This Is A Voice

Communication, Connection & Creative Coaching - The best bits of This Is A Voice Season 12

Send us Fan Mail 🎙 This Is A Voice with Jeremy Fisher and Dr Gillyanne Kayes The podcast where we get vocal about voice. This special finale (Season 12 Episode 12) brin

The Unfiltered Reality of Running a Voice Training Business - What singing teachers do all week

Send us Fan Mail What does a real week look like when you run a vocal coaching business? In this episode, we take you behind the scenes of our actual working week, the

Do Singing Teachers & SLTs Do the Same Job? Overlap, Vocal Identity & Weird Exercises

Send us Fan Mail In vocal health and voice rehabilitation, where does the speech language therapist's role end and the singing teacher’s role begin? In part 2 of t

SLT versus Singing Teacher. Boundaries, Referral & Vocal Health

Send us Fan Mail What's the difference between a speech and language therapist (or pathologist) and a singing teacher? Where do those roles overlap and where should

When Singers Thrive. Michelle Robinson on Motivation, Teaching and Wellbeing in the Voice Studio

Send us Fan Mail In this episode of This Is A Voice, Jeremy Fisher and Dr Gillyanne Kayes welcome back psychologist Michelle Robinson for a deeper conversation about the

Why some singing lessons change your life and others break you

Send us Fan Mail What if the teacher-student relationship in a singing lesson is not just the backdrop to vocal training, but the engine that shapes confidence, motivati

Singer Interrupted - Love Singing & Hate Performing - here's why that matters

Send us Fan Mail In this episode of This Is A Voice (S12 Ep6), Jeremy Fisher and Dr Gillyanne Kayes continue the story from “The Secret Singer” (Ep5) and go deeper into

The "Not Good Enough" story and the recording never played - special guest episode

Send us Fan Mail In this episode of our This Is A Voice podcast, we do something we've never done before. We have a “special guest”, not in the studio but on a rec

When A Song Doesn't Land - What to look for and how to fix it

Send us Fan Mail Most singers can learn the notes and the words. That isn’t the part that gets in the way. The real block sits under the surface. It’s the moment where t

A Million Downloads - Then Burnout Hit. With Dr Marisa Lee Naismith

Send us Fan Mail Burnout can creep up quietly - until one day you realise you’ve got nothing left to give. In this honest, wide-ranging conversation, Dr Gillyanne Kayes

Student Burnout, Time Poverty & The Perfectionism Trap. With Dr Ayan Panja & Richard Delaney

Send us Fan Mail If you’ve ever felt exhausted, cynical or “not good enough,” this episode will help you spot the signs, set boundaries and start recovering - without gu

From Exhaustion to Recovery - Our Burnout Stories, with guest Franka van Essen

Send us Fan Mail Burnout isn’t just “being tired.” For many musicians, singers, and creatives, it creeps in quietly until suddenly you can’t think clearly, you can’t cre

Stop Chasing Perfection - Start Singing For Connection. With Melissa Forbes

Send us Fan Mail What does it take to be an effective singing leader?  Why is community music is so vital for social health?  How can positivity counteract our innate ne

Jazz, Research & Bucket-List Turns: The Moment Melissa Forbes Quit Law for Music

Send us Fan Mail Dr Melissa Forbes worked in law for 10 years until the firm's partner told a story about a bucket of water. That speech sent her straight to a jazz

Dealer's Choice. 5 years, 100+ episodes and our favourite vocal moments

Send us Fan Mail This isn’t just a podcast. It’s a five-year deep-dive into the voices, lives and lessons of singers, teachers and coaches around the world. In this spe

The Secret Voice Teacher Goldmine

Send us Fan Mail "One of the greatest repositories of knowledge for singing and for performance in existence" What if you had 700 expert voice teaching tools at your fi

Balancing Vocal Technique & Storytelling with GSA's Head of Singing

Send us Fan Mail 🎭 In this powerful episode of This Is A Voice, we welcome back Kevin Michael Cripps, Head of Singing at Guildford School of Acting (GSA), for a deep con

Training performers for the real musical theatre world - with Kevin Michael Cripps

Send us Fan Mail In this powerhouse episode, Kevin Michael Cripps, Head of Singing at Guildford School of Acting, joins Jeremy and Gillyanne for a deep dive into the rea

When Jeremy Broke ChatGPT: What AI Really Means for Singers and Teachers

Send us Fan Mail This is the MOST nervous Jeremy's ever been recording a podcast — and for good reason! In this deep, honest and funny conversation, Jeremy Fisher

A Voice Teacher's Dilemma: Rehab vs Overreach - with Mike Ruckles

Send us Fan Mail What actually happens in a top-tier vocal coach's studio? What is "crack sob" and why is it so common in Broadway belting? What's the deal wit