Nancy BosSpeaker, StudioBos · Award-Winning Author, TEDx Speaker, Vocologist, and Founder of Empowered Voices

Prepare Your Body to Speak #short

2 Jan 2024 · 1 min

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In this brief coaching tip, the speaker emphasizes that an empowered voice originates from the entire body—not just the throat. Effective vocal expression involves the core, lungs, facial muscles, and mind. To prepare for speaking, especially if you haven't spoken much that day, the speaker recommends simple physical warm‑ups such as seated abdominal squeezes or crunches to activate core muscles, and light sound‑making exercises to engage the facial muscles. Mental preparation is also highlighted as a natural component of getting ready to speak.

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Today's tip for an empowered voice is to remember that the voice is not just here in the throat. It's a whole body thing. It involves your core, your lungs, your mind, and your face. So preparing to use your voice includes preparing to use your whole body. If you're about to speak up about something and you haven't spoken at all today, at the very least, do some ab squeezes or crunches where you're sitting just to warm up those muscles to get you ready to speak. If you have the opportunity, do a little bit of sound making, things like that, to get your face ready. And of course, your brain, that's what you're doing to prepare anyhow.