Let's begin with you.

Before we talk, I would like to understand the rooms you walk into and what happens when you speak in them. This takes about ten minutes. Answer in your own words. There is nothing to get right. Let’s connect and share our voices.

To have a voice is to have a choice.

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Who you are. Where you are. What you want

Just so I know when we change our voices

First name

Last name

Your role or title

Organization

Feel free to share a social media account with me

Where are you based, and what time zone?

The rooms you speak in

Every voice lives inside many rooms. Tell me about yours.

What is at stake when you speak in these rooms? Decisions, funding, a case, a career, people who depend on you. Whatever is true.

Is there a specific moment coming up? A board presentation, a hearing, a keynote, a hard conversation. If so, when?

What happens when you speak

Not how you would like it to go. How it actually goes.

Which of these do you recognize? Choose everything that applies.

I get interrupted or talked over, even when my point is strong My ideas land later, when someone else says them My voice tightens, thins or shakes under pressure I speak faster than I mean to I over-prepare and still feel unsure in the moment I hold back the thing I most want to say I become someone else when the stakes rise People say I sound fine. I do not feel present. I have been told to be more of something, or less of something

Describe one recent moment you keep replaying. What was the room? What did you say, or not say? What did you notice in your body?

What feels like your best day, how much of you arrives in the room, and what feels like your worst.

So tell me what you imagine?

Our work is not to invent expression, it is to lift the limits. So tell me what you are reaching for.

Which of these matters most to you right now? Choose up to three.

To be clearly heard without becoming louder To hold the room when the stakes rise To trust myself instead of monitoring myself while I speak To connect with the people in front of me rather than manage them To let the authority I already have arrive intact To act on what I know, even when I am afraid To make a difference, not an impression

What have you already tried? Coaching, media training, therapy, courses, books, going it alone. What helped, and what seemed different?

If this worked, what would you like to see different for you?

How you would like to work

This helps me point you toward the right way in.

Which sounds most like you?

I want to learn alongside a small group of women who are in similar rooms I want to work with Mannette one on one first I am not sure yet. Help me decide.

How do you learn best? There are two doors in. One is grounded in the science of how the voice and nervous system work together, and starts with understanding. The other starts with the body. Both lead to the same place.

Understanding first. I want to know why before I do. Body first. I learn by doing. No preference. Guide me.

The founding cohort is live, capped at ten women, and runs 12 weeks, twice a week, from September 28. Could you protect that time?

Yes. I can commit to the full 12 weeks, twice a week. Mostly. I have one or two known conflicts. Not this round, but keep me in mind.

How ready are you to begin?

I am ready now. Something has to change. I am ready, but the timing is a few months out. I am exploring, and this conversation is part of that.

A few last things

How did you find me?

Anything else you want me to know before we talk?

When you send this, it comes directly to me. I read every one myself and I will reply personally, usually within two business days. Nothing you share here goes anywhere else.

Be heard. Be seen. Be felt.

Mannette