Start Speaking Now
The single most important thing you can do is record yourself and listen back. That's the habit. Everything in the app exists to make that loop more effective.
Most people avoid hearing their own voice. That discomfort is exactly what's holding you back. The faster you get comfortable hearing yourself, the faster you improve.
Tap to Speak
Open the app. Hit Speak. Start talking.
Speak Mode: Your AI Coach
Speak is where the real work happens. It's a live coaching session — you talk, you hear yourself back, your coach pushes you, and you go again.
How it works
- Tell the coach what you want to work on — a presentation, an interview, a pitch, a date, your streaming intro, anything
- The coach gives you a prompt. You speak.
- You hear your own recording played back immediately (this is where the growth happens — you hear exactly what you sound like)
- Your coach responds with specific, direct feedback and tells you to go again
- You adjust and speak again. The reps are the work.
The coach isn't a cheerleader. It's demanding. It pushes you because you can do better. When you nail something, it tells you. When you don't, it tells you exactly what to fix and says "again."
What makes it powerful
- It adapts to you. Tell it you're prepping for a board presentation and you get coached differently than if you're working on your podcast intro or a difficult conversation with your partner.
- It tracks what you're working on across the session. The coach sees patterns — if your energy keeps dropping at the end of sentences, it'll call that out.
- You hear yourself every single turn. While the coach processes your feedback, you're listening to your own recording. No dead time.
- It connects back to specific skills. The coach references real techniques by name — "That's the Declarative, you landed it" or "You're hedging again, cut the 'I think' and just say it."
Example session
That's 3 reps in under 2 minutes. You'll hear the difference between your first attempt and your third.
You get a summary: what you nailed, patterns to fix, and specific techniques to drill next. The coach might say: "Your openings are tight now. But you keep dropping energy at the close. Go drill The Landing in Train, then come back."
Your First Session (Today)
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Quick warm-up (60–90 seconds)
Do Lip Trills or Tongue Twisters in the Warm-Up tab. This loosens your voice so you're hearing your real potential, not your cold voice. -
Open Speak mode.
Tell the coach what you actually want to work on. Don't pick something generic — pick the thing that's real for you right now. A meeting tomorrow. A conversation you've been avoiding. Your elevator pitch. -
Do 4–5 turns.
Each turn is you speaking for 10–60 seconds, hearing yourself back, getting coached, and going again. The whole session takes under 10 minutes.
That's it. You just trained with a personal coach.
Building the Habit
The goal is simple: speak out loud in the app every day. Not for an hour. Not even for 20 minutes. Just speak.
The people who improve fastest aren't doing marathon sessions — they're showing up every day and hearing themselves speak.
Your voice cold vs. warmed up are two different instruments. A 60-second lip trill before you practice means you're training with your best voice, not your groggy one. Keep it short. It's not the main event.
How Everything Fits Together
Speak mode is your home base, but the other parts of the app feed into it and make your sessions better.
The Loop
Pick What to Work On
You don't need a master plan. In Speak mode, just tell the coach what's real for you. But if you want to target specific skills in Train, here's what each domain fixes:
Presence
Strategic Pause, The Declarative, Stillness. Start here if people interrupt you or don't take you seriously.
Clarity
Filler Elimination, The Signpost, Word Economy. Start here if people ask "wait, what?" or you ramble.
Warmth
The Smile, Softened Starts, The Bridge. Start here if you come across as stiff or transactional.
Conviction
No Hedging, First-Person Ownership. Start here if you apologize before every opinion.
Dynamics
Pitch Variation, Volume Swell, Speed Shift. Start here if people zone out when you talk.
Influence
The Agreement Frame, Future Pacing, The Close. Start here if you can't get buy-in.
Speak Mode Strategies
Work on what's real
Don't practice hypotheticals. Practice the actual meeting you have tomorrow, the conversation you've been putting off, the pitch you're giving next week. "I'm presenting quarterly results to my VP on Thursday" gets better coaching than "I want to be more confident."
Use it before real moments
Have something in 30 minutes? Open Speak. Do 3 quick turns on your opening. You'll walk in having already rehearsed under pressure.
Come back after real moments
Just had a meeting that didn't go well? Open Speak. Tell the coach what happened. Redo the moment the way you wish you'd done it. The gap between what you did and what you're capable of — that's where the real learning happens.
Follow the coach's recommendations
At the end of each session, the coach tells you what to drill. Go do it. Targeted practice on your weak spots, then bring the skill back into your next Speak session. That cycle is how you improve fast.
Let the archetype emerge
As you practice, the app detects what kind of communicator you're building toward — The Leader, The Storyteller, The Connector, The Closer. You don't pick this. It emerges from how you practice.
What to Do When You Plateau
- Switch contexts in Speak. If you've been practicing presentations, try a difficult conversation. Different scenarios activate different skills and break you out of patterns.
- Drill in Train, then come back. Sometimes you need focused reps on one technique before you can use it fluidly in Speak. Isolate the skill, hammer it, then bring it back.
- Drop into Mindset. Sometimes a plateau is mental. Record a Flip the Script — get honest about the fear that's making you hold back, then record yourself cutting through it.
- Cross-train domains. Pitch variation makes your pauses more powerful. Warmth makes your conviction less aggressive. Working on skills in one domain strengthens everything else.
Before Big Moments
Build a Pre-Event Ritual
Combine one physiology primer + one vocal warm-up + one Power Statement into a saved ritual. One tap plays the whole sequence. Do it 5–10 minutes before showtime.
Simulate the audience in Test
Pick the audience profile that matches who you're speaking to. Executives want you to get to the point. Creatives want passion and story. Skeptics need you calm and evidence-driven.
Rehearse in Speak
Open Speak, tell the coach exactly what's coming up, and do 3–5 turns. You'll walk in having already done it under pressure with specific coaching.
No time for a full session? Hit Quick Boost — 60 seconds of power breathing, lip trills, and one conviction statement. Use it in the parking lot, the hallway, wherever.
The Things That Actually Matter
- Show up every day. 7 minutes beats zero minutes. A streak of short sessions builds more skill than occasional long ones.
- Actually listen to your recordings. Don't just record and move on. The playback is where the learning happens. Hear what you sound like. Notice the gap between what you intended and what came out.
- Apply it the same day. After you practice in Speak, use what you worked on in your next real conversation. The app is rehearsal. Life is the performance.
- Focus on one thing per session. Not one domain — one specific adjustment. "Today I'm going to pause before my key point." That's it. Nail that. Tomorrow, pick the next thing.
- Let it feel weird. Hearing your own voice is uncomfortable. Speaking with exaggerated dynamics feels unnatural. Saying "I am someone worth listening to" out loud feels corny. Do it anyway. Discomfort is the leading indicator of growth.