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Add reflexive journalling to your voice practice (freebie inside!) exercise motivation nonbinary voice voice feminization voice masculinization Dec 15, 2022

This will probably not come as much of a surprise to you because I'm a very introspective person, but I love reflexive journaling in both my life and my voice practice. It's something that I encourage my students to do all the time. If you've never tried reflexive journaling, all you have to do...

Q: Can you masculinize your voice without testosterone? exercise resonance testosterone voice masculinization Dec 12, 2022

A question I get asked often is, “Can I masculinize my voice without taking testosterone?” And the short answer is yes, that is my job. I literally teach people to do exactly that.

However, if you're planning on taking testosterone someday, it doesn't hurt to learn some...

Habits and Environment Design motivation nonbinary voice voice feminization voice masculinization Dec 07, 2022

One of the most powerful tools for creating a strong habit in your life is called Environment Design. This refers to designing your space to either include triggers that cue positive habits or remove triggers that cue bad habits. This can get fun when you start connecting light, music, times of...

Dynamic range and the gender perception of the voice exercise nonbinary voice sentence contour voice feminization voice masculinization Dec 05, 2022

Hello, trans voice friends! Today, I want to talk about the concept of dynamic range.

Dynamic range is a little hard to describe, but it's related to the characteristic of inflection. It depends on how much pitch variability there is when we inflect during speech. This can be a gendered...

TVE Excerpt: the 2-minute warm up exercise nonbinary voice trans vocal exploration ecourse voice feminization voice masculinization Nov 28, 2022

Hello pals!!

There are two more days to take advantage of my Black Friday super sale and get my courses at a whopping 50% off. Many people have taken advantage of this sale so far (hello, if you're new around here!!) but I wanted to make sure that nobody missed this opportunity.

Today, I thought...

Pitch vs. Resonance: What's the difference? nonbinary pitch resonance trans vocal exploration ecourse voice feminization voice masculinization Nov 25, 2022

If you're working on modifying your voice to better align with your gender presentation, something you've probably come across is the concept of pitch and resonance. And I know these two concepts can be kind of hard to disentangle, so I thought I would give you some examples today. You can...