{"type":"rich","version":"1.0","provider_name":"Transistor","provider_url":"https://transistor.fm","author_name":"Own Your Impact","title":"#89: Prepare in Private, Open in Public: Why People Can Feel Who You Are","html":"","width":"100%","height":180,"duration":745,"description":"I believe people can feel it when you know what you're about. They can sense it before you've said very much at all, and they can feel it when you don't.\nThis year I got to see two of my very favorite performers live. In April my family and I went to Las Vegas for the opening night of Bruno Mars's tour, and on that first night, with no one knowing what would happen, Anderson .Paak came out and they performed as Silk Sonic. Then my daughter and I saw my favorite singer of all time, Cynthia Erivo, at the Hollywood Bowl. For years I have gotten teary watching recordings of her, and recordings of live performances still carry resonance and truth and presence. But being in the room with someone like that is a completely different level, and I think it's because you can feel it when someone has done the work in private so they can be open in public.\nIn this episode I connect what those performers do on stage to what happens when you walk into a sales conversation, a workshop, or a room full of people you've never met. And I go back to the fundamentals I started with in every voice lesson I ever taught: breath, posture, and openness.\nIMPACT POINTS FROM THIS EPISODE:\n\n⚡ People can feel it when you've done the work in private. — To get that many people to buy tickets, sing along, and leave with a top-notch experience, a performer has to do the preparation in private so they can be open and connected on the stage. Cynthia Erivo says it in her book Simply More: \"When you sing, you have to be as open as you possibly can be.\" That openness is emotional as well as physical, and it means giving a piece of yourself to people without knowing whether they'll receive it. Sharing your ideas works the same way. If you respond to that vulnerability by shutting down and worrying about what you sound like, the tension keeps you from sharing what's yours to share.\n⚡ Openness starts with your breath. — When I taught voice lessons, we always started with breath, posture, and openness. A...","thumbnail_url":"https://img.transistorcdn.com/SuaTMrpDv3ElcaZUKJp722xS29USHZM_QOCShiJjgJ8/rs:fill:0:0:1/w:400/h:400/q:60/mb:500000/aHR0cHM6Ly9pbWct/dXBsb2FkLXByb2R1/Y3Rpb24udHJhbnNp/c3Rvci5mbS9kYTIz/NGI5ODJiOTQ4MDk2/NjYwNGU4NzkwNTAx/MTgxOC5wbmc.webp","thumbnail_width":300,"thumbnail_height":300}