Caroline Goyder

So feet grounded, straight spine, power in the belly.

Then find something at the back of the room that you want to send a thought to and think of pulling your voice from that point.

So rather than pushing your voice out at something, you stand up straight and you pull in.

Because then the voice naturally connects and it's easy.

Whereas if I think, if I stand to the side, if I think, oh, I've really got to reach that point.

If I start pushing in my throat and pushing my head forward, that's straining the voice.

It's going to make it tired.

So just get strong, pull in, and you'll naturally have power.

And we do it when we sing.

They're fine until a certain point, aren't they?

And then they don't like it anymore.

Mommy, please don't dance.

Yeah, gravitas is the book I wrote in 2014.

And it's something that

I think it's kind of my word.

And it's a weird one that it's become my word.

I think I have lawyer parents and I wonder if there's something to do with that.

Gravitas, I was asked to teach at a big corporate in London.

And they said to me, people keep saying, oh, she has no gravitas, he has no gravitas.

And we don't know what to do with that.