A weekly dispatch on voice, healing, and the inner life of a working artist. This was the first week since I started The Healthy Voice that I didn't post a YouTube video — and I'm pretty sure I haven't missed a single week until now. We've been in the middle of a heat wave here in Los Angeles, and I've also been focusing more of my time on private students. I'm now seeing around nine clients a week, which I love deeply and have no intention of giving up. That, on top of all the live community...
4 days ago • 13 min read
A weekly dispatch on voice, healing, and the inner life of a working artist. How are you spending your time right now? Not in the beats-per-minute sense. Not the clock on the wall or the number in the corner of your laptop screen. I mean the bigger picture of it. Are you fully here as you read this — or are you somewhere else? Replaying something that happened last week, running calculations about everything you need to get done before the weekend? I ask because I live in a constant...
18 days ago • 14 min read
A weekly dispatch on voice, healing, and the inner life of a working artist. By the time I had been teaching piano for about thirteen years, I figured out something that changed everything: when I was open with my students about my own nerves at recital time, something shifted between us. That wall between teacher and student came down. And once it was down, they felt safe enough to tell me how scared they really were. I kept going. I shared about struggling with music theory, about feeling...
25 days ago • 10 min read
A weekly dispatch on voice, healing, and the inner life of a working artist. I want to say something before we get into this week's content. I promise — you will never hear me talk about politics. I have no interest in the topic and no intention of covering it. My work is here to serve everyone, regardless of their beliefs or where they land ideologically. But I've been holding off on one particular article for a long time. And this week I finally wrote it. The topic is war. Not as a...
about 1 month ago • 10 min read
📅 MY CALENDAR IS OPEN Many of you have reached out letting me know you'd love to book a coaching session, but the calendar has been full. I hear you. I've gone ahead and opened up another day. If you've been waiting for a spot, now is your moment. I'm looking forward to working with you! BOOK A COACHING SESSION Intro session (75 min) — $100 Follow-up Deep Dive (60 min) — $150 "My voice has been sincerely liberated since that session. Liberated in a way that says: hey. I can do this. Even if...
about 1 month ago • 2 min read
A weekly dispatch on voice, healing, and the inner life of a working artist. June is doing something this month. Something is loosening. The sunshine is showing up in more parts of the world — and I don't think that's unrelated. The voice is seasonal. It responds to warmth, to longer days, to the particular quality of light that arrives in early summer. And I'm watching it happen in real time in sessions. The long game is paying off. People who stayed committed — who showed up month after...
about 1 month ago • 9 min read
A weekly dispatch on voice, healing, and the inner life of a working artist. June opened this week with something I've been building toward for a long time. Not just new content. A new argument. One I've been assembling from seven months of coaching sessions, thousands of YouTube comments, and years of personal study — and this week it finally came together in one place. Here's the short version: a lot of the people who come to me with voice problems don't have voice problems. They have...
about 2 months ago • 11 min read
A weekly dispatch on voice, healing, and the inner life of a working artist. Sometimes you have to go quiet to finish the thing. This week was that week. No YouTube video — the first time since I started the channel. Exhaustion and overwhelm, so I turned inward. Just the particular stillness that happens when something is almost done and needs your full attention to cross the finish line. Two things crossed it this week. VOCAL RECESS is now available outside the community. 🎭 Seven weeks of...
about 2 months ago • 8 min read
Something I've been building for a while is finally ready. VOCAL RECESS — The Healthy Voice Archive, Volume 1 — is now open. Seven weeks of voice work that doesn't feel like voice work. A noir murder mystery where every chapter hides a diction lesson in the prose. A Grimm-style fairy tale about a child who wandered into a forest and forgot how to find their way home. A vintage romance novel written to be read aloud — because the reading IS the somatic work. A punk week. A comedy week. A Shel...
about 2 months ago • 1 min read