How often have you heard singers and public speakers complain about the weather or about a cold or being sick? Do you do this? It’s time to find the mental and physical tools to help you face weather and sickness with boldness and power. Face the weather and your sickness and face the music like a powerfu, resilient performer

How to project the voice naturally is the main topic of this podcast. Everyone’s your projector voice at all times. It doesn’t have to be loud doesn’t have to be forced in fact if you’re doing it correctly it is not forest it is not loud. This is a simple short lesson and one that’s very important to singing and speaking. This particular lesson is of a special benefit to use public speakers

Your voice is your voice. But you can also add texture to your voice what some call colour. Today, let’s talk about this important subject and how we differentiate between our specific type of vocal tone that we have naturally from the tone that we put on for different purposes and singing.

I have an analogy that I use with almost all of my students.. Is the analogy of all of the good and beautiful things about your voice being flowers and all the things that you don’t want being weeds. It’s a simple approach but it is absolutely fundamental to developing a great voice that sounds like you, only richer and more powerful. And this special episode I reveal a secret to my vocal teaching. But I feel that at this time in the world when we need our beautiful voices, it’s time to let the secret out. This is a subtle but powerful technique. If you use it well all the bad notes and difficult sections of your voice will go away and will no longer bother you even during the process of fixing them.

Continuing with our day one idea from the last podcast, today it’s time to center ourselves to our goal. If you have the dream it is proof that you are supposed to pursue it. Other people don’t have those dreams. In this podcast we will discuss how to move from being someone who fantasizes to someone who pursues their dreams.

The singers out there are the want to be singers who say someday I will be a singer, today is not that one day but today is day one. I will give credit where credit is due to this concept what would you need to know is how to start your day one as a singer. We are all singers as human beings. We are born that way. If you are an experienced singer let today be a new day one for you. Let’s go over a way to restart your vocal development and your journey with your own voice and your own success in the world. Let’s find a day one today and by applying it to singing we will get benefit after benefit for our lives

To continue yesterday‘s podcast, and this podcast I will talk about the ways that we can establish daily discipline without it feeling like discipline. As performers we love variety and thought of a regiment of discipline program doesn’t sound very good to most of us. So I will show you ways to create discipline that feeds your natural tendency towards variety and fun and spontaneity. At the same time you will truly be disciplined but it will not be in the sense that most people think. This is an important one so I hope you enjoy it

When singing in public speaking and acting you need a little bit of the dumb jock’s released and relaxed approach and a little bit of a Shaolin monk’s highly disciplined and focused approach. This applies to showing up to practice every day and it also applies to how you practice. In this episode we will talk about that and I will also give you a fun bonus on how to achieve the discipline of practicing every day. It’s not what do you think.

Why are good singers often the most self conscious? In this interview we will discuss how this happens and touch on what we can do to attempt to fix it. We will talk about the big question of why we would ever be self conscious about something that is perfectly natural

Articulation can be a powerful thing for speakers and singers to develop. Bad articulation make speakers sound annoying or less engaging. It makes singers go off pitch. It makes singing and speaking difficult. In this podcast I will go over the fundamentals of articulation that will make your speaking voice pleasant and help your singing voice become more resonant and centered on pitch.