Excellent

Excellent work by Caroline! Recommend this book as this will greatly enhance speaking confidence, with some useful tools.

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Fabulous insightful book

Really enjoyed this book. I learnt lots of new things and I’ve read a number of books on communicating. Im looking forward to trying out the tips!

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Helpful book

I found this book really helpful when thinking about your relationship to your voice and the positive visualisations around public speaking helped me reframe it, along with lots of hints and tips.
I agree with some of the other reviews that if you want to refer back to diagrams and exercises more a physical copy would be good but as this is read by the author the enthusiasm and knowledge is conveyed well.

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From the depths of my soul

Hear me now as I bellow out the fragment of truth from my mind.

This is a great book because when it finished the desire to restart it just to hear her delicate delectable tones a little longer was so tempting.

A real treat. Thank you!

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The power to transform your voice

As with the other Caroline Goyder title I have, Gravitas, this was easy to follow & with a bit of application can make a real difference. I needed to review the website gallery but well worth it. Has definitely increased my confidence in public speaking situations.

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The secret weapon for confident speaking

Speaking with confidence in any situation is a skill few of us consider ourselves masters at (I definitely don't). Whatever your level, you will find really useful guidance and lots of practical advice to elevate you. With Caroline's narration, you feel like you have a "voice wingman" beside you, taking you gently through what can be quite a scary, but very valuable process!

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Fascinating and helpful.

"Find Your Voice" is an excellent resource if you want to work on your speaking and presentation skills. What I found most interesting and helpful, however, was the author's explanations of how our breathing and posture influence not only our speaking but our overall well-being — a fascinating and inspiring read.

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The perfect book on how to let go and speak well

This isn't a book on prosody (i.e. intonation and articulation), or a book on linguistics. It's not necessarily aimed at actors and singers, although it can help those, too.

This books covers a gap that is seldom talked about: how to speak clearly and confidently when someone's waiting for your answer, and all you can feel is that dreadful anxiety riddle with a sense of inadequacy and all you can hear in your head is those past experiences where you slurred, mumbled, or even shied away from speaking. If you've ever opened your mouth and felt you were inside your head, having the other person feel like they're too close whilst you're voice seems unable to bridge the 1 feet gap between the both of you, or if you felt like you were having a panic attack whilst chatting with someone else, this is the book you wanna read.

I read English at uni well over a decade ago. Since then, I've kept close to everything phonetics/phonology-related. I've read every book I could. Occasionally I'll try and read books on how to be a confident speaker. Some books will focus on how to organise your presentation, but I never wanted to stand in front of an audience, I just wanted to be confident and clear on the phone or when chatting with my barbers! Some other books will focus on how to build relationships, but those don't cut it, either. Some will help you articulate better. You'd think these would help the most, but they're usually aimed at foreigners so you don't really learn much from them. Certainly nothing if you've studied linguistics for years. And what is even the point of speaking clearly in your room when you're by yourself if all of that goes out of the window the second your anxiety kicks in as someone stares at you waiting for an answer.

This is why Caroline's book is special. Although it's not divided as such, the book is half self-help, half training. You can tell it's not been written by an actor or a speech therapist that has never experienced your issues, but by someone that's been crippled by anxiety and made it out the other way. She has managed to illustrate the worst of your days, whilst showing you how it is to be confident. No book has ever resonated so much with me. She's described perfectly what it is to be anxious, to feel like you're about to pass out as you mumble, slur, rush, and hide behind your words - and she's done it just as well as she's described what it's like to be confident, clear, and centred. She knows what she's talking about and she knows that you're probably not wanting to prepare for an interview or a presentation, but to be able to be the best you (and keep it that way) what buying a ticket at the cinema, or introducing yourself to someone, or having to call someone on the phone.

Like I said, she knows her shit. I knew it the second she mention something not that well known in linguistics. It's about, Voice Confrontation. Voice Confrontation is when you cringe at even the thought of listening to your own voice being played back at you. Most experts only mention one reason as to why this happens: your voice sounds deeper on the inside as the bones give it more bass. So listening to it being played back makes you think your voice is high pitched. But that's half the story, if that. The real reason you cringe is because you can hear your anxiety, fear, insecurities, and all other feelings you had when you were being recorded. Most people don't know this, she does. She truly knows what she's talking about.

To sum up, if you get this book, you're gonna learn how to let go, put yourself out there, how to be present, how you need not to hear your voice but feel it, how to fill the room with your voice, and most importantly, how to keep it that way.

You might like the book, or you might not like it. But it's a great book. And it will truly help you, not just if you need to speak in front of an audience, or more clearly, but precisely when you get in your own head and you feel everything's against you. By the way, nothing really is against you. You've got this.

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This book must be a lesson in the Medical School.

Well written, full of worthy information, building confidence. Each sentence is a treasure. Recommend reading it more than once as everytime you read it you feel it attracts you with its magnificient well organised real ideas , which are not just written habhazardly.

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Quite good but…

This is quite good however I think it would be better to buy a hard copy instead so you can refer to exercises. The audiobook refers you to exercises on her website which don’t seem to be there anymore. Really this is an Audible that could have done with an accompanying pdf.

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