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Music

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Trans Voice

Learning to love your voice and need some support?

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Disability

Lessons I've learned after 10+ years with chronic pain.

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Get 25% off my trans voice courses for Pride Month! masculinize your voice without testosterone mindful voice feminization trans vocal exploration ecourse trans voice trans voice basics mini-course Jun 01, 2023

Happy pride month! It's been a while since you've heard from me because I've been hiding away, diligently recovering from top surgery.

I wanted to come back to work with a BANG so I thought that to celebrate pride month, I would have my longest sale ever.

I've never had a 30-day sale...

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Help! I sound like Donald Duck! (Voice Feminization Help) mindful voice feminization trans voice May 29, 2023

If you've been following me for a while, or if you've been working on feminizing your voice for a while, then you already know that an important factor is to brighten resonance by making the vocal tract smaller by raising your larynx. If this is all new information for you, I highly recommend...

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Top 3 things that surprised me about top surgery life top surgery May 25, 2023

I had top surgery six weeks ago. Here are three things that surprised me about top surgery recovery:

1. Better sleep after surgery than before

I had a lot of friends who suffered from insomnia after surgery, but I have chronic pain. I've had chronic pain for 12 years or so and it is exasperated...

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I'm back! My top surgery recover story life top surgery May 23, 2023

Hey everybody, I'm back! 

I know that for the last 5 weeks, I've been very private about my top surgery journey, but I'm finally ready to open up and share with you how things have been - with pictures!

You can either read the blog below or watch the video above. Enjoy!


I had surgery on...

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You are ALREADY an expert at modifying your voice trans voice May 18, 2023

One of the things I try to relay to everyone I teach right from the beginning is that you are already an expert at modifying your voice. Humans change their voice all the time to suit different contexts. To better understand this, I want to share with you an exercise that will reveal your...

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The benefits of listening to different types of voices trans voice May 15, 2023

The other day, I held an office hour with students from my Trans Vocal Exploration e-course. One student, Rey, made a wonderful comment and gave me permission to share it with you:

"I think the biggest thing that I've been doing so far is trying to notice different people's voices. I think...

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