Renée's Blog

You're working on masculinizing your voice—lowering your pitch, darkening your resonance, maybe flattening your expression a bit—when suddenly you realize something troubling: to keep this up, you have to avoid being expressive entirely. But that doesn't feel right because you're...

Have you been told a million times that "resonance is THE thing you need to master to change your voice," but when you try to practice it, you honestly can't tell if you're changing your resonance or just changing your pitch? If your brain feels like it's short-circuiting every t...

When I look back at 2025, I see a year that exceeded every expectation I had for my gender-affirming voice teaching practice. This was the year I finally made the leap to YouTube long-form content, expanded my public speaking work, increased my community giving, and experienced pr...

I'm turning 38 on December 28th, and after nearly two decades of running my own business, learning Spanish in my thirties, and maintaining a seven-year plan to run a marathon while managing chronic pain, I've learned a thing or two about setting and actually achieving goals. Whet...

Voice dysphoria sucks. But it turns out that science agrees with us and it's not just a bad feeling. Voice dysphoria can have a measurable, quantifiable impact on your quality of life and ability to use your voice, particularly in work settings. As a gender-affirming voice teach...

When Shaynah joined last year's cohort of my teacher training course, Learn to Teach Trans Voice Alteration in Five Weeks, they brought something special to our community. As an autistic Black musician working across Dutch and English contexts, Shaynah opened up conversations abou...

I'm thrilled to announce that I'll be speaking at PlumeCon'25, a free virtual conference created by and for the transgender and gender-expansive community. If you've been looking for accessible trans voice training resources or want to connect with other trans and nonbinary folks...

When nonbinary folks ask me how to make their voice sound neutral without being categorized as female or male, I know exactly what they're searching for, but I also know the answer is more complicated than they might expect. As a gender-affirming voice teacher who specializes in ...

For five days only, you can transform your voice journey at the biggest discount of the year. From Thursday, November 27th through Monday, December 1st, 2025, every trans voice training course on my site is 40% off with code BLACKFRIDAY2025. This includes Mindful Voice Feminizat...

If you've spent any time researching trans voice training, you've probably encountered the terms "chest voice" and "head voice" more times than you can count. But what do they actually mean? And more importantly, why do they matter for your voice feminization or masculinization j...