Yap Sesh with VoiceProEd

This week we’re diving into developing clinical instinct. What is it? How do you build it? And how have we grown ours over the years? Maurice and Anna break down the process of trusting your ear, your gut, and your experience in the clinic.

We’ll also share details about our upcoming course, Building Balance: Addressing Vocal Fold Lesions in Singers, happening September 20th (available for ASHA CEUs, with student, TGNC, and financial hardship discounts).

Resources & Links
Explore VoiceProEd: www.voiceproed.com
Check out our available courses: www.voiceproed.com/courses
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Season 2 of Yap Sesh is here! 🎉 Anna and Maurice are back after the summer, ready to yap about what we’ve been up to, what’s ahead this fall, and what’s happening at VoiceProEd. We’re sharing summer highlights, fall goals (including our upcoming course schedule), and announcing our next live VoiceProEd course, Building Balance, happening September 20th.!

Tune in for the usual mix of voice talk, behind-the-scenes updates, and a little yapping about what’s next!

Resources & Links
Explore VoiceProEd: www.voiceproed.com
Check out our available courses: www.voiceproed.com/courses
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Our final Yap Short of the season is a Research Roundup. In this yap short, Maurice highlight’s his favorite research reviews that we wrote about over the last 12 months. These research reviews are available on the VoiceProEd blog and sent to newsletter subscribers on a monthly basis!

Resources & Links
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Check out our available courses: www.voiceproed.com/courses
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It's the last Yap Sesh of this season! Co-hosts and Professional Yappers Anna and Maurice discuss how they became teachers who teach teachers, which is why VoiceProEd exists today.

Maurice is also launching his private practice! Find Goodwin Voice and Speech, PLLC on the web at http://mauricegoodwin.com

Resources & Links
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Co-host Anna Diemer shares more about their experience at the NATS Intern Program this past May. Want to be a future collaborative piano or voice intern? Slide into our DMs and ask us any questions you might have!

More about the program: https://www.nats.org/nats-intern-program.html

Thanks to the University of Louisville Voice department for hosting us! https://louisville.edu/music

Resources & Links
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Co-host Anna just got back from the 2025 NATS Intern Program, and they're having one of their cohort on the pod as this week's Featured Yapper! Welcome to Meredith Eib, musical theater voice teacher at Catholic & Temple Universities.

Find Meredith on the web: http://mereditheib.com

Meredith on Insta: https://www.instagram.com/mgraceeib/

More on the NATS Intern Program: https://www.nats.org/nats-intern-program.html

From Tool Time, Bel Canto Boot Camp: https://belcantobootcamp.com/

Find Meredith's mentor teacher, Noel Smith, here: https://noelvoicestudio.com/

Resources & Links
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In this Yap Short, we kick off our Targeting the Tongue series with three simple tools to help your clients increase their awareness of what the tongue is doing during voicing and how to target inconsistencies. Maurice shares practical ways to use tongue-out humming, /ng/ glides, and /th/ fricatives  in both speech and singing. 

Resources & Links
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Congratulations to all of the voice clinicians graduating this May! In this episode of Yap Sesh, Anna and Maurice remember their own graduations and chat about their upcoming summer plans. Anna is attending the NATS Intern Program as we speak, and Maurice is gearing up to transition out of his full-time role at the hospital and into private practice.

A special shout out to Bel Canto Boot Camp, featured in this week's Tool Time!

Resources & Links
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A Yap Short is all about encouraging voice clinicians to experience their own voice and reflect on that experience in a way that creates improved voice awareness. In this (short) episode, host Maurice Goodwin explores fricative sounds and their benefit within the session with voice clients. Come explore these sounds in your own voice and then let us know their impact in your voice sessions!

Resources & Links
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In this episode of Yap Sesh, Hosts Anna and Maurice reflect on boundaries, burnout, and the tools that help them stay grounded—both as clinicians and humans. Together they explore how communication, self-awareness, and a little humor keep their work (and wellness) on track. 

The also recap recent VoiceProEd course Voice Notes; available now asynchronously on the VocieProEd website. 

Resources & Links
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Check out our available courses: www.voiceproed.com/courses
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