by Michelle Markwart Deveaux | Sep 22, 2019 | Business
It’s time to start asking for forgiveness instead of permission in your business. Voice teachers that now run a business are stuck in a pattern. We’ve been conditioned to ask permission and beg for a place to stand. It’s time to step up, take action and start running your business with intention! I’ll explain why, and what to do next.
by Michelle Markwart Deveaux | Mar 15, 2019 | Business
When I watched Mary Poppins Returns around Christmas last year, I ugly cried. UG-LEE.I wasn’t expecting to get hit with a ton of emotional bricks and have an illuminating transformative moment in a dark theater. And I certainly wasn’t expecting to be...
by Michelle Markwart Deveaux | Feb 24, 2019 | Business
I’ve noticed a trend. You’re starting to get in the groove.You grow, become unfettered, increase your mission and vision in the world. You get FOCUSED. COURAGEOUS. WISE.And then, you get… busy. Or do you?Here is the charge, vocalistas: Let’s...
by Michelle Markwart Deveaux | Feb 3, 2019 | Business, Inspiration
Your best work is not behind you. It is in front of you. Your best self wasn’t in college, or grad school, or DMA program, or at yesterday’s workshop. Your intelligence, wit, selflessness, and gobsmacking amazingness didn’t end when you got a...
by Michelle Markwart Deveaux | Jan 2, 2019 | Business
I wrote a thing for myself. A reminder. A manifest. A pep-talk. I thought you may relate, so decided to share it: Dear Self (you amazing and delightfully silly and grace-y person, you), You have a choice. Yes, you. You have a choice in how your voice works, your...
by Michelle Markwart Deveaux | Jul 7, 2018 | Business, Success
We blame our students for our voice studio frustrations, but how can we be more response-able? Each and every complaint we have about our students can be solved with one thing…
by Michelle Markwart Deveaux | May 28, 2018 | Business
Pinball is fun when you are the playfield and not the ball. The playfield is the part of a pinball machine that all the cool dohickeys reside.The place where pinballs get trapped, ramped, orbited, flipped, and bumped. In your Voice Studio, are you the playfield or the...
by Michelle Markwart Deveaux | Mar 29, 2018 | Business
Because if you do, you’re not alone. IT IS A THING. Inspired by a brave and daring post I was commenting on within the last week, I was PM’d and asked to talk a little bit about Upper Limiting. A term coined by Gay Hendricks in his book “The Big...
by Michelle Markwart Deveaux | Jan 21, 2018 | Business, Inspiration
Balance sucks. I’m allowed to say that, because I am a Libra, and therefore know these things automatically. It sucks because striving for it never brings peace, and almost always brings pressure. Balance brings pressure to be FaceTastic. Facebook +...
