Episode 36: Change Your Voice, Change Your Life with TedX Speaker Marshall Davis Jones
with TedX Speaker Marshall Davis Jones
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Episode Description:
Your voice is your first inheritance. Words are the vibrations that alchemize our thoughts, self, and expression into the physical, shared world. By becoming more mindful about our thoughts, our intention, and how our voice is the first outward expression of our inner selves, we quite literally change the way we exist physically in this world. And, we become more confident because we practice trusting the communication between our mind and our body. We talk about all this and more with world-renowned TedX speaker and founder of MindBodySpeak, Marshall Davis Jones.
Show Notes:
Today we’re speaking with Marshall Davis Jones, a leading authority in vocal communication for high-stakes discussions.
“If you can change your voice, you can change your life.”
Your voice is your first inheritance, and the foundational system for the rest of your life: what you draw to you, what you are allowed to reach for, the way you move through the world, and more. If you change your sound, you change the way you show up, which will change the way people respond to you, which will change your life.
We do not operate in a silo, but a human ecosystem made up of each of our contributions as led by our voices.
How our voice and our words are the vibrations that alchemize our thoughts, self, and expression into the physical, shared world.
Your words are an extension of your intention, an animation of your thinking.
To have, or speak with, more confidence, we can start with our thoughts.
Whenever we intend on certain movements, the body activates musculature to obtain that movement. Our thought process activates a physical sequence of events. Athletes and actors more easily think about thoughts as drivers for the body, moreso than the average person. By becoming more mindful about our thoughts, our intention, and how our voice is the first outward expression of our inner selves, we quite literally change the way we exist physically in this world.
Confidence is a trust between the mind and body - trust to move in the direction you want, and trusting what you want.
The human proclivity to pay attention to controversy or drama in order to see the consequences (and subconsciously learn something about surviving) – the reason we can’t look away from a wreck, or why people would choose to watch a fight break out over the sports game where it happens
How social media is designed to amplify extreme voices. When voices are the most powerful instrument for leading people from one place to another, we must place more care into how many people we’re reaching, and where they’re going to end up.
Your voice can change the world within you, and the world around you.
“Silent” and “Listen” are made up of the same letters. As a culture we’re losing the ability to listen due to the lack of silence - from constant digital overload and systemic burnout. This is why silence and becoming better listeners (both to ourselves and others) is the key to a better world and greater peace.
The Speaker’s Voice is the voice where you can tell they have no intention of listening, only expressing. The Listener’s Voice is the voice where you can hear the inherent dance between both people because there is space left for response. This is the voice that works better, of course, for creating peace. In other words, we benefit in communication from the intention of silence (which changes the way words leave you), and listening to understand as opposed to listening to respond.
The most powerful moments are the quiet ones. Why do humans recognize that silence when it comes to machinery (like vehicles) is a mark of quality, but not in our communication with each other?
As a listening species, we listen in silence for signals, relying on certain powerful leaders to let us know what we need to know and when. In a world full of both positive and negative influential people due to technological capability and reach, take note of where each voice is leading you, if you want to go there, and if that source ever quiets down to listen. And, consider the possibility that your voice, as well as silence, is what may be the next powerful healer in our human ecosystem.
More about Marshall Davis Jones:
Marshall Davis Jones, founder of MindBodySpeak, is a leading authority in vocal communication for high-stakes discussion. Marshall is a multi-time TedX speaker; his techniques have won negotiations, de-escalated conflicts, and acquired business relationships across multiple industries. Besides writing and speaking globally, he’s played a narrative consultant role for two documentaries and he was awarded recognition as one of the Top 100 Most Influential People of African Descent via the UN. He’s also a poet and his poems have been flown by NASA into space! We met at a conference in 2022 where he gave the talk “Your Voice Can Change the Score”.
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