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Good morning.

This is Laura.

Welcome to the Before Breakfast podcast.

Today's tip is to listen to yourself.

I know that a lot of people find listening to audio recordings or watching video recordings of themselves to be painful, but it doesn't have to be.

And it can be a great way to become more effective at

communication. So before breakfast is celebrating its fifth anniversary right around now. Since launching

this show in March of 2019, I have recorded well over 1,300 episodes.

My process involves recording and then listening to the recording to double check for my producer,

if there are any required sound edits.

I do not love the sound of my voice, but at this point, I have gotten

used to it. I also listen to interviews I have done on other people's podcasts. Doing so has brought

me face to face, or perhaps ear to to ear with some of my more annoying vocal

tics. I have not gotten rid of all of them by any means, but at least being aware of them

has helped me do them a little less. So I know not everyone is into podcasting,

but many people do have to address other people at some point.

Maybe you lead meetings.

Maybe you occasionally give interviews about a topic.

Maybe you sometimes need to give speeches.

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