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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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Applications for my teacher training are closing tonight! teacher training Jan 31, 2024

 In case you didn’t know, I run a trans voice teacher training program every summer in July and applications for the 2024 cohort are closing tonight!

This training has been loved by voice coaches, speech language pathologists and other voice professionals, but it is a live training and...

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Applications for my teacher training are now open! teacher training Jan 22, 2024

Every year in July, I run a teacher training program to help voice professionals like singing teachers, speech-language pathologists, choir directors, and performers learn about teaching trans voice alteration.

It is one of my favourite parts of my year, but it’s gotten so popular that...

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How do you become a gender-affirming voice teacher? interviews teacher training Aug 24, 2023

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...

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Storytime: How I became a trans voice teacher teacher training Oct 06, 2022

A question I get asked a lot was how did you get into this field?

My path towards this work was not at all a linear one so let me tell you how it went!

I started learning to sing in my teen years and when I turned twenty, I started teaching others how to sing as well.

I taught singing for ten...

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Degendering The Voice #2: Voice Types degendering the voice teacher training Sep 15, 2022

Welcome to the second instalment of Degendering The Voice, also known as BIOLOGICAL ESSENTIALISM MAKES FOOLS OF US ALL!

I created this series to help voice teachers like choral directors and private singing instructors create more welcoming teaching environments for trans and nonbinary...

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New: Trans Voice Teacher Directory ✨ teacher training trans voice Aug 29, 2022

In the past year, I've run my teacher training course, Learn to Teach Trans Voice in 5 Weeks, two times. Both times, I met outstanding voice teachers from all over the world who speak so many different languages and come from a myriad of experiences and backgrounds.

Although the trans voice...

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