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I like to say that I help you find your authentic voice.

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I don't change you.

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I don't give you a persona.

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I don't.

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And especially for women, women don't

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tend to use their lower register, which

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sits down in their diaphragm, because one reason is,

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our voices don't change in puberty, as boys do.

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So our vocal cords are the size that they were when we were 12.

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So we don't know, whereas men do, because their voices change.

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Ours don't.

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However, there is, all women have a more authentic, natural

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pitch that sits lower in the diaphragm,

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and some women don't know how to access it.

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And sometimes it's a physiological thing,

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but, Javanka, more often it's a sociological, psychological,

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familial thing.

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There was something that happened back

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in their childhoods that made them hold on

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to a little girl voice, or the breathy voice,

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or the sexy voice.

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Yes, yes, yes.

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And that got them through what they needed to get through.

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But, all right, if you're now speaking in front of people

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and you're trying to develop an authoritative demeanor,

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well, that can't be through a little girl's voice now, can it?

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So that's one of the things.

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And I didn't think, going into this,

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that I would find 15% to almost 20% of the women I work with

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have a background that has made it difficult for them to access.

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So I have learned to ask questions carefully,

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and I am engaged in their lives, and I care about them,

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and I want them to succeed.

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And sometimes I'm the only person who

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says, I give you permission to step into the voice

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that you're meant to have.