Voice Is

Julie and Casey chat with activist and community builder Naomi Hattaway about how to reach across political and conversational divides, housing as a human right, and how to cultivate hope. Along the way, they discuss choosing your battles, "leaky boundaries", and Wednesdays as a metaphor and a reset. (You'll never look at hump day the same way again.)     TOP TAKEAWAYS: Talking to someone you migh...

Julie and Casey chat with Elsa Isaac, stylist extraordinaire for entrepreneurial women, about what we wear and why it matters. Along the way, they dive into what is "appropriate", changing bodies and finding ways to make your authenticity more visible.      TOP TAKEAWAYS: No one can give you style or do you better than you do, but a stylist can observe, notice, and collate patterns and help you pu...

Julie and Casey sit down with Kim Perkins, former journalist and pro speed-skater turned coach and positive organizational psychologist, to discuss how we know what we know about human behavior. Along the way they dive into authenticity at work (and why it may not actually be a good goal), studying competitiveness when no one wants to admit that they really want to win, and how to ask better quest...

  Casey Erin Clark and Julie Fogh, founders of Vital Voice Training and co-hosts of the VOICE(is) podcast, host a panel discussion on executive presence. In it, they explore the nebulous definition of executive presence and how our idea of what leaders should look and sound like has marginalized so many. Along the way, expect corporate horror stories, tales of triumph, and big laughs . . . along w...

Julie and Casey chat with multidimensional visual and sound artist and hiphop ambassador D. Cross about exploring sound without filters, finding your path as an artist and educator, breaking down walls between disciplines. Be prepared for some poetry, multigenerational beatboxing, and hearing all about his innovative ad campaign and top secret recipe for "Universal Cola".   TOP TAKEAWAYS "Voices /...

Julie and Casey sit down with legendary San Francisco dancer and drag performer, Monique Jenkinson, aka FAUXNIQUE to talk about performing femininity, both through drag and not, finding authenticity through practices of artifice, and the journey of a Good Dance Student to nightclub performer, and get some San Francisco Dragucation.  *Note- we use the "c***" word a LOT in this episode, so take care...

Julie and Casey sit down to talk with Pleasure Strategist Lidia Bonilla about the value, politics, and fear around women's pleasure, what it takes to go from survive to thrive, and life lessons from caring for an ill parent. TOP TAKEAWAYS Reclaim your pleasure by following your curiousity Pleasure is your god given right Pleasure is unproductive by capitalist standards- yet it's essential to our w...

Julie and Casey sit down with speaker/top LinkedIn voice/author of The Memo Minda Harts to talk about how she cares for herself as a speaker (and how she became even more visible during lockdown), claiming your voice and your identity, and how all of us can strive to leave the workplace better than we found it. Along the way, we discover our mutual love for the Golden Girls.   TOP TAKEAWAYS Someti...

Julie and Casey sit down with theatrical casting director (and Tiktok rock star) Kate Lumpkin, to talk about the stories we tell and why we tell them, changing the jargon that creates unhealthy power structures, how authenticity happens in front of an audience, and burning our old ideas of "type" to the ground . . . both inside and outside of the theater world. Prepare for the dropping of many, ma...

Julie and Casey sit down with leadership coach Iggy Perillo to talk about how outward bound survival trips are an excellent learning ground for leaders, strategies for difficult people and conversations, and what it's like to leadership coach a grieving roller derby team. TOP TAKEAWAYS: The outdoors has a lot to teach leaders including living your values, delegation, team work, and allowing everyo...

Julie and Casey sit down with Dani Medrano, a San Francisco based writer, community builder and sober lady to talk about all drinking, and the joy of a sober life. The pandemic has increased our collective alcohol intake pretty significantly, so if you are questioning your relationship with alcohol (whatever stage) this discussion is for you.  TOP TAKEAWAYS Women are drinking more during the pande...

Julie and Casey chat with Liz Hara (prolific TV writer, expert puppeteer and costume designer, citizen of Sesame Street, candy expert, all-around-cool-chick) about running toward failure, the pure magic and community-building power of puppets, what it's like to be the only POC in a writer's room (and how that world is changing for the better), and why puppets and emus don't mix.   TOP TAKEAWAYS: L...

Julie and Casey sit down with Brittany Gooden (founder of the Good End)  to talk about changing the way we think about business, why we can't make change using the same tools that can hurt us, questioning tradition with truth, the surprising healing journey of entrepreneurship, and measuring success by lives changed, not dollars earned. TOP TAKEAWAYS Effective leadership requires you to slow down,...

Julie and Casey chat with community leader and NYC City Council District 27 candidate Nantasha Williams about her journey into public service, her experience helping to organize the women's march, looking young in an arena that doesn't exactly prize youth, intergenerational translation and mediation, creating coalitions, and what it takes to engage everyone in the political processes that affect t...

Julie and Casey sit down with Nitika Chopra (founder of Chronicon) to talk about building a platform and community to celebrate and elevate the lives of chronically ill folks. Along the way, they talk about the medicine of feeling all your feelings (including grief), why "you can fix your problems via your THOUGHTS!" can be abusive, hearing the voice of the divine (whatever that looks like for you...

Julie and Casey sit down with Six Degrees Society founder Emily Merrell to talk about building communities, the best way to network, and how to host an event to foster connection. Along the way we get the epic stories behind how she met her husband in New Orleans doing everything wrong, and what happens when your dream wedding gets evacuated 30 minutes before the ceremony.   TOP TAKEAWAYS Show up...

Julie and Casey sit down with Stephanie Dalfonzo, AKA "Stevie Knox" (80's-era celebrity radio DJ) and one of the very first automated voices, to talk about her amazing career trajectory and her work now as a hypnotist, coach, author, and expert in combatting anxiety.   TOP TAKEAWAYS Following your dreams: pre- The Secret /manifesting culture, Stephanie grew up KNOWING she was going to be a radio D...

Julie and Casey sit down with Kellie Wagner (founder of DEI consultancy and research lab Collective ) to talk about the future of diversity, equity, and inclusion, creating "brave" spaces for growth, navigating the fuzzy line between discomfort and pain, and what we have to gain when we prioritize healthy, authentic, inclusive workplaces. TOP TAKEAWAYS Kellie's founder story begins as many do—with...

Casey and Julie sit down with Eva Jannotta, founder of Simply Put Strategies, to talk all things thought leadership, influence, social media, legacy, and the real secret to successful marketing. TOP TAKEAWAYS: Your thought leadership is your legacy Decide what you are creating FIRST before you start to figure out how to market it. Figure out your likes and dislikes!  Thought leadership doesn't exi...

Julie and Casey sit down with speaker, author, top LinkedIn Learning instructor, and expert in how organizations can support women at work Selena Rezvani (who they met while working with her on her award-winning TEDx Talk " Interrupting Gender Bias Through Meeting Culture ") to talk about the necessity of bringing the "full color" version of yourself to work, dealing with Imposter Syndrome, and de...

Julie and Casey sit down with Master Chiller Audrey Holst, founder of Fortitude and Flow, to talk all things perfectionism and burnout—and how to find our way through, back to ourselves.   Top Takeaways: Perfectionism is a survival mechanism...but what got you here, won't get you there. Perfectionism isn't just limited to the people who seem "perfect". It's an internal experience of trying to prov...

Julie and Casey sit down with their brilliant business coach, Tosca DiMatteo, to talk about authenticity in business and marketing, her own "leap" moment away from corporate and toward her new mission, and being a truth-seeker. Along the way, they'll discuss why it's so hard to ask for help, and what it really means (and why it's difficult) to "hold space". TOP TAKEAWAYS Can marketing be truth-see...

Casey and Julie sit down with Beatriz Ayala (founder of Musicasa) to talk about her journey from the world of advertising to her creation of Musicasa. Her story takes us all over the world, and reminds us that connecting to pleasure, purpose and love help us connect better with each other.  TOP TAKEAWAYS The balance between doing and pleasure is not neat or easily defined. Sometimes it's the highe...

Julie and Casey sit down with Sam and Pauli, (our co-founder dopplegangers!) from Crew Events (crew-events.com).   Gatherings are on our minds. Sam and Pauli take us on a journey of what makes an event memorable: how to engage emotions, senses, and other unexpected mediums to make your events a gathering to remember.   We also get to share the very special relationship and magic of a co-founder sm...

Julie and Casey chat with expert Manual Laryngeal Therapist Christine Schneider (who works with professional "vocal athletes" and saved Casey from the migraines caused by her Very Weird Jaw) about our weird and wonderful bodies and how interconnected everything within actually is. Along the way, we dive into emotional storage, what keeps us from accessing our full voices, nervous system safety, ef...