Scwair One presents Speaking of Success (SÖS) – episode two with voice artist and former BBC broadcaster Sara Starling, on finding your voice, public speaking nerves, and why voice notes are a communication tool most people are ignoring.

My guest for episode two has spent almost 40 years doing the thing I've spent my whole life avoiding. 

Sara Starling is a voice artist, broadcaster, and storyteller. She started with a drama degree, spent nearly 20 years at the BBC as a studio manager, announcer and newsreader – including the World Service... then left to build her own voice studio from scratch. She's been doing that for 20 years too.

She also, it turns out, was quite shy.

In this conversation we talk about the one mindset shift that makes speaking to a room feel manageable, why a bad experience reading aloud in class can follow you for decades, how voice notes are quietly one of the most powerful communication tools most people are ignoring, and what it actually looks like to stay calm on air when everything around you is falling apart.

The line that stayed with me: "It starts as a pencil mark. Then it gets inked in. Then it's a marker pen. And then you just believe it."

That's about the story we tell ourselves when we stumble. Worth hearing the rest.

I'm Andy Greenhouse.
And I'm a creative evolutionist.
I help people, brands and businesses evolve in an ever-changing landscape.

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