Voice Teachers: Stop Blaming the Students
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…
What do Plungers, Flippers, and Teaching Voice have in common? The potential for pinball.
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...Does your life, or business, ever suck, just when you were getting AWESOME?
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...Balance is a lie. Priorities are better.
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 +...
Finding Solutions When Your Studio Isn’t Quite Running Right
We are in charge. If there is something that doesn’t quite fit in the way our studio runs, we can change it. We are in control. We get to make the rules. Here’s a fun game to help you get out of your rut: Write down all the things that make you want to...
Some Days, Magic. Thoughts on Open Door Productions’ Jesus Christ Superstar
Open Door Productions is a brand spankin’ new company formed by the University of Utah Department of Theater undergrad students. (Yes. That means 18 to 23-year-olds are creating things. On their own. With sets! GASP!) This company did a thing. They staged the...
When Nikki Loney Asks to Podcast You, Say Yes.
^^^^ That is Faith, the official feline of Full Voice Music. She’s awesome. I used her as the featured image because I knew she would make incredible click bait for all you cat lovahs! When the Universe tells you to do something, you should do it. Being a...
A Guide to Social Media-ing, for Voice Teachers, Because I Care.
One of my favorite things to do is frolic on the interwebs. I love the community that I have been able to create here, and the true friendships that have been cultivated across time and location. The BEST! It has been noticed, however, that sometimes we have a hard...
Talent is not enough.
This post is for the teachers of voice, and the singers of pop music. I didn’t break it up because I think we need to understand each other a little better, in order to turn the tides of the “chew ’em up and spit ’em out” industry.