Dr. Shadé Zahrai

It is the connection between chin and chest.

The distance between your chin and chest is what determines how you feel.

Now, what does that mean for all of us?

It means that when you're going into a high-pressure situation, when you feel the self-doubt, when you're wanting to withdraw, you don't even have to think about posture.

All you have to do is elongate your chin.

Think about how to expand the distance between chin to chest.

That's it.

I love that.

Perfect.

That can go in a mug.

Okay, so research in speech communication looks at the various tones that we have, and what we've identified is there's generally two overarching ones.

One of them is very much a throat voice, which happens when we're not really breathing very deeply, and our voice entirely comes from our throat.

It's very shallow.

You see how it sounds friendly, it sounds warm, but maybe there's not a lot of credibility to it.

Let me try that.

Completely different.

Wow.

And that changes how you're perceived.

Now, the other type of voice,

It feels different too.