Why You Hate the Sound of Your Own Voice

Getting Heard: The Daily Pod Shot · Aug 20, 2026 · 5m

Do you hate the sound of your own voice? Nearly everyone does the first time they hear it played back, and it stops more women from starting a podcast than any other single thing.

There's a reason for it, and it's physical rather than anything to do with your voice being bad. When you talk, you're hearing yourself two ways at once, and one of those two ways is something a microphone can never pick up. So the first time you play a recording back, you're hearing a version of yourself you've genuinely never heard before.

In this episode I explain what's actually happening in your skull when you…