DailyGood

For the last 27 years, DailyGood newsletters have offered a daily email that inspires you to respond to life with creativity and kindness. To join a community of 148,378 subscribers, subscribe here.

Apr 28, 2023

"The voice is a wild thing. It can't be bred in captivity." --Willa Cather

Barbara McAfee: Voice as Vocation

A master voice coach, author, and singer/songwriter, Barbara McAfee has worked 25+ years midwiving voices across thresholds. Whether it is an individual seeking to express deep truth, or a group looking to embrace its power, she guides them on an intimate journey to find their unique voice, sound by primal sound. Your voice is how you get the gift inside of you out. Nothing much happens in the world until someone gives it voice. Thats why the words voice and vocation share a common Latin root, she says. Her work merges lessons from organization development with the transformative power of sound, aiming to foster awareness of unconscious vocal habits that interfere with us doing our best work. Barbara believes that the gifts uniquely expressed through our voices are part of a shared destiny. So when individual voices are more fully expressed, communities become stronger as well. More in this in-depth interview with Barbara.