Renée's Blog

Happy pride month! It's been a while since you've heard from me because I've been hiding away, diligently recovering from top surgery. I wanted to come back to work with a BANG so I thought that to celebrate pride month, I would have my longest sale ever. I've never had a 30-day sale before! Th...

If you've been following me for a while, or if you've been working on feminizing your voice for a while, then you already know that an important factor is to brighten resonance by making the vocal tract smaller by raising your larynx. If this is all new information for you, I highly recommend goi...

The other day, I held an office hour with students from my Trans Vocal Exploration e-course. One student, Rey, made a wonderful comment and gave me permission to share it with you: "I think the biggest thing that I've been doing so far is trying to notice different people's voices. I think the t...

Some people resist starting a trans voice practice because they're adverse to silliness. It's too silly of a practice and it makes them feel shame or embarrassment. This is something I hear all the time. People start practicing and right away their practice is connected to feelings of self-worth,...

So you've been working on your target voice alone at home and you feel like you're ready to get out into the real world. But as soon as you open your mouth around your friends and family, it's like you forget how to make your target voice. You forget everything you've learned about trans voice al...

Today I want to talk about the difference between identity based goals and target based goals. A target based goal is when you have a target and you want to reach it. So, in the case of your trans voice practice, a target based goal might sound like "I want a more feminine voice." An identity ba...

So you've come out as trans, you've changed your name, you've changed your hair, you've changed your clothes, and now you want to start working on your voice. A question I get asked as a trans voice teacher all the time is "Where do I even start?" I made an entire online course on voice alterati...

In the last year and a half I have run my course Learn to Teach Trans Voice in 5 Weeks three times. In every run of the course I've met outstanding voice teachers from all over the world who speak so many different languages and come from a myriad of experiences and backgrounds. Although the tra...

Today is April 1st and it's launch day for Masculinize Your Voice Without Testosterone, my latest full length course! I've had lots of people email and DM me to tell me how excited they were about this course, and how they haven't seen a resource like this before. I just wanted to take a moment t...

I need to introduce you to someone. This is Oliver, and he is a transmasc racoon. When I was creating Masculinize Your Voice Without Testosterone, I knew that I really wanted to collaborate with a trans artist to create something special for this course. I found Elliott Grinnell, who is an illus...