Vital Voice Training

Vital Voice Training OWN your right to speak with powerful voice and communication coaching. www.vitalvoicetraining.com Why is your voice important?

Your voice is a fundamental part of how you express your value and values. It’s how you connect with other people. It makes the statement of who you are and who you want to be. If you want the world to know the formidable things you have to offer, then you need to be able to communicate with ease, savvy, and style. If you are getting feedback about vocal fry and upspeak – if you are sick of being

interrupted or told to “speak up” – if you would LOVE to share your vision and ideas with a huge audience, but feel petrified at the thought of speaking in front of a crowd –

This is what we do. We don’t deal in slapdash fixes (because you’re not broken)–we work with the person in front of us to develop individual solutions. Whether you are an introvert or an extrovert, quiet or loud, shy or outgoing, we’ll start from where you are. The result is YOUR voice: amplified (not just louder). Through private coaching, group seminars and workshops, and content here on vitalvoicetraining.com, we want to help you do just that–be heard. To learn how to be true to you—and still get what you need. To access ease, poise, and power when you need it.

It’s our 9th birthday, and we’re feeling all the feelings . . . 🥹 Grateful for all of the friends we’ve made, supporters...
04/26/2023

It’s our 9th birthday, and we’re feeling all the feelings . . .

🥹 Grateful for all of the friends we’ve made, supporters we’ve gained, and community we’ve built along the way.

🤬 Angry that people are STILL saying a whole lot of the same crap about women’s voices that inspired the beginning of our journey during the Great Moral Panic Over Vocal Fry of 2014.

🤣 Keeping our sense of humor intact as we CONTINUE to learn this whole “running a business” thing. It’s hard, yo . . . but it’s worth it.

😍 Awed and inspired by our incredible clients and the folks we get to interact with.

🤩 Thinking BIGGER, for our lives, our work, and our clients. After all, the next one is 10! We’re dreaming and scheming, y’all.

🥳 Celebrating the journey, the joys, the bumps, and what’s still ahead!

Thank you, thank you, thank you for being part of our journey!

Do you need “executive presence” to be seen as a leader? Ohhhhhh boy, we have thoughts.Basically, it boils down to this:...
03/28/2023

Do you need “executive presence” to be seen as a leader? Ohhhhhh boy, we have thoughts.

Basically, it boils down to this: most of the time, executive presence is a crusty, ill-fitting costume of “Business Person” (but let’s be real, it’s more like “Business Dude”) that’s not serving any of us very well.

What does it mean to communicate as a leader? As the most confident, vibrant, present, engaged, ready to respond with all of your experience and ideas version of yourself?

We want to explore that with you and a small group of incredible humans, and build the future of leadership TOGETHER.

Find out more about our signature course, POWER/PLAY at the link in our bio. Applications are open now, class starts April 22nd.

There is power in community—which why we designed POWER/PLAY the way we did. A small cohort with “your favorite group te...
03/24/2023

There is power in community—which why we designed POWER/PLAY the way we did.

A small cohort with “your favorite group text” vibes. Diverse, welcoming, ready to learn, share, vent, and celebrate together.

CAN you learn communication skills on your own? Totally. Is it way more effective and way more fun to learn them with other people? YEP.

Apply now for an April 22nd start! Link in bio, or go to http://vitalvoicetraining.com/thecourse to learn more.

It’s our “take up space” rallying cry and the secret to gravitas. Why? Guess where a whole lot of tension lives when we’...
03/20/2023

It’s our “take up space” rallying cry and the secret to gravitas.

Why? Guess where a whole lot of tension lives when we’re nervous, stressed, trying to please or perform, trying to prove ourselves, etc.? IN YOUR BUTT.

It’s ‘cause our nervous system wants to keep us safe, so we go into what we call “Good Girl Posture” . . . that place where we’re sort of hovering above the furniture and trying to simultaneously take up as little space as possible AND look like we’re super engaged and ready to lean in.

Instead, we dare you to let your butt be big in your chair (psssst . . . this works standing too). Feel gravity doing its job to keep you anchored and grounded. Feel yourself suddenly able to expand into a 360 degree breath. Feel the POWER inherent in rejecting the idea that’s drummed into us as women from birth: that to be worth anything, you must take up as little space as possible.

Want to learn more concrete ways to take up space and access your most confident, powerful voice? Find out more about our signature small group mastermind course, POWER PLAY, at the link in our bio!

Hi Friends!While we’ve been taking a break from Instagram, we launched Season 4 of  VOICE (is)!  For your thanksgiving b...
11/23/2022

Hi Friends!

While we’ve been taking a break from Instagram, we launched Season 4 of  VOICE (is)!  For your thanksgiving binging pleasure we have FOUR new episodes for you.  We’ve got some fantastic interviews, wisdom and perspective from our guests to keep you company whatever your holiday plans.  

* INCLUSION with Ruchika Tulshyan: Goldilocks problems, breaking the binary, and building better systems. 


* CANNABIS with June Johnson: ON the State of the Cannabis Nation, and throwing a great party


* VALUE with Lena West: Scaling service, marketing with integrity, and moving past “Girl Boss”


and 

* DIRTY with Jackie Carpenter:  On disaster clean up, being a dirty girl, and facing your sh*t. 


Find us on Apple Podcasts, Spotify, Google Play, or where ever you listen to your podcasts.  And while you’re there, we would so appreciate if you rate and review!  It expands our reach, and makes us feel REALLY good.    Happy Thanksgiving everyone!  

We co-sign this message. Rage is an appropriate reaction to what’s happening. Many of us can feel a fight or flight r...
06/27/2022

We co-sign this message. Rage is an appropriate reaction to what’s happening.

Many of us can feel a fight or flight reaction to our OWN rage. Learning to hold big emotions is in fact a skill.

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Feel this rage. Honor this rage. Where is the rage in your body? Place your hand there. Breathe into it. Where does it want to go? For me, a torrent of tears. Today is the day to feel it and move it — talk it, scream it, wail it, sing it. Your rage is loaded with information and energy (Audre Lorde). Together we are going to alchemize this rage into a force the world has not seen. Go gentle, my love. Today we breathe, tomorrow we push.

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Feel your feelings right now. It’s the best way to prepare for action. We stand in solidarity and are sending so much...
06/24/2022

Feel your feelings right now. It’s the best way to prepare for action. We stand in solidarity and are sending so much love to all those whose lives will be impacted immediately by this clueless, ignorant, and dangerous decision.

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My thoughts on the Supreme Court's decision to overturn Roe v. Wade.

This week, we’re re-releasing one of our top episodes from season one with the phenomenal , where we talk about the diff...
05/18/2022

This week, we’re re-releasing one of our top episodes from season one with the phenomenal , where we talk about the difference between being nice and being a people-pleaser, how to take care of yourself as a founder, and the importance of building strong relationships.

Fran just released her second book, EMBRACE THE WORK, LOVE YOUR CAREER, and we are such humongous fans of her warmth and wisdom around building a sustainable, fulfilling journey through the work world!

Also, in this episode, we end with a mini-lesson in “embracing your too’s” — how to examine and play with the feedback we internalize when people say we’re “too quiet/too loud/too aggressive/too emotional/too MUCH”.

We hope you’ll check it out!

🥳 IT’S OUR 8TH BIRTHDAY! Eight years in, we’ve:🎉 worked with dozens of companies/organizations and hundreds of incredibl...
04/26/2022

🥳 IT’S OUR 8TH BIRTHDAY! Eight years in, we’ve:

🎉 worked with dozens of companies/organizations and hundreds of incredible clients

🎤 launched a podcast where we’ve had 🧠-blowing conversations with dozens of awesome folks

😷 survived a pandemic

📖 written two books - one on purpose and one accidental

🗺 become a bi-coastal company

❤️ relied on the expertise and kindness and brilliance of so many amazing advisors

✍️ were mentioned by one best selling author (::cough:: we love you ::cough::) in her latest book

👩‍🏫 launched a course

😬 made approximately 8000 mistakes

⭐️ gained a few wrinkles and lost a few f***s

⚡️ helped a LOT of people feel more grounded, authentic, and confident, with a growing coterie of fellow communication experts who are truly rejecting “the way it’s always been done” and forever expanding the definition of what leaders look and sound like

We are so grateful. And we can’t wait to see what’s next.

Thank you. Thank you. Thank you!

Our INCREDIBLE assistant produced her very own solo show of ALL ORIGINAL MUSIC and we truly could not be more in awe. U...
04/26/2022

Our INCREDIBLE assistant produced her very own solo show of ALL ORIGINAL MUSIC and we truly could not be more in awe. Undeniable talent and charisma, gorgeous artistry….and meanwhile in her day job she keeps us sane and our clients happy. We’re so lucky to know her!

As we go out into an uncertain world that is in no way a return to “normal” we see many opportunities for a little grace...
04/14/2022

As we go out into an uncertain world that is in no way a return to “normal” we see many opportunities for a little grace and self compassion for all of us right now.   

We are re-releasing one of our favorite conversations from our first season for a little direction, validation, and inspiration.                          

Julie and Casey head out to Oakland to sit down with Maya Borgueta founder of Stella Nova Psychology — they dive into emotional labor, how diversity movements in the workplace might be set up to fail, imposter syndrome, self-care, Chopin, and why beating yourself up is NOT, in fact, the secret to productivity.

TOP TAKEAWAYS:

🤗Define your core values — both general and for communication — to give your life a north star. They should be a little aspirational, and you won’t nail it 100% of the time.

🤗Imposter syndrome is pervasive, and connected to some really unhelpful ideas about what “confidence” looks like. You don’t have to feel like a Boss Bitch 100% of the time — and if you do, maybe you aren’t being very self-reflective.

🤗Research says that people who are self-compassionate get more done and are more able to problem-solve than people who are self-critical . . . which might seem obvious, but is really hard in practice, especially for high achievers.

Big day tomorrow. BIG. DAY. Can’t wait to work with the phenomenal women of Thrive Capital!Posted • Day ?And this is...
04/07/2022

Big day tomorrow. BIG. DAY. Can’t wait to work with the phenomenal women of Thrive Capital!

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And this is part of the reason why I don’t know what day it is - because and I are prepping for a HUGE event: our first two-day intensive version of POWER/PLAY with the women of Thrive Capital. (And , we love swag bags too!!)

We’ve been building toward this day for a long, long time. Can’t WAIT!!

We hosted our first zoom public speaking practice session tonight with a fabulous group of speakers! We’re going to make...
04/01/2022

We hosted our first zoom public speaking practice session tonight with a fabulous group of speakers! We’re going to make this a monthly activity, folks. Come, try new material for a friendly audience, experience some nerves in a supportive space, and learn from both doing and watching!

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Julie and I hosted our first zoom-based public speaking practice session and had a BLAST with the participants. Truly, I never stop being in awe of the brilliant people we get to work with at .

New episode of VOICE(is), with powerhouse !Julie and Casey sit down with Ann Shoket, founder of New Power Media and owne...
03/31/2022

New episode of VOICE(is), with powerhouse !

Julie and Casey sit down with Ann Shoket, founder of New Power Media and owner of , to talk about her journey from editor of Seventeen to author to community builder, why millennial women revolutionized the workplace and the world, redefining polish, and building communities that help women of all ages achieve and succeed.

TOP TAKEAWAYS:

⭐️As the Editor of Seventeen Magazine in the early 2000’s, Ann witnessed a sea change in what young women wanted to talk about — suddenly instead of advice about summer dating, they wanted advice about summer internships. It’s no surprise, really. Teen girls are natural innovators, and millennial women changed everything about how we work. (Watch Ann’s TED talk here.) https://www.ted.com/talks/ann_shoket_why_we_should_all_be_more_millennial

⭐️New power can’t just LOOK different (as in seeing more non-white, non-male people having it) . . . it must BE different. New power is diverse, transparent, inclusive, accountable, and collaborative.

⭐️We all have a part to play in changing the “women just don’t support other women” narrative. Challenging our own beliefs about scarcity of opportunity and seeing other women as opportunities to learn and grow instead of a threat is a start. And, you have to show up for other people if you want them to show up for you.

⭐️Mini-lesson: Taking your time space.

Julie and Casey sit down with disability advocate Emily Ladau to talk her new book, being a full human and not just a d...
03/27/2022

Julie and Casey sit down with disability advocate Emily Ladau to talk her new book, being a full human and not just a disability, and how we can be better supporters and allies. Along the way, they discuss high school theater nerdery and embracing your inner peacock.

TOP TAKEAWAYS

🎤As we talk about disability, it’s important to acknowledge the WHOLE human, not just the parts that convenient for your narrative.

🎤There is a difference between being noticed and being seen — being noticed is about them, being seen is about you.

🎤Before deciding to help, figure out if your help is wanted or needed from the actual individual you wish to help.  Making assumptions about what someone needs (even if well intended) dehumanizes more than it helps. Let people tell you what kind of ally they need, instead of assuming your help is needed and welcome.

🦚Mini-Lesson:  Peacocking — taking the reins of your own visibility.

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It was very dapply this morning.
03/20/2022

It was very dapply this morning.

Episode 17 with the funny and fabulous of Julie and Casey sit down with Lynn Harris (founder of Gold Comedy, cohost o...
03/09/2022

Episode 17 with the funny and fabulous of

Julie and Casey sit down with Lynn Harris (founder of Gold Comedy, cohost of A Bintel Brief, and prolific writer) about how comedy can change the world. Along the way, they discuss how to find your funny, why we should get rid of the term “women’s comedy”, and we discover our own personal connection to Lynn’s creation, “Breakup Girl”.

TOP TAKEAWAYS:

🎤Comedy is power: when you make people laugh you make people listen.

🎤One significant theory/framework for comedy is “disturbing a norm” . . . so doesn’t it make sense for people OUTSIDE of “the mythic norm” to be naturals at doing this?

🎤”Comedy isn’t rearranging the stars, it’s just seeing your own pattern.” When it comes to comedy as a coping mechanism, comedy doesn’t change what happened (or is happening) to you, but it can allow us to see the stars in a new way — our OWN way. But it’s not just the processing . . . the sharing is powerful too.

🎤Mini Lesson: In comedy, in speaking, and in life, you gotta put a stake in the ground.

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