Mentor Matchmaking
The Creative Voice has a dedicated team of Artist Mentors in our community, available for coaching through our programs, or their own service offerings.
These mentors co-create content, offer insightful courses, and provide assistance in the development of teaching materials.
Interested in connecting? Join an upcoming workshop or email us to learn about how we can match you with the right Artist Mentor.
Voice Mentor: Kendra Chantelle
Voice Mentor: Stephanie Kong
Voice Mentor: Soph Gonzalez
The Creative Voice Manifesto
What will you find inside The Creative Voice? A value system rooted in loving your voice through radical self acceptance, compassion, and a deconstructed view of standardized voice training and education. Why? We’ve found through years of coaching artists, and seeking mentorship with experienced Voice Educators, that for most, vocal freedom is found in liberating a mindset rooted in perfectionism and hierarchal thinking. Music is our bloodline, singing is our birthright. We musn’t let anyone, or any type of idealism, shame this within us.
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Your voice is our mind, body, breath, energy, belief system, core values, shape of your tongue, state of hydration for the day. Your voice is fully encompassing of all of the parts of you, and you deserve love.
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The term “voiceworker” can easily apply to any human who finds their self-awareness and development best through the investigation of voice, art, creativity, and holy creative flow. It’s ever expansive work that shows up more and more as you grow and try to break through to becoming your favorite you. At the Creative Voice we aim to choose voicework over discomfort by engaging in our truth and integrity when it is the most scary and intimidating to do so.
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The creeks and cracks in your voice, just like your fears and hesitations, are pathways and invitations for your continued self discovery and resilience.
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How can you be creative and serve others the fierceness that is you, if you can’t pay your electricity bill? We’re here to defy the Artist Struggle mentality and build income streams that empower our lives and hold our value.
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Creative people need creative tools to help them reconnect with their voice and self expression. We need time to talk, create, express, and lead. We don’t always need this space with a Therapist, sometimes we need a community circle, songwriting session, writing prompt. Our healing tools are unique to us.
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No one knows your voice better than you. Only you can observe, sense, and feel your instrument, and through these observations, you have deeper, more informed insight than any teacher could ever share. Let this knowing inform how you let others speak about your voice.
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Many of us grew up believing perfectionism was a key way to become a more excellent and more disciplined artist and person. Instead, many of us embodied tenants of supremacy and colonialism through this mindset. We must fight to break the cycle by unapologetically loving our voice and loving one another through messages of “imperfection” and a desire to self sacrifice in order to be loved.
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Creatives are often pit against one another. We compete in game shows, in auditions, for clients in our areas, for gigs. Institutionalized art making can lead to competition, loneliness, isolation, and a lack of community support which is what fuels the life of a working artist. We’re here to explore what it means to truly work together and uplift one another.
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It is deeply important to document your life. Your voice, your experiences, your heiroglyphs on the wall are a message to future voiceworkers.
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Writing music is accessible to you. It is also a pathway to the divine and a pathway to a deeper connection with music.
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Transforming your relationship with death - shifts your relationship with your voice, your life, and your art. We choose to let life and the reality of death be present in our daily life in order to expand how we talk and make art about the world.