Welcome to the Influency Podcast.
I'm Hadar and I'm so, so happy that you're here.
First of all, big news.
New Sound is now open for enrollment.
New Sound is my signature pronunciation coaching program and it's my most transformative and complete training program that I've ever created and it is now open and registration is open until Friday, February 21st.
NuSound is designed to help you speak English with clarity, confidence and freedom by focusing on three key things.
The first one is simplifying pronunciation.
We will help you build the right infrastructure for speaking and help you sound more clear, understand people better and learn a technique that is not only going to help you improve how you use English and how you speak, but also the pronunciation confidence technique that I use in my program will help
you build your vocabulary, improve your grammar, and definitely improve your confidence.
In New Sound, we also do very deliberate mindset and confidence work, because if you want to reach a breakthrough, just doing the practical work is not enough.
This work is why New Sound is a game changer for most of my students, and you'll hear it today in my student success stories, which is what this episode is all about.
The third reason for why New Sound is a transformative program, because you are not going to do it alone.
When you join New Sound, you join an incredible community of like -minded people where you get to interact, find speaking partners and have opportunities to speak with them daily, along with a team of coaches that is absolutely obsessed with your success.
We have pronunciation coaches, success coaches, and you'll get a lot of opportunities to work with me live in the program.
So go to HadarShamish .com forward slash join to learn more about New Sound.
Registration is open for a limited time.
And don't forget to check out the bonuses that I offer when you join New Sound because one of them is Hadar AI.
I might record a separate episode about it and why I decided to do it, but Hadar AI is a digital version of me.
it's like a 24 -7 digital coach that you can take me with you in your pocket and practice along.
You can practice pronunciation and ask questions about pronunciation.
You can practice shadowing and get feedback.
You can practice conversation and role play and get feedback on your grammar and pronunciation.
It can help you improve your personal introduction or if you need to prepare for a speech, all of that is available to you while working with Hadar AI.
And it actually sounds like me.
You can get coaching on your confidence, mindset coaching.
It's pretty incredible.
And you get access to it for free for the duration of the live round of New Sound.
That is one of the incredible bonuses that we offer for free.
People are going crazy over it already.
People who have signed up for New Sound.
And I like that we were able to incorporate cutting edge technology into New Sound.
And we have additional bonuses that are also incredible.
So you definitely need to go and check it out.
Go to HadarShamish .com forward slash join.
Today, I'm going to share with you a student panel that we hosted just a few days ago inside the Pronunciation Bootcamp, one of the events that we had for our community.
and in this episode you are going to hear real life stories of students who weren't just like you.
They struggled with their confidence and fluency and pronunciation and understanding others and being understood and they're going to share all the things that are possible for them today now that English is no longer an obstacle.
And those stories are so inspiring.
They're such a good reminder that this is possible for you too.
So I want you to listen to their stories And if you want to find out more about how it was possible for them, you should definitely check out New Sound.
So, all the links are in the description.
And if you have any questions, you can hop on over to Instagram and just send me a DM at hadar .accentsway.
All right. I'm super excited to share the stories of Lysandro, Alex, Alain, Anne, and Orshi.
Let's listen to their stories.
So, I'm happy you're here.
And here's what we're going to do.
First, we're going to do a round of introductions.
So each of you, Alain and Alex and Lisandro and Orshi and Anne, hopefully she'll be able to join.
You will just give a quick introduction where you where you are, where you live now, where you're from originally.
It's not the same place.
Hi, Anne. Hi. You did it.
how are you doing and um and then we're going to talk about your transformation stories and your experience inside of new sound and what how it has helped you reach this transformation and for those of you who are um going to be an active part of the next round of new sound i think all of you then uh
you can share a bit more about what's coming up for you okay so or she you can go ahead and go ahead and introduce yourself thank you hadar first of all thank you so much for having me here i'm orsie from hungary i've been involved in hadar communities for five years now i think and i have really gone
through quite a lot of different transformations thanks for everything that we have a lot of stages right like so many things have happened like every We can count it by the years almost.
Yeah. Exactly. And I got lucky and I got to hug Orshi three times, three different times in three different places.
One's in Udavish when I visited and one's in New York City in our meetup in 2022 and one's in Barcelona in our recent meetup in 2024.
And it's been incredible.
Yes, exactly. Amazing.
Tell us what you do now.
Now, let's say I'm in a very nice stage in my next project, and I became a language teacher, imagine, and I found a new hobby for myself, let's put it in this way, and I couldn't stand mix the two things together so now I have a new dream which is about to come true that I'm gonna teach culinary english
for food passionate so people that love food food preparation even professional cooks chefs or these things that's the next step guys I'm gonna to ask or she another question about this how did you come up with this idea like tell us about what brought you to do this and kind of like tap into this passion of yours
of every you know like all all the different passions of yours into like you were able to put it in one kind of like in this one project yes i think everything started two years ago when i started to uh have a special diet but it helped me focus on food much more than before and I enrolled in a high
school program in Hungary and I got a certified cook.
I don't want to use the word chef but I'm a certified cook and now I'm involved in a pastry chef course and I'm about to graduate now.
And the thing is that I don't really care of my age, but I'm not really a teenager and I'm not at the beginning of my career.
And I really wanted to find a way how to cook because I wasn't happy just cook at home for my family because I started to make pictures.
I have an Instagram profile where I share everything I create and they are amazing.
Sorry for my saying, but that's the truth.
I truly enjoy them.
and I wanted to cook somehow and it was so clear to involve this activity this new passion in my normal job which is teaching so I decided to pick this topic because I know that it's struggle for a lot of people even for professionals and I think that even here in the boot camp we have met some people
in the conversation groups that said that it was struggling to speak about local specialities local food so they really need culinary english so that's really the thing that helped me find this way and even teaching is something that is rather new because before when we met you were a teacher yeah yeah
yeah five years ago when i finished new sound that That was my very first transformation, because before New Sound I used to work just in Italian as a tour guide in Budapest.
And right after, after New Sound, I changed the language because I was curious to understand if people could get me in English.
So the day after I stood up with my usual umbrella in the corner close to the parliament building in Budapest.
and I leaded my first tourist through the city and they were happy and the thing is that English wasn't an issue it was just a normal way of communication so I was so happy with it that I've been leading tours in Budapest for five years now, 100 % in English so that's my old me and now I'm in a transition from this to
teaching culinary English but it's amazing and I love it that like I was like just introduce yourself and now we're just going into the transformation story one by one it is what it is I can't handle myself no but it's like I love these stories because it shows you how when you open yourself up to one
thing and on the surface back in 2021 not 2020 or she four years not five let me yeah no but even short period of an amount of time where like this massive massive transformation happened right and i vividly like or she was the first uh in the first round of new sound when we just opened it lucky me
i'm just thinking like back then you just wanted to feel a bit more confident in english but you did that and then that opened up like this this new opportunity to start guiding in english and then you started building confidence in english and then you, you realize the impact that it had and you started
teaching because you knew that you had more to give to others and the way to facilitate the language that only you get.
And then all of a sudden that with another passion, which was cooking, and even that, like just daring and exploring, this is something that you've been on a journey on for, since I know you, you know, probably before as well, but still like it felt, you know, and now I'm gonna, and you've been in relationship
with languages for many, many years, you know, whether it's Italian and now English.
So I love it how things come together and you kind of like tap into your purpose when you open yourself up to new things, when you're willing to explore, when you're willing to step out of your comfort zone, which you did time and time again.
So this is why I love your story so much.
Yes, absolutely. And just to tell you, Heather, the thing is that without knowing English and without speaking English confidently all these things wouldn't have been possible for me because just imagine that you want to learn something but all the knowledge is in English out there so how can you get
there without the language so it's actually without English it wouldn't have been so easy to make all these transformations.
Right, right it just allows you to reach to more areas and more places and minimize the distance between where you are and what you want to get.
Like, that's what I feel like.
English is definitely, I always say it's always the means to live the life that you want.
It's not about the language.
It's not about just fluency.
Yeah, we want fluency.
Yeah, we use pronunciation to get fluency.
Yeah. But why do we want fluency?
Because we want to explore life, have access to all the opportunities and make deep connections and then we were like oh we took advantage of life anyway so or she thank you so much and i'm so glad that you're here to share your story and lisandro you're next tell us hi how are you hi mr radar hello
everyone hello new new saunders beyonders my name is lisandro dipaula i'm from brazil i'm living i have been in u .s for many years i'm not gonna tell how long is death because shame on me but thank God I found Hadain you guys too of almost three years ago and I was lost I had the I was should I go where should I
go where should I start I didn't know how but she is the master of English I say that all the time and guys we have the whole map here If you don't do this, because you want just to lean on your sofa and do anything else, but we have the map and the map is her have everything like GPS.
So now we have AI, we have Hadar, we have the whole team.
And these people over here, those community make you better every day.
It's not about English, it's about anything.
I didn't know how to go to Zoom three years ago.
And today, I'm doing so many things.
You're hosting sessions on Zoom.
Exactly. I do videos, and I can help other ones.
So it's not just for you.
It's for all of us.
I'm so in love to be here.
And thank you, all of you, to put your hands in there.
Because when you put your hands in there, things change.
and that's our community guys that's the place that I want to stay there and thanks God by getting old and I found this community and I want to go there and stay there in learn as much as possible so Lissandra what why do you think community is important when you do this type of work because I didn't know
how to have a perfect english because the perfectionism is not from here but We try to get better days every day.
And you have developed amazing programs.
And that we cannot get lost.
We have everything very well done.
And we have anything, even music.
If you don't know how to sing.
But she doesn't teach us that.
But she's guiding us to go through all things.
because 10 years ago, I had such a...
That was a sad thing that happened.
I am a nurse in the U .S.
I graduated this. And the last time, when I was doing the verbal test, the lady said, I don't understand you.
And I was like, what?
And I was so in shock.
I was like, wow. And that's affected me all the time when I remembered this.
That's affected me.
But I didn't know about the mindset, but I had a strong mindset.
And then I said, English was poor.
And then I said to her, I know it's English is my problem, but I want to get better.
And I don't know if you're going to help me out in this.
But caught the conversation short, I was so brave to telling her to not doing this with me.
because I was just new English in the learning English.
That was the thing that I would like to helping people as a nurse.
But as she blocked my vision to be a nurse, then I was like looking for an English place.
I found you. And then opened my mind.
And then I changed my vocabulary and my pronunciation.
And then I was like, oh, my God.
Now the mindset makes me better and the pronunciation as well.
It's everything very symmetric.
You have to follow the protocol.
If you follow the guidance from you and from the whole thing, you get a better and stronger day for sure.
Wow, that's amazing.
And I think what you said is really important and a lot of people can relate, like this idea that as a non -native speaker, especially as an adult, non -native speaker and that you've experienced especially as an immigrant you know a lot of people carry some kind of trauma or mini trauma that is connected
to the language now it doesn't have to be something that is you know like that that is uh it's not something that we think about as as a trauma but an experience that made you shut down and that has since then created anxiety or fear around speaking or the feeling like it's not possible for you that was you
know you push yourself you move to a new country you took all the tests needed and all of a sudden like that one instance shut you down and then you're like I'm not gonna you know like I don't know if I can do this it could be like a fourth grader standing in class and having their teacher laugh at them that could be
a traumatic experience and we carry it and then we don't know what to do with it.
And we think that it's just us not being able to use English.
And it takes a lot of healing in a way in the context of having a really safe environment to allow you to open up and explore.
And also having the coaching and the guidance and the mindset because it's interconnected to any language learning.
And also like something that will force you in a way to be verbally active, which is the pronunciation work.
And I think this is why this works for a lot of people who come with some kind of a negative experience in the past or some kind of an anxiety because this is the one thing that can change that because you have to have all those three things.
Otherwise, it's just the textbooks.
You know, and we think about learning a language and we think it's the textbooks and it's not, and it's not.
And unless we see ourselves as a whole person with emotions and experiences and fears and and then then we wouldn't really address the problem we would just address the symptoms but then transformation cannot happen like it did for you guys right especially because we are busy all the time we are we are we
working we're studying we have kids we have a husband wife we have so many things in our places, our place at the same time, and sometimes it's difficult to tackle things.
But like I told you guys, it's a propaganda or a device, a advertisement, but it is.
This program, it's in nine days, completely well done.
90. 90, thank you. and I was very looking for this for many years here in the US I never found something like that I'm going to tell you I have been here for 25 years nothing in comparison to Hadar guys jumping in this is the moment and if you don't do this now so we have the next time a chance for maybe
September or maybe next year but now it's this way lissandra lissandra had to teach me that i shouldn't say lissandro but lissandro took me like two meetups to finally get it right i don't know why okay and you are going to go next please hi welcome good to see you here good to see you too so my name
is han i'm from france where i live I came across you at our last year as I was listening to a podcast from an American girl she was interviewing you and I said oh my gosh she's a non -native speaker so if she did it maybe I can do it too and I have started to binge watch your videos on YouTube until
the opening of new sound and i jumped into the sun the very first day and i have never regretted it because it's amazing as lisandro said it's just amazing um you said that that we have a prepared schedule and that's right uh that we are a lot of health and that's right and we have the community um
you know how i call it of course my cotton box because it's it's a safe place way where you can just talk with others you can share your thoughts you no matter you make mistakes or not that's not a problem you and then when you go out of the community you feel stronger you feel better you don't feel
about you don't think about the judgment of people and that's what was very important for me because um this program is also a transformational program it's about mindset it's about connection with people and I was not even able to record myself when I started New Song last year it was very very difficult
for me. Why was it difficult for you to record yourself when you first started?
I'm I'm a kind of perfectionist so it was never good enough so uh at the beginning i was recording and recording and recording over and over and over again wait i want to ask the people watching if the people watching we have like almost 400 people watching this right now you know i know it's not a one
thing it's not an and thing that's something that most of our students experience but i wanted to know if you experienced that for You sound so okay.
So you had the fear you recorded a bunch of times you didn't post Okay, and then what I don't know a lot.
I don't know how many oh many videos.
I have recorded before Uploading them, but one day I say stop now you record when you upload just right away and I Really felt good just good and I remember the when we had to to make the power speech i said oh my gosh what am i doing that's not possible and i did it and i was proud of me and guess
what i enjoyed it wow and yeah and that was great because you offer us all the things we need to thrive and to feel better in order to I don't know to push ourselves to push the boundaries that hold us back because we all have boundaries and What has changed in your personal life because of that?
Like what have you done?
Yeah, now I'm able to take to talk so it with native speakers I have no friends new American friends and I meet them almost every week and we can speak together and I have no fear no at all and I really enjoy these moments amazing thanks to those thanks you started hosting inside beyond which is our
other program and now you are you know so it's it's pretty incredible to see yeah and and I I remember because Anna was the you know she showed up for a lot of coaching sessions and we had a lot of conversations throughout the program.
And I really remember how you showed up and how you were asking the right questions, like really acknowledging when you hit a wall, because that happened a few times where you're like, I want to do this, but I'm afraid.
And like, how do I do it?
Whether it was in my mindset coaching or pronunciation coaching.
And I think that this is such a healthy way to show up where you recognize, okay, like I feel that something is holding me back and a lot of people just stay there and they just assume okay it is what it is this is how it's going to be for me but for you and and for all of you guys and and uh Alex and Alain you
were going to share in a little bit your stories but I think the one thing that makes you guys different from everyone else that don't experience the same transformation is really that you were able to to make a commitment to yourself for for kind of like subscribing to this idea of transformation and doing
the work and asking the right questions and not giving up when it felt a little overwhelming or a little harder because that's how it is in the journey you can all attest that there was a point where you're like ah you know like I feel like it's a lot um so i i my transformation my advice would be don't
be afraid just there to ask questions there's no bad questions just there and ask the team because all the team ada and her team are just perfect when we need when we need them they are here to support us and that's a big part of the program there is always someone to support you the team and the community
and we need that we need that support it's hard to do it on our own you know yeah thank you so much and and i'm so happy to kind of like see you here and hear your story and you guys just so you know like if you are for all the boot campers watching this right now new sound is open you might have gotten
an email about it and that's the program that these beautiful people are talking about so the team is going to put the link in the chat you also have it in your inbox if you want to find out more and learn more about it and see what you get you can click on it and of course if you have questions for the for our
students then start writing them in the chat and after we do this one round we're going to go into questions from the audience and i have some questions okay so next we have alex so alex is the brother of lisandro and we call them the paula brothers because they are a force of nature really inside of our
community so alex you had a pretty significant shift in in your first round of New Sound.
Hello everyone. Hello, Radar.
Okay guys, I'm so emotional here because, okay, I'm telling myself first.
My name is Alex De Paula.
I'm from Brazil. My story is like Elizondo because we're living together.
We're working together many years.
I have a degree u .s um chef and but in the moment i don't work for this and um i have a small business with lissandra de paula i'm hair stylist and i do hair extension and i'm a wig maker so guys we worked together almost 30 years lissandra and i and um i remember my first um boot camp i did nothing
in this boot camp because i was afraid i was in panic and right now i'm here speaking um in the front a lot of people and um now it's it's my family and thank you radar it's amazing team uh you are uh changing my life for everything in my mind in my mindset everything you change a lot and you uh you
part my heart right now and um i'm so happy because i remember my first um boot camp um no i'm first hot seat i was in panic with um called yelena oh my god i i think uh yelena uh remember because i was up it's like oh my god what do you say and uh she's amazing she did amazing work with me she putting
me down a calm down and i was um she knows she knows um i'm afraid i'm i'm i'm so and she helped me a lot and thank you the team it have a beautiful materials and now i can speak much better and i don't know you remember and over two years ago i i mentioned for my brother -in -law i didn't speak with him
now i speak with him like two hours that's amazing listen like i know and i always mention that because i think that this is something that we don't comprehend because it's kind of like okay english and everything but that completely changed like how you feel at home and the relationship that you have in your
family and i think this is so significant for you and for him you know and for for the entire family because we can have like a small talk yes no how is the weather great but to have a two -hour conversation that goes deep that's a whole nother level of relationship and really english has allowed you
to go deeper into that relationship and i i think that's a huge huge win right yeah yes totally because right now i i can't uh i'm i'm i don't know i'm not shy anymore but i'm so quiet person and uh lisandro he's so activity like you and i remember it's the little uh little kids and a lot of people
say oh um lisandro be quiet be quiet and he he here it He's Lisandro, he's so active in that.
I'm quiet, I'm just a little idle.
I prefer pay attention first and say something after.
That's my personality.
and that's Lizandro not Lizandro loved um um helped people uh you remember Lizandro have in in new sounds it's 70 70 um a partner you remember that I I will never forget that and I will never forget the video that you guys made me at the end of the sound which was kind of like remarkable I still watch
it every now and then so yeah Alex absolutely and I think And I love the connection that you two have and how you show up in the community because you really complete each other and you're a big part of New Sound.
So thank you, Alex, for sharing your story.
And it's so great to hear you here.
And if you guys were to listen to his first video that he posted to New Sound when he first joined, you'd be, like, amazed because it's, you know, it's day and night.
All right. So Alam, my love, how are you doing?
It's so good to see you.
Please tell us. Introduce yourself, my dear.
Thank you. Thank you, Hada.
You know, when I was listening to Orshi talking about her age, you know, I really laughed a little bit because she could be my daughter, you know.
She could be my daughter.
And you, Hada, you could be my daughter.
And, you know, I know that as a non -native speaker, your example for all of us is exceptional because you suggested something that not being a native speaker, you can reach this level.
And this is a real lesson for us.
This past year was so many things happened in my life.
So many things, you changed so many things in my life.
Of course, the pronunciation, of course, all those things, my background is different.
I'm older than you.
I'm retired as a surgeon here in Paris.
I live in Paris. So I have time.
Battle, she just said before, she has four kids.
I mean, you can't have the same time as I have.
So I can spend a lot of time and I put in a lot of work, a lot of time.
I can learn three, four hours every day.
So my results are absolutely not yours.
It's totally different.
So please take that in consideration.
I mean, you could look at my progress as someone who is an alien in such a short time, you know, just one year, because I came across Hadar one year ago.
So just one year, but I worked so much, so much.
I mean, such a hard work, you know, and it's totally different than other beyonders who cannot afford that because they are working hard.
They have issues with their work, with all those things.
So this to say that, please don't compare yourself.
people might ask, can I reach this level?
Of course you can reach this level, that will take you maybe two or three years more but the results will be there and if you apply, we have all the tools and when I started one year ago I couldn't say a lot of sentences in a row and someone took me by the hand and told me just take a deep breath follow
me follow me follow me stick with me if you are stuck just wait a little bit and do it your own pace and then you can speed up are you familiar with those things i can guess yes yes you guessed so and i remember the first thing was my r as a french we are this is a course this is hell the r is terrible
for us and i remember uh when you said for the first time, they are, that's nothing.
Just breathe and put stress of the edges of your tongue on the upper tooth and the tip of the tongue doesn't do anything and round your lips and then the arm came like that.
You got it. I saw it immediately.
I couldn't imagine.
And then I rush into a diabolical tongue twister, you know, red leather, yellow leather, lavender leather.
I said it 10 times in a row.
Amazing. I couldn't imagine, you know, this tongue twister for me was the Everest Mount.
And I said it, I said it, I said it, I said it.
That's your progress.
I want to say something about what you said about comparison because I think it's so important and I want to emphasize it.
And I just released a video, a podcast episode or a video about taking ownership over your English.
And I talked about this idea of comparison.
And I said, sometimes we see compare, like we feel that comparison and we feel the envy or like I'm not good enough.
Like all the things that come up when you compare yourself to someone else.
And I said, first of all, it's a natural thing that happens.
like you just said like it's it's it's okay we all have different journeys and we hold that have different paths and I'm sure that a lot of people watching and listening to your stories they're saying yes but it was easy for them because or they're not me they don't have my brain my first language my
this my that my circumstances and it's true but we all have our circumstances and we all have our journeys and it doesn't it's never we're never on the same path of transformation because we each have our own journey and our own path.
But the idea is that we are moving forward and seeing someone else's journey and transformation could make you feel like you're not good enough or it's not possible for you.
But it's really a mindset thing where you take it and you say to yourself, wait, what if I use that as inspiration?
What if I use that as a reminder that these things are possible?
What if I use that as a goal to use for me to know where I want to go and kind of like more of a clarity or an opportunity to gain clarity as to where I want to go.
And I think this is so incredibly important.
And you pinpointed a real pain that people have, especially in the world that we live in?
Because I think it's really hard for people to hear you and how fluent you are and expressive and funny and then to think that a year ago this was not possible for you.
Can you talk a little bit more about that and why you think you have made that transformation you know i think i had something you talk often about that i had some passive vocabulary i had some passive uh grammar you know i had them somewhere in my in my brain i mean in my uh old brain you know so i
had them there but i couldn't express them because one thing is absolutely essential and this is a fantastic tool this is the pronunciation this is the key this is the key and this is why i mean examples can go on and on you know the the cup cup sound the cat cat and father sound for me a year ago those
three sounds they were exactly the same i had no clue.
They were in a kind of foggy bag.
Everything is ink warm.
I mean, nothing was different.
I couldn't hear it.
So I can't say it. And once I understood the difference, the nuances between those three things, and you break down them so simply, so perfectly, you know, so I understood them and with minimal pairs, with sentences than I could drill them.
And I'm not afraid by the repetition because of my former job.
I was surgeon, you know, I was very repetitive things, meticulous things, tedious things don't bother me, you know, I can do them as long as and this is essential, the results are there.
And with your method this is something I would like to tell to everyone with your method the results are there really quickly and then when the results are there the mindset shifts dramatically everything shifts with the mindset coming with the results and I'm just going to point out because I'm going
to collect just before you continue with number two and three I think this idea of understanding the fast progress is not by learning more but really minimizing the gap i always talk about it because passive english is always significantly bigger and the work that we do as as alan is kind of is describing
now is designed to bring that to the surface so you'll start using the english that you actually know a lot more go ahead alan sorry yes and some of course and something which is really important for me is you give us the ability to give yourself the feedback.
This is one very important thing in this learning and I can say I can you know trust my voice, my sound, I hated my voice speaking English, you know when I heard myself the first time when I recorded myself I recall myself a lot.
When I heard it the first time, I was desperate.
And then I learned how to see, how to detect my mistakes.
And I have the tools to correct them, to fix them.
And this is very, very important.
The team is incredible.
All your team is incredible.
Yelena, Christina, Christine, Avi, Marci for the grammar.
I mean, everyone is so warm.
So this morning, we had the workshop with Tomer, it was incredible.
You know, working on the breath, on the pause, and all those things.
It's just more than just English.
you know so many things in this uh in this community and the community of course you know when i came there rosario katya they were so warm with me so welcoming and they you know and they they taught me so so much kind words and i discovered a bunch of extraordinary people you know i think community
is like something is very that is very underrated like i think that a lot of times when people think about their English journey they don't recognize that having a community is really critical for them to show up and for them to do the work and this is you know what you're saying here seeing that other
people make an effort to show up and practice is it's something that kind of like triggers something in you that gets you to want to do that as well i want to give some time for a lot thank you so much for sharing your experience and i want to first of all I want to open it up for questions so if you
guys in the um in the watching the video right now watching the the live if you have questions specifically for one of the students let us know but I want to ask you in the meantime and maybe we could do kind of like a queer quick round and and ask you what do you think was um I want to talk about that concept
of transformation and what what is like the one thing that you think was missing before you joined New Sound and this is what you got and what what allowed you to get to where you are today?
So Orsha if you want to share that.
That's a very good question and I have a very short answer clarity you know you hear so much about English one says this is the only way to do that's the right pronunciation, there is no other way to do it, and you are never good enough, you can't do that.
But actually, you don't know why.
And this was even, it was true even in my situation, because I have gone through all the school system, all the English learning pillars, so everything.
But nobody, nobody in the planet Earth explained me where to put my tongue, how to open my mouth how to do it physically yeah you know just to hear it said by myself the sound that I really had to produce and it was such a lack of information and this is the only the only platform I could get this answer
and it changed my life forever wow wow I love that I love that and I'm gonna tell you something first of all I agree like I think it's impossible to learn a language without the fundamentals of speaking the language which is the sounds like i i yesterday i mentioned it in my master class like it's when you
think of a baby learning a language it starts with pronunciation before everything it actually starts with prosody which is the way the baby cries and gets attention and then it moves into pronunciation the right because that is the the found the infrastructure of the language and then when you go to learn
in a conventional way, any language, they show you the letters, they show you the words, they expect of you to say it, but you don't have the foundation in your mouth.
And that's where things get messed up.
Because first of all, it's hard for you to read, especially in English where pronunciation and spelling do not correspond.
Then there are sounds that you don't even know how to make.
So you hear one thing and then it doesn't come out right.
And then you become self -conscious about it or unclear you know so there are all these things but also and I would say something that even when we think about our first language and how we speak we've not like we're born with our voice but we've never learned how to use our voice we've never learned
what happens when we abuse our voice or when we manipulate it because we're afraid or because we don't want to where we have we don't like our voice so we're softer or we pull it away and our voices are signature.
That's the first thing that people hear.
So even beyond speaking a second language, learning how to use your voice and to love it, I think that's the fundamentals of speaking in any language, not just in English.
So I love it that you said clarity.
I did not expect that necessarily, but I think, yes, that is so important for making progress in anything.
So thank you And Yeah, I see just some of the Some of the comments I'm going to come back to it Lissandra, what was it for you?
The same, it's a pronunciation Because I speak four languages And some Languages that I speak Sometimes interfere in English And I mean here in Florida I had to learn Spanish before English and then I was between English and Spanish at the same time and I had a lot of Spanish friends.
They had the different accent when they was speaking in English and I was like wow now I'm in limbo because different ways and like one day I was telling my husband I said did you give the dog then I said medicine he was like are you mad with me?
I say no medicine and never I never forget about that the flap and you and mad and then I will like you see that things interfere in our communication because the beginning people was like what did you say what what and then was bothered me a lot Wayne Alain said that about the meaning minimal pairs
it's very amazing trick because you're doing the the little things very close and then your brain recognize this thing and the brain recognize with the mouth and if you're doing the drill you cannot hear and if you cannot hear you cannot make it so it's a lot of little things you make a teacher proud
lissandro i cannot handle this talking about this yeah well said you spotted us um this community is spotted us i am i was when i was kid i was uh graduating for my high school my mom told me if you are graduating there you can go to a class dancing class and other things and I was dancing I was doing
things because she told me to to do this I did the elementary school but you guys inspire me and nowadays I start to do last year I am a certified uh an english teacher i did 120 because of you because of the all of you claudiana alex even bootstrap came later on and said i want to be a teacher too
but i'm still not there i want more 430 hours that way i can keep up my journey but now you found this the place that i have to stay to make this thing connected i love it and i love i love like how how you know like you keep like you keep discovering what like more and more and more and what's more
is possible and i love how we like you you live the life to the fullest lissandro you know like when something interests you you go full on and i admire it in you so much thank you yeah that's all and then let me tell another thing guys recording it's not very important if you do you can hear yourself
you can be your own coach and put notes i have a lot of notes sometimes i like i don't know i don't know how to say this and this it's that i put around the house that way i can remind myself you are responsible for your conduct tomorrow it's for you yesterday was mystery now is the moment present moment
tomorrow it's the mystery we don't know yet so let's find out now and let's find out 90 days in new song and then you're gonna do it for sure we want you guys there we wanna we wanna support you yes definitely uh and what was it for you the thing that we we didn't talk before before but of course pronunciation was my
first goal because I have been a student in English I have a degree in business English but I was just able to write and to read but speaking was a big problem as I always said and I have never heard about primary stress connected speech and everything for us and everything before no sound and guess
what I was at the University studying English business English but they never told me about these things and they are the foundation as you say of English yeah and it was like a revelation you You know, oh, my gosh.
How is it possible?
And when you discover how to stress the words or to use the primary stress or to use the connected speech, speech, sorry, in the, in the, in the, then everything is possible.
Yeah. Everything is possible.
And also we like shortcuts, right?
Like it's nice that we can find like the in the.
That reminded me. like it's a shortcut that like that makes a complicated thing simpler simply through repetition yeah of course uh um i like um what what we do every morning i i do it in the morning in beyond the sprints because it's all about connected speech it's all about primary stress and in the in the in the i
love this one because maybe because it's quite easy for me but uh uh it's one example but it's all about that no sound is just about all these things but amazing just essential i love it thank you so much in the in the in the in the by the way this was one of the first things i have to tell you um when i
studied because i studied pronunciation myself and that was i think in 2003 when i took classes with a dialect coach her name was lee dylan and she's now she's coaching all the a -list actors on hollywood but she was my teacher back then and between the first and second year i took private classes with her
and she was the one who said hadar your th hadar like what's going on because I used to always say in the and not in the so those she gave me a bunch of phrases and then when I was when I started teaching with her I realized that I needed to work on my th and I tried to figure out a whole bunch of ways
to do it and then I started teaching one -on -one privately and before each class I would kind of like make up the class I would write the exercises and I had one one of my first students he always struggled like he couldn't sustain his th and he couldn't you know remember to use it and I was like how
can I come up with a drill that's going to you know and I tried to remember what I did and then I remembered that I did these shortcuts when I was practicing myself so I created the daily th practice that we now have a new sound that in the on the at the uh to create the shortcuts and that has been
really significant for a lot of my students because that's where it solves the problem that always comes up with the th so it's nice that you this is what you remember because it's one of my favorite exercises um good thank you and alex what was it for you and you guys if you have questions and team
if you if you see questions on the chat put it in the doc that i shared with you before so i can see it alex what was it for you well in the same for the pronunciation because uh sometimes as well.
In Portuguese I have a problem in English it's like th for me it's a lot of challenge.
Now I don't have it, but when I study th R and L in my case it's so hard but right now it's much better and when I was studying with Lissandra, Chlodiana and Boucher.
They mention, they mention for me, Alex, you need, you teach, like, a voice, voiced, not voiceless, because sometimes it's confusing for me.
That's why pronunciation it's so hard.
Yeah. And it does give you confidence, right?
Because when you were more confident in how to pronounce things you dared more you started speaking more exactly in now and then my I think it's my TH it's much better I was really good I noticed you see like he's he's saying it and he's using it so the the proof is there my friends the proof is there
uh love it Alex love it and I love your progress on your journey uh alana i think you kind of shared it but if you want to kind of like put it in in in one sentence like what would that be that made the most impact for you in the sound yes i think the accuracy the accuracy of the pronunciation and the stress
and when you have both things then you have the mindset to dare incredible things you know for example march March 2nd I will host a session about art imagine me ex -surgeon hosting a session about art, talking about Mona Lisa, her dress the silk the incredible number of shades of blue and the painting,
the composition all those very subtle things when you have the power of words when you have the power of words you can do anything the sky's the limit so thank you thank you thank you just say that again hold on when you have the power of words you can do anything I think we can all like just sit with that sentence
for a second because it's so good it's so powerful it's so true because we often feel so limited I always say like a pale version of ourselves and I know that like now I used to feel that in English when I first started, when I first moved to the US, I now feel that in Spanish when I live in Barcelona,
you know, and I feel like like I could do so much more.
I could say so much more.
I could be a lot more funny and loving and expressive and and engaged and interested.
You know, I have people that I interact with regularly, like the cleaner that that I love.
I absolutely adore her and the Porter.
And well, he speaks English, but, but like, I would want to have better conversations with them.
Like I would, you know, these are people who are involved in my life.
And I feel it, I feel it's ridiculous that I can't do it as, as much as I want.
And I'm working on it.
I just moved. So it's okay, but not just, but, but still, like, I feel like people struggle with when, when you have that feeling for a while, like you don't have the words to get what you want, And you don't have that, and it feels very limiting, not just in communicating, but also in what's possible
for you in life. And I think this is what it's about.
The possibilities, like Orshi doing, teaching culinary English.
Are you going to do culinary conversation groups in New Sound?
Absolutely. Absolutely.
Every single week. Amazing.
That's like a bonus, right?
Yeah, we have the conversation groups, but we have Culinary English inside of New Sound.
Yeah, so we get the recipes, and if I can tell you something about these conversation groups, because I have tested Culinary English in the last round of New Sound, and it was so nice to see people when we discovered that food can connect us as English can.
So basically the passion we feel for eating is the same we feel for language.
And it was so nice to realize this, to live this passion in the session when we spoke about food.
And I think there was an Italian member that explained ravioli.
And then it turned out that there is something similar in Russia with a totally different name.
So, you know, two posts in the world got connected through food in an international session in English.
So it was such a connection.
And I think these situations help us understand that English is just a tool to speak about anything.
Because in that moment, when we understood the connection with food, we forgot that we were speaking English.
You know, it wasn't about practicing sound.
it was really what language means so it was really that moment when two people speak and they forget that they struggle with the language because they are so much involved in the conversation that is so beautiful and that is the magic that we strive for and that we live for actually I'm going to just
remind everyone that New Sound is now open we just opened doors so go to hadarshamesh .com forward slash join there is one question or she maybe you can take that question um ara says i'm feeling a little afraid because i'm working a lot and i don't think i do have time for all the live lessons well
actually i think the most important thing is to keep the most important thing the most important thing so we are here to practice english anyhow at any time when we wake up at night and we feel like solving the problem in our mind or dream you just open the program you go through a 10 -minute lesson and the problem
just disappears so the live sessions that had our hosts are always registered so you have the chance to watch them back even 100 times if you want and basically we ambassadors host conversation groups in different times in different time zones so i think that people busy in weekdays can join a conversation group
in weekends and vice versa so i think the program is so flexible that there is no way that you can't find a way how to follow it for yourself great thank you and and it's so true and the core thing, I love what you said, the most important, keep the most important thing, the most important thing.
The most important thing is the core program.
That's the video modules, the 12 weeks where every week you get video lessons.
It's all recorded. You have access anytime, 24 -7.
You have Hadar AI to ask questions and practice with.
And the conversation groups are exceptional.
And the live sessions with coaches are exceptional, but you don't have to join live.
First first of all you have recordings of everything and you definitely don't need to join all of them that's not the purpose like or she said we really serve people from around the world at different time zones so this is why we need to have a lot of sessions available because we know people have different
schedules but it's definitely not a must to join and also you know like before joining something you're like hesitant because you don't know how it's going to be like but sometimes when you actually enjoy doing something or when you find passion about something you find a way to make time for it because it's
important to you so right now you're operating from your current reality of like I don't have time for something that is going to feel like a burden but if it becomes something that you're super passionate about you see the impact you know I'm not saying that you will make you'll invent time and your
schedules your schedule all our students are busy students.
So Rida, for example, she joined the program in 2022.
She was working three jobs.
She was a single mom.
She joined News Town.
She did every single session.
She came to the meetup.
Like I remember her story vividly because we have busy students and the program is designed to adapt to the life of a busy person.
I designed it and I'm a busy person.
So I wanted something that I could take.
So this is why even if you're afraid that you don't have time, everything is planned out.
You don't have to do the live sessions.
Everything is recorded.
And even if you do 20%, you get the benefits of it.
I just want to point out, because Edison was asking, bonuses won't be available until after Sunday.
All the bonuses are available until you sign up.
We close registration on Friday, next Friday, the 21st.
Alejandra is asking, Is it necessary to have a Facebook account to join New Sound?
Hopefully not. Anne, do you want to answer it?
Yes, of course. Now you don't need Facebook anymore.
You just need the app.
And in the app, you have everything you need.
Including the community.
Very simple. Just your phone.
Wherever you are, you always have all the things you need to improve and practice makes everything yes and the community practice so everything you can post videos you can interact you can connect with other members everything is on the app the reason we moved we used to have facebook groups and while
i love facebook groups features not everyone's on facebook so we used to lose on a lot of this out and a lot of students who couldn't interact with the community because they didn't have Facebook.
And it's also distracting because when you're on Facebook, you're not just learning, you're doing other things.
So now you have everything in one place, super organized, and it's a better user experience.
Norma, how many times a year do you do the program?
Well, last year we did it once.
So we had it in March 2024, and now we're opening it again.
And because there are some things that are uncertain, we either, we're either going to open it again in October.
And if not, then just next year in next February.
Do you have a video on how to use Hadar AI, Lily?
Lily, you joined, right?
I think you joined.
I'm going to post a video later today because we're unlocking Hadar AI today for Valentine's Day.
So I'm going to make a video on how to join it.
But it's pretty self -explanatory.
You just hop on a call and start speaking to me and you'll see some guiding questions there.
So you can kind of like click on one of them.
I want to practice shadowing.
And then Hadar AI is going to guide you on how to do that.
But it's really, I know it's weird, but you don't need guidance.
You just ask for what you want, right?
Like you want to practice vocabulary.
Let me see if I can show you.
Okay, no, never mind.
I'll show it later.
I'll make a video inside of New Sound.
But it's really crazy.
And yesterday, my daughter started speaking to Hadar.
And she's like, but you're my mom.
And Hadar AI is like, I'm sorry, I don't, I don't understand.
I'm not your mother.
It seems like you think of your mother, but I'm not.
And Amalia is like, Yeah, but you are.
So creepy. Glender.
Is the program for people with some progress in English?
Can someone with a little knowledge do and achieve the same results?
Who wants to answer this?
Like I think we have, I can answer it because I've experienced like a lot of students.
And you know I have students who are English teachers.
I have students who are actually English teachers who are also native speakers because they want to learn about pronunciation and about prosody.
So I have students who grew up in the U .S.
for most of their lives, but there's still something about their confidence because maybe their family was not speaking English.
People who have lived in the U .S.
for 20 years, 30 years, people who have done a lot of pronunciation programs before.
I do have students who come in and still experience transformation because the way I teach your pronunciation is probably different from everything that you've done before.
because the way I teach it, I bring, first of all, my linguistic experience, my own experience as a learner, everything that I've learned in acting school and vocal classes, like I integrate everything together because I think it's essential.
And of course, the mindset work, the confidence work.
And I teach you strategies that are more holistic and not just about, you know, like, just learn the sounds.
So the answer is 100%.
And this is a good opportunity to say that you have a money back guarantee we have a money back guarantee policy and I believe that if you join you will see how this program is different from other programs right at the beginning and if it's not for you you can ask for your full investment back whether
you choose the payment plan or the full pay no questions asked so you definitely have an opportunity to just see for yourself if it's for you.
Okay. Ara says, I'm a Spanish teacher and would love to become an English teacher too.
We have so many students with that story.
Exactly. They came in speaking, but not having the confidence to teach English yet, but the passion.
And we've seen these transformations as well.
So if you want, this could definitely be something that supports you on that journey.
It's not a traditional English teaching training, but it gives you the tools to learn more about the language, to have a deeper understanding of how to use it and how to explain it.
And also I want you to experience something in a way that you will understand, okay, this works, this doesn't work.
So right now as a Spanish learner, I know what I need, right?
Like I know because I have the methodology and the, you know, the strategies and all of that.
So for me, I just need to implement it.
I'm interested in Hadar AI.
No, Hadar AI only comes with new sound.
It's just for new sound because it's also trained on the new sound content.
So obviously, it is very knowledgeable in a sense and you get it as a part because it's designed to help you succeed in new sound.
Even though maybe one day I'll create like a shadowing Hadar AI because it's going to be cool okay one sentence one sentence for people who are on the fence and my like they don't know if New Sound is for them if they should do it maybe they should wait for next year what would you tell them Alain you're
gonna start and we're gonna go backwards there's one one thing only one thing I regret if only I knew you a few years ago this is the only regret I have that would have changed maybe a lot of things in my life.
Even maybe having a career in the United States, which was a great dream for me, but I couldn't do that.
And this is the only deep, deep regret I have.
If only I knew you just 10 years ago, that would have changed even more my, far more my life but it's already changing my life and that's it i can't complain that's okay thank you thank you hada you gave me you gave me so much you changed so so much my life and i'm so so grateful for what you what you
brought for us thank you so much i love that thank you um alex what about you.
Guys don't be afraid your English because um it's the moment because when you listen to say yesterday it passed in the future you don't know now we need to pay attention if you want and keep doing it.
I love it. Anne what about you so I would say that synonymous for new sound is just game changer this program has been a game changer for me and if you join us on of or if you have already joined it just record yourself and your introduction video is very important because when no song ends yeah just
go back square up and have a look to your first video and it's time for comparison if you if you allow me because comparison is not something we like but but only when you're seeing progress you do in this case you can use it and you can compare yourself before and after love that and just so you know
we added an assessment so now you guys didn't have it because it's new but because we made some some really great changes so at the beginning we have an assessment text that you'll be reading and then we'll revisit it throughout the program and then at the end we will record it you will record it and then
it's it's a really really nice indication of the before and after and i can't wait to see the the results love it and thank you thank you thank you lisandro what about you okay um i have to thank everybody because when you gave us the whole thing and we have to put hands on without this we cannot doing
anything but i have to thank a lot of people over here because i have a lot of friends and i rely on them because when they show off i I listen to them, I'm making comments, I put my comments as well over there because when they show off, I can show myself as well so we are reflecting on each other
and if you do, we of us can do too.
So keeping posting, keeping showing yourself, and I have to tell, the music lovers, Daniela, Elisa, Soraya, Valentina, Halil, Mary, Luana, Anna, Hannah, Arlan, Luciana, Glenda, Kaori, a lot of people.
I have so many people that I keep saying here because it's so much.
And when you get in front, it's not about the English, guys.
As I tell all the time, it's many things you're going to grow and you're going to grow better.
English person and anything else.
So, we can rely on each other.
So, that's the beauty of what we have here.
It's real. I have my family, my second family here, New Sound and Beyond.
And I'm so thrilled to be in this place.
Don't hesitate, guys.
This is the moment.
If you cannot do this now, we have other times.
And I agree with Alan.
If I had you before, would it be amazing?
But the time is now.
My time is with you and you guys' time is now.
So take consideration in this moment and jump in.
And don't hesitate.
Just go. And whatever is coming, you're going to see results later.
Everything has a result.
Good or bad. If you're doing good, you're going to have so much good things on you.
i love that you're so inspiring lisandra and um so i want to say two things before we get to you or she uh tracy says in the comments i want to read it because it kind of like hit me hard like her words i will not die without learning and speaking english properly and i think that you know it's it's
kind of like on one hand it just shows the journey that you've been through and I know that you've put in the work and I know like that this is something that you have to crack, you have to solve, and it's been bothering you.
But also in these words, I see the determination and the commitment to make that your reality.
And I think it's absolutely amazing.
And I think it's possible.
And I think if there is something that you, and that relates to what both of you guys said.
When there is something that you know you're going to do anyway, because you know that you're not going to die without having it done, you might as well do it now.
Like you just figure out and do it now.
I remember, I once talked about it in one of my emails.
I remember when we were, I was in a guest house with my girlfriends when I was 30 and we were in the pool and the water was so cold and my friend was standing there outside and and we were having fun even though it was cold and we were kind of like swimming and laughing and then my friend I don't know
I can't do it and he said you know you're gonna do it at some point right like you're not gonna stay all weekend outside of the pool you're gonna do it you might as well do it now and as I said it she just jumped as I was saying it because my words kind of like hid her And she was like, I'm going to have to
deal with feeling the cold water at some point.
I might as well do it now and benefit from the outcome.
And I always talk about English.
If this is something that you want to make happen in your life, just make it happen.
Because the outcome and the result, you don't even know it's possible for you.
And it's also the ripple effect.
When you make a positive change in one part of your life, you start seeing it in other areas of your life.
and you start exploring Luciana here in the chat I'm going to call you out she recently shared an incredible win about a workshop that she opened outside of our program like so she she's a host inside beyond and she is also she said like that's my passion to teach other people and in one of the sessions
you know we said like if this is your passion you should do it and you use English to do that but she was before she was afraid but she was so determined and she decided to go ahead and do it.
And she hosted her own workshop for UX designers and it sold out within 24 hours and it was a success.
And, you know, like that's possible because she took many steps before that for making other things possible, like her English.
So it's just, you know, just do it.
Nike had the best, the best slogan ever.
Just do it. And if you want to do it with us, we would love, love, love to have you.
But even if it's not us use the boot camp, use the trainings, use this momentum to make a significant change.
Orsi. Oh, wow. What a speech.
So what else can I add to all these things?
Actually, I think the best conclusion for this beautiful meeting could be guys just started and keep doing and never stop because you will see that if you have some doubts now you feel a little bit embarrassed maybe for your english you have negative experiences after a while all these things will just
disappear so you won't feel these things and i remember when it happens to me for the first time that I woke up in the morning and I realized that actually there was no problem with my English.
So I couldn't understand how was it possible that I had struggled so much before.
And a new world opened.
And I've been doing all my steps along this way with English in my pocket and I don't have limits.
So everything is possible.
Anything I want, I can do.
That's it. And that's the mindset.
That's it. Everything I want, I can do.
That's it. And with that strong sentence, I want to say thank you, thank you, thank you, my beautiful students, beautiful humans, for taking the time to share your stories with our boot campers, and take this moment to use your experience to inspire others.
I think it has been people, I don't know if you've seen the comments, but people loved, loved, loved your stories because it just brings it down to, okay, they are just like me, and this is possible for me as well.
So thank you, and I love you, and I cannot wait to have fun inside of New Sound with all of you and with all the boot campers that will decide to join us.
So just as a reminder, your new sound is open right now.
Hadar Shemesh .com forward slash join.
And if you still need some more time, we close doors on Friday next week.
So thank you so much.
Thank you. My dear new sounders beyonders friends and I'll see you inside of new sound and thank you for your time and your stories.
Bye everyone. Thank you.
hope to see you soon in the sound yes
