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What is your message to the world?


Today we are exploring the idea that each of us has our own message to the world and unique ways of expressing it.  This is similar to the concept of purpose but it goes a little deeper.  Purpose implies action.  What am I here to do?  To me, our message to the world is a soul concept.  It springs from the depths of us and often is some sort of medicine for our fellow travelers on this journey called life.  Perhaps we could put it this way.  Our messages speak to us through our soul as igniting a Divine Flame that lights our way.  Our stories and life experiences show us these messages and our legacy is the vehicle through which that Flame lights up the world.

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E17 This is NOT your elevator pitch

1. “To the world you may be one person; but to one person you may be the world.” — Dr. Suess
   
2. As entrepreneurs, we have been trained to give our 1-2 minute “elevator pitch or speech” and some of us have been doing it for so long it just rolls off the tongue with little thought.  The formula goes something like this:  who you are (credentials), who you help (target market), the successful outcome people get when working with you (special skills) and a call to action.  Although this is a really important skill to have,  we are talking about something a bit different here.  The good news is that understanding your message to the world makes creating your “elevator pitch” a snap.
   
3. Our message to the world comes from what we stand for or against.  What is a belief or value that you would be willing to share that might make the world a better place.  There may be more than one.  What I have found is that there are 1 or 2 that are foundational and maybe 3 or 4 more that are offshoots of the foundational ones that really inspire.  Once you start looking for these messages, they become easier to find.  Your mind will be searching for the answer but don’t forget to look in your heart and “gut” too.  This exercise is important to Business Speaking Mastery because this message is the key to your branding, your goals for your business and the foundation of all of your talks and presentations.
   
4. If you had to come up with your message to the world today, what would it be?  What is the thing that you say over and over to your clients or team members in order to inspire them?  What is the message that you would send out in a bottle if you knew life as you knew it was over?  What would your Legacy message be?  If you knew you had some kind of information that might heal the world, what might that be? If that feels too big, what 1 message would you leave for your children to heal or enlighten them? If it feels corny, silly or too….whatever, that’s probably the one.  Try it on for a few days and then ask yourself again.  Finding your message to the world is an ongoing process and this is something that you can’t do wrong so have fun!
   

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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!

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E18 Short, sweet and to the point

1. It seems to me that the soul, when alone with itself and speaking to itself, uses only a small number of words, none of them extraordinary — Paul Valery​
   
2. Paul Valery was a french poet and philosopher from the early 1900s.  He talked about how words “pass through so many mouths”, they start to take on the meaning of what people intend rather than what they actually mean.  When we study language, we start to understand how words take different meanings based on our life experiences.  It is a fascinating study.  What we discover is that words mean different things to different people yet we use them believing we all understand them to mean the same thing.  This led to quite a few problems when I was dating a terrific guy and English was not his first language.  When I look back now, I realize even when I thought I understood his words, it often wasn’t what he meant.  This idea has become fundamental in Charismatic Communication with clients and all my relationships.
   
3. When I work with my clients on finding their message to the world, I challenge them to articulate it with as few words as possible.  They often find this challenging and we usually brush up against Monsieur Valery’s contention about the intention vs. the meaning of words.  What we discover is that the language of “the mind” uses a lot of words to describe things.  We get tangled in the choosing of the right words and it causes the mind to go off on tangents and simple expression of concept or feeling gets distorted.  We get so tangled up with words that we can sometimes even forget what we are talking about.  
   
4. A great example of this is when I train singers or speakers in new concepts of technique.  We always start with the breath, then move into exercises using non-words or vowels to bring voice and breath together.  All is well until we introduce words into the equation.  Suddenly, the singer or speaker cannot think.  There was flow and ease and now there is lots of confusion because we have moved from sensation to the mind.  What I have discovered is that the language of the soul uses very few words and they come from deep within.  I challenge clients to let their souls find their message to the world.  I invite you to do the same.  You will know you have it when it flows from the depths of you in very few words.  Remember that when we allow our souls to speak every heart will listen.
   

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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 Message to the World? 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!

E19  It’s all about you - Your message is to keep you moving

1. Let the beauty of what you love be what you do. Rumi
2. Sometimes the beauty of what we love brings us our message to the world.  Finding ways to articulate our love letter to the world in a sentence or two may be what brings us back to listening to our soul.  Many believe our soul speaks to us through beauty and love.  Some believe music is the language of the soul.  It is said that our soul is what allowed us to leap into the void and risk being born.  Learning the language of your soul can open a sacred doorway to reclaim strength, beauty and love. How does your soul speak to you?​
   
3. This inquiry can unlock beliefs and values for which we are willing to step into the void, no matter what.  Our message to the world doesn’t always have to be proclaimed from the mountain tops but it might be what gets us up the mountain.  It might be the motivation behind the stories we tell to illustrate our content or to gain rapport with others instantly.  It may be the stepping stone to our foundational phrases in our presentations and brands. Suddenly these vehicles to grow our business become chariots filled with beauty and love.  I am grateful everyday because I love what I do and I get paid for it too.  That love and beauty fills every appointment in my calendar and every meeting with a client because my message to the world is woven into all of it.
   
4. When we realize that our message to the world is what moves us, we understand our core values and how to articulate them.  All of a sudden, we have the key to what spurs us into action when nothing else can.  It unlocks unseen forces that move us so we can move others.  It is the seed that becomes the vision which becomes the story that unlocks the heart and leads us and our business to victory.
   

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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!

E20  The message has to be bigger than you think it can be!

1. “Please think about your legacy, because you’re writing it every day.”  —  Gary Vaynerchuk
   
2. The two things that inspire me the most about Gary Vaynerchuk are his passion and his ability to articulate his message in a simple, universal way. There are people that make you feel like you can do anything when you are in their presence.  This passion and clear message are what makes him one of the most successful collaborators of our generation.  This quote always makes me sit up in my chair a little taller.  If I believed every word I said and everything I wrote was my legacy, what would I say and how often would I say it?
   
3. The idea here is that your message to the world should be big enough that you need other people to help you get it out into the world.  It should be so big that you sit up a little bit taller in your chair when you speak it outloud.  It is the message all your work and life experiences lead back to, so all of you becomes engaged whenever you think of it.  One of my core messages is, “What if your voice could heal the world?”  It came from a life experience where a boy who had been told he was not eligible for a cochlear implant and would be deaf all his life by doctors at Duke University Medical Center, heard me sing.  Actually HEARD me, which made his parents go back and have him tested again.  Can you imagine how aware I became of my legacy and the impact of my voice the day he came back and we had a conversation?  
   
4. What are your core messages?  What have your life experiences taught you that can become messages and stories that make up your legacy?  You have stories within you that create messages the world needs to hear.  If Oprah Winfrey, Larry King or someone like that invited you to come on air and you could say anything you wanted, what would you say?  Who will your message impact?  Will it ignite listeners to fulfill the reason for existence or will they change the station?  Or imagine this. A multi-million dollar corporation CEO walked into the room and asked you what your legacy to the world was…would you be ready?  Would you be so centered that your soul would answer?  I invite you to start practicing these moments now.  Find your message to the world and get used to saying it outloud.  Start and end your presentations with it.  You never know who’s listening and WHAT IF YOUR VOICE COULD HEAL THE WORLD?
   

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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 Message to the World? 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!

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