Have you noticed that you never run out of breath in the middle of a sentence, but you do when you have to record a long-phrase written by somebody else? In today’s episode, I’ll reveal why this happens and I’ll share three exercises that will help you get to the end of any phrase with […]
Today, I’ll answer one of the questions I get a lot during my one-on-one coaching sessions: how do I know what to do during my warm up? Although the answer is quite simple: awareness, it leads to three less simple things we should be aware of to perform the perfect warm up for us. After […]
This week, I’ll share some tips to take care of and get your voice ready for outdoor speaking. I’ll separate them into two groups, the first one for taking care of your voice, and the sendo one for your performance and delivery. After listening to this episode, you’ll be able to keep your voice sharp […]
Sometimes, we might find it challenging to get our mouth around certain words, or during a recording session, we keep on stumbling over the same words, and we feel strongly about throwing the microphone out the window. So, to prevent us from unleashing our frustration on our recording setup, I’ll share three fun articulation exercises […]
This week, we’ll explore how consonants feel on their own, using the same words we used to explore vowels in the previous episode, using feet, mouth, syllable, and of course, the fragment of Shakespeare’s Sonnet 18: Shall I compare thee to a summer’s day? Just as with the vowels, we’ll explore the sounds, not the […]
In today’s episode, we’ll go through a wonderfully ridiculous exercise on exploring the sounds of vowels. We’ll exercise with mono and multisyllabic words, and then tie them together in a sentence. This exercise is beneficial for those moments when we feel disconnected from the words we are voicing, or when we’re reading something we might […]
This week, after the Christmas, podcast birthday and Valentine’s Day’s hiatus, we get straight back into the step-by-step voice training process. We’ll pick up right where we left back in episode 48 to start with sound shaping. In this episode, we’ll revisit what consonants and vowels are and what they mean to us from a […]
Today’s episode, on Valentine’s Day, is all about love. I’ll share three tips to fall in love with your voice again and leave aside the mean comments and opinions that might be making you dislike the sound of your own voice. We’ll explore the science behind why most of us don’t enjoy the sound of […]
In this episode, we’ll do a little recap on warm-ups. We’ll go through five questions that will help us structure our warm-up routine and create one that won’t tire or bore us and that we’ll find fun to do. For those new to the show, or those who don’t know how to get your voices […]
Today’s episode is the last part of our interview with Barbara Houseman, and it is also the closing of the celebrations for our first year together. We dive deep into voiceover and podcasting lands in this second part of our lovely encounter. Barbara shared golden nuggets and practical examples on prepping the voice for microphone […]
Continuing with our podcast’s first anniversary celebrations, I’m honoured to bring Barbara Houseman to the show. She is a Voice, Text, and Acting Freelance Coach with over 40 years of experience, including six years at the Royal Shakespeare Company and many years coaching in West End. Barbara is also the author of two books, “Finding […]
Today, continuing with our celebration week, we go through the second part of my interview with Dane Chalfin. In this part, Dane answers the previous episode’s cliffhanger – are straws a good tool for warmups? He also shares his thoughts on post-pregnancy voice training, stuffed up nose and how to deal with voice ageing. What […]
Our podcast turns one year old this week, and we are celebrating! We’ll start our celebrations with an interview with Dane Chalfin we aired on The Voice and Accent Hub. Dane is a Vocal Rehabilitation Coach and Singing and Voice Teacher, a dear friend, and my first ever voice teacher. Today, in the first part […]
This week, following our voice plans for this year, we’ll go through five questions to reflect on in 2022 to help us achieve our vocal goals. Setting and writing down these five questions can be used as a guide to be aware of what we intend to do with our voice this year and how […]
I believe New Year’s resolutions add too much unnecessary pressure, so I don’t do them anymore. Instead, I prefer reflecting on the year that ended and, based on the conclusions we can get from that, setting up some goals for the following year. So, in this first of a two-episode series on the new year, […]
Today, in 2021’s last episode, we will slow down a little bit. After whatever kind of celebration you had during Christmas, I thought it was a good idea to take a pause and have a moment of holistic awareness. So take a moment to check in with your body, your breath and make some space […]
Christmas is almost here, a time to celebrate and spend time with our loved ones. Still, that shouldn’t be a reason to stop taking care of our voices. To keep things playful while caring for our voices during the holidays, I came up with three fun festive-themed voice games. What You Will Learn In This […]
This week, we’ll go through the second part of the Twelve Days of Tips-mas. We will debunk some myths about breathing, we’ll learn the proper position for our chin while speaking, and remember to be mindful of releasing unnecessary tension. This also serves as a reminder to keep things playful, to stay curious, explore our […]
Invaded by the Christmas spirit, I’ve decided to share with you 12 tips that will help you take care of your voice before, during, and after this holiday season that might get noisy and force us to eat, drink and speak more than we usually do. Today, we’ll go through the first six of these […]
This episode comes on the back of a request from a lovely client who’s headed off to panto-land for the festive season. Don’t know what panto is? Then listen to this episode. Know what panto is, but you’re not doing it? Still listen in, because a lot of the tips I’m sharing today are relatable […]
