August 26, 2017

Anxiety, Microphone Skills, Not able to be heard, Practice & Rehearsal, Shyness, Speaking Skills, Stage Fright, Voice Actors, Voice Over, Vocal Fry, Voice Over Coaching, Voice Over Acting, Voice Problems, Women's Leadership, Women's Voice Issues, Interview

Mary Michaela Weber

Chatting with Mandy Mayhem, star of MUTHA, and ...

Chatting with Mandy Mayhem, writer and star of MUTHA, and Rapping with Actors. Photo credit Kevin Patrick Robbins on the set of Mandy Mayhem's Rapping with Actors. (@rappingwithactors on IG). — at 299 Queen Street West.

May 22, 2017

Anxiety, Fear of Public Speaking, Leadership Skills, Leadership, Public Speaking Skillls, Voice Actors, Voice Over Acting, Voice Over, Voice Over Coaching, Women's Leadership, Women's Voice Issues, Practice & Rehearsal, Rehearsal Tips, Sports Psychology

Mary Michaela Weber

Breaking Your Rules, Freeing Your Voice

Mental permissions have a distinct impact on the vocal range you produce. The voice is a peculiar thing - our sense of identity is tied up in it. How do we expand our sense of what is possible? Releasing tension is a process of vocal training, often, but integration is a function of working with your mind.

Let's think about this: as a child, you could flatten a restaurant with one big howl. It took very little effort. As an adult, it takes BIG effort to project your voice so freely, and yet your muscles are technically stronger. What gets in the way of the voice being powerful and effortless as we age?

May 18, 2017

Intl Biz Professional, Public Speaking, Foreign Language, Speaking Skills, Leadership Skills, International Profession, Leadership

Mary Michaela Weber

Communication Challenges for Non-Native English ...

We tend to carry over the melody of our mother tongue into the new language, which causes confusion....

May 16, 2017

Fear of Public Speaking, Foreign Language, International Profession, Leadership Skills, Mumbling, Not able to be heard, Public Speaking, Public Speaking Skillls, Speaking Skills, Shyness, Speeches, Stage Fright, Women's Leadership, Women's Voice Issues, Leadership

Mary Michaela Weber

Are your speeches like Hospital Pudding?

Speaking well should be a part of a business plan, as a part of supply chain for ideas. Speaking in a town hall is the essence of managing the water cooler conversations for the next two weeks.

The only reason people don't walk out on some speakers is the same reason that you eat pudding in a hospital. You eat pudding because it's the only thing in front of you. Given better options, that pudding would be in the garbage.

Are your speeches like Hospital Pudding?

May 15, 2017

Anxiety, Fear of Public Speaking, International Profession, Leadership, Leadership Skills, Mumbling, Not able to be heard, Speaking Skills, Speeches, Stage Fright, Women's Leadership, Hoarseness, Microphone Skills

Mary Michaela Weber

Can't be heard, even with a microphone? Losing ...

People having a hard time hearing a speaker even when they are using a microphone. Differentiating between projection, power, and volume.

Vocal Strain, how to solve it. Racing and speaking too quickly. Concerns for public speakers who are straining their voices repeatedly or who are hard to hear even with a microphone.

Can't be heard, even with a microphone? Losing your voice?

Child-Like Voice

Top Five Most Annoying Vocal Habits

Vocal Fry became popularized as being 'normal' when the Kardashians lit up the screen. Is that a problem? Well, it's not a problem if you like the idea of your abdominal wall and pelvic floor flapping in the breeze like some lost plastic grocery bag on a windy day.