How do you learn to speak with the power, conviction, and influence that your great ideas deserve? Join Laura Gassner Otting she hosts this week’s episode of LGOtv with guest, D’Arcy Webb.
D’Arcy Webb – Word Nerd, Speech Diva, Age-defying Old Broad.
For over two decades, award-winning voice and speech teacher D’Arcy Webb has been helping actors, performers, corporate executives, authors and speakers use their voices to connect with audiences around the world with power, eloquence and heart.
As former Associate Professor of Voice and Speech at the University of the Arts, D’Arcy has worked with hundreds of new and seasoned performers to make their words resonate with clarity, precision and confidence.
She has also served as voice, speech and performance coach for TEDxCambridge, and was the Head of Vocal Training for Heroic Public Speaking from 2016 to 2020. Now D’Arcy coaches and teaches in her private studio all those who want to speak with not only clarity but brio!
Keynote speaker and retired TEDx Cambridge Executive Producer, Tamsen Webster, has called D’Arcy’s work “magic.”
0:31 D’Arcy Webb – the Speech Diva.
2:52 We must learn to read with expression.
3:28 International phonetic alphabet!
5:32 80% psychological.
7:37 They were afraid of your power!
21:42 The role of confidence in our body.
24:18 “Hey Bike #7, SIT UP.”
29:59 Onomatopoeia.
31:00 Not everyone loves a person who is extra.
33:32 It’s better to be someones shot of whiskey than everyone’s cup of tea.
34:28 Learn to be present in our words.
37:02 I got comfortable being in the silence.
40:03 Give your audience time to think at the punctuation marks.
42:27 Why do we all hate the sound of our voices?
44:04 – Our voice is who we are.
46:00 – Use your bathroom muscles.
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