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The Futur with Chris Do

234 - Tonal Influence — with Marshall Davis Jones

The Futur with Chris Do

The Futur

Arts, Education, Marketing, Design, Business, Self-improvement

4.9998 Ratings

🗓️ 29 March 2023

⏱️ 65 minutes

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Summary

In this episode, we are joined by Marshall Davis Jones, TEDx Speaker and founder of MindBodySpeak. Marshall is a competitive slam poet and world-bridger, known for his voice tone techniques that help people win negotiations, deescalate conflicts, and build business relationships across multiple industries. Throughout the conversation, Marshall emphasizes the importance of voice work in communication and how tonal decision making can impact behavior in others. He explains how mastering words and tone can help individuals read the room, modulate their tone, and communicate effectively, whether they're trying to be assertive, move things along, or slow things down. Marshall draws on his experience with slam poetry and battle rap to explain how he learned to read the room and grow from these live communication mistakes. He also discusses the importance of treating our words with care and understanding that our tone can either be a controlled explosion or a delicate dance, depending on the situation. This episode is a must-listen for anyone looking to improve their communication skills and connect with others through spoken language. This episode is sponsored by by BetterHelp. Give online therapy a try at betterhelp.com/FUTUR and get on your way to being your best self. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0

People will remember your voice and the tone of your voice is what will indicate two things for people after.

0:08.8

What reminds them of you and what they remember about you. I'm going to have this conversation with you and I have spoken on clubhouse and we've also

0:44.0

spoken on Zoom a couple of times and I think that what you do really fascinates me and I

0:48.8

have to admit Marshall I really don't fully understand the concept.

0:53.1

So maybe before we continue too far,

0:56.0

for people who don't know who you are,

0:57.2

can you introduce yourself

0:58.5

and tell us a little bit of story

0:59.7

about how you got here?

1:02.1

Oh, man, my name is Marsha

1:04.0

David Jones. I'm a world bridgeer and that term came to me by some weird

1:11.1

accident but it was the best way to describe what I wanted to do in the

1:16.2

world and that is connect one thing to something else and be in the middle somehow and

1:22.0

that started with spoken word.

1:23.7

So it's a competitive poet in the slam poetry community and it requires you to have a way with

1:31.0

words but also to be able to bridge ideas powerfully to

1:34.5

strangers very quickly who will rate you right now from one to ten based on

1:39.9

how they feel and I learned a lot about how to read a room by making a lot of mistakes and

1:46.8

communicating about how important it is to not necessarily just stand on your own

1:52.1

opinion because that's what you believe to be true,

1:54.8

but to really tap into what others believe and understand and what they value.

1:58.6

And mastering words was like a thing, you know, like how do you put words together and I became really good at it and very

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