Resonate with Krystal Diaz
Welcome to Resonate with Krystal Diaz, where we explore the powerful ways you can use your voice to inspire, transform, and make a difference.
Hosted by Krystal Diaz, a renowned personal development coach specialising in voice, with over 16 years of experience working with top voices in business, music, TV, and film,
Through insightful discussions, practical strategies and expert advice, Krystal empowers listeners to understand their voices as a powerful tool for personal growth and connection with others.
If you are ready to find and amplify your unique voice so that you can share your gifts with the world, then this podcast will give you the insights, tools and techniques to do so.
Resonate with Krystal Diaz
Vocal Tells: 6 Voice Habits That Reveal More Than Your Words And What To Do About Them
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Have you ever said something that landed completely differently than you intended? Maybe you meant to come across as warm and confident — but something got lost in translation.
It wasn't what you said. It was how you said it.
After 18 years as a vocal coach working with award-winning performers, executives, and entrepreneurs, I've learned that your voice is a live broadcast of your internal world. And if you want to communicate with greater intention and clarity, the real work starts on the inside.
In this episode, I introduce a framework I call Vocal Tells — the subtle, often subconscious patterns in the way we speak that reveal far more than our words alone. I walk you through 6 categories of vocal tells, what they might be communicating to the people around you, and what they could be pointing to beneath the surface.
The 6 categories covered in this episode:
🔹 Shrinking Tells — making yourself smaller
🔹 Permission Seeking Tells — handing your authority to the listener
🔹 Validation Seeking Tells — needing confirmation to feel okay
🔹 Survival Tells — your voice in fight or flight
🔹 Flatlining Tells — compartmentalizing emotion to maintain control
🔹 Armoring Tells — using your voice as a shield
This episode is your starting point for awareness. Because awareness is the beginning of everything.
Timecode Chapter
0:00 Introduction
1:24 Book Announcement
2:36 What Are Vocal Tells?
6:50 Vocal Tells vs. Words
8:11 Two Rules Before We Begin
8:59 The 6 Categories of Vocal Tells
13:11 Recap & Reflection
14:43 What's Next: The Empowered Voice
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My book The Empowered Voice: Quiet Your Inner Critic, Speak Your Truth and Share Your Gifts is out now. It's the full roadmap — packed with actionable tools to help you move beyond awareness and into real, lasting change from the inside out.
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