Elevate Your Podcast Energy 🎙️

They listen a little bit to be entertained.

And one of the things that I found over and over again as the podcasters I like to listen to, they're excited.

And that enthusiasm carries through in the manner in which they speak.

And that's why we all like great public speakers, because they carry the right level of, excitement and intonation and expression into what they're saying.

And if you think about, it's the most considerate thing you can do as a speaker, as a podcaster, because it allows the message to be better received by the audience.

So in this video, I want to share three quick tips in order for you to elevate that energy and so your audience can actually properly receive that message.

This will take time, it will take practice.

But in this one, I want you to practice these three tips so that we can take another baby step towards perfecting this show.

Remember, progress is more important than perfection.

So tip number one, you need to be able to monitor your beautiful face because you need to smile.

Yes.

If you don't smile, it doesn't come across quite the same way in your intonation.

Even if you try see, just, see how awkward that sound.

You really need to be able to put on that smile.

You need to be able to see your own face.

And while I don't recommend looking into your face, like right now, I'm looking at the video camera just below, or at least the monitor right below my video camera.

But it's much better to look straight into the camera.

But even if you have to look into your.

Your video monitor, if it's right below the camera, then it's not too bad.

Do this if this helps you, but then gradually move your eyes up into looking straight at the camera.

But for this lesson, the one thing you want to remember, smile.

It changes the whole tone that you're speaking with.

And unless you want to be perceived as melancholy or unkind, maybe don't smile.

But if you want to be considered as approachable, friendly, helpful, you need to smile.

Tip number two is that you need to.

You need to raise the energy up about 10%.

So if you think you're speaking at 100% energy, go up farther.

If you know you're really introverted, go up 20 to 30%.

I promise it will Feel slightly awkward.

In fact, if it doesn't feel slightly awkward, you're not giving it enough energy.

It needs to feel like you're over exaggerating a little bit.

Not a lot of it.

You don't want to be really crazy.

You just want to be enough crazy.

Okay.

So you want to be able to push it a little bit farther and be more expressive than you think you need to be.

Because I promise your audience will not feel like you're being overly expressive.

They'll just feel like you're being expressive.

I remember once I posted a video to LinkedIn and I thought I was being really dramatic.

I was like, my gosh, they're gonna, like, call me out on this one.

Some of my best friends texted me.

They're like, dude, this is the most real I've ever felt you in a video.

I was like, no way.

I thought I was faking it to make it, but it ended up being the most considerate thing I could do for my audience in learning how to just be a little bit more expressive.

Camera.

So try it.

It will feel awkward.

I promise it will.

But lift it up a little bit.

And I promise it is a much better product to ship to your audience.

And it will give.

It'll.

There will be some give and take over time.

You might push it a little bit too far and dial it back in and push it a little bit too far and dial it back in until you kind of find that perfect middle ground.

It'll take many, many episodes, but I want you to try to push it out a little bit, maybe even a little bit too far with this episode in order to get us to.

And then tip number three.

I want you to be expressive as if you're talking to a close friend, as if you're telling a story to a close friend.

Because we've all had those moments where we're leaning into our friend and be like, you won't believe what happened to me this weekend, man.

Let me tell you.

And then you kind of like relay the story and you're using your hands and you're kind of leaning into it.

That's what you want to do with your audience.

You want to talk to your audience like they're a good friend, like you can tell them the real goods, the inside story.

If you do this over and over again, your audience will begin to feel like a friend.

And that's been the goal of my podcast, the AI Driven marketer the whole time.

I want.

I want to be friends.

I want to meet.

Of course I want to meet as many of you as possible.

But even more importantly, I want it to feel like we're having a conversation as friends, like we're on an inside track together, and I'm just sharing some of the things that I've learned recently.

This comes off much better in a podcast because it builds trust.

Again, we're trying to build relationships with a large group of people, and it's a lot easier to build relationships if you communicate and over exaggerate those hand motions and body language in such a way that you would with a friend.

So picture one of your close friends here on the other side of that camera and you're recording this message just for them.

So those are the three tips.

Monitor your face and smile.

Raise up your energy level and be more expressive with your hands and your body as if you're talking to a, close friend.

Give it a shot in this episode, as as you knock out challenge four,