podcasts will have their place. That's not what I wanted for this show.

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And so for me, I just decided to script. I do my bullet points. So I remember what I want to talk about. So I don't have a lot of that filler time in there.

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and have a lot of chances to use those filler words,

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but I can talk on a normal basis.

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So what I do is I'm sitting in front of a computer right now

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and you can't see it, but what you...

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I can kinda show you what...

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If you're looking at the video,

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here's what my screen actually looks like.

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So I've got my video, I'm seeing myself how I act.

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I also have my audio play out system playing up things like that.

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So that's the way that my screen looks.

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But I'm looking into my screen, but I'm also pretending not only that I'm

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I'm seeing myself so I don't make sure that I'm on camera, right?

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But I'm also pretending that I'm actually talking to you guys out there,

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to you, the listener, because I am.

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I'm directly talking to you, even though I can't see you

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because we're on this thing called a podcast. And so you're not able to see, I'm not able to see you.

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You can see me if you're watching the video, but I can't see you. But the way that I do this is I just

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pretend that you're out there. I pretend that there's hundreds and thousands of people out there

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sitting right outside my window that's right in front of me and listening to me talk, listening to me

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give this speech, give this talk about how to find your voice. And so what that does for me is it gives

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me the opportunity to interact like I would if I was talking right to you. Does that make

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sense? So you're gonna have, you know, I'm not gonna have the feedback from you. I'm

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not gonna, you're not gonna see, I'm not gonna see if you're boring and checked out, but

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I'm gonna be able to see, I'm gonna be able to pretend to have a conversation with you.

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So I can have intonation. So I just don't sound flat like this. And I'm talking about

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funding your voice in podcasting and I'm just reading something because I want to get this

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podcast out. No, I actually have intonation in my voice because this is how I actually

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talk if you talk to me. I have intonation, I have inflections, I have things that are

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going to make me sound interesting to listen to. And those are the same things that I want

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to portray on my podcast. So those are a few ways that I can find my voice in podcasting.

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That is ways that you have found to get used to your voice to make sure that your voice

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sounds unique in podcasting.

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I want to know.

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So contact us at podcastanswers.com/contact.

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I want to know what your way is that you've got used to listening to your voice if you're

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in podcasting.

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If you've not done this before and you're just getting used to your voice, try the things

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out that I said.

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Again, those things are listening to each and every episode.

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So that way you get used to the way you sound.

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You know that if you're going to speak too quickly, you know that if you make noises

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with your mouth, you know that if you use a lot of filler words, listen to yourself after

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you're done recording.

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Because as we're talking, we don't pick those things up.

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Because we use those as filler words as we're thinking in our brain, as we're trying to

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get things out on tape.

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And so, listen to yourself after the fact, after you're done editing it.

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Don't edit those imperfections out because you want to be able to hear those and you

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want to be able to get better.

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And so, use those things, use those imperfections as ways to get better in your speech, in your

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podcast episode.

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And then the next thing to do is pretend that you have an audience.

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I've always heard that when you're going on stage and you're nervous about being in front

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of 100,000 people or whatever, pretend that there's someone in the audience sitting in

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their underwear, or the audience is in their underwear and laugh about it.

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Something that just kind of breaks that barrier so you're not speaking to a stiff walled people.

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This is the same thing here.

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Pretend that you're out there, that your audience is out there.

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Pretend that they're listening to you.

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Pretend that they're engaged.

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Pretend that they're taking notes.

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Things like that.

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important things that you want to say and get them out there without saying too many

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words but use the fact that you were pretending there's an audience in front of you, that

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way you can not just feel like you're talking at your computer screen, not just feel like

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you're talking out into the ether, but actually talking to somebody that's listening because

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people are listening to your podcast.

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So guys, again, I would love to hear from you the ways that you are finding your voice

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in podcasting.

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consult and we can just I can help you out because it's a lot of fun to do and

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