Tuesday, November 12, 2013

The Problem: My Voice To Strangers Verses ~ To Those Who Know Me

Picture yourself having to act in a play and you have no acting skills. No, you have never acted in your life, but the play needs someone, and you are the only one around who could do it. So you have to, you have to stand up and do something you have no experience in, because you are the only one who can do it.

That's my life now. Yet I only have to use my voice. Do I have any recording experience? Hell no. Do I have any speaking experience? Hell No. Did I want to be the voice of DigiThin? NO Never. It's a startup, and you have to use ramen profitable everywhere in a new startup. That includes all the jobs you don't feel comfortable doing. Since DigiThin is convenient weight loss coaching, someone has to record the coaching tracks, so that would be me.

At first it was extremely hard, recording the tracks. My voice really sucked. When I hit playback, I could not believe how high pitched my voice was, it was annoying, it was horrible. So I had to record, and edit my own voice. Now that is not an easy task. If I am critical, I am the most critical of myself.

I sucked at recording my voice. I hated it for the longest time. I longed for someone to come into the company who had a voice, and I would record them instead of me. I messed with the software and my my voice sounded all kinds of weird ways, finally I settled on just talking in a lower voice.

Yet, this voice made people who know my voice, treat me with rejection. They could not listen to the content of DigiThin, because they knew my voice, so what they heard in DigiThin was so odd to them. They could not stand to listen to it. They rejected me solely on my recorded voice. They missed the great weight loss coaching, because they knew my voice.

I cannot judge my own voice, and my friends and family can not judge it. But I do not want to be judged on my voice. I want to be judged on my weight loss coaching. I want to be judged on the content.

Only strangers can judge me at this point. Strangers do not know my everyday voice, so they will be the only ones who can place a stamp on me. So do it. Find DigiThin coaching tracks at: www.soundcloud.com
www.digithin.com And please give me your stamp - good or bad......

Twiiter: @digithin.

Another day in the life of a Startup ~

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