In this episode of the Daily Motivation Podcast, Corvay – the self‑styled “Inspiration Engineer” – delivers a solo monologue on the concept of “owning your voice” as a cornerstone of personal branding. He opens with analogies to musicians like Drake and R. Kelly, illustrating how early artists are often mistaken for others, and draws a parallel to entrepreneurs who mimic the style of their idols instead of developing a unique delivery. Corvay highlights the lack of self‑awareness many creators face, noting that 75 % of people dislike public speaking, and shares his own journey from a nervous teen speaker to a confident on‑air personality. He then recounts the accidental creation of his catchphrase “Boost,” describing how a spontaneous conversation sparked a brand element that later became a signature sign‑off. Throughout, he encourages listeners to experiment, stay playful, remix influences without stealing, and chip away at their voice like a sculptor shaping a glacier. The episode concludes with a promotional plug for his $197 “Monetize You” course and a motivational music playlist linked in the show notes.
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Freedom! You're listening to the Daily Motivation Podcast, a place to take your life to the next level, your business, your fitness, your dreams. Let's go! What up, what up, what up? It's your boy Corvay, Inspiration Engineer. You already Now what it is, welcome back, hey, to another episode of the Brand Builder Playlist podcast newsletter community where people are coming together to take their personal brands to a whole nother level. Whether you are a speaker, an author, a coach, a consultant, whether you're in the fitness space or the venture capital space, or you are, I don't even know what you're doing, whatever that is, if you are using your personal brand, to monetize, or that is something that you want to do, then you, my friend, are in the right place. Today's episode, we are talking about owning your voice. What comes to mind for me when it— we start thinking about what is my taste, what is my flavor going to be when a musician comes out Usually they sound like someone else, okay? When Drake first came out, if you remember, people thought it was Lil Wayne. They was like, "Is that Lil Wayne? Like, it sounds like Lil Wayne." When R. Kelly first came out, he sounded like Aaron Hall. My mind's telling me no, but my body, my body is telling me yes. Baby, right? I can't do the R. Kelly, but y'all know the song, right? He was singing in that way. And so why do I bring that up? Why is that important? Is because I find that entrepreneurs do the same thing. The entrepreneurs that they're listening to, the coaches that they like, the people that they admire, the influencers that they listen to, they have a certain style. They have a certain flavor as the way they deliver content. I love Mark Lee Jr. Shout out to Mark Lee. He'd be like, "Straight up!" I like the way he says it. "Straight up!" He always ends his broadcast with that, "Straight up!" And I love it. Matter of fact, he left it off one of his episodes this week. And I was like, "Bro, where was the straight up?" I was disappointed. I wanted to hear the straight up. I tune in just to hear the straight up, right? But I say that saying, when you're new, you don't know what your voice is. Right. Okay, majority of people I think don't have enough self-awareness, and that's not a slight against anyone. The, the self-awareness isn't there, so they are figuring out what is it that I'm bringing to the market as far as product and service and all those things in the way that I'm going to deliver and be unique. But in addition to that, how am I going to show up audibly? How am I gonna speak? What way am I gonna deliver information? What stories am I gonna tell? What fill in the blank? They're figuring out their voice. And I want you to understand, I want you to know that's a very natural part of it, right? Not to even mention majority of people, 75% people don't even like public speaking. And so, you know, it's a process getting comfortable, you know, getting like just comfortable. It's a process. And I recall for me, like I was, I've been public speaking since I was 16 years old, I think. That's right. I had my first, like, public speaking, like, class. For me, what was uncomfortable was holding the phone and talking into the phone. That took me a little while to get comfortable broadcasting myself, okay? And now it's like I don't even think about it. I talk to my phone, I talk to the camera, I talk like I'm talking to a human, right? Like, I don't— even though I know you guys are human and you guys are tapped in and tuned in, I don't think of it any differently. Like, I don't got to visualize somebody who I'm talking to. I'm just talking. Like, I know everybody's absorbing what I'm saying, right? And so I'm saying all that to say there is a process with owning your voice, and it's okay if you're not completely sure, you're not confident in the way in which you're going to do that, okay? It takes some time. So if you're a little unsettled, If you're not quite like, eh, I don't know, okay, keep going. That's what I want to encourage you. I want to give you some inspiration, some motivation. Keep going because it's just like a sculpture or a glacier. You're just chipping away, chip, chip, chip, chip, chip, chip, chip, chip. And as different things start to happen, the journey will unfold and reveal itself to you as to what your style is. When Boost came out, I didn't come up with Boost. I used to always make a joke that kava— I hated kava for the longest time. It's actually, uh, It is my name, but it wasn't the name that I was known by growing up. And so with that stated, when Starbucks became popular, I was like, it sounds like a beverage, you know, like, I don't want a venti coffee. I don't want a cappuccino. Like, can I get a venti Calvé? Like, I used to make fun of it, right? And so with that stated, Calvé was just never something that I wanted to, I guess, bring into the market. And when I finally got talked into bringing it into the market, which shout out to the formerly known Brothers Vinyl Band, they were the one that, they were on me for 90 days about changing my rap name to Kawe. They were the ones responsible for that. But I was talking to some person, I don't remember, we were on like a Facebook Messenger call and I don't even know why I said boost. I was like, all right, bro, boost. And then he said it back to me. He said boost. And it made me think about caffeine. So like I was thinking about coffee and Cappuccino and kawbeh and caffeine. And I was like, "Boost." Caffeine gives you a boost, right? But when he said it back to me, I was in shock. That was the first time someone said my catchphrase. And he said it back to me. And I was like, "Oh." And then I added some Sonic branding to it, added a Superman, you know, like a Cam Newton Superman. "Boost," right? And now it sticks. Yeah. But it was never a plan. It was never like I sat down, I was like, how am I going to end my— end my conversations? I'm going to end my shows, end my broadcast. Like, that never happened. Like, I promise you on everything I love, that never happened. And so if you allow yourself to be playful, playful with it— I always like to do the Bruce Lee. He said, water can flow. He said, water can crash. Be like water, my friend. Which is really just be flexible with it. Be playful with it. Be like a child with it. And just let it organically come, but chip at it every day. And as you continue to listen to more people, you'll take a little bit of this person, a little bit of that person. And that's really like when I make music now, I have all these different artists throughout time that I've taken samples of their style, their flavor. It's like a recipe, right? And now they're all a combination and a hybrid. And that makes Calvay, and that's the Calvay sound. And so you can do that with influencers and speakers and coaches, and they call it hacking or remixing, whatever verbiage you like. Just don't steal it. Don't be a thief, but remixing or revamping or renewing, bringing something different to it, it's all right. All right, but just know that is a part of the process when it comes to owning your voice. All right, so with that said, don't forget to make sure you guys are taking advantage of the Monetize You course. That's $197. I'm putting it in your pocket. And we also got a phenomenal motivational music playlist that you guys can take advantage, linked up in the show notes. So make sure that you get it. It's your boy, Corbett. I love you, I appreciate you. And until the next time, you already know what it is. Peace.
