Episode 112 {Susan is based in North Carolina)
In this conversation with Susan Murphy, we explore:
About Susan Murphy:
Susan has been in the broadcast industry for more than 40 years and she is always open to reinvention. Voice coaching is the most rewarding job she has ever had.
Her primary clients are in the broadcast industry and she can you improve your voice to deliver a more powerful and intentional message.
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Excerpts from this conversation with Susan Murphy:
02:31
I work with reporters and anchors at TV stations around the country. And the primary thing I work with is finding helping them to find their authentic voices.
They all have them. It's just that women in particular, don't tend to use them. Which I think goes back to their childhood where that breathy girlish Barbie doll voice probably served a need back then got them the attention they wanted or needed, allowed them to navigate, perhaps a sort of dysfunctional home life or whatever.
But it doesn't serve them well getting into adulthood. So what I do is, I don't teach anything that they don't already have, you know, in their bodies, I just help them discover it, I just uncover their authentic voices.
So once you do that, already, you have started with a rising a blossoming confidence.
And that's what a lot of reporters lack too. But that's mostly because of their age.
So the authenticity piece starts and then I move into some writing with them, because they all go out on different stories every day, or they're looking at anchor copy different every day. Are you making an intentional connection to this story?
And they look, and you wouldn't do a story with a grieving mother the same way you would do a St. Patrick's Day parade, which you Okay, everybody gets that.
But there's more to it than that. So making that intentional connection, not only with the story, but how about with the people you work for?
Oh, and that's not your bosses, the people you work for is the audience. If you can't make an intentional connection to what you're talking about, or to what you're delivering, I try never to say reading because there's a difference.
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Write your script, like a fifth grader, how old are you in fifth grade, you're 10. Deliver it, like a college professor.-----
10:47
Short sentences are a reporter's best friend. You can do so much more with the tone of your voice in a short sentence, then you can do in a long one, because in a long one, you're just trying to get from A to Z.
11:03
If you keep the sentences short, if you make sure you take those pauses between the sentences, tone happens, you almost don't have to manufacture it, because those words will automatically trigger tone.
And when you're not worried about tripping over the next word, or the next thought. It's amazing how authentic that delivery can be.
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24:38
If you were going to rephrase all of that, say for a group of seventh graders, is there a way you could explain it to maybe seventh graders that might be better for my audience?
Oh, okay. And then hopefully, they'll be able to explain it in a way that helps the seventh graders but then it allows you to write it better.
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