The Sound of Climate Influence?
Why your leadership tone, in audio, video or written form, matters.
I have noticed that these past few months have worn on my ability to keep my innate joy and enthusiasm alive. And, I didn’t really check in with that until I got an assignment for my study in an *amazing* podcasting incubator : to record a voicemail to myself. It’s stunning what you can pick up by listening to your own voice in that casual circumstance.
For me, it nudged a tone review of all of my more recent written and audio posts or interviews.
Specifically, the assignment was to record a voicemail to your teenage self about love. You can imagine how funny or tragic that might be. But, the exercise brought me something I wasn’t expecting. And, that was a thought about how all of us in the climate space may also need to hear and review our own voice and tone right about now. So, I recorded this 6 minute audio post for my advisory clients, and figured it might be helpful for some of you.
Ask yourself:
- Is the real person, the one who is *all in* on this climate work, still evident in all we do?
- Has reading and listening to folks talk about the challenges over the years just taken all of the livelihood and uumpth out of us?
- Do we even recognize that voice in an interview or the tone of our post about the election results?
I always heed this sort of self-nudge to quickly sit down and record my thinking. It comes from the same source in my body where my joy resides.
And you? I hope this audio post shakes you loose a bit, and helps you review your own voice and tone for authenticity. Ideally, you will be inclined to go back and find the thing that makes you YOU - and make sure that remains in your voice. I welcome your comments/feedback on what you discovered about yourself and how you might be planning to re-calibrate now.
What makes me ME is definitely JOY and enthusiasm. I’ve heard it from many a podcast interviewer or guest (and friend, and family member,…). I pledge here and now that you will hear it returning in my work.
And, whatever YOUR true tone is, get back to it!
Sharing from THAT baseline is the gold, and our collective Climate Influence only builds true momentum from that starting point.
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If you are not yet on Bluesky, now is a great time. The climate community is growing and there are valuable conversations happening.
And, consider following the Climate Voice (an organization mobilizing the voice of the workforce to urge companies to go “all in” on climate change) LinkedIn page, as they share great profiles of leaders making change, and… you may see someone you know there soon.
