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Whether you need help with strengthening your speaking or singing voice, embracing your full presence, or devising a strategy to unlock your dormant creativity, I have the expertise to assist you. As the only ICF-certified coach with experience touring the world and performing at prestigious venues such as the Glastonbury Festival and Saturday Night Live, I possess a deep understanding of the power of voice, presence, and a rockstar mindset.
Drawing on what I have learned from iconic figures like David Bowie and Australian body language expert Louise Mahler, as well as from voice pedagogists and scientists at the Boston Conservatory at Berklee College of Music, I've successfully guided clients to bring their impossible visions to life. I also had the privilege of working with Canadian astronaut Chris Hadfield to create the first-ever music video from outer space.
But it wasn’t always like this…
I navigated a childhood where alcohol was present in the home, which often shaped very negative, formative experiences. At age 10, I found my solace in songwriting and soon found a similar peace in using my voice, telling myself that “I want to be the one to sing my songs.” After taking vocal lessons in my late teens, I signed a worldwide record deal with Mercury Records, only to have my deal swallowed up in a $10-billion merger between Seagrams and Polygram. As one of the first artists to start her own record label in Canada, I weathered the storm of music industry upheaval by returning to my own Dead Daisy Records and supporting other artists, too. While running Dead Daisy, I released music by In-Flight Safety, Sarah Slean, Colleen Brown and Royal Wood.
After many years of navigating the music business as an independent, I became a mother. When my children were four and six, I faced a blindsiding divorce which led me to reconnect with my voice. It was in 2018, just two years later, that a concert I had performed at with Bowie, called Glastonbury 2000 was released on Parlophone Records. This retrospective allowed me to see the unique healing power of voice and breath and just how my own voice had helped me over many decades. Inspired by these insights, I began to coach and mentor Emee Fink. Emee was a young woman living near me and she wanted to explore her singing voice. Coaching Emee led me to fall in love with empowering women and girls to find their voices, in all ways - physically, creatively, spiritually, financially and emotionally.
My book, The Healing Power of Singing: Raise Your Voice, Change Your Life (ECW Press) was published in 2021 and has touched many lives and become an Amazon.ca bestseller. This year, I have gone back to school to major in Psychological Science (at Miami University) as I continue to explore the power of the human voice, creativity and the female spirit.
If you’re looking to see how tapping into your unique voice can elevate your life, reach out to me.