Amy Chapman
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183 appearances
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1 series
first heard Apr 2025
last heard Apr 2025
Amy Chapman’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.
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Right, because she's controlling it, and she has great control over her voice. But she's not controlling her speaking. I don't know if she's not doing it because she doesn't want to, because she doesn't care, because she wants to give the impression of like, I want to be smaller. Because sometimes people like that.
So we never know. And that's why I'm never like, there's one right answer. There's not one right answer. Right.
I have a friend who's a, a big show host. I won't say on where, and she was having a, and she's just like so cute and you'd see her and she sounds like this and she's just like bubbly and so sweet. And she was having a talk with her managers and lawyers, and she put her foot down and she was speaking like this. And they were like, whoa. And she had to backtrack and say, oh, don't mind me.
I'm just like a crazy little Latin chica. And you're like, she did that on purpose. She had to put her voice in that place for them to be like, oh, okay. Right. Now we like you. So she's using that small little voice to her advantage. So it's not like, We all need to have this big, booming, low voice. Sometimes women can be kind of manipulative in a great way.
So that's why I'm like, what's your objective? What is it? And it can change. So I like to give people tools that you're going to have a whole tool belt of things that you can choose from. If you're in a room where you want people to like... like you and think you're so funny and cute and sweet, then you can talk in such a different way.
But if you're in a place where you need to lay down the law and this is not okay, then you can speak in a different way. And some people are like, well, isn't that fake? It's like, what's fake? It's your voice. It's what you're trying to get across. Why is it fake? We all have different ways.
If I'm getting pulled over by a policeman and I'm talking to my best friend who I'm just like shooting the shit with and I'm just talking like this, I'm not gonna talk to the policeman that way. I'm gonna say, hi officer, I'm so sorry, what was I doing? I'm gonna change the way I speak. We code switch. We do it all the time.
We do it with our parents, with our in-laws, with our kids, with our teachers, with whoever. I am code switching throughout the day. And I think that's huge. It makes me more successful. It makes the clients I'm working with. They're not like, this girl doesn't know what she's talking about. It's like, oh, no, she does. But then I'm going to go to somebody else and be like, yeah, what's up?
You know, like we code switch. A hundred percent.
So this, for that specific BuzzFeed, I'll give that as an example. Kane came to me. And he's kind of quiet and a little bit monotone. And he said, hey, Amy, so I do this. And I'm like, what? Like, you're so monotone. You're just right here. Nothing varies. You're just, you know, hey, how you doing? I was like, okay, we got to take a step back. What are you trying to get from me?
Do you want me to be excited by you? Get me excited. What does that look like? And I will take it further back of like, how did you speak as a kid? How did you want people to see you? Did you like to be in the front? Did you want to be center of attention or no? Do you want that now or no? You know, it goes back and back and back. But for him, I was like, let's get some intonation in there.
So move your voice up. Bring it up. Bring your volume up at different times. Punch different things that you want to come and don't. Use your body. So you can see I use my body when I'm talking. I'm not just here, but I keep it bringing out. And that brings people in. So it's not all the, I'm not flailing around, but I want you to use your full body. I want you to use your eye contact.
I want you to use your soul. When you're talking to somebody, there's no one else in the room. And if you're talking to a group of people, I want them to feel like there's no one else in the room. You don't have to lock eyes with them, but you have to feel that like, I am talking to you. I'm giving you my all. And after I talk, I am like zonked because I've given so much energy.
I need to recharge.
I wouldn't be here, Jen.
Yes, of course. Practice makes permanent. Not perfect, but it makes permanent. The more you do something. So if somebody is very monotone and they sort of talk like this and everything's there, I'd say punch it up. Let's go one, two, three, four, five, four, three, two, one, two, three, four, five, four, three, two, one. So your voice is going up in pitch and going down.
And I'll say like, give me a sentence. What'd you have for breakfast today? Oh, I had peanut butter and jelly sandwich. Give me that in 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 4, 3, 2, 1. I had a peanut butter and jelly sandwich today. I had a peanut butter and jelly sandwich today. I had a peanut butter and jelly sandwich today. So you can feel your voice doing da-da-da-da-da-da-da-da-da-da-da-da-da-da-da. And again,
You take it with a grain of salt. You can't always talk like this all the time because then you start feeling like you're on a roller coaster and that gets a little crazy. But you start getting the movement in your voice. It starts going down and then it's up and then it's down. So you're used to that. And then I'll say, okay, let's take it away. Now let's punch what's important.
I had a peanut butter and jelly sandwich today. And when I say jelly, I'm like, it was the best jelly of my life. It was so good. The things that are important, those words that you really want people to listen to. Because when people are listening, I mean, like, I don't know how many people are going to be like, she had a peanut butter and jelly sandwich today.
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