A stronger, more confident way to use your voice.

I first started noticing the symptoms in late 1998. It was the same stretch as a bully boss, serious stress and anxiety at work, and a lot of vocal abuse on the radio. I was screaming at the top of my lungs every night. That was the job.

It took forever to get a proper diagnosis. First they treated me for allergies and a deviated septum because of the drainage, the thick mucus and the inflamed cords. Doctor after doctor. Scan after scan. The name finally landed in early 2000: Spasmodic Dysphonia — also called Laryngeal Dystonia.

Before that I hid it. Badly. Alcohol relaxed the cords and the nervous system enough to get through a show. That was the workaround. It was not a solution.

When I heard about Botox I thought I could live a normal life and salvage the career. The first shot immobilized my voice. Completely. I got pulled off the air. I had to reveal the condition. At the end of the year I was terminated.

What followed was a long search for treatment without another needle in the cords. It was not pretty and it was not linear. Acupuncture. Hypnosis. Anything that might give me another route.

I pulled from a lot of places. Some of it was built for people with Spasmodic Dysphonia. Some of it was not designed for this at all — instructors, philosophers, voice work aimed at somebody else — and it still helped. The useful test was never “was this made for SD?” It was “does my voice work better after I do it?”

No single trick fixed this. The ratio changed because I kept what worked and dropped what didn’t.

I still have bad days with Spasmodic Dysphonia. I just have more good days than bad now, because of the exercises.

I still host live events. The voice has to work in a real room, not just on a good recording day. That is why I share the exercises, and that is why I now offer private coaching.