the yellow bar is my next level
I'm Pep. I'm learning to speak better and I measure every step. You get my notes and my real numbers, plus a small exercise you can try today.
my real voice, drawn
Moving around is melody. / Landing low is / the authority. ↘
who's writing this
I'm a few levels ahead of you, and I'm still climbing. Think of it like a game. A level 50 expert is great, but they forgot what level 0 feels like. I'm maybe level 10. Close enough to remember it, far enough to help.
So I don't guess. I record myself and measure my voice: how fast I talk, how long I pause, how much my pitch moves. Then I practise, and I measure again.
I learned how my voice works from Vinh Giang's course, once last year and again this summer. What you see here is my own practice and my own numbers.
my numbers, first long video
day 1. I'll show you every change.
what I post
I explain something with filler words, then without. The count is on screen.
A sentence with no pause, then one pause before the key word. You see the white space appear.
One part of your voice per episode. Speed, pause, volume, pitch, melody. Too little, too much, right.
A few seconds of a famous speaker, drawn as a pen line. Then I try to say it the same way.
The line is on screen. I say it, then there's a gap for you to say it out loud.
You pick the topic in the comments. I talk for a minute with no prep, and the score goes up at the end.
An awkward moment from school or work, and the one sentence that gets you out of it.
Something I changed in my own voice, the exercise that did it, and how you try it today.
On YouTube there are longer ones too. One skill in depth, a famous speech broken down, the same story told five ways, and once a month, my own numbers.
latest
nothing here yet
I'm editing them right now. Follow along on any of these and you'll see them first.
free, by email
One tiny exercise a day, straight to your inbox. Each one takes a minute or two, out loud. You start with one pause before one word. By day 30 you're using silence on purpose, in stories, in presentations and when someone asks you a hard question.
I'll email you a link to confirm first. Your address is only used for Pep Talk, never shared or sold. How your email is kept.