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On The Breath
by SJ Harrison
On the Breath is an intimate exploration of vocal empowerment through personal conversations! Hosted by voice coach, actor and playwright SJ Harrison, On the Breath aims to inspire, delight and inform. Our diverse range of guests include artists, entrepreneurs and business professionals. Voice is emotional, intellectual and physical. Attending to our voices engages us in an ongoing transformative journey. Does this provoke thoughts such as: “Am I attending to my voice? What does this mean? How do others experience this?” Tune in to learn more!
Episodes
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S2 Ep8. Public Speaking for Aphantasia & the Highly Visual, with special guests
A mulitgenerational, neurodiverse season finale! How to use imagery to remember what to say when Public Speaking and Presenting. Two personal perspectives: my teenage son and my partner share their experiences with the visual world and public speaking. What is aphantasia and hyperphantasia? How…
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S2 Ep7. A Shy Introvert Puts Her Work Into the World, with Sarah Preston
Listen now | to this actor, writer & producer as she talks to me about voice & writer’s process. Hear how she challenges herself to put her work into the world as a strong introvert and be inspired! Sarah talks about a disempowering moment with voice and what she did about it, as she fills us in…
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S2 Ep 6. How We Change the World, with Dawnette Palmore
Whose voice does Dawnette love most? “It's the voice of women who truly empower others.” Never underestimate your personal impact, as a parent, as a partner, as a person. Waking up one morning, Dawnette decided to change her family’s financial situation. Now she empowers others by helping them to...
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S2 Ep 5. Secrets of Empowered Performance for Speakers & Actors, with SJ Harrison
Selfish Actors VS Powerful Speakers! In this 'how to' episode Joan Cardellino speaks about her transformation in public speaking, and Josiah Darwish discusses her transformation in acting for film. I share a theatre anecdote that exemplifies how your context matters and we investigate how to...
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S2 Ep4. Behind the Scenes, with Indira Varma
“Not everyone can like you and that’s ok”. In this intimate behind the scenes conversation with Indira Varma, we get an inside look at her approach to acting, discuss the wonders of the voice in life and death, the power of listening onstage, Indy’s abiding love of voiceover & radio, her…
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S2 Sp3. Voice & the Hero’s Journey, with Nicky Pattinson
Is it possible to sell with sincerity? “Shouldn’t every moment be a magical moment of love and that’s created by the voice?" And what a voice! During the Thatcher years, Nicky ran a market stall selling cookies in the North of England. Nicky used her voice to convey belonging and validation to…
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S2 Ep2. Investigating Our Multicultural Identities, with Zeina Azzam
An artistic life lived at the intersection between languages and cultures: Zeina Azzam, a deeply thoughtful presence, reads several of her visually evocative poems. We discuss synesthesia, Zeina's experience of speaking under threatening circumstances, how we often pour our identity into our...
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S2 Ep1. Navigating Art and Love, with Tanya Moodie
All the feels! A rich and jam packed episode in which Tanya Moodie gives us the view through her unique lens of the craft of acting and takes a deep dive into the personal. We discuss how what goes on in the psyche, goes on in the voice, wearing black to disappear, the vulnerability of using our...
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Season 2 Teaser
Season 2 is shaping up to be deep dive into the personal lives of my guests as well as highlighting their diverse experience of voice. I speak to two voice experts, actors at the top of their game, Tanya Moodie, who was recently in the film Empire of Light and Indira Varma, who is known for Game…
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S1 Ep. 8: Putting Your Work Out into the World, with Adrian Hooke
Putting our work out into the world can be personally empowering - yet we often run the gamut of difficult emotions when we do so. “Sitting in vulnerability when we communicate, our voice becomes very clear.” In this sweet conversation with New Zealand actor, writer and producer Adrian Hooke, we...
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S1 Ep 7: from People Pleaser to Authentic Communicator, With Allison Kinnear
How the word POLITE can be an acronym for Pissed Off Later In The Evening! Alli shares how her air of confident extroversion masked high anxiety when she worked at Google. We discuss how we've learned to listen to the voices in our heads, and how setting boundaries improves relationships. Here…
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S1 Ep 6: The Healing Power of Beatboxing, With Carlos Aguirre
Chatting to actor, rapper and teaching artist Carlos Aguirre about beatboxing, BBC plays, voiceover, embodied performance, learning the hard way that less is more, and mental health. Carlos asks me to share some personal moments: when my accent has worked against me. Best of all, Carlos exposes…
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S1 Ep 5: The Voices I Love, with SJ Harrison (feat. Maggie Smith, Haluk Bilginer, Lee Sun-Kyun and more)!
In this celebration of voice, I share 8 of my favorite ones with you! We explore how the most interesting voices may not be classically beautiful. Listen to some elder actors who have lived with their voices a long time, and compare their younger voices with their current ones. We'll also hear…
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S1 Ep 4: The Power of Being Yourself, With Danusha Laméris
Best friends since the age of nine, it's my pleasure to present to you this intimate conversation with poet Danusha Laméris. One of my favorite moments of this interview is when Danusha says "Every poet was a person who once felt they didn't have a voice". We discuss how our lifelong friendship…
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S1 Ep 3: Overcoming my Stammer to Become an Award Winning Speaker, With Carl Richards
Did you know that there are many well-known speakers who once had a speech impediment? Carl Richards is an award-winning speaker from Canada, podcast strategist and coach. Carl shares deep wisdom from his personal experience of stammering as a kid. We discuss how empowering it is to be aware of...
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S1 Ep 2: I Found my Most Empowered Voice During the Pandemic, With Ajanta Chakraborty
Ajanta Chakraborty is co-founder of Bolly & Culture Groove. In this interview with my friend, we celebrate the marriage of art and business and address the shame people have around earning money with their art towards successful entrepreneurship. Ajanta shares with us how she and her husband…
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S1 Ep 1: How I Learned to Use my Voice in Advertising, With Mark Montgomery French:
Mark Montgomery French, film composer, podcaster, music historian and YouTuber discusses his most empowered and disempowered moments with voice, including a very wise thing that his mother did when he was 10, his wedding, busting the myth that you can't make money with your art and how clarity of...
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Welcome to On The Breath
"On the Breath is my opportunity to introduce you to a wide range of experiences and professional choices, seen through the lens of empowering one's own self expression - not only are the people diverse, but the voices are as well." - SJ Harrison
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ABOUT THIS SHOW
On the Breath is an intimate exploration of vocal empowerment through personal conversations! Hosted by voice coach, actor and playwright SJ Harrison, On the Breath aims to inspire, delight and inform. Our diverse range of guests include artists, entrepreneurs and business professionals. Voice is emotional, intellectual and physical. Attending to our voices engages us in an ongoing transformative journey. Does this provoke thoughts such as: “Am I attending to my voice? What does this mean? How do others experience this?” Tune in to learn more!
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On the Breath is an intimate exploration of vocal empowerment through personal conversations! Hosted by voice coach, actor and playwright SJ Harrison, On the Breath aims to inspire, delight and inform. Our diverse range of guests include artists, entrepreneurs and business professionals. Voice is...
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