Josette Kalifa
How I Became a Giant
A truth conference that emphasizes difference and how this difference will boost your teams and your business! The conference 'How I Became a Giant' is a unique experience at the crossroads of personal testimony and motivational messaging, specifically designed to address the challenges faced by businesses. Josette Kalifa shares her life journey with authenticity, humor, and depth, transforming the challenges related to her short stature into an inspiring demonstration of resilience and transformation. More than just a narrative, this conference explores a topic at the heart of current managerial concerns: the value of diversity and inclusion as a lever for collective performance. Josette shows how the acceptance and appreciation of uniqueness can strengthen team dynamics, innovation, and employee motivation. She delivers a clear message: transforming individual differences into engines of creativity and adaptability, to better respond to the challenges of the professional world. Presented in a compelling format, between one-woman show and inspirational conference, it captures the audience's attention and mobilizes them towards a collective goal of excellence and cohesion. In a context where organizations seek to: — Unite their teams around shared values, — Strengthen individual and collective engagement, — Stimulate agility in the face of change, — And promote an inclusive and high-performing culture, By transforming a personal story into universal lessons, this conference offers participants practical keys to — Develop individual and collective resilience in the face of professional challenges — Mobilize individual uniqueness as a strategic asset for innovation. — Strengthen collaboration and team cohesion by valuing the richness of differences. — Establish a growth mindset: transforming every obstacle into an opportunity for progress. MAIN THEMES — Diversity and Inclusion: How difference can become a pillar of organizational performance. — Resilience: Overcoming challenges to better adapt and evolve. — Transformation: Identifying and leveraging unique strengths to contribute to a common project. — Engagement and perseverance: Maintaining motivation in the face of obstacles. — Human leadership: Supporting and valuing team members to reveal their full potential. WHY IT WORKS Because 'How I Became a Giant' goes beyond mere testimony. This conference combines: • An authentic narrative that touches the heart of human and professional challenges. • A concrete approach aligned with the strategic issues of modern businesses. • A communicative energy and inspiring messages that remain etched in minds. FORMAT: THE CONFERENCE • Duration: 50 minutes. An impactful and rhythmic intervention, between captivating storytelling and engaging reflections. Josette regularly invites participants to project themselves into their own professional journey, with concrete questions. ADDITIONAL OPTIONS • Post-conference workshop to deepen reflection and work on team objectives or values. • Q&A session to anchor lessons in the reality of the business. TESTIMONIALS A wonderful conference. No, sublime! A 'One-Woman Show' that should re-enchant the hearts of many people. Hurry to see 'How I Became a Giant.' You will come out transformed. Jean-Philippe Ackermann This conference is absolutely magnificent and deeply moving. Josette Kalifa helps us grow. I recommend you go.♥️ Michaël Aguilar Outstanding and unforgettable stage performance by Josette Kalifa, alone on stage but immediately anchored in the hearts of the audience, for a life story so authentic, filled with emotion, humor, and complicity with all that makes the beauties of real life! Philippe Gabilliet This conference is a powerful tool to support your internal transformations and inject a new dynamic into your teams. It is ideal for your seminars, conventions, or any event requiring a high emotional and motivational value intervention.
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Resilience to Better Withstand the Crisis
Could the crisis we are going through be an opportunity to remind us that IMPERMANENCE is the rule of life and that our survival depends on our ability to adapt? This is also resilience. To prepare for it and achieve it, I have a tool that few use: THE VOICE. Thanks to the voice, our mindset will be more open. With the voice, we will more easily access our creativity, our intuition, and we will strengthen our confidence and serenity. ESTABLISHING RITUALS allows us to return to the center of ourselves so as not to be swept away by the whirlwind. Everyone has their own pace, but every day in times of crisis. Participatory talk lasting between 30 minutes and 1 hour.
Strengthening Confidence in Management through Breathing
Presentation on breathing and public speaking I am 1.40m tall. Until I was thirty, I was too small for everything. Back then, people would say to me, "with your voice, you hit hard," and I was seen by others as an aggressive person, a yappy dog. Then I discovered voice work and tamed my anger, fears, frustrations, and my voice became more flexible, warmer, capable of fortissimo as well as pianissimo. And above all, I learned to listen. And listening is silence. This naturally leads me to breathing. Breathing as the primary source of silence, of emptiness inside me. Breathing to drain, to accompany my emotions, to no longer be overwhelmed. Inhale/exhale to regain the thread of my thoughts. Inhale/exhale to give words the time to find their way to the other, my audience. Inhale/exhale to welcome the words of others, even if they are contradictory. Inhale/exhale to respond kindly, without aggression. Inhale/exhale to give breath back to my speech, another impulse, another rhythm, another intonation. And you? Are you aware that your voice contributes to the representation others have of you: shy, timid, brutal, seducer, nonexistent, erased, arrogant, snobbish, etc., or even frank, charismatic, self-assured? Are you aware that your voice contributes to the sympathy or lack thereof that others feel towards you? Breathing and voice are intimately linked in that the voice is nothing other than the air you inhale, which upon exhaling vibrates two muscles called vocal cords in French. Working to improve your breathing has an immediate impact on the voice. Breathing allows for the opening of spaces within the body, thus enabling the voice to resonate more broadly, more deeply. Opening the spaces within oneself is to free the sound that only wants to come out without force, without constraint, without judgment. This is what I call the authentic sound. And I come to the third point that is inseparable for me from the voice: authenticity. Daring to say who I am, allowing my vulnerability to show, accepting my fallibility, speaking from the heart. We can then speak of a true voice: yours. In voice work, in addition to breathing, we address vocal technique in the strict sense: emission, support and placement of sound, diction, articulation. A significant focus is placed on the flexibility of the joints as well as the throat, jaw, and tongue. We all know the demands and impeccable vocal technique of great lyric singers. The spoken voice remains the poor relative of learning. Many people who do not like their voice, or who encounter difficulties such as aphonia, lack of power, voice deemed too high, muffled voice, recurrent sore throats turn to singing teachers for lack of finding a voice teacher.
Dare to live your life
Until I was thirty I felt too small for everything. I am 1.40m tall, and I have a slight form of dwarfism. My size experienced like a monstrosity. And then I discovered the voice and I felt tall. To dare to grow is to go beyond fear, our habits, our limiting beliefs, our disabilities. I am convinced that in each one of us lies a nugget that only needs to be revealed because the world needs it, yes the world needs you, us. That it is by reconnecting us with this nugget within us that we find the strength to grow in our personal and/or professional lives. Through my conference I would like to testify that we must never give up, that it is never too late and that it is up to us to go towards our own light. It is a question of courage, determination and love. For me it was the voice and today more than thirty years later I can say « I’m proud of my life because this is my life ».
Your Voice is Your Best Friend
Working on the voice to • reconnect with oneself • Reveal hidden potential • Trace the path to success in your personal and professional life. The voice to grow in your business, with your collaborators. Gain power, confidence. Awaken the speaker within you. Be a leader appreciated for your listening skills and your ability to motivate and convince. The voice is an essential factor in your speech. It reveals the speaker far beyond the words. A leader knows how to manage their emotions without completely suppressing them. A leader is a "charismatic" chief because they are authentic. The voice does not deceive in this regard. For over 25 years, I have been guiding people on the path to discovering their true voice. Beyond its practical utility, particularly in the workplace, the voice is a source of infinite pleasure, joy, and happiness because it reconciles us with who we truly are and allows us to affirm our uniqueness. It is thanks to the voice that I have grown in my life. This is everything that the work on the voice has taught me, and it is this experience that I pass on to you.
Dare to Grow
Until I was thirty, I felt too small for everything. I am 1.40m tall and I have a mild form of dwarfism. My height was experienced as a monstrosity. Then I discovered my voice and I felt BIG. Daring to grow means going beyond fear, our habits, our limiting beliefs, and our disabilities. I am convinced that within each of us lies a nugget waiting to be revealed because the world needs it, yes, the world needs you, needs us. And it is by reconnecting with this nugget within us that we find the strength to grow in our personal and/or professional lives. Through my talk, I want to testify that we should never give up, that it is never too late, and that it is up to us to move towards our own light. It is a matter of courage, determination, and love. Daring to look within ourselves for what will help us grow and to set out on the path. For me, it was the voice, and today, more than thirty years later, I can affirm that "no, I regret nothing."
Taking Care of Your Voice
Hello, here are some practical exercises to maintain and relax the vocal cords. Have a good week. Head inclinations and rotations adjusted to breathing 1/ Tilt the head forward and backward by pulling from the top of the skull — inhale back – exhale return — inhale forward – exhale return then reverse the breathing 2/ Tilt the head to the right and then to the left by pulling on the top of the skull and adjusting the breathing as before. 3/ Rotation around the axis. Keeping the head straight, make a rotation around the axis until the chin is above the right shoulder. Inhale up – exhale on the rotation. Return while inhaling then rotate until the chin is above the left shoulder. 4/ Global rotations forward-backward-left-right while adjusting the breathing in one direction and then the other. 5/ Smaller rotations around the Atlas in one direction and then the other. 6/ Advance the chin without moving the shoulders "chicken movement".
The Phonatory Apparatus
The vocal cords are the essence of the larynx-pharynx phonatory apparatus located in the throat. For sound to come out freely and effortlessly, it is important to release tensions in the throat. The throat serves as the final mouthpiece of the air column axis. It should be as open as possible. You can visualize a large pipe (like that of a stove pipe) that runs through you from bottom to top and carries sound without any tension or constriction. Next week, I will provide you with a series of exercises to maintain your vocal cords. Have a good week.
The voice, a physiological phenomenon
We often forget that the voice is a physiological phenomenon controlled by the brain when the breath transforms into sound and vibrates the vocal cords. Outside of this vibration, there is silence. The vocal cords, which number two and are positioned horizontally between the larynx and pharynx in the neck, are two muscles pressed together in a resting position that separate and vibrate faster depending on the pitch of the sound emitted. This is how the 440 of our pianos is based on the speed of vibration of the vocal cords on the A note. The higher the sound, the more the cords rise and the vibration accelerates. For lower sounds, the cords relax and vibrate more slowly. At the bottom of the trunk, at a level below the navel, lies the musculature of sound. The oblique muscles on each side of the abdomen that attach to the pubis act as a bellows for breathing. It is at this level that the breath/sound anchors to vibrate the vocal cords and maintain the sound at the center of the palatine arch. This is referred to as sound support. Thus, between the top and the bottom, a vertical sound axis is drawn, which runs along the spine, becoming a column of breath. Inside the mouth, at the level of the palate, when moving the tongue from front to back, one notices a difference in texture in the middle. The palate forms an arch, the 'palatine arch'. At the center of the arch is the passage point of the breath/sound axis. This is where the sound must strike and be maintained in order to take advantage of the resonance chamber of the pharynx. You can visualize an axis, a luminous tube that passes through you from the perineum and anchors to the ground, up to the top of the head and anchors to the sky. Mastering this column of breath/sound is part of the art of voice.
Talking about the same thing is not being in competition
I do a job that I love. Talking, yes I love talking, especially about what drives me, my passion which is the voice. I can say that the voice saved my life. Before I was small, and I would never be up to anything, to everything! Since then I have grown a lot and I allow myself to dream big. So yes, I dream of sharing my experience, helping people become aware of their true nature through their voice. I know that I am not the only one talking about these subjects: the voice, public speaking, succeeding in life, taking control of one's destiny. Yes, but I am the only one being me, which makes my testimony unique. My approach will be different because it is imbued with my uniqueness, my sensitivity. I love listening to other speakers talk about these same subjects. I am amazed by their "angle of attack", by the way they treat the subject, some with humor, others more technical, pragmatic. I love my surprise at feeling the emotion that grips them at a moment in their talk, unexpected for me. All of this constitutes for me a kaleidoscope of all our differences, of all our emotions. And it makes me think of the great lyrical or variety performers. Their merit is to suggest another emotional, dramatic point of view of the work through their interpretation and their vocal signature. Each person chooses what touches them, moves them the most. Pavarotti or Placido Domingo? Maria Callas or Montserra Caballé? Frank Sinatra or Elvis Presley or even Nina Simone? Diversity is an immeasurable wealth and we are all legitimate to take our place without anyone suffering from it since we are the only ones who can occupy it.