As the creator of the Vocal Awareness Method, I have been teaching about the Power Of Voice for over 5 decades. This extraordinary Work that I have been privileged to shepherd all these years, teaches virtually everything there is to know about Voice. Whether one seeks to study this Method to enhance their leadership skills,…
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It’s appropriate that I write this latest blog today, 2/24/2020, as it is the day of the Memorial for Kobe Bryant and his daughter Gianna who tragically lost their lives January 26 along with 7 close friends. This past Saturday 2/22 was another tribute. This one a tribute to another great basketball player, my student…
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The other day I was writing a commencement address with the President of a global hotel chain. Even though he was studying with me, I learned so much from working with him. Something he said in the closing remarks of his address to the student body were: “I can live my life the way I…
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Throughout my life I have always taught that the integration of mind/body/spirit is fundamental to personal Mastery. To teach it, I also strive to live these same principles. There is a Hindu proverb that says: “Be mindful of your thoughts, for your thoughts will become your words. Be mindful of your words, for your words…
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This weekend I was sharing a story with a nephew, of an extraordinary moment in my life a number of years ago when I was a Professor in the Theatre School at the University of Southern California. I had just finished teaching my first Vocal Awareness class and was standing stage right in the Bing…
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I recently watched a documentary about the seminal Broadway composer, Stephen Sondheim. Stephen Sondheim is as important to the last 50 years of musical theatre as Rodgers and Hammerstein were to the previous 50 years. He, as they did,changed the course of musical theatre. In the documentary, Mr. Sondheim made the following statement, “The only reason to write…
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I recently closed my 2020 annual New Year’s letter with the following thought—that in Vocal Awareness, “The Journey is never outward {toward achievement of our goals}, rather always and only inward toward discovery of the Deeper Self.” The point simply being—when we live in the integrity of our possibility—our outcome is assured. To harness…
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“We don’t simply drop a rock in the water and it sinks to the bottom. Rather, it creates concentric rings across the surface of the pond, touching everything it comes in contact with.” I was having a video chat with a student the other day, whom I hadn’t spoken with in several months. With tears…
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