Renée's Blog

When I look back at 2025, I see a year that exceeded every expectation I had for my gender-affirming voice teaching practice. This was the year I finally made the leap to YouTube long-form content, expanded my public speaking work, increased my community giving, and experienced pr...

I'm turning 38 on December 28th, and after nearly two decades of running my own business, learning Spanish in my thirties, and maintaining a seven-year plan to run a marathon while managing chronic pain, I've learned a thing or two about setting and actually achieving goals. Whet...

Voice dysphoria sucks. But it turns out that science agrees with us and it's not just a bad feeling. Voice dysphoria can have a measurable, quantifiable impact on your quality of life and ability to use your voice, particularly in work settings. As a gender-affirming voice teach...

When Shaynah joined last year's cohort of my teacher training course, Learn to Teach Trans Voice Alteration in Five Weeks, they brought something special to our community. As an autistic Black musician working across Dutch and English contexts, Shaynah opened up conversations abou...

I'm thrilled to announce that I'll be speaking at PlumeCon'25, a free virtual conference created by and for the transgender and gender-expansive community. If you've been looking for accessible trans voice training resources or want to connect with other trans and nonbinary folks...

When nonbinary folks ask me how to make their voice sound neutral without being categorized as female or male, I know exactly what they're searching for, but I also know the answer is more complicated than they might expect. As a gender-affirming voice teacher who specializes in ...

For five days only, you can transform your voice journey at the biggest discount of the year. From Thursday, November 27th through Monday, December 1st, 2025, every trans voice training course on my site is 40% off with code BLACKFRIDAY2025. This includes Mindful Voice Feminizat...

If you've spent any time researching trans voice training, you've probably encountered the terms "chest voice" and "head voice" more times than you can count. But what do they actually mean? And more importantly, why do they matter for your voice feminization or masculinization j...

Let's be real: we're all a little burnt out these days. Between navigating the world as trans, nonbinary, and gender-expansive people, and the constant work of gender-affirming voice training, sometimes we need to step back and have a little fun. That's exactly what my editor, Te...

When I sat down with Eli Conley—a queer transgender singer-songwriter and teaching artist with over 20 years of experience on testosterone—I knew we'd tackle one of the biggest myths in trans voice training: that going on T means losing your singing voice forever. Spoiler alert: ...