Three Habits to Steal

Three quick habits make you the person people lean in to hear:

• Quote people in their voice — shift into the character speaking instead of staying in flat narrator mode
• Match energy to content — let exciting news sound excited and serious news sound serious, so your voice backs up your words instead of fighting them
• Read aloud, audiobook style — narrate an article like you want a listener to stay

Do these on purpose and they soon run on their own.