A Voice and Beyond

By Dr Marisa Lee Naismith

Arts Education Performing Arts

What's A Voice and Beyond about?

Welcome to A Voice and Beyond. This podcast is dedicated to self-care, professional development and personal growth. Our brilliant lineup of international guests include healthcare practitioners, voice educators and other professionals who will share their stories, knowledge and experiences within their specialized fields to empower you to live your best life every day. In the solo round episodes, my goal is to help you increase your levels of focus, productivity, confidence & energy. Now is the time for you to discover your voice in life, develop a positive mindset and become the best and most authentic version of yourself so you can create greater impact.

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#63. My Secrets for Success...

05.15.2022

This week's guest is Associate Professor Irene Bartlett! In the music industry, it is very difficult to sustain a long and enduring career, but our guest this week, Associate Professor Irene Bartlett has successfully navigated her music career and shares ...

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05.15.2022 #63. My Secrets for Success and Sustainability in the Voice Industry with Associate Professor Irene Bartlett This week's guest is Associate Professor Irene Bartlett! In the music industry, it is very difficult to sustain a long and enduring career, but our guest this week, Associate Professor Irene Bartlett has successfully navigated her music career and shares ...
05.08.2022 #62. The Time to Stop Living in the Past is Now Are you living in the past or do you dwell on events that belong in your past? If this is you, ask yourself how can you live a happy life in the present, when you can’t let go of what’s ...
05.01.2022 #61. When Pop Meets Brain Science with Meredith Colby This week's guest is Meredith Colby. Meredith Colby is an author, teacher, speaker and the creator of Neuro-Vocal, an approach to teaching singing for popular music styles based on brain science. In this episode, Meredith speaks candidly about her professional ...
04.24.2022 #60. The Detection and Treatment of Voice Disorders with Lori Sonnenberg This week’s guest is Lori Sonnenberg. Lori Sonnenberg is a Chicago based Licensed Speech-Language Pathologist, Clinical Voice Specialist, and Singing Voice Specialist whose clients include professional performers, educators and speakers. In her voice clinic, Lori works exclusively with voice and ...
04.17.2022 #59. How To Action Without Distraction How often do you begin an important task and then you suddenly find yourself standing in front of the coffee machine just five minutes later. Ask yourself, do you feel as though you are going nowhere fast. Instead of moving ...
04.10.2022 #58. Stop Worrying About The Future Do you experience feelings such as self doubt, fear, anger, anxiety, guilt, shame, or perhaps even regret? Try not to get caught up worrying about worse case scenarios, as they may never happen. We're all having to come to terms ...
04.03.2022 #57. Who Said You Can’t Sing with Linor Oren This week's guest is Linor Oren. How many of us have been told that we can’t sing, or that we can’t hold a tune in a bucket or we have simply been told please don’t sing? Whether we hear this ...
03.27.2022 #56. Finding Your Voice with Mandie Kramer from The Wander Mom Diaries A few months ago, I had the pleasure of being interviewed on the podcast, The Wander Mom Diaries, hosted by Mandie Kramer. The theme of the podcast centres around self-care, overcoming adversities, and empowering women and, my story and messaging ...
03.20.2022 #55. Exploring Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT) with Dr David Juncos Today’s guest is Dr David Juncos. Dr David Juncos a clinical psychologist, performance coach, a voice workshop lecturer, and co-author of the book ACT for Musicians, which is due for release in the coming months. David shares that he considers ...
03.13.2022 #54. Celebrating All Voices: Building A Thriving and Collaborative Community Part II We are so excited to announce it is our first birthday. Yes, it is one year since we launched our very first episode of A Voice and Beyond and to celebrate this exciting milestone, we would like to share some ...
03.06.2022 #53. Celebrating All Voices: Building a Thriving Collaborative Community Part I We are so excited to announce it is our first birthday. Yes, it is one year since we launched our very first episode of A Voice and Beyond and to celebrate this exciting milestone, we would like to share some ...
02.27.2022 #52. Mindfulness: You Can Unlock the Power of your Mind With Evan Dunn Today’s guest is Evan Dunn. Many of us identify so strongly with the thoughts that are running through our minds that we begin to believe those thoughts and sometimes it can be difficult to sort through all the doubts and ...
02.20.2022 #51. How to Transform Your Life with Intention Over the past two years, life has thrown us a curve ball and it’s been hard to set goals, as results are uncertain, and the future is unpredictable. As we walk through each day, it can be difficult to think ...
02.13.2022 #50. My Versatile Career & How I Figured it Out with Brenda Earle Stokes Today’s guest is Brenda Earle Stokes. Brenda Earle Stokes has built an extensive and sustainable professional career as an accomplished pianist and vocalist skilled across classical, jazz, pop, rock, R&B; and Music Theatre styles. Her curiosity and voracious appetite for ...
02.06.2022 #49. How to Heal Yourself with Love with Jen Haddix Today’s guest is Jen Haddix. Jen Haddix is a certified yoga teacher, a self-love coach, and host of the podcast The Self-Love Yogi. In this episode, Jen shares parts of her traumatic childhood which led to her journey of healing, ...
01.30.2022 #48. Discipline: Your Path to Freedom in Every Aspect of Life! Everybody wants freedom!! Whether we want financial freedom, we want more free time, or we want the freedom to follow our dreams, whatever freedom we desire can only be achieved through discipline. Discipline and freedom may seem as though they ...
01.23.2022 #47. The Balancing Act between Academia and an Authentic Soulful Performance with Dr Trineice Robinson-Martin Today’s guest is Dr Trineice Robinson-Martin. Dr Trineice Robinson-Martin is a world-class performer, voice researcher, author and educator who has travelled and taught students from all over the world, as well as lectured nationally and internationally on numerous topics relating ...
01.16.2022 #46. Establishing Boundaries Between Teacher and Therapist in the Voice Studio with Petra Raspel Borzinski Today’s guest is Petra Raspel Borzinski. Petra is an accomplished musician and educator, who is trained in psychology, somatic therapy and cognitive-behavioural approaches. Petra speaks candidly about how her limiting beliefs around perfectionism, led her to suffer from performance anxiety ...
01.09.2022 #45. Shift Your Money Mindset from Scarcity to Abundance Money can be a sensitive topic for many, but as we head into the new year, now is the perfect time to check in on your money mindset. Did you know that the desire to have more money and to ...
01.02.2022 #44. Meditation: The Practice of Centring Yourself Everyday No day is perfect and in life, we need to have the mental energy to deliver our best, stay focused, feel vibrant & energised each and every day. If your ability to deal with the struggle and challenge of a ...
12.26.2021 #43. Don’t Make Your New Year’s Resolution Homeless It is the time of year, many of us start thinking about our New Year’s resolutions. You may be setting goals around things such as relationships, finances, new projects, quitting a bad habit, leaving a current job or starting up ...
12.19.2021 #42. Reprogram Your Thoughts Into Positive Ones Life is full of unforeseen situations or scenarios that create an unexpected set back & stress is a normal human reaction that happens to everyone. Unfortunately, most of us don’t get to choose how stressful our lives are & at ...
12.12.2021 #41. Overcome Imposter Syndrome and Discover your Self Worth As we near 2022, many of us begin reflecting on the year that was and start to visualise our future in the new year ahead. If you are someone who consistently gives up or throws the towel in on their ...
12.06.2021 #40. The Benefits of Non Traditional Modalities in Voice Training with Grace Ng Ee Wern Grace Ng Ee Wern is a Clinical Hypnotherapist, a Jin Shin Jyutsu Physio-Philosophy energy healing practitioner and Level 3 certified Somatic Voicework teacher, who has a studio practice based in Singapore. It is there she has developed a unique and ...
11.28.2021 #39. Let Your Lifestyle be Your Medicine with Peter Edwards Today's guest is Peter Edwards. Peter is a natural therapist, who has dedicated his life to teaching others how to heal their bodies as well as their minds, after he had his dreams of competing in the World Roller Skating ...
11.21.2021 #38. How's Your Relationship Mindset with Self, Others and Your Job? Every human being has the capacity to live an extraordinary life of joy, success, vitality, and achievement. However, so many people make silly excuses or give absurd reasons as to what they can’t have, don’t have, and about what they ...
11.14.2021 #37. Sleep for Restoration and Rejuvenation with Elina Winnel Today's guest is Elina Winnel. Do you have problems with falling sleep or do you wake up during the night and have trouble falling back to sleep? It seems you aren’t the only one because, as a society, we are ...
11.07.2021 #36 - My Life as a Touring Rock Singer Over the past few years, there has been much adverse press about touring singers suffering vocal fold pathologies; for example, in 2018 the pop icon Pink had to cancel a number of concerts in Australia due to illness. She was ...
10.31.2021 #35. When Science Meets Voice: My Serendipitous Life with Heidi Moss Erickson Today's guest is Heidi Moss Erickson. Heidi is an acclaimed performer, voice educator and scientist, who prefers to describe herself as a seeker. In this episode, we get a rare snapshot into Heidi’s personal and professional life as she opens ...
10.24.2021 #34. Living with Stress: In Good Times and in Bad Stress is a word we throw around rather loosely in our everyday lives. We use it to describe those moments when we’re busy, overwhelmed, dealing with a new situation or just simply dealing with day-to-day life. But, what does it ...
10.17.2021 #33. Performance Anxiety: More Than Just Sweaty Palms with Sarah Marshall Today's guest is Sarah Marshall Performance anxiety has been described as fear about one's ability to perform a specific task, usually in front of a group for people. Sarah Marshall describes performance anxiety as those random intrusive thoughts that flood ...
10.10.2021 #32. This Moment in Time with Dr Dann Mitton Today's guest is Dr Dann Mitton. Dann is a classical bass singer, voice teacher and voice researcher and for many of us, we know Dann as founder and one of the moderators for the Facebook group, The New Forum for ...
10.03.2021 #31. The 5 Key Steps to Developing a CEO Mindset Are you the CEO of your life? The chief executive officer (CEO) is the top position in any organisation and they are ultimately responsible for its success or failure. This needs to be you in your life. Most people want ...
09.26.2021 #30. Mythbusting COVID-19 with Dr Nidhi Krishnan Today's guest is Dr Nidhi Krishnan. Over the past many, many months, we have been inundated with news, views, perceptions, misconceptions and conspiracy theories around COVID -19. To be honest, I am just as tired of it as most of ...
09.19.2021 #29. Time to Walk Towards Optimum Health with Duncan Rock Today's guest is Duncan Rock. Duncan is a nutritionist who specialises in promoting good health for performing artists, a registered exercise professional, a member of the Royal Society for Public Health and a professional baritone who has been touring internationally ...
09.12.2021 #28. Creating Inclusivity and Belonging for all Voices to be Heard At present, not only are we in the midst of a global pandemic, but we are also in the midst of a mental health crisis and a social revolution that is affecting everyone globally, including those in our singing voice ...
09.05.2021 #27. Embracing Self Care: A Meaningful Perspective At present, not only are we in the midst of a global pandemic, but we are also in the midst of a mental health crisis that is affecting people of all ages, including children from all around the world. The ...
08.29.2021 #26. Mental Fatigue: How to Cure the New Epidemic Right now our society is experiencing an epidemic of mental fatigue because there are so many people who are worrying about their families, their jobs, their livelihoods while having to take care of their children and some are having to ...
08.22.2021 #25. Creating a Safe Space of Connectivity and Caring in the Voice Studio with Julie-Anne Whitfield Today's guest is Julie-Anne Whitfield. Every day in Australia, nine people end their lives by suicide and this is more than double the national road toll. For every one person who dies, there are 39 attempted suicides. What is even ...
08.15.2021 #24. Practical Approaches to Train & Support Transgender Singers with Nadine Manion Today’s guest is Nadine Manion. Nadine is an established and highly sought after singing teacher, vocal coach, presenter and researcher. In 2020, Nadine was awarded the Dr. Iain C. Medgitt Churchill Fellowship to investigate vocal technique and care of the ...
08.08.2021 #23. Breathing: The Power to Survive and Thrive with Emma Ferris Today’s guest is Emma Ferris. Emma is from the Breath Effect & is a trained physiotherapist, acupuncturist, and Pilates, trauma and breathing coach who has made it her life’s mission to help others learn to thrive and reach their full ...
08.01.2021 #22. Procrastination: It's a Waste of Time How often do you begin an important task and you suddenly find yourself standing in front of the coffee machine five minutes later? Are you feeling as though you're are going nowhere fast because you simply can’t get started on ...
07.25.2021 #21. It's Menopause, Not Vocal Death (Part II) with Nancy Bos This is part II of my interview with the inspirational Nancy Bos. Nancy is an international speaker and clinician on singing and speech, as well as the acclaimed author of a number of best-selling books, including The Teen Girl’s Singing ...
07.18.2021 #20. You Have a Right to Use Your Voice (Part I) with Nancy Bos Today's guest is Nancy Bos. Nancy is an acclaimed author, international speaker, and owner of StudioBos Media, who has taught voice for over twenty years. As a globally recognized voice expert, Nancy truly believes that everyone has a right to ...
07.11.2021 #19. Five Ways to Step up your Courage Over the past twelve months, all of us have had our lives thrown into chaos and every day brings with it the unknown. Now more than ever, on any given day, we all have a moment where we struggle with ...
07.04.2021 #18. Your Authentic Voice & Unique Brand (Part II) with Dr Wendy LeBorgne Today's guest is Dr Wendy LeBorgne. Today we welcome back Dr Wendy in part II of her amazing interview, in which she shares with us her nerve racking Ted Talk experience, when she spoke on the topic of "Vocal Branding ...
06.27.2021 #17. Training Vocal Athletes for Durability, Strength and Survival (Part I) with Dr Wendy LeBorgne Today’s guest is Dr. Wendy LeBorgne. Wendy is a highly sought-after voice pathologist, speaker, author, and vocal-athlete coach who works with a diversity of elite professional performers from Grammy award winning singers embarking on national tours, to those on the ...
06.20.2021 #16. How To Quit Self-Inflicted Overwhelm Do you go through each day constantly feeling overwhelmed and you don’t know why? Overwhelm in your life can be caused by external factors, such as traumatic life experiences that you cannot predict or prevent. However, your overwhelm may be ...
06.13.2021 #15. Voice Training for Sustainability with Chris Johnson Today's guest is Chris Johnson. Chris shares his journey as he transitioned from a successful performance career to becoming a leading vocal coach working with numerous major recording artists as well as leading Westend performers. As a singer who experienced ...
06.06.2021 #14. Exercise - The Benefits of Staying Physically Active Motion is lotion and the message in this episode is that overall health, fitness, strength and posture are important to longevity and quality of life. Functional limitations will occur when you are not at optimal fitness and health, and your ...

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