EP 23: Hollywood’s Go-To Guy for All Things Voice, David Coury

“When you use your voice, you get closer to the truth,” says today’s guest David Coury, acting coach extraordinaire, whose class, as part of the Howard Fine studio, helped host John Corella remember his own authentic voice. Today he joins the Dance Dad with John Corella podcast to explain that when we speak in our own unique, authentic voices—whether it’s in acting, the arts, or in everyday life—we are not only connecting to the core of who we are but we are fulfilling the dream of our ancestors. After all, sound and the speech that grows from it, was born long before us and is infinite.   When not speaking in his own words, Mr. Coury has a wealth of quotes from luminaries, from Hemingway to Emily Dickinson to Shakespeare, to help illuminate his invaluable wisdom which he shares with listeners today. He discusses the importance of speaking before thinking, of “experiencing” words beyond their dictionary definition, and how finding our voices can transform us and set us free in ways we can hardly imagine.   “We all have brilliance just on the tip of our tongues,” Mr. Coury says. Join today’s episode to learn more about how you can tap into your own brilliance and speak your truth, fearlessly, to the world.    Quotes “When you vocalize, you do actualize.” (8:23 | David Coury) “There’s a time and place to tell others certain truths. However, it’s always the time and place to tell yourself the truth. When I first cite Shakespeare’s words, ‘Speak what we feel, not what we ought to say,’ we are so practiced at speaking what we probably should say, ought to say in public. Privately, to ourselves, we tend not to actually speak to ourselves what we’re actually feeling.” (13:59 | David Coury) “Well, we all are born with a word etched across our soul.” (31:58 | David Coury) “I use quotes because what I came to realize is there was a responsibility to define voice for people, that it’s not just sound. It’s not ‘sound and sensibility,’ it’s sensibility which gives way to sound. All internal expression gives way to external. Nothing appears out of nowhere, it gets ignited out of nowhere. So, it’s a lived experience.” (32:20 | David Coury) “We are our ancestors’ dreams—with an iPhone—but we are our ancestors’ dreams. What I know—what I know—to be about life is that this is ancient. Before there was even the gift of speech, there was the gift of sound…It all came from a need. And I say ‘the need is the seed.’ So, how I promote that and allow people to understand that it’s ancient, this thing—you want to call it ‘voice’—it’s been around forever. So, I use other peoples’ words to say, ‘See? See? See? There it is.’”  (36:08 | David Coury) “Another thing I think I’ve learned from finding my voice, from your class, is that when other people use their voice and I can sense that they're using their voice similar to me, even if I don’t agree with it, I respect it.” (48:36 | John Corella)   Links Connect with David Coury: https://www.howardfine.com/ https://www.instagram.com/mrcoury/   Dance Dad with John Corella on Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/dancedadwithjohncorella/ John on Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/john_corella/ Podcast production and show notes provided by HiveCast.fm