Yap Sesh with VoiceProEd

If you're listening from the American south/southeast, we hope you and your communities are safe and warm in the winter storm! In preparation for our upcoming course on gender affirming voice basics, Maurice and Anna go deep on what brought them to gender affirming voice work and ways that we can think about voices that transcend gender. Sign up for Unpacking the Binary and join us on Monday,...

What's in and what's out for clinical voice work in 2026? Maurice and Anna give their spiciest takes for the new year and have exciting news about their first course of 2026, happening Monday, February 9 at 8pm EST/5pm PST. Sign up for the course here: https://voiceproed.com/unpackingthebinary Resources & Links Explore VoiceProEd: www.voiceproed.com Check out our available courses: w...

Congratulations to us! VoiceProEd has made it through its second year of existence and we have all made it to the end of a very long, very jam-packed year! Tune in to get the stats on the courses we taught in 2025 and of course our personal listening wrapped. Resources & Links Explore VoiceProEd: www.voiceproed.com Check out our available courses: www.voiceproed.com/courses Theme music by hasp...

Hosts of VoiceProEd Anna and Maurice bring you ASHA as it happened. This real-time recap stitches together four quick recordings from the convention floor; our favorite sessions, biggest takeaways, and the energy of the week. Resources & Links Explore VoiceProEd: www.voiceproed.com Check out our available courses: www.voiceproed.com/courses Theme music by haspockets983: https://www.pond5.com/a...

VOICEPROED TAKES WASHINGTON, DC! It's Anna's first ASHA Convention, and VoiceProEd is presenting not one, but TWO hour-long seminars. Find Beyond the Binary, our Thursday presentation, in the ASHA program by clicking here. Find Singing Principles in Voice Therapy: A Practical Approach for SLPs, our Friday presentation, in the ASHA program by clicking here. Resources & Links Explore V...

On this week's episode of Yap Sesh, Maurice gets to yap with SLP Clinical Fellow Olivia Dean!  Olivia is an SLP Clinical Fellow with a BFA in Acting and an M.S. in Speech-Language Pathology. She took a non-traditional path into the field, completing a post-baccalaureate leveling program before earning her master’s degree. During graduate school, she also became a voice teacher and continued p...

Maurice and Anna discuss the run of their course Under Pressure: Customizing SOVTs for Professional Voice Users and gear up for Singing Voice for the Speech Language Pathologist, taking place on Sunday, November 9. Join us for the kind of experiential learning we think is crucial for voice clinicians! Sign up for SVSLP: https://voiceproed.com/svslp Catch the replay of Under Pressure: https://voice...

Anna sits down with fellow voice teaching colleague and 2025 NATS Intern John Lindsey (he/they) for a conversation on his journey as a singer through injury and fach adventures and what brings them to teaching now and their pedagogy. Folks and resources mentioned: Megan Durham, Respire Vocal Wellness David Sisco, Wholehearted Voice Pedagogy Marshall Rosenberg, Nonviolent Communication Trauma-Infor...

This week on Yap Sesh, Anna and Maurice are getting a little vibey with a true “beach episode.” From favorite warm-ups and the role of the inhale in performance, to playlists, grilling, and the joy of just letting voice feel good, they’re opening up about the tools and habits that shape both their work and their lives. Plus, they share details on their upcoming course Under Pressure: Customizing S...

This week on Yap Sesh , Anna and Maurice are diving into the real tools and resources that keep our voice practices and studios running. They're talking everything from electronic health records and scheduling software to the little systems that make big differences in the day-to-day. They also get candid about what “ ready ” really means when starting your own studio or private practice, and...

This week we’re diving into developing clinical instinct. What is it? How do you build it? And how have we grown ours over the years? Maurice and Anna break down the process of trusting your ear, your gut, and your experience in the clinic. We’ll also share details about our upcoming course, Building Balance: Addressing Vocal Fold Lesions in Singers , happening September 20th (available for ASHA C...

Season 2 of Yap Sesh is here! 🎉 Anna and Maurice are back after the summer, ready to yap about what we’ve been up to, what’s ahead this fall, and what’s happening at VoiceProEd. We’re sharing summer highlights, fall goals (including our upcoming course schedule), and announcing our next live VoiceProEd course, Building Balance , happening September 20th.! Tune in for the usual mix of voice talk,...

Our final Yap Short of the season is a Research Roundup. In this yap short, Maurice highlight’s his favorite research reviews that we wrote about over the last 12 months. These research reviews are available on the VoiceProEd blog and sent to newsletter subscribers on a monthly basis! Resources & Links Explore VoiceProEd: www.voiceproed.com Check out our available courses: www.voiceproed.com/c...

It's the last Yap Sesh of this season! Co-hosts and Professional Yappers Anna and Maurice discuss how they became teachers who teach teachers, which is why VoiceProEd exists today. Maurice is also launching his private practice! Find Goodwin Voice and Speech, PLLC on the web at http://mauricegoodwin.com Resources & Links Explore VoiceProEd: www.voiceproed.com Check out our available cours...

Co-host Anna Diemer shares more about their experience at the NATS Intern Program this past May. Want to be a future collaborative piano or voice intern? Slide into our DMs and ask us any questions you might have! More about the program: https://www.nats.org/nats-intern-program.html Thanks to the University of Louisville Voice department for hosting us! https://louisville.edu/music Resources &...

Co-host Anna just got back from the 2025 NATS Intern Program, and they're having one of their cohort on the pod as this week's Featured Yapper! Welcome to Meredith Eib, musical theater voice teacher at Catholic & Temple Universities. Find Meredith on the web: http://mereditheib.com Meredith on Insta: https://www.instagram.com/mgraceeib/ More on the NATS Intern Program: https://www.na...

In this Yap Short, we kick off our Targeting the Tongue series with three simple tools to help your clients increase their awareness of what the tongue is doing during voicing and how to target inconsistencies. Maurice shares practical ways to use tongue-out humming, /ng/ glides, and /th/ fricatives  in both speech and singing.  Resources & Links Explore VoiceProEd: www.voiceproed.com Check ou...

Congratulations to all of the voice clinicians graduating this May! In this episode of Yap Sesh, Anna and Maurice remember their own graduations and chat about their upcoming summer plans. Anna is attending the NATS Intern Program as we speak, and Maurice is gearing up to transition out of his full-time role at the hospital and into private practice. A special shout out to Bel Canto Boot Camp , fe...

A Yap Short is all about encouraging voice clinicians to experience their own voice and reflect on that experience in a way that creates improved voice awareness. In this (short) episode, host Maurice Goodwin explores fricative sounds and their benefit within the session with voice clients. Come explore these sounds in your own voice and then let us know their impact in your voice sessions! Resour...

In this episode of Yap Sesh , Hosts Anna and Maurice reflect on boundaries, burnout, and the tools that help them stay grounded—both as clinicians and humans. Together they explore how communication, self-awareness, and a little humor keep their work (and wellness) on track.  The also recap recent VoiceProEd course Voice Notes; available now asynchronously on the VocieProEd website.  Resources &am...

In this Yap Short, co-host Anna Diemer gets into documentation during sessions--but this time, for singers! Listen to find out how they make the most of their note-taking and information retention during lessons. If you missed our course on documentation for clinicians, Voice Notes: Practical Documentation for Voice Clinicians, not to worry! The replay is available for an entire year on our websit...

We are joined this week by our very first FEATURED YAPPER, speech-language pathologist Clare Henderson (they/she)! Listen as Clare shares their experiences of becoming a voice-specialized SLP and as Anna is lovingly roasted by two of the voice folks that know them best. Find Clare on the 'gram: https://www.instagram.com/aclarevoice/ Check out the clinic where Clare works: https://www.instagra...

In this Yap Short, host Maurice Goodwin breaks down the vocal fry sound and its use within voice sessions. From glottic insufficiency to contrastive practice, Maurice shares when fry can be helpful—and when it might not be. Tune in for quick, practical strategies to explore fry in your voice session! Resources & Links Explore VoiceProEd: www.voiceproed.com Check out our available courses: www....

In this episode of Yap Sesh , Anna and Maurice celebrate World Voice Day with reflections on voice education, clinical growth, and as always, their favorite tools of the week in TOOL TIME! VoiceProEd's upcoming course is on documenting the singing voice, so our yappers share information about the course and reflections on how they listen to the voice. Resources & Links Explore VoiceProEd:...

Host and professional singer Anna Diemer talks about their experience performing in the Asheville Fringe Festival on March 21 and 23, 2025. Resources & Links Explore VoiceProEd: www.voiceproed.com Check out our available courses: www.voiceproed.com/courses Theme music by haspockets983: https://www.pond5.com/artist/haspockets983 Join the Sesh! Subscribe for future episodes, and let us know what...