Perform: Birthday Gifts
My daughter turns 10 today so in her honor, this post is dedicated to just a few of the voicing lessons she has taught me. I hope you find them useful as well. Tank up when you need to make…
My daughter turns 10 today so in her honor, this post is dedicated to just a few of the voicing lessons she has taught me. I hope you find them useful as well. Tank up when you need to make…
One of the easiest ways to develop clarity is to know your goal. Whether we are in a one-to-one conversation, in a meeting, or presenting to a larger group there is a purpose. Dynamic speech requires that you become clear…
The first time I encountered Robert's Rules of Order, I thought them completely ridiculous. What possible purpose could they fulfill? Well, now several decades later and having attended too many meetings, I get it. We have a hard time navigating…
Did you know that people who never sing are the most judgmental of voices in reality singing competitions? We are unlikely to risk using our voices in space when we tend to judge other voices harshly. So let's dig into…
Voices are everywhere. What's more, often these voices are digital. Today is about the observation of those voices. The voices that reach you passively as you move about the world. Communications directed at you both in person and over devices…
Corraggio is the Italian word for bravery, or nerve. I like the meaning inherent in this word especially given my operatic roots. It is, for me, a more nuanced way of seeing what we do when we engage fully with…
When we are discussing mental processes, as we have this week on the blog, it is easy to sound enigmatic. Thoughts, intentions, and attention can seem like intangibles. For our purposes, it can be helpful to focus on the tangibles.…
We've all been there. We have a thought dissipate just in time to realize that someone is in fact speaking to us. The panic of realizing that they might have been speaking for a while and we had tuned out.…
Clicker training is a method used for training animals (and children) that uses a bridge (the clicker) between a behavior and its reward. The idea is that the bridge can be faster than the reward. At its best, Clicker training…
Ah, brain weasels. We all host them in some form or another. Perhaps your weasels are fairly benign, or perhaps they regularly convince you that you are about to be fired. In either case, the weasels cannot be running the…