From Destruction, A New Perspective Emerged

I’m a voice teacher. But when I had my first daughter I destroyed my voice.

My labor was much more intense than i expected (I’m not sure that anything can prepare you for the first time you give birth).

I had convinced myself that as a voice and movement expert I would just know what to do, I was so attuned to my body that I believed I would just be able to handle it like a pro and breeze through it with a magical tale to tell at the end.

Wrong. The pain scared me. I wasn’t expecting it. I followed the advice of the triage nurse instead of following my gut and didn’t get to the hospital soon enough to settle in and allow myself to ease into my labor.

The only thing I had at that point was my voice. So I used it. I sang, I called out, for my entire labor and delivery - and I did it just to get through the experience - but any kind of extreme vocal use for 7 hours straight is going to fatigue your voice.

So for months after giving birth my voice felt alien to me. I felt like I couldn’t speak how I wanted to. I felt vocally tired all the time. It felt like I’d done something that I didn’t know how to fix. I felt broken.

But here’s the thing. Out of this experience, (which, incidentally, I did know how to heal), I had a realization.

There are people who lose their voice all the time.
There are people who feel disconnected from their voice, just like i did, all the time.
There are people who feel frustrated and debilitated by the fact that their voice doesn’t allow them to show up how they imagine themselves.

To me it felt like I had lost a part of myself.
Which made me think - For some people there must be parts of them they have never unlocked because of their disconnection from their voice. Parts that have stayed hidden and locked behind the voice they have constructed over time (which is how we all essentially build how we sound).

This experience woke up my desire to help other people find their voice, heal their voice, own their voice. To unlock a part of them that allows them to step into their power and own their message, their aspirations, their true values. To enable them to lead more powerfully, more intentionally, more authentically.

If you’re an executive leader who feels disconnected from your voice, I can help you unlock that part of yourself. It may just be the thing that allows you to unleash your full potential to lead.