Why I Love Voice Coaching There are many reasons why I love voice coaching: I love helping people who are scared, how to do their business presentations ... I love teaching people how easy it is to reduce their accent and acquire a more neutral British accent, that won't pigeonhole them! I love teaching voice [...]
Clever People Talk Quickly Clever people talk quickly - it's a fact of life. Clever people talk quickly, because their brains work quickly - like they have have an i7 processor (latest speeds of computers' abilities to process information ) rather than an i5 or even an i3. Clients often come to me saying, "I [...]
Easter Break Audio Treats ... that won't make you fat! Here are a list of Easter Break Audio Treats - performed by people with great voices to learn from.. So sit back, kick your shoes off, click on a title you fancy and indulge! ... with absolutely no guilt... while you feast :) In [...]
Learning A Well Educated English Accent Can someone really learn a well educated English accent and so change the way people perceive them? Yes they can. I currently have a delightful Russian student, who came to me speaking in an accent that sounded rather like a cocktail of the Midlands, mixed with the East End [...]
Rachel taught me A Well Educated English Accent My name is Alex and although I am Russian and grew up there, under Rachel's guidance, I can now speak with a well educated English accent on a daily basis. I can now sound as if I had attended a top English private school and then Oxford [...]
Changing Your Voice If you want to see one of the best examples of changing your voice, go and see the successful and well known Irish actor Garrett Phillips, do an incredibly accurate impersonation of the late and great, Frank Sinatra in The Rat Pack Live from Las Vegas at the Theatre Royal, Haymarket, London. [...]
Accent Softening The BBC called me this morning, asking me to do an interview, about accent softening, as Professor Sophie K Scott of the Institute of Cognitive Neuroscience part of University College London, has just published a report on how people's career advancement, really is deeply enhanced by them neutralising their regional accent, in other [...]
Are You Frightened of Public Speaking? Tricks & Treats For Public Speaking Are you frightened of Public Speaking and dread it when you know you are going to have to do it? This is a very common problem. Public Speaking can be terrifying if you don't know what you are doing or have techniques to [...]
Did You Know Listening To And Watching is A Great Way To Improve Your Speech? I've been listening to and watching, The Last Post on BBC 1, Sunday evenings at 9pm, which is a great show to improve your speech and, entertaining and disturbing in equal measures. To improve your speech, this really is an [...]
How to Perform Public Speaking (With or Without A Dry Throat) Last week the Daily Telegraph called me, to interview me, on how Theresa May could have coped public speaking, with a dry throat. Water, water and more water – is the simple answer. Lozenges work because they make you swallow, but water is much [...]
