Renée's Blog

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 Apri...

When first starting out, it takes so much cognitive energy to create your target voice and it can feel totally unsustainable and like something you would never be able to do every day forever. The good news is that over time you will develop muscle memory, so that getting into your target voice b...

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...

Hey, everyone. I'm getting top surgery this Friday! This means I'm going to be taking a little bit of a break from content creation and teaching. However, never fear, because I have some little elves who are going to be working behind the scenes to repurpose and repost some content that I have ma...

Today is April 1st and it's launch day for Masculinize Your Voice Without Testosterone, my latest full length course! I've had lots of people email and DM me to tell me how excited they were about this course, and how they haven't seen a resource like this before. I just wanted to take a moment t...

I need to introduce you to someone. This is Oliver, and he is a transmasc racoon. When I was creating Masculinize Your Voice Without Testosterone, I knew that I really wanted to collaborate with a trans artist to create something special for this course. I found Elliott Grinnell, who is an illus...

I want to identify a few reasons why someone might be interested in doing voice masculinization training. Of course, these reasons all presume someone is trans, and they're interested in masculinizing their voice. But why might they do so through voice masculinization training? 1. You might be p...

Let's talk about habit forming. Something I hear all the time from many students is "I want to practice but I find it really hard to establish a new habit in my life." Habits require three things to form: they need a cue, an action, and a reward. The cue can be anything! It can be the time of da...

In my last video, we were talking about masculinizing or feminizing inflection, and you might be wondering, "How do I practice this?" I usually advise students to start with sentences that they use all the time like "How do you take your coffee?" or "How did you sleep?" or "Has the dog eaten yet...

If you've been working on your trans voice practice for a little while, maybe you've found a sound you like that you're able to make in short bursts. Maybe you tried the "Big Dog Little Dog" exercise from a few weeks ago and now you're probably wondering, "How do I go from making a sound that I l...