Renée's Blog

Recently, I was invited to be on the live show, The Backpack Show, with Chris Brogan and Kerry O'Shea Gorgone, which describes itself as a business podcast but fun. Watch the reply below or scroll down to read a summary.   During the podcast, I had the opportunity to share various aspects of my...

The other day, I joined my new friend Bronwyn on Minka Guides for an Ask Me Anything session to celebrate their birthday! We start the conversation by sharing our excitement about our newfound friendship in Mexico, where we've connected instantly over the past six weeks. It was a real privilege t...

  The other day I had the pleasure of speaking with Dr. Crystal Beal (they/themme), of the QueerCME Vodcast. They are a gender-affirming care provider, and the founder of QueerDoc, which provides queer and gender-affirming telemedicine by LGBTQ+ identified healthcare providers. The interview em...

How did I get into teaching gender-affirming voice lessons when I started as a singing teacher? I'm Renée, and I'm a gender-affirming voice teacher, and recently I was on Allie Tyler's podcast, The Voicepreneur, where she asked me how I got so specific about my voice teaching niche. Watch the ex...

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...

I recently had the great pleasure of being on the podcast Gender Reveal and host Tuck Woodstock asked me a really important question: "What is the difference between a trans voice teacher and a speech language pathologist?" Here's what I had to say: "There's not a big difference, to be honest. S...

One of my dreams came true this week - I was interviewed on Gender Reveal! If you don't already listen to this podcast, you're about to find your new favourite. Host Tuck Woodstock has interviewed scores of incredible trans people and the conversations are always illuminating, interesting, and no...

Recently, I had the pleasure of being interviewed on Leah Roseman's podcast, Conversations with Musicians. In this 90-minute podcast, we discussed my music education and early music life, being trans and disabled in the music industry, my pivot to the trans voice space, and so much more! There a...

A few months ago, I was extremely honoured to be asked to write an opinion piece for CBC Montreal. I'm always excited for any opportunity to talk about the voice and my work, and so of course, I jumped on it. Cut to last week, and the article finally came out! It was given the headline "Everyone...

Last night I had the privilege and pleasure of being a guest on Olivia Flanigan's interview series, Lovely Cup, which takes place on Instagram live. Olivia is also a trans voice teacher and a jazz educated singer just like me! We had a great time talking about how I got into teaching trans voice...