Episode 30 - Pause, Pace and Pitch (Part 1)

Welcome 

• Welcome to the Business Souls podcast which helps you to maximise your magnificence by exploring one topic each week for 10 minutes.

Quote For The Week

• "Life doesn't come with a REWIND, FAST FORWARD or PAUSE BUTTON. Once it starts it PLAYS until it ends or until you press STOP.” Sonya Parker, Author

News

• Hello Business Souls
• 2 Part on Pause, Pace and Pitch
• Important techniques for delivering your content live, podcast or youtube

Main Topic

Quote

• Hard when you are speaking especially live
• Panic when you start
• See people walk off stage because can’t cope
• Number of strategies to make you more confident

Pause, Pace and Pitch

• Taught by my grandmother
• Each element gives you confidence and makes your delivery much smoother
• Important to practice. The more you do the better you become.
• This process is all about how you deliver your speech
• With podcasting / YouTube you can always just do another take
• If you are live on Facebook / Instagram / YouTube / Twitch you cannot do another version so you need to think carefully
• Pause - this is not to be muddled with pace which we will briefly discuss here which is how fast you speak.
• Pause - gives you confidence used in the correct way, limits you um’s and ah’s and can be used for dramatic effect.
• Pace - how quickly you deliver your content. Tendency to deliver quickly when nervous or pause because cannot get the words out
• Pitch - the way that you speak. So we don’t want a monotoned voice but we also don’t want to speak talking into your hands. There are various techniques to ensure that you can speak with confidence.
• This week we are going to to discuss Pause
• Next week we will discuss Pace and Pitch

Pause

Build Tension

• You see it all the time programmes to build tension
• We will be back after the break
• And the winner is…..
• Tension is created by pausing
• Careful not to use too much
• Very effective

Thinking Time

• It is important to think about what you are going to say.
• Pausing helps because you can reflect on what you think and then say something

Unnecessary Um’s and Ah’s

• We are prone to make a noise to let someone know that we are thinking
• In everyday conversation that is ok and sometimes when being interviewed.
• Also a confidence thing.
• We um and ah to make out that we do nknow what we are talking about but have not got there yet.
• Annoying when editing

Confidence

• It is the day of my fathers funeral.
• The time of the day has come where I have to speak
• I must speak well to honour my father
• Over 100 eyes are looking at me
• My confidence boost
• Look round everyone and catch their attention
• Deep breath in
• Speak
• Massive confidence booster

Listen

• You can’t listen and speak
• Pause whilst someone is talking to you
• Listen to what they have to say
• Act on what they tell you

Punctuate

• Pause a little after each sentance
• This will punctuate what you have to say

Feedback

• Pause to get feedback
• If live audience do you want them to clap, boo, jeer or ask questions for...