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every day. Live better. Start now. Let's go. Hey, you're on air with Ella and today I am joined by

Susan Murphy and we are doing something we have never done before. I'm so excited to welcome you to the show, Susan. How are you?

I am very well and I'm delighted to be here. What do you mean by something you've never done before?

We have talked about finding your authentic voice. We have talked about that, Susan, but we've never talked about it literally

before. Uh-huh. Well, that's where I can help. I'm so excited. Okay, before I ask you who you are and what you do,

where are you today? I'm in Charlotte, North Carolina, where I've lived for the last six years. I am

familiar with that area. Uh, Susan, would you tell everybody who you are and what you do?

I am a broadcast voice coach, one of the few in the world. I work with anchors and reporters and

sports people and meteorologists. And what I do is I help them find authentic voices so that it very much uplifts their storytelling.

All right. I'm so excited about this because I think this matters so much, particularly for women. Do you

work with both women and men? Oh, sure. It's 80% women, 20% men. Why is this specifically useful as a women's issue, in your opinion, if you think it is?

Oh, no, it's a women's issue. There's no two ways about that on a couple of levels for a reporter or an anchor.

First of all, the kids now who go through J-school and broadcast programs, back in my day, you usually started

in radio and then advanced to television. That doesn't happen anymore. Radio isn't what it

once was. It's very different. Most young people now jump straight into television. So the whole

voice thing is not very much addressed in school. And when you don't have the practice at a radio

station, sometimes you're left floundering with how you're supposed to, well, I shouldn't say

supposed to, how you sound on the air. And so what I have learned in watching television over the last

couple of years is that women primarily are

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