Amy Chapman
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183 appearances
1 recordings
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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Like, that's the thing you want to say, but you're not listening to the words.
You're listening to everything else. The intonation, the fact that I went, you're listening. And I put that in a whisper. That sound, you're like, ooh, bring me more. Bring me in. When I get quiet, and sometimes, like if I'm telling somebody something, you get quiet. And that doesn't just like, ah, you're more like. Like you lean into it. So especially like I coach a lot of TED Talkers.
That was my next question. We're so nice. Yeah. So I coach a lot of TED Talkers and a lot of people have such great things that they're saying. They've written it out. Their speeches are fantastic or their speech writers are fantastic. Either way. But sometimes they can't deliver it or they're just reading it off. And you're like, first of all, never read off.
I'd rather somebody ad-lib everything, get half the stuff wrong, than read off a piece of paper. Because when you're reading off a piece of paper, you're not going to have the big things that go up. It's just going to be...
Do you curse on this show? Yeah, yeah, yeah. Okay. So if I'm telling somebody like, fuck you. You're so good. You know, like no one's going to be like, right, right, right.
But if I'm like, fuck you, you know, and like do it in that way, then you're like, oh, you know, but like the way we say it and our tone changes everything.
So a couple different things. I swing a pendulum because I will coach somebody who is pretty boring and I'm going to make them wackadoo. They're going to be all over the top and everything's going to be so crazy. And I know that they're going to walk out and be like, that crazy lady told me to do too much shit.
And that pendulum's going to swing back right in the middle, right where they need to be. So I go way far on one side. Great. And I tell them that too. I'm like, listen, we're going psycho here and I want you to be free. Because also if somebody is – a lot of times people are a little bit flatter because they're a little embarrassed to go big. Shy. They're shy. They're embarrassed.
They're just kind of like – And there's nothing wrong with that. No, I know. Yeah. But if you're reserved, you're like, I don't want to do that. It feels weird. Feels weird. It feels weird to go big. And I'm like, feel weird. Feel weird. Don't feel shame. Don't feel embarrassed. Because if you're embarrassed, I promise you, your TED Talk's not going to do well.
If you're like, I sort of like don't want to be here. That comes across. And people are like, well, if you don't want to be here, I don't want to be watching you. Right? But if someone's like, oh my God, I want to be here so badly. I'm so stoked to be here. And you can see that you're like, yeah, I want to be here with you. I don't care what you're talking about.
You're talking about a toenail fungus. Sign me up. Like it's, so exciting because you're excited. Show me that excitement. And then take me on a journey. Show me that excitement. Show me big. So that's why when people are reserved, I'm like, go crazy. I have them jump around. I have them move about. I have them flail their arms up and really go wild. So then they don't feel that shame as much.
Get weird. Get completely weird. Be embarrassed. Get it out. And then you can find places where you're like, yes, here I am talking about toenail fungus on my TED Talk. And then I'm going to bring it back because I'm telling you a story. And if every story is at a 10 the whole time, it feels like you're yelling at me. But I have to have you bring it back.
And there's got to be parts where you bring it in. And like I said before, when I'm quiet, you lean in. So then I go big. And I go big where it matters. And then I pull you in. And I'm like, now you come into me because I'm going to bring it here. And then we're going to be someplace else in the middle. So give me a range of emotion. Give me a range of things to be excited about.
When I see a movie and it's one character and he's the same exact throughout, you're like, you're so boring. But a good movie and a good character, you see an arc. You see them start somewhere else and end somewhere else.
Voice down talk versus up talk. So that's more that confidence of a voice.
So I'm a fast talker. I know that. I'm also hyper articulate. So I can speak really quickly, but you know exactly what I'm saying and every single sound comes out.
So I'm not mumbling anything unless I'm doing it on purpose. Like when I said mumbling anything, like that was on purpose.
That you heard it. So changing the speed at which I'm speaking is so important. It also gives me a chance to pause. And everybody talks about the pause. I love a pause. Even me just saying, I love a pause. That moment of silence, you listened. You listened. You're like, well, what is she going to say? So speed is huge in how you're delivering something. Am I going faster? Am I stopping?
And am I stopping even just to think about the next thing I'm saying? So I'll give people tricks like that. Like, take your time. Don't give everything at once. Stop. And then think, what am I going to say? How am I going to say it? What am I going to do with my speed? And that's to switch it up. So it's not, we're all the same speed. We're all the same tone. We're all this.
Our ears will get used to everything. That's why whenever, like, I'm sure your mom is like, my mom is like every other mom in the world that yelled at me all the time. Clean your room. And then you just tune it out because it was all at the same pitch. It was all loud. It was all yelly. It was all that. And you're like, boop. Like, it's not there anymore. But she was like, Amy.
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