Your Free Voice

Oct 13 2024 43 ep. 22 mins 1

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Are you getting the most out of your voice, either singing or speaking? This show is for anyone who is holding themselves back from a full, free and expressive voice. Whether you're a novice or professional voice user, a singer, actor or presenter, Julia will be joyfully offering you solid technique and mindset shifts to get the very most out of your voice. Julia qualified as a Voice Movement Therapy Practitioner in London in 2000 and has been helping singers and voice professionals for over 20 years.

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042 Community Choirs & Circle Singing with Chris MacLean

Oct 13 2024 53 mins

In this conversation with my friend and colleague Chris MacLean, we talk about her life and career as a singer/songwriter, community choir leader, retreat host, circle singer and so much more. We talk about the logistics of running a choir, fear of death, how to make a living and how we both believe it is everyone’s birthright to sing. Here is how you can find out more about Chri

041_How to Set Boundaries

Oct 04 2024 14 mins

In this quick solo episode, I'm exploring boundaries and how to speak up and set yours. Q. Do you feel like you can stand up for yourself? Q. Can you speak up to defend others? Here are a few ways that I'm suggesting that you might check your boundaries. How does your body feel in the moment? Hot? Clenched stomach? Are you making a fist? How is your breath? Give yourself a momen

Resilience and Recovery using The Voice Straw with celebrity voice coach Mindy Pack

Apr 16 2024 38 mins

On this episode of Your Free Voice, I’m delighted to bring back into the studio celebrity voice coach and founder of The Voice Straw, Mindy Pack! You may have listened to episode #32 where I talked to Mindy about her experience being a celebrity voice coach, well we ran out of time to talk about straws so I had to get her back again. We’re going pretty deep into how to use

039 Mindfulness, Performance Anxiety and the Breath with Ruth Phillips

Feb 23 2024 59 mins

My interview with my friend and colleague Ruth Phillips. Ruth Phillips is a modern and baroque cellist, a mindfulness coach, founder of The Breathing Bow and co-founder of InsideOut Musician and a writer. Alongside her rich and diverse career as a concert cellist and teacher. Ruth is internationally sought after as a performance coach and meditation teacher, helping people who suf

038 Rush Dorsett's interview with Me!

Jan 29 2024 37 mins

This episode is a bit of a first, because I am the one being interviewed! Rush Dorsett reached out to me to be part of her Awaken Your Voice Summit in October 2023. It was a great series where she interviewed 10 different thought leaders around the singing voice over 10 days. There were some really great interviews with people I've admired for a very long time (Chloe Goodchild anyo

#037 How 'Aligned' is your 'New Years Goals' list?

Jan 04 2024 15 mins

Join me in this episode for my personal reflections on 2023 and also some suggestions for how to have a more aligned, intentional focus for the year ahead. It doesn't actually matter when you listen to this episode, the exercises are relevant whenever you need to recalibrate and stop yourself from getting overwhelmed. If you joined me in my Goal Setting Workshop in December, use t

#036 My interview with 'Trash' musician and singer ❤️ Chris Portka

Dec 06 2023 52 mins

This episode is not only long awaited … apologies again for the long break, but also a break from the usual. Instead of waxing lyrical by myself or interviewing an industry expert in voice or physical freedom, I’m interviewing a former Voice Movement Therapy client of mine, Chris Portka. Chris came to me a number of years ago hating his job, not really loving life and generally

Dialects, Diversity & Directing Intimacy with Rachel Finley

Jul 27 2023 56 mins

Rachel Finlay is a prolific performer, director, voice & speech coach, conference presenter and faculty member at Arizona State University. We met on a hot day in Sonoma County looking for lunch and immediately bonded over great food, cold drinks and all the voice things & being a person things that we shared in common. I knew I had to entice her onto the show! Join me in this exte

#34 Why Jungian Coaching?

Jun 28 2023 18 mins

In this weeks episode I get over excited about Jungian Coaching because I really honestly believe it's the most transformative coaching tool out there for creatives. It's deep, it's fast, it taps into the spiritual and creative space we hold in our hearts. I break down some of the terms and why it's important to understand what might be in your shadow, how to let go of old dreams

Seven Ways to Reconnect With Your Voice

Jun 13 2023 12 mins

I am so very sorry for the massively huge break in shows! 😳😭 Life got me all distracted, but I'm back! I recently challenged myself to get on instagram with video everyday for 7 days. Why? because I found it really challenging, not only technically, but also all the embarrassment that comes from seeing yourself on camera saying stuff and being weird lol. Anyway, here's what