The Healthy Voice Notes Podcast

Episode Description: We talk about cardiovascular health constantly. Everyone knows you’re supposed to do cardio. Everyone knows you should be doing some form of resistance training. We have a collective understanding of what it takes to keep the heart, the lungs, and the muscles healthy. Nobody talks about the nervous system that way. And we are living through a period — a genuinely revolutionary...

Episode Description: I watched the film Gaslight for the first time last night. And it was hard — not just as a movie, but as a mirror. I didn’t learn the term gaslighting until about five years ago. Before that, I just called it what it was: lying and manipulation. Once I saw the film, the term made more sense — but I still prefer the word perspecticide: the murder of someone’s perspective. That’...

Watch the video that inspired this podcast HERE . Episode Description: I was ready to admit I had social anxiety at twenty-eight. Not because it started then — it had been there a long time. But I had a performance background, and I had learned how to channel the character of someone who was completely comfortable at parties. I was a good actor. So good that when I ever tried to hint that somethin...

This one has been sitting with me for a while. After seven months of coaching — six clients a week, hundreds of community interactions, thousands of YouTube comments — I started noticing a pattern. A lot of the people coming to me had not just one of these experiences. They had all three. A narcissistic family system. An abusive relationship. And at some point — a cult, or something very close to...

Episode Description: I recorded this one directly in Substack — first time trying it, bear with me — and it turned into something I didn’t plan on. It started as a quick update. Two launches this week. A week where I had to cancel sessions and take care of myself. The first time since starting my channel that I didn’t post a YouTube video. And then it turned into a twenty-minute rabbit hole on the...

I recorded this one on a busy Friday in the middle of a family week — a college graduation, not enough hours, too many thoughts to let go. This week I put out a video on shame and the hips. The psoas muscle. The root and sacral chakras. And it went somewhere I didn’t expect — 54,000 views in 24 hours. Which told me something important: this is a topic people are starving to talk about and have nev...

Some of you already know this. You’ve known it for a long time. Words carry vibrations. The emotional history behind a word changes how it lands in the body — yours and everyone else’s. And the words we use every day, without thinking, without questioning, are doing something to us whether we’re paying attention or not. This episode started as a reflection on Magic Spells Week in the community — a...

This one started with a week called Romancing the Voice inside the Healthy Voice Community — and it turned into something much bigger. Daily practice is hard for most people. But it’s especially hard when you’ve been through something that made you stop trusting your own voice. Because what you’re being asked to do is show up alone, in a quiet room, with no distractions — just you and the sound yo...

This one started as a content update and turned into something more personal. April’s theme in the Healthy Voice Community is My Body, My Voice — and I wanted to give you a behind-the-scenes look at what’s actually been happening since we started. Because something unexpected has been unfolding. In sessions. In my own body. In the middle of the night at 3am with a burning headache and no Advil in...

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I recorded this one on a walk through my neighborhood — city sounds, one busy street crossing, and a story I’ve been telling voice clients for years that I’ve never shared publicly until now. It starts in 2003. I had just quit my job at the women’s shelter and I was terrified. The only skill I had left was music. So I started teaching — guitar, voice, whatever I could — and one of my very first st...

I recorded this one outside. End of the day, city sounds in the background, a thought I couldn’t shake. Something has been showing up in my practice lately — in client sessions, in the community, in messages from Voice Liberation Method students. A pattern so consistent I had to stop and name it. The people who come to me have already done the work. Meditation. Yoga. Breathwork. Talk therapy. Heal...

I recorded this one in my car, 15 minutes before yoga. I had to get the thoughts out to you, so no apologies. In this episode, I’m pulling back the curtain on something I’ve been building out for my community — and it led me somewhere I’ve been wanting to take you for a while: the real reason affirmations work, why most people do them wrong, and what belief actually is at the level of the nervous...

What would you sound like if nobody had ever silenced you? That question took on a whole new meaning for me this week. It started at our fourth Courage Circle — watching members of my community share their voices through fear, through shaking hands and racing hearts, through moments where they had to stop, breathe, and start again. It was one of the most inspiring things I’ve witnessed as a teache...

That’s the question at the center of this episode — and it’s not a small one. This week’s content has a thread running through all of it: how culture, systems, and public humiliation condition your voice. Not just your singing voice. Your actual voice. The one that notices things. Asks questions. Goes off script. Public shaming isn’t random. It’s a control mechanism. It’s what happens when you say...

Do you end your sentences like a question even when you’re making a statement? That upward inflection — speaking in question marks — is one of the most common voice patterns I hear, and it’s sending a signal you probably don’t intend: uncertainty, self-doubt, and an open invitation for dominant personalities to move right in. In this episode I go further than the YouTube video that inspired it. We...

Episode Summary This one was spontaneous — I wasn’t planning to record today, but something came up that I couldn’t stop thinking about, and I knew I had to talk about it. I’ve been sitting with this tension for years: the difference between people who have experienced real trauma and are doing the work to heal, and people who have learned to weaponize the language of trauma to avoid accountabilit...

In this episode I’m doing something I’ve wanted to do for a while: breaking down the chakra system in plain language for people who were raised with a Western mind. Because the truth is — the chakras aren’t that hard to understand. They just need to be explained the right way. And that means meeting you where you are, not where someone who’s been deep in Eastern philosophy for twenty years is. I a...

In this voice note, I get personal about something I’ve been noticing across my community — in the comments, in my private coaching sessions, and in my own life: the impact of narcissistic abuse on the voice. I talk about what experts call a “shared fantasy” — when you’re living inside a narrative created by someone else, and you’ve subtly agreed to never challenge it. I share my own experience of...

Have you ever avoided your instrument? Stopped singing? Felt triggered the moment you tried to create? You’re not broken. You might just be in musical jail. In this episode I get personal about something I’ve never fully said out loud before — the years I couldn’t pick up my guitar because it took me straight back to a before time I wasn’t ready to face. Heartbreak. Criticism. Shame that wasn’t ev...

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THE HEALTHY VOICE NOTES — Valentine’s Day Episode Love for Humanity, Love for the Self Happy Valentine’s Day. In this episode, I’m talking about why we do this work — why we heal, why we dig into the uncomfortable stuff, why we fight to free our voices. And every time I ask myself that question, the answer comes back to love. Love for the self. And love for humanity. I also share about being filme...

The number one mistake singers make is comparing their voice to someone else’s. It’s the fastest track to failure — and I did it for years. In this episode, I share the story of how I started singing in the first place. How my family lost everything when I was 10, how three girls harmonizing in my apartment complex changed my life, and how I spent years trying to sound like Celine Dion, Whitney Ho...

It’s official — the Voice Liberation Method course is here. In this voice note, I’m sharing the behind-the-scenes story of what it took to get here, what’s inside the course, and the deeply personal journey that made it possible. What I cover: * What launch day feels like after a month-long pre-launch adventure * The first review (before anyone’s even started the course) * Why I hid behind piano t...

The Healthy Voice Notes Podcast — Show Notes Episode: Voice Liberation Method Update + The Power of Resonance In this voice note, I check in with you on a Thursday to share some exciting news: I’m about to record the very last video of the Voice Liberation Method course. It’s been weeks of intense work and I’m really proud of what’s inside. What’s in the Voice Liberation Method : Each of the 7 wee...