Renée's Blog

Having a consistent voice practice routine is essential for anyone working on modifying their voice, but for individuals with ADHD, maintaining consistency can be a challenge. In this blog post, we'll explore some helpful voice practice hacks specifically designed for people with ADHD. We'll help...

What you can see at the beginning of the video above is a clip from Ash Hardell’s latest video, “Trans Kids: Growing Up or Groomed?” If you haven't seen that video, I highly recommend it. But the music that you hear in that video was actually a cover that I recorded! And I love working with Ash. ...

I had the privilege and pleasure of being on Allie Tyler's show, The Voicepreneur Podcast, a show created for voice teachers who want to grow their teaching business using marketing strategies, purpose-driven business tactics, and their intuition. We talked about: Transitioning from a perform...

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 before! Th...

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 goi...

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 the t...

Some people resist starting a trans voice practice because they're adverse to silliness. It's too silly of a practice and it makes them feel shame or embarrassment. This is something I hear all the time. People start practicing and right away their practice is connected to feelings of self-worth,...

So you've been working on your target voice alone at home and you feel like you're ready to get out into the real world. But as soon as you open your mouth around your friends and family, it's like you forget how to make your target voice. You forget everything you've learned about trans voice al...

Today I want to talk about the difference between identity based goals and target based goals. A target based goal is when you have a target and you want to reach it. So, in the case of your trans voice practice, a target based goal might sound like "I want a more feminine voice." An identity ba...

So you've come out as trans, you've changed your name, you've changed your hair, you've changed your clothes, and now you want to start working on your voice. A question I get asked as a trans voice teacher all the time is "Where do I even start?" I made an entire online course on voice alterati...