I was looking earlier.

There's almost like a billion search results on Google for people trying to figure out or trying to provide answers to how to communicate successfully.

So let's get into it.

So I use this term vocal image.

Yeah.

What does vocal image mean?

It came about when I realized I spent, and I think most of I spent a lot of time on our visual image, right? How we look, our body language, the way we dress. But very rarely do people spend time on their vocal image. Now, I'll make it make sense. When people see you and you reveal your visual image, they make assumptions about you pretty quickly. So the form assumptions, oh, this person seems friendly. Maybe they're confident because they got good posture.

Maybe they're smiling. They're friendly. And then all of a sudden, when you open your mouth and you

speak, they now turn these assumptions into beliefs. So what may be assumptions before? Now they go,

oh, you are friendly. You are confident. Right. Or they might think, oh, no, bit of a wanker, right? And you've had these experiences before. I've had them before where you assume you see someone, you're, oh, that person's really good, go and meet them, you're, ah, not really nice. That's weird. So it's another layer that we don't think about, though, because we, again, think we're stuck with our voice, We think we're stuck with the way we communicate. We think there's no way for me to ever change with this. So let's talk about how one can improve their vocal image so that they're effective across context. You mentioned melody, volume, hand gestures. If we start with melody, what the hell is melody? The different notes you can hit with your voice?

Okay, so is that variety?

Yeah, variety, yeah. Pitch variety, pitch and melody.

Okay.

Well, because there's a melody that lives underneath your voice.

Alright, let's do an experiment.

I'm going to play you a piano song, and I want you to listen to this, and then you're at home right now.

I want you to listen to the track and see what words come to mind.

So we'll just play this.

Okay, yeah.

All right.

Sadness.

Right.

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