This week Jenny and Gillian run into the wonderful Laura Millerchip and discuss voice coaching, voice dysphoria and how to begin the process of changing a mature voice to match our gender presentation.
Laura takes us through a range of concepts including pitch and resonance and demonstrates a few techniques to help us being the process of voice training.
Listen out to hear the big dogs - and look forward to the Cadbury’s Caramel bunny impression….it’s a total education how simple changes can dramatically affect our voices…!
The whole episode is a total delight for us and may well inspire and start a new chapter for us both…!
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