Authority on camera doesn't start in your vocabulary or your volume. It starts in your feet.
Before you say a word, your audience has already read your relationship to the ground — whether you're occupying your space or apologizing for being in it. Most people on camera are subtly trying to take up less room. They lean, they shrink, they hover at the edge of the frame.
The fix isn't to puff up
It's to let gravity do its job. Stand like the floor is yours and there's nowhere else you'd rather be. Stillness that comes from being grounded reads as certainty. Fidgeting that comes from wanting to be liked reads as a question.
This isn't performance. It's the opposite — removing what's in the way so the truth has a clean channel out.
Take it further
Next time you record, just notice your relationship to the floor — settled into it, or bracing at the edge of the frame? Awareness is the first rep.
The full system — every exercise and the 36-day practice — lives in the book MEAN IT. and the 5 Minute CEO program. Work with Paul →