30-day speaking voice practice plan

Voice foundations

“I sound fluent, clear and sure of myself: an easy pace, clean pauses instead of ums, and statements that land.”

Who it’s for: Everyone. The skills every conversation track stands on: pace, pauses, fillers, energy and landing your point.

All 30 days

Each day is one measured session: a short idea, then takes you can hear and compare.

Checkpoint days replay day 1, so you can hear what changed.

WEEK 1 · DAYS 1–7

Start faster, cut the fillers, and put some life in your voice.

01Your starting lineTwo short takes, two honest numbers. One take about you, which you can prepare in your head, and one question you’ve never seen.
02Keep it movingStart fast, stay fluent. Listeners follow a wide range of speeds, and in lab studies fast, fluent speakers were rated more credible, not less.
03Fewer, shorter hesitationsClusters, not every um. An occasional um is normal.
04Say it like you mean itClean claims, clean asks. When people are paying attention, hedged claims ("I just think maybe...") persuade less.
05Vocal energyRange you can hear. In a study of startup pitches, how passionate founders seemed predicted who got funded.
06Three in a rowRepetition turns the nerves down. Nerves drop with repetition.
07Benchmark 1CheckpointMeasure the week, honestly. Two checks.

WEEK 2 · DAYS 8–14

Say it in a shape people can follow, and land every statement.

08Answer firstPoint, reason, example, point. Listeners decide early whether to follow you.
09Three points, one takeawayThe structure for updates. Two structures, two jobs.
10SignpostsGive the listener a map. Your listener can’t scroll back.
11Short phrasesOne idea, one breath. Pause where the meaning breaks, not mid-phrase.
12Landing statementsLet statements settle. A statement that settles downward at the end may sound more decided.
13Strong openingsWin the first ten seconds. The first ten seconds decide whether people lean in. "So, um, today I wanted to talk about..." spends them on nothing.
14Benchmark 2CheckpointTwo weeks, measured. Same recipe as Benchmark 1: a parallel version of your introduction and a question you’ve never seen.

WEEK 3 · DAYS 15–21

Keep it all together when the question is hard and the room is watching.

15Pressure ladderSame talk, rising stakes. Graded exposure, the same talk repeated as the stakes rise, is the best-studied way to turn down speaking nerves: across 30 trials it cut fear of public speaking substantially, and the effect grew at follow-up.
16Recover, don’t restartInterruptions are the practice. Real rooms interrupt you.
17Disagree with poiseFirm, respectful, no apology. Disagreement is where softeners and apologies creep in.
18Take a live questionAnswer first, under pressure. Q&A is where people freeze.
19Close strong, on timeEndings are remembered. People remember how you finish.
20Rehearse your real momentPractise what you’re actually facing. This is where practice carries over.
21Benchmark 3CheckpointThree weeks, measured. The same recipe one last time: a parallel version of your introduction and a question you’ve never seen.

WEEK 4 · DAYS 22–30

Bring it back from memory, mix the skills, and measure the change.

22Quick start, clean claimTwo old skills, a new room. From here the work is keeping skills, not collecting new ones.
23Fluent structurePREP, with fewer hesitation clusters. Structure and fluency help each other.
24Energy with a shapeThree points, each one alive. Structure tells people where you’re going; vocal energy tells them what matters on the way.
25Hold your groundInterrupted, still direct. Pressure is where old habits come back: softeners, apologies, restarts.
26Both endsFirst line content, last line action. Listeners give you a few seconds before deciding whether to follow, and they tend to remember how you finished.
27Settle the disagreementFirm view, settled ending. Disagreement tempts you to end statements on an upward, questioning note, which invites people to talk you out of it.
28Mixed practiceOne prompt, three skills, back to back. Mixing skills in one sitting makes you choose which tool fits, which is closer to real conversations than practising one at a time.
29Get into the conversationJoin early, say one clear thing. In meetings, the longer you wait, the higher the bar for your first comment feels, and the harder it is to speak at all.
30Benchmark 4CheckpointA month in, measured. The same recipe as every benchmark: a reworded introduction you can plan, and a question you’ve never seen.

Included in Leadership Voice, with every other track.

$39a month, or $299 a year

All nine tracks, with live rehearsals and voice benchmarks. Cancel in one click.

Measured or refunded. Six sessions in your first 30 days and no measured improvement? Every cent back. Or ask within seven days, for any reason.

One question out loud, 60 seconds: your pace, your ums and how fast you started, measured on your device. Day 1 of every track begins there.