The Voice Coach Podcast
by Nic Redman
You found it – well done! The Voice Coach Podcast is your bitesize fix for vocal confidence, speaking nerves, and all those “why do I sound like that?!” moments.Hosted by Nic Redman - voice coach, speaking director and author of On The Mic - each short, practical episode helps you own your voice and accent. You’ll get simple, actionable voice tips to calm nerves, find your natural tone, and feel good speaking on the microphone mic or in front of people.This podcast is for you if:– You hate the sound of your own voice when you hear it back.– Nerves make you go high-pitched, monotone or too quiet.– You lose your voice or get tired halfway through recording or speaking.– You want to sound confident and engaging on your podcast or at work.– You’re sick of overthinking how you speak and just want it to feel easy.Whether you’re hosting a podcast, pitching your business, leading your team, or nailing your next presentation, these short episodes will help you speak with clarity, confid
Episodes
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088 Is Steaming or Nebulising Better for Your Vocal Health?
This is a question I get asked a lot: what is better for my vocal health, steaming or nebulising? You'll learn the difference between them, how they affect the vocal tract and the voice, and how to do them properly. I also share my nebulising and steaming routines, which moment of the day is…
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087 How a Vocal Warm Up Can Save You Time
Are you one of those who "can't find the time" to do a proper voice warm up? If so, listen to today's episode, because I'll teach you how your vocal warm up can actually help you save time and how to blend it with your morning routines and holistic practices. What You'll Learn In This Episode:...
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086 5 Mistakes People Make When Warming Up Their Voice
This week, I'm sharing five of the most common mistakes I see people making in their speaking voice warm ups. I'll explain why you shouldn't extend your warm ups for too long, improvise and go without a plan or focus exclusively on your vocal folds. I’ll also share my thoughts on singing to warm...
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085 Why Does My Voice Get Higher when I'm Nervous or Emotional?
In today's episode, I'll answer why your voice gets to a higher pitch whenever you are nervous or emotional, and how to gain more control over it in these situations. I'll also share three things you can do to counteract the effect of those emotions in your voice, which will help you in the…
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084 Tips for Managing Reflux and its Effects on Your Speaking Voice
In this episode, I'll share my top tips to prevent reflux during the holiday season. You'll also learn how reflux affects your voicing, how to adjust your routine to avoid experiencing it throughout the year, and more. What Is Covered: What is Laryngopharyngeal reflux and how can it affect your...
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083 How to Have a Good Time at the Christmas Party and Still Have a Voice the Next Day
This week, I bring some tips to enjoy yourself during the holiday season and take care of your voice at the same time. You’ll learn how to be ready for your end-of-the-year voice gigs, avoid getting sick and conduct yourself at parties without risking the health of your voice. What Is Covered…
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082 Gifts for VOs, Podcasters and Speakers just in Time for Christmas
This week, I'll share six gift options you can give your voiceover artist, podcaster, or voice-dubber friend this Christmas. From voice-caring devices to performance enhancers, you can rely on this wishlist to save you and your loved one from that awkward moment when they open their presents to...
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081 Non-Voice Books to Read to Help with Your Voice Training Journey
This week, to keep things on the book recommendation trail going, I'll share three non-voice books you should add to your library to help you improve your voice training journey. What We Cover: - Understand the marks trauma has left in your body with The Body Keeps the Score by Bessel van der…
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080 5 Books to Read to Train Your Voice for Speaking
In today's short and sweet episode, I'll go through five of my favourite books for voice training. You'll learn about really accessible, easy-to-follow and practical resources with plenty of voice exercises and science-based recommendations. What You Will Learn: - How to approach your voicing...
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079 5 Exercises to Prepare Your Voice for Interviews and Press Opportunities
What to do when you are called last minute for a voice gig, to host a meeting or get interviewed, and you don't have much time to go through a proper voice warm up but still want to sound fantastic? Today is your lucky day, because I'll teach you 5 exercises to warm up dead quick. What You Will...
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078 Tips for Building Vocal Stamina and Reducing Vocal Tiredness
If you speak mainly on a microphone and you don't need to be heard in a massive outdoor space, it'll be fair to assume your voice will do fine for the most part. But if you must speak for long hours, doing several hours of recordings in a row, your voice will most likely get tired. In today's...
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077 How to Ensure Your Warm Up Is Working for You
As a speaker, the most empowering thing you can do with your voice is to know it like the palm of your hand and how to take care of it. Today's episode is a guide to help you check your voice, see where you could improve your voice care, and ensure solid and consistent performances. What You Will...
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076 The Vocal Empowerment Series - Nic's Chat to... Caroline Goyder!
Today, in the last installment of the Vocal Empowerment Series, I have the pleasure of chatting with the voice expert and best-selling author Caroline Goyder. We explore the crucial role of the body in vocal empowerment, how imposter syndrome affects our voicing abilities, and what gravitas…
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075 The Vocal Empowerment Series - Nic Chats to Samara Bay!
My guest Samara Bay is an Author, Coach, Podcast Host and International Speaker. We delve into Samara's passion for studying accents and their origins, how we relate to the sounds we hear, and how we are socially conditioned to think about them. We talk about the social phenomena of judging and...
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074 The Vocal Empowerment Series - Nic’s Chat to Tor Spence of VoiceFitUK
Today I share the best parts of my conversation with the brilliant Tor Spence, Voice and Upper Airway Specialist, and the Founder of VoiceFit Private Speech Therapy Services. We delve into some voice health issues like reflux, its causes, how to identify it, and the consequences of it being...
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073 Making Your Voice Warm Up a Habit
Today's episode is all about habits and how to incorporate your vocal warm ups and voice care into your daily routines. I'll share a few tips to help you make space in your day and turn your voice work more habitual. I’ll also talk about navigating new habits using timers, rewards, a warm up...
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072 How to Keep Recording and Speaking Safely When You've Got a Cold
This week, we'll explore the ways to keep your voice safe and functioning while dealing with a cold. I’ll talk about how to deal with your clients, listeners and colleagues' needs and expectations, how to reduce the impact on your voice of recording during illness, and what you can do to…
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071 Why Should I Do a Vocal Warm Up?
Today I'll answer the question everyone I come across asks: why should I do a vocal warm up? We'll explore the effects vocal warm ups have on the physical aspect of voicing as well as your mental preparation, and I'll share the three not-so-obvious reasons why doing a proper vocal warm up really...
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070 How to Reduce Pops on the Microphone
This week, we'll learn to deal with the popping plosives. We'll overlook mic placement and other silly techniques to reduce plosives and we'll go right at the source of the issue, our lips. I'll share an exercise to help you release the plosives with more ease, reducing the popping sound on the…
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069 How to Eliminate Mouth Noises and Clicks when Recording
This week's episode is all about mouth noises. We'll focus on three most common - saliva clicks, nasal farts, and behavioural lips and tongue smacks. We'll learn to identify and understand why we produce them and focus on what we can do to avoid them. What You Will Learn In This Episode: - The...
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068 How to Have Enough Breath for Longer Phrases
Have you noticed that you never run out of breath in the middle of a sentence, but you do when you have to record a long-phrase written by somebody else? In today's episode, I'll reveal why this happens and I'll share three exercises that will help you get to the end of any phrase with plenty of...
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067 How to Master Your Vocal Warm Up
Today, I'll answer one of the questions I get a lot during my one-on-one coaching sessions: how do I know what to do during my warm up? Although the answer is quite simple: awareness, it leads to three less simple things we should be aware of to perform the perfect warm up for us. After listening...
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066 Tips for Speaking and Performing Outdoors
This week, I'll share some tips to take care of and get your voice ready for outdoor speaking. I'll separate them into two groups, the first one for taking care of your voice, and the sendo one for your performance and delivery. After listening to this episode, you'll be able to keep your voice...
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065 Articulation Exercises for Clearer Speech
Sometimes, we might find it challenging to get our mouth around certain words, or during a recording session, we keep on stumbling over the same words, and we feel strongly about throwing the microphone out the window. So, to prevent us from unleashing our frustration on our recording setup, I'll...
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064 How to Use Consonants for More than Just Clarity of Speech
This week, we'll explore how consonants feel on their own, using the same words we used to explore vowels in the previous episode, using feet, mouth, syllable, and of course, the fragment of Shakespeare's Sonnet 18: Shall I compare thee to a summer's day? Just as with the vowels, we'll explore…
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063 How to Have a More Expressive Voice Using the Vowel Sounds
In today's episode, we'll go through a wonderfully ridiculous exercise on exploring the sounds of vowels. We'll exercise with mono and multisyllabic words, and then tie them together in a sentence. This exercise is beneficial for those moments when we feel disconnected from the words we are...
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062 What are Vowels and Consonants and What do They Mean for Your Speaking
This week, after the Christmas, podcast birthday and Valentine's Day's hiatus, we get straight back into the step-by-step voice training process. We’ll pick up right where we left back in episode 48 to start with sound shaping. In this episode, we'll revisit what consonants and vowels are and…
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061 How to Love Your Voice
Today's episode, on Valentine's Day, is all about love. I'll share three tips to fall in love with your voice again and leave aside the mean comments and opinions that might be making you dislike the sound of your own voice. We'll explore the science behind why most of us don't enjoy the sound of...
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060 Checking In on Your Vocal Warm-Up Routine
In this episode, we'll do a little recap on warm-ups. We'll go through five questions that will help us structure our warm-up routine and create one that won't tire or bore us and that we'll find fun to do. For those new to the show, or those who don't know how to get your voices ready for work,...
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059 Talking Voice Training with Barbara Houseman - Part 2
Today's episode is the last part of our interview with Barbara Houseman, and it is also the closing of the celebrations for our first year together. We dive deep into voiceover and podcasting lands in this second part of our lovely encounter. Barbara shared golden nuggets and practical examples…
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058 Talking Voice Training with Barbara Houseman - Part 1
Continuing with our podcast's first anniversary celebrations, I'm honoured to bring Barbara Houseman to the show. She is a Voice, Text, and Acting Freelance Coach with over 40 years of experience, including six years at the Royal Shakespeare Company and many years coaching in West End. Barbara is...
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057 Vocal Health & Voice Training Chat with Dane Chalfin - Part 2
Today, continuing with our celebration week, we go through the second part of my interview with Dane Chalfin. In this part, Dane answers the previous episode's cliffhanger - are straws a good tool for warmups? He also shares his thoughts on post-pregnancy voice training, stuffed up nose and how…
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056 Vocal Health and Voice Training Chat with Dane Chalfin - Part 1
Our podcast turns one year old this week, and we are celebrating! We'll start our celebrations with an interview with Dane Chalfin we aired on The Voice and Accent Hub. Dane is a Vocal Rehabilitation Coach and Singing and Voice Teacher, a dear friend, and my first ever voice teacher. Today, in…
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055 Vocal Goals for the New Year
This week, following our voice plans for this year, we'll go through five questions to reflect on in 2022 to help us achieve our vocal goals. Setting and writing down these five questions can be used as a guide to be aware of what we intend to do with our voice this year and how to accomplish…
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054 Questions to Help you Reflect on Your Vocal Technique and Training
I believe New Year's resolutions add too much unnecessary pressure, so I don't do them anymore. Instead, I prefer reflecting on the year that ended and, based on the conclusions we can get from that, setting up some goals for the following year. So, in this first of a two-episode series on the…
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053 Body & Breath Meditation Reset
Today, in 2021's last episode, we will slow down a little bit. After whatever kind of celebration you had during Christmas, I thought it was a good idea to take a pause and have a moment of holistic awareness. So take a moment to check in with your body, your breath and make some space into your...
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052 3 Fun Games to Help Fit Your Voice Training in Over Christmas
Christmas is almost here, a time to celebrate and spend time with our loved ones. Still, that shouldn't be a reason to stop taking care of our voices. To keep things playful while caring for our voices during the holidays, I came up with three fun festive-themed voice games. What You Will Learn…
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051 Vocal Health Tips for Festive Season - Part 2
This week, we'll go through the second part of the Twelve Days of Tips-mas. We will debunk some myths about breathing, we'll learn the proper position for our chin while speaking, and remember to be mindful of releasing unnecessary tension. This also serves as a reminder to keep things playful…
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050 Vocal Health Tips for Festive Season - Part 1
Invaded by the Christmas spirit, I've decided to share with you 12 tips that will help you take care of your voice before, during, and after this holiday season that might get noisy and force us to eat, drink and speak more than we usually do. Today, we'll go through the first six of these vocal...
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049 How to Keep Your Voice Healthy During Panto Season
This episode comes on the back of a request from a lovely client who's headed off to panto-land for the festive season. Don’t know what panto is? Then listen to this episode. Know what panto is, but you’re not doing it? Still listen in, because a lot of the tips I’m sharing today are relatable…
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048 How Practising Consonant Exercises Can Save You Money
Now that we know the difference between obstructed and unobstructed sounds and voiced and unvoiced consonants, we'll jump back into the practical side of articulation. This articulation training will make our voice sound clearer. Therefore, we'll be asked to repeat ourselves less often, and we'll...
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047 What are Plosives and Fricatives?
This week, we will go through some necessary and exciting theories about sounds. After working with the basics of articulation, release and toning, the next natural step is learning about the sounds of words. In this show, we will divide our speaking sounds into two large groups, vowels and...
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046 How to Keep Your Voice Healthy During Cold and Flu Season
A cold caught me by surprise during my holidays! So as I'm on the edge of coming back to total health, I decided to dedicate this episode to how to look after your voice during cold and flu season. We will go through some helpful tips to look after your voice and prevent getting ill during the...
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045 How Taking a Break is Good for Your Voice
Today's episode is a special one because I'm recording it directly from my holidays. Our last Ultimate Voice Getaway Retreat helped me realise how important it is to spare some time to stay away from our everyday lives, relax, and focus only on one thing. What You Will Learn In This Episode…
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044 Tongue Twisters Do’s and Don’ts
Today, we will talk about the glorious, joyous, and crowd-pleaser tongue twister. We will go through my tongue twister do’s and don'ts, we will learn what kind of tongue twisters we should pick, which ones to avoid, how often we should change them, and much more. What You Will Learn In This...
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043 Articulation 010: Exploring and Energising the Soft Palate for Extra Vocal Clarity
This week, it’s time to shake our soft palate a wee bit. We will perform a couple of exploratory exercises to help the soft palate stay flexible and responsive. We will base these exercises on two sounds, focusing on what we feel when we go through them. What You Will Learn In This Episode…
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042 Articulation 009: Lip Exercises for Clarity of Speech
This week we are continuing with our toning exercises for the articulators. We will focus on the lips, and I will share one of the most loved exercises I've ever known, the “Pout-Nana Cat's bum-Clown”. We will go through these four exercises to help us gain responsiveness and clarity in the…
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041 Articulation 008: Gaining Control of the Tongue for Vocal Clarity
In the last few weeks, we covered all we needed to cover on awareness and releasing the articulators. Now it's time to move on, and today we will start learning about toning the articulators. We will begin with the tongue, and we will perform some explorative exercises to master the control of…
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040 Where to Find Some Free Taster Voice Lessons
I'm recording today’s episode on my birthday! We are also coming to the end of Back To Voice School Week, and I want to take this opportunity to thank all the participants, talk a bit about what we have done and what resources are still available for those who missed it. What You Will Learn In…
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039 Getting Your Voice Back in Shape After Summer
This week, I've decided to remind you of the main three things you need to check with your voice before autumn continues. We will go through a few things that you can ask yourself and that you can do to make sure you are in the right place for the rest of the year's lessons. What You Will Learn…
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About this show
You found it – well done! The Voice Coach Podcast is your bitesize fix for vocal confidence, speaking nerves, and all those “why do I sound like that?!” moments.Hosted by Nic Redman - voice coach, speaking director and author of On The Mic - each short, practical episode helps you own your voice and accent. You’ll get simple, actionable voice tips to calm nerves, find your natural tone, and feel good speaking on the microphone mic or in front of people.This podcast is for you if:– You hate the sound of your own voice when you hear it back.– Nerves make you go high-pitched, monotone or too quiet.– You lose your voice or get tired halfway through recording or speaking.– You want to sound confident and engaging on your podcast or at work.– You’re sick of overthinking how you speak and just want it to feel easy.Whether you’re hosting a podcast, pitching your business, leading your team, or nailing your next presentation, these short episodes will help you speak with clarity, confid
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