Should you change your voice for your podcast?

The voice inside your head telling you you’re not good enough is lying.

If you’ve ever thought “my voice isn’t good enough for podcasting,” you’re definitely not alone.

This is one of the most common things that holds new podcasters back, especially if they’ve never done any presenting before.

But here’s the truth: your voice is good enough.

In fact, it’s the perfect voice for your podcast…because it’s yours.

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Why you feel this way (and why you shouldn’t)

In my 20+ years working in audio I’ve NEVER met a single person who’s heard their voice recorded for the first time and said “I love it!”

Most of us cringe when we hear ourselves recorded because it’s the first time we’ve heard what we actually sound like.

Prior to that, the only way you’ve heard your voice is through your cheekbones, because your ears are on the side of your head, not in front of your mouth.

So it’s understandable you’d think “This sounds wrong.”

When in reality, it just sounds new.

And the more you record, the more you’ll get used to it.

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Authenticity is more important than how you sound

People don’t listen to podcasts because they’re looking for flawless voices.

They listen to podcasts because they wan to connect, to learn, to feel something.

And that connection comes from you showing up as yourself, not from you sounding like a voiceover artist.

Plenty of the world’s most successful podcasters don’t have ‘radio voices.’

They just show up consistently with valuable content and that’s what their audience keeps coming back for.

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Practice, practice, practice

Podcasting is a skill and the more you do it, the more you’ll improve.

The wonderful thing about the medium is, it’s not live, so you could record HOURS of content before you press publish and no one needs to know.

Confidence builds with repetition and the only way to get better is to start because the voice you begin with won’t be the voice you end up with.

You’ll train it as you go.

But you can’t improve what you don’t use.

So, instead of worrying about whether your voice is ‘right,’ focus on saying something meaningful because that’s what your listeners care about most.