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Vocal De Frag Episode 203 Why You Need To Record Your Voice Facing Storms · Arroe Collins Like It's Live

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  Speaker 2: Het zero and this is vocal dfrag. Vocal defragging is
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  Speaker 2: taking the chance and the opportunity to spend some time
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  Speaker 2: with your true self. You're fake enough, No I said it.
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  Speaker 2: You're fake. You know you are. I know I am.
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  Speaker 2: We all are. We live in a world where social
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  Speaker 2: media puts on this this little picture of who we
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  Speaker 2: think we want to be, who we think we are,
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  Speaker 2: who we think, and that's where it should end. Who
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  Speaker 2: we think dot dot dot. We don't spend a lot
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  Speaker 2: of time with ourselves. And I think it's because we're
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  Speaker 2: afraid of ourselves. Think we're afraid of our failures. I
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  Speaker 2: think we're afraid of taking chances because you don't know
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  Speaker 2: where it's going to go, and you're not going to
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  Speaker 2: get that money back yet, We'll get on Amazon and
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  Speaker 2: buy a bunch of CRAF I don't get it. I
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  Speaker 2: really don't. Speaking to yourself, asking yourself the questions and
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  Speaker 2: then questioning the answers it does amazing things for your
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  Speaker 2: professionalism as well as your humanism. This is local defragging today.
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  Speaker 2: I want to introduce something that I think is a
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  Speaker 2: powerful tool, and a lot of people will not do
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  Speaker 2: it because I can't stand the sound of their voice.
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  Speaker 2: You know, just get over it, and I do mean
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  Speaker 2: get over it in the way of understanding the process
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  Speaker 2: of how it is that you materialize the real world.
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  Speaker 2: Many of us, you know, how we do it. We
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  Speaker 2: throw it to the side, we delegate it, we give
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  Speaker 2: it to somebody else. We put ourselves in positions where
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  Speaker 2: it's like I don't have to think about that, I
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  Speaker 2: don't have to deal with that. Do something about it,
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  Speaker 2: and then here's how we deal with that. The people
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  Speaker 2: that can do something about it aren't acting, reacting and
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  Speaker 2: trying to fix a solution. What they're doing is they're
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  Speaker 2: just kind of doing the same thing you're doing. You're
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  Speaker 2: just mosing on down the highway, ignoring reality. There's something
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  Speaker 2: that we do inside the ranks of radio terrestrial radio,
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  Speaker 2: or we did during my days of growing through it
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  Speaker 2: way back in the seventies, eighties, nineties and New millennium,
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  Speaker 2: and that is air checks. Juno. An aircheck is and
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  Speaker 2: aircheck is an opportunity to step back a week, two weeks,
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  Speaker 2: a month, a year and listen to how you performed
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  Speaker 2: on the air that particular day. You're usually sitting with
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  Speaker 2: a program director, you're sitting with yourself, or you could
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  Speaker 2: be with a radio station consultant, and they are air
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  Speaker 2: checking you. They're finding out if your pitch, volume, tone
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  Speaker 2: is in tune, they're listening to your subjects. They're really
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  Speaker 2: trying to make sure that you are doing what they need.
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  Speaker 2: Most Remember, when you work in radio, it's not your
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  Speaker 2: place of business, it's theirs. You are nothing more than
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  Speaker 2: a puppet to that company, and they need you to
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  Speaker 2: sound one way, and it's not always going to be
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  Speaker 2: your way. And that's one of the reasons why people
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  Speaker 2: leave the industry disgruntled and feeling like that they were
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  Speaker 2: ripped off because they just wanted to do whatever they
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  Speaker 2: want to do. So and I have to laugh about
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  Speaker 2: that because nowadays with podcasting, where you don't need a
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  Speaker 2: major corporation behind you. You can do whatever you want.
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  Speaker 2: And what do people do. They don't podcast, but they'll
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  Speaker 2: bitch about it in radio terrestrial radio. I didn't get
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  Speaker 2: to do this. I didn't get to do this. We'll
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  Speaker 2: go do this over here. Oh no, I'm cool, I'm cool. Yeah, yeah,
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  Speaker 2: that thing is behind me. Okay. So the real question
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  Speaker 2: here is is that do you aircheck your normal business.
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  Speaker 2: I don't care if you're a circle k, if you're
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  Speaker 2: a movie theater, if you're a banker, a grocery store,
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  Speaker 2: if you are a mother of three kids and your
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  Speaker 2: only job is to get them to soccer practice on time,
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  Speaker 2: you need to create an air check. An aircheck meaning
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  Speaker 2: that you get a digital device and you record your questions,
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  Speaker 2: things that come up, record the current experiences and how
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  Speaker 2: you handle them, and then you come back later on
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  Speaker 2: Oh oh wait a second, I'm talking about defragging. Oh
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  Speaker 2: you've got to be kidding me. Another way to look
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  Speaker 2: at defragging. Yes, it is because what happens is when
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  Speaker 2: you can go back and listen to your pitch, volume
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  Speaker 2: and tone, and you can hear what you were going through.
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  Speaker 2: Sometimes there is a lot of stress and anxiety or
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  Speaker 2: sickness to your stomach, or maybe you think you've got
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  Speaker 2: the answer and twenty five minutes later it was the
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  Speaker 2: worst decision you ever made. It all happens. But if
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  Speaker 2: you make a digital imprint, because I'm not going to
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  Speaker 2: get you to write about it, because people don't want
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  Speaker 2: to waste paper, they don't want to waste ink on
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  Speaker 2: a page, they don't want to get ink on their
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  Speaker 2: handsy list. And I've heard every single freaking excuse, Oh
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  Speaker 2: I've got writer's block. First of all, let me tell
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  Speaker 2: you something. Writer's block does not. It does not exist.
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  Speaker 2: It doesn't that's an excuse, and we are the masters
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  Speaker 2: of excuses. But if you were to do a digital
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  Speaker 2: recording of your upside downs, to twist the spins, the INDs,
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  Speaker 2: the outs, the questions, the almost answers, the victories, the losses,
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  Speaker 2: everything that you're moving through, you're going to become a
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  Speaker 2: much stronger person on the other side. Because awareness is
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  Speaker 2: the secret. It is the needle in the haystack. Awareness.
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  Speaker 2: People don't like that about you being aware, and the
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  Speaker 2: reason why they don't like it is because they aren't aware.
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  Speaker 2: I did a show today with Alexa from Amazon, where
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  Speaker 2: I stumped her four times, and then she came back
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  Speaker 2: and said, I am not digitally prepared for questions like this,
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  Speaker 2: because it seems you are more informed than I am.
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  Speaker 2: What I don't want to have happen here is to
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  Speaker 2: create a know it all. My father hated know it alls.
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  Speaker 2: I mean that in a very serious way. If you
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  Speaker 2: were a know it all around my father, he's getting
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  Speaker 2: knocky on your ass. That's just the way my father was,
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  Speaker 2: and I think it was because he was a sergeant
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  Speaker 2: in World War Two in Germany, where they didn't have
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  Speaker 2: time for bullshit. And it seems like that's what we've
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  Speaker 2: got a lot of time for these days, is that
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  Speaker 2: in our own little plastic candy coat of plastic bathroom
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  Speaker 2: mirror smiles. What happens is we have a lot of
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  Speaker 2: time for bullshit. And so if you were to take
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  Speaker 2: the time to record your ups and the downs of twist,
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  Speaker 2: we've already been through this, and you sit there and
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  Speaker 2: you listen to them, and you study them, and you
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  Speaker 2: find out how you create a solution, or better yet,
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  Speaker 2: where you fail the solution. But there's no such thing
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  Speaker 2: as failure, because it's just growth. It's awareness, you're going
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  Speaker 2: to grow as a human being. But no, we don't
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  Speaker 2: like it that way. We want to be that perfect
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  Speaker 2: picture on social media. We want to show up to
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  Speaker 2: church looking good, smelling good, the hair looks just like
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  Speaker 2: the preacher man. You know what, quit being a follower, don't.
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  Speaker 2: We don't need followers anymore. We need leaders. We need
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  Speaker 2: somebody to get out there on that freaking desert and
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  Speaker 2: lead people through the tough times, those moments where you
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  Speaker 2: look up with this guy and say, there's no rain,
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  Speaker 2: what are we gonna do? Yeah, what are you going
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  Speaker 2: to do? If you would have recorded your freaking voice
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  Speaker 2: and you would have asked yourself the questions and done
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  Speaker 2: things in a way of seeking solutions, you wouldn't be
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  Speaker 2: going what are we gonna do? You knew the rain
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  Speaker 2: wasn't gonna come, You knew the irs needed money, you
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  Speaker 2: knew that your energy build was going to triple and double,
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  Speaker 2: and what the hell's this fiber optic thing charging this
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  Speaker 2: kind of money for? See what I'm saying. You are
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  Speaker 2: weighed down by everything, and then you choose to write
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  Speaker 2: a bullshit list saying but I'm gonna do this instead, Well,
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  Speaker 2: what about that over there. The problem, the one that
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  Speaker 2: gave you some anxiety and fear, doubt, shame, kept you
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  Speaker 2: awake at two three o'clock in the morning. Well, I
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  Speaker 2: fixed the problem. I went to the doctor. He gave
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  Speaker 2: me a pill. Oh all right, whatever, record your voice,
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  Speaker 2: create your own personal aircheck. I'm telling you, through forty
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  Speaker 2: six years of broadcasting, it's going to change you. And
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  Speaker 2: that might be the issue right there. Maybe you really
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  Speaker 2: don't want to change. Ask yourself the questions, question the answers.
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  Speaker 2: I call it defragging now in this device because it's
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  Speaker 2: recording my voice. That's vocal defragging. My name is Ero,