Voice Is

In this solo episode, Casey nerds out on (and sings!) one of her favorite musical theater traditions: the "I Want" song, and explores what we as (mostly) non-singing communicators can learn from it.

(Try looking for your I Want song on this list!)

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Julie and Casey dive into their new obsession: creativity, and why it's the key ingredient for powerful communication. Along the way, they dig into why creativity feels so hard, getting out of the communication "grooves" of long-term relationships, and how to build a creative practice, even if all you're doing is your dishes.

Thank you to our Season 4 sponsor, Armoire! If you're ready to try a new look, Armoire's high-end clothing rental service (full of amazing women-owned brands) will hook you up! For 50% off your first month's rental + a free item, go to http://armoire.style/voiceis and use VOICEIS in the referral box!

In this solo episode, Julie digs into how we perceive ourselves, how others perceive us, and how to balance that with our core values and integrity.

Thank you to our Season 4 sponsor, Armoire! If you're ready to try a new look, Armoire's high-end clothing rental service (full of amazing women-owned brands) will hook you up! For 50% off your first month's rental + a free item, go to http://armoire.style/voiceis and use VOICEIS in the referral box!

Julie and Casey dig into audience archetypes (like the dreaded "Devil's Advocate"), the 5 types of questions we all deal with as presenters, and why audience interaction is a gift.

Check out the blog post about how to handle the 5 types of audience questions here, and download your "Meeting Prep" workbook here.

Thank you to our Season 4 sponsor, Armoire! If you're ready to try a new look, Armoire's high-end clothing rental service (full of amazing women-owned brands) will hook you up! For 50% off your first month's rental + a free item, go to http://armoire.style/voiceis and use VOICEIS in the referral box!

Julie and Casey take you on a voice memo diary of their experience presenting for two days at the Kayo Conferences' Annual Leadership Retreat. Get an inside look at how they prep, dealing with nerves, and self-care in the form of frozen dairy.

Thank you to our Season 4 sponsor, Armoire! If you're ready to try a new look, Armoire's high-end clothing rental service (full of amazing women-owned brands) will hook you up! For 50% off your first month's rental + a free item, go to http://armoire.style/voiceis and use VOICEIS in the referral box!

Julie and Casey sit down with Anjali Bhargava, founder of Anjali's Cup, to talk about her journey as an entrepreneur. Along the way they discuss the power of names, the joys and perils of being your own boss, and what it takes to bring your work to the world without losing yourself and what matters.

Use the code "voiceis" for 15% off of Anjali's beautiful spice and tea products here.

Thank you to our Season 4 sponsor, Armoire! If you're ready to try a new look, Armoire's high-end clothing rental service (full of amazing women-owned brands) will hook you up! For 50% off your first month's rental + a free item, go to http://armoire.style/voiceis and use VOICEIS in the referral box!

TOP TAKEAWAYS

• Entrepreneurship means you get to be your own boss. It also means you have to be your own boss.
• One of the biggest challenges of entrepreneurship is figuring out how you work best: where your time is best spent, whether you work better alone or in a team. Learning to work with instead of against that is crucial. (And get a coach.)
• The secret to sustainable entrepreneurship? Sleep. Sleep and down time. You NEED that space and regeneration to keep going. Self - Care is sometimes massage and splurges, but the cornerstone is sleep, nutrition, and movement.
• Entrepreneurship is about choosing how you make money, but it's also the ability to choose how you want to make impact. Those two things may not be the same thing.
• When people keep saying your name wrong or avoiding saying your name — use it to name your product. :)
• LESSON: How (and why) to suck.

Julie and Casey sit down with happiness expert Stephanie Harrison to talk the science, the soft, and the squishy of how we think about happiness . . . including where we get it wrong, and what to do about that.

Thank you to our Season 4 sponsor, Armoire! If you're ready to try a new look, Armoire's high-end clothing rental service (full of amazing women-owned brands) will hook you up! For 50% off your first month's rental + a free item, go to http://armoire.style/voiceis and use VOICEIS in the referral box!

TOP TAKEAWAYS

• We've been sold a bill of goods that if you're good enough and successful enough, you'll be happy; however, trying to achieve ourselves out of being human actually hinders our happiness.
• Discomfort and challenges are NOT proof that you're not worthy of happiness — they are part of the human experience. YOU ARE GOOD ENOUGH FOR YOUR OWN HAPPINESS.
• The old model of "achievement leads to happiness" actually leads to burnout. Burnout is not your fault. It is a collective problem that ultimately needs a collective solution

In this solo mini-episode, Casey gets out of a post New Year mini-spiral with a little help from Magic Mike, and explores the tool of curiosity for getting out of our own way in communication and in life.

In this solo minisode, Julie dives in to explore the question "Does accomplishing hard work mean SHOWING how hard you work?", and how backing off of ourselves leads to better solutions for our biggest challenges.

Julie and Casey interview each other about the best and worst of the year that was, a different way into goals for 2023, and what they're excited about for the future. Along the way they get into assembling your personal team, learning how to be a better friend, and lots of ways of looking at the concept of "care".

Watch this interview on video here!

Thank you to our Season 4 sponsor, Armoire! If you're ready to try a new look, Armoire's high-end clothing rental service (full of amazing women-owned brands) will hook you up! For 50% off your first month's rental + a free item, go to http://armoire.style/voiceis and use VOICEIS in the referral box!

TOP TAKEAWAYS:

• What could change if you asked yourself this question: "What would make this (mood/task/day/moment/action) feel 5% better?" Small goals for the win!
• One of the most fundamental things we've leaned into and accepted this year is the need for a team — for community care, instead of just self-care.
• Emotions are necessary for communication — they are the crucial information that takes our experience of the world from a line drawing to full Technicolor. And we won't be debating that emotions are crucial and not something to be "eliminated" at work anymore.

Casey Erin Clark is a voice, public speaking, and communication coach, performer, author, entrepreneur, podcast host, and leader in both the entertainment and business worlds. She is a fierce advocate for gender justice and spends her days speaking, teaching, and writing about the power of women's voices, while seizing fulfilling opportunities to perform on screen and stage. In 2014, Casey and Julie Fogh co-founded Vital Voice Training, a voice and speech coaching company on a mission to change the conversation about what leaders are "supposed" to sound like and empower everyone to own the power of their full vocal instrument and presence. Casey hails from the cornfields of southern Illinois (where she grew up singing with her family Von Trapp-style) and has a BFA in musical theater from Illinois Wesleyan University. She also coaches musical theater pros of all ages, is a member of SAG-AFTRA and AEA, performed at the 2013 Oscars with the Les Miserables movie cast, and sings with the Grammy-nominated and Tony-honored Broadway Inspirational Voices choir. Recommending books and breakfast restaurants is her love language. Will perform the Lafayette speed rap from Hamilton on demand.

Julie Fogh is a voice coach and interpersonal communications specialist who works with actors and business leaders helping them navigate their individual tensions and blocks, revealing the personal power and unique and captivating humanity that exists in all of us. Through Vital Voice Training, Julie and her co-founder Casey Erin Clark blend the toolbox of the professional actor with their powerful frameworks for embracing one's authentic speaking voice to businesses, schools, and organizations all over the country. Julie was raised in Seattle and earned her BA in Theatre and Women Studies from University of Washington. She earned an MFA in acting from Northern Illinois University, a rigorous interdisciplinary curriculum that engaged with the physical body, the emotional life, imagination, use of language, character construction, non-verbal communication and the truth of the moment. She has studied with the Moscow Art Theatre and University of Copenhagen and has studied Meisner Technique with Kathryn Gately, Michael Chekhov Technique with Deborah Robertson, and Movement and Period Style with Lloyd Williamson. She loves YA novels and her cranky rescue cat, Ashland.