S9 W2 E5-8 Prime Your Energy - Prepare to be seen and heard (Business Speaking Mastery) with Monique McDonald

S9 W2 E5-8 Monique  McDonald - “The Magnetic Voice Show  - Business Speaking Mastery”

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Prime Your Energy - Prepare to be seen and heard

Today we are exploring how to prepare to be seen and heard.  Our goal for this show is to share ways to prime your energy so you show up with your brilliance warmed up and ready to go. Ask any world class athlete or performer what they do to prepare for competition or entering the stage and you will find that they all have rituals and routines that focus their energy, attention and intention.  Whenever you are speaking to represent your business and expertise,  we want to give you an edge and encourage you not to skip this step.

​E5 The Secret Power of Breath

1. “Breath is the bridge that connects life to consciousness, which unites your body to your thoughts”  Thich Naht Hanh
2. The moment we put our attention on conscious breathing or taking deep slow breaths that move the diaphragm 2 things happen.  First, we must go within to focus on the breath so everything else falls away and the only thing that matters is the now moment. Next it signals the mind and body that we are safe.
3. Using the breath to stimulate a sense of safety and bring our conscious attention to the present moment is an easy way to  practice focus while calming all of our systems.  Each breath brings us back to the beginning where anything is possible.  That moment between the inhale and the exhale is where all creativity begins.  What is the first thing we do when we are born?  Inhale.  And what is the last thing we do before we die?  Exhale
4. As a professional opera singer, I was taught the power of breath in service to expression. The human voice supported by conscious breathing is what allowed me to fill theaters with my voice without using a microphone.  This same practice gives speakers the opportunity to speak from their most powerful state of being so their entire body is connected to their thoughts.  I invite you to spend some quality time with your breath and meet your most powerful self.

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Known to many as “The Magnetic Voice,” Monique McDonald is a Grammy-nominated, award-winning vocal specialist and certified Conscious Transformational Coach. Initially terrified to audition or speak publicly, Monique studied intensely with excellent coaches to cultivate her confidence. As a result, she celebrated with outstanding Opera and Master Class performances throughout Europe, Russia, Japan, and the US, including Carnegie Hall, NYC, and the Kennedy Center in Washington, DC. When Monique helps you unlock your natural charisma and your “Magnetic Voice,” you benefit from secrets learned in over twenty years through High Stakes Performance combined with her unique coaching style.  Her passion is inspiring charismatic communication and mastery of the human voice to empower entrepreneurs, speakers, and leaders.


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​E6 Activate Gratitude and Open Doors

1. “Gratitude opens the door, the power, the wisdom, the creativity of the universe. You open the door through gratitude," Deepak Chopra
2. The decision to begin an active gratitude practice is the smartest decision any business owner can make.  Entrepreneurs make hundreds of decisions every day and this one will affect every area of your life. There is a difference between being thankful and active gratitude.  Thankfulness is saying “thank you” or sending a thank you note.  Active gratitude is a state of mind that permeates all of your actions and is felt deep within the soul. 
3. Tony Robbins says that when we are grateful fear disappears and abundance appears.  There have been numerous studies on Gratitude in the past few years.  The data gathered tells us that the practice of gratitude may even be able to change and rewire the brain.  As Neuroscientist Glenn Fox puts it, practicing gratitude lights up the same region of the brain associated with empathy, regulating emotions and stress relief.
4. When we activate gratitude by remembering moments we felt extremely grateful, we light up all the parts of our brain that we need to feel confident and ready to be seen and heard.  When we activate our gratitude practice we discover that fear and gratitude cannot exist at the same time in the body.  When we go into our meetings, presentations and sales calls having practiced gratitude for their success we bring a power into our energy and presence that will surely open doors.

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Known to many as “The Magnetic Voice,” Monique McDonald is a Grammy-nominated, award-winning vocal specialist and certified Conscious Transformational Coach. Initially terrified to audition or speak publicly, Monique studied intensely with excellent coaches to cultivate her confidence. As a result, she celebrated with outstanding Opera and Master Class performances throughout Europe, Russia, Japan, and the US, including Carnegie Hall, NYC, and the Kennedy Center in Washington, DC. When Monique helps you unlock your natural charisma and your “Magnetic Voice,” you benefit from secrets learned in over twenty years through High Stakes Performance combined with her unique coaching style.  Her passion is inspiring charismatic communication and mastery of the human voice to empower entrepreneurs, speakers, and leaders.


Looking for more 1-to1 help with YOUR VOICE OF LEADERSHIP? Check out my coaching packages at themagneticvoice.com Then click “Transform with Monique” to book a complimentary connection call and let’s see which one is a good fit for your needs!

​E7 Light yourself up!!! - Visualize & Share

1. “Visualization is the human being's vehicle to the future – good, bad or indifferent. It’s strictly in our control.”  EARL NIGHTINGALE, American Radio Speaker & Author
2. Most of us spend a lot of time visualizing what could go wrong so that we can come up with plans B&C before an event or presentation.  It is how we have been taught to prepare. According to the Merriam Webster dictionary, To be prepared is to make ready beforehand or to put in a proper state of mind.  Unfortunately, most of us are preparing by practicing all the things that could go wrong in our mind and feeling all the emotion and stress of things going wrong.  We can get so caught up in worry that visualizing the future we want to see or “dreaming” feels indulgent.
3. What if we started visualizing what could go right?  Seeing the events, meetings and presentations we are preparing for having the best possible outcomes? What if we took it even further and literally filled ourselves and the others involved with the light of success.  Imagined light coming down and filling our mind & body, healing and energizing anything that needs to be healed or energized.   After we are flooded with this Light and Universal Energy we then send it to those we love and maybe even customers and clients we haven’t met yet.  Imagine sending this light of success into the event or meeting itself so you are always walking into rooms full of your loving energy and light. .  
4. When we realize that, although there is much of life we have no control, how we show up in life is something we do have control over.  What areas of your life would change drastically if you practiced this kind of visualization before you arrived in the moment?  How would you carry yourself?  Give yourself permission to light yourself up before your next meeting or presentation and share your expertise as an extension of that light.  I can’t wait to hear how it goes!

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Known to many as “The Magnetic Voice,” Monique McDonald is a Grammy-nominated, award-winning vocal specialist and certified Conscious Transformational Coach. Initially terrified to audition or speak publicly, Monique studied intensely with excellent coaches to cultivate her confidence. As a result, she celebrated with outstanding Opera and Master Class performances throughout Europe, Russia, Japan, and the US, including Carnegie Hall, NYC, and the Kennedy Center in Washington, DC. When Monique helps you unlock your natural charisma and your “Magnetic Voice,” you benefit from secrets learned in over twenty years through High Stakes Performance combined with her unique coaching style.  Her passion is inspiring charismatic communication and mastery of the human voice to empower entrepreneurs, speakers, and leaders.


Be sure to subscribe to The Magnetic Voice Show so you never miss an episode!

​E8 Could self-talk be a new way to celebrate?

1. “I am the greatest!  I said it even before I knew I was.” – Muhammid Ali
2. Many of us don’t realize that we get to decide what we think.  Our thoughts seem to be on automatic and can sometimes invade our experience.  If we are not intentional about what we think and the way we talk to ourselves, our history and unconscious patterns will take over.  The criticisms and left over feelings of defeat and helplessness will start playing on a loop in our head.  The voices and phrases that hurt the most start showing up randomly and we don’t catch on until we notice we are in a “bad mood” or feeling depressed..
3. This inner dialogue is the background noise that is constantly running in our mind like an app open and running on your phone that is draining the battery.  Before we know it, we are down for the count and have no conscious idea why.  Now, what if we consciously set out to “scratch those records” or self-talk patterns?  For example, when you are about to record a video, begin a presentation or sales call, what are you thinking?  What kinds of things are you saying to yourself?
4. By combining the secret power of breath, active gratitude and visualization with self talk we create a space within ourselves where energy, creativity and our best work can come together.   The next time you are going to be seen and heard, picture 3 outcomes or intentions you would like to experience. Begin by breathing deeply and place yourself on the other side of the event.  Feel the deep gratitude and hear yourself describing the celebration and victory of a job well done.   I join you in celebrations, as you feel the flood of gratitude, joy, love, strength and light.  WHOOHOO!!!

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Known to many as “The Magnetic Voice,” Monique McDonald is a Grammy-nominated, award-winning vocal specialist and certified Conscious Transformational Coach. Initially terrified to audition or speak publicly, Monique studied intensely with excellent coaches to cultivate her confidence. As a result, she celebrated with outstanding Opera and Master Class performances throughout Europe, Russia, Japan, and the US, including Carnegie Hall, NYC, and the Kennedy Center in Washington, DC. When Monique helps you unlock your natural charisma and your “Magnetic Voice,” you benefit from secrets learned in over twenty years through High Stakes Performance combined with her unique coaching style.  Her passion is inspiring charismatic communication and mastery of the human voice to empower entrepreneurs, speakers, and leaders.


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