First Breath Speech - Better Voice Better Life

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Sinopse

First Breath Speech is a podcast for anyone looking to improve the way they speak and feel more comfortable in their own skin.Host Lauren Lovett speaks with a wide range of experts from casting directors, to yoga practitioners about how to harness the power of clear speech.

Episódios

  • Nourishment Exercises for Everyday

    13/05/2016 Duração: 22min

    We’re wrapping up our 6 month season and taking a little break to circle the wagons and cook up an even better show for you!   Jenny Walters is back and we’re talking about walking through your daily life and finding what is nourishing to you and what is depleting -- and as usual I want you to check in with your breath!   The Somatic Experiencing author Jenny mentions is Peter Levine (http://www.traumahealing.org/peter-a-levine-phd.php)   Don’t forget to sign up for the mailing list on the website (www.firstbreathspeech.com) We will miss you -- but you’re going to be on our minds and in our hearts! See you soon!

  • EP 24 - Tools to GROW on from me to YOU

    06/05/2016 Duração: 21min

    Books: Actor-y An Actor Prepares (Stanislavski) - tried and true about how NOT to act in novel form The Second Circle (Rodenburg) - prior recommend - about acting, being present and harnessing your life-force for good! Acting In Film (Caine) - it’s a quick read and some if it seems a bit trickster-like, but it’s a unique point of view about film acting from one who has been doing it for decades.   Human-y (modern classics) The Alchemist (Coelho) - if you haven’t read this yet, please do… now, please! The Catcher in the Rye (Salinger) - if you just skimmed this in middle or high school, go back and read it - great seamless example of transparent inner life. To Kill A Mockingbird (Lee) - story about prejudice vs. compassion - go back and read it!   (front list-ish) Between the World and Me (Coates) - OK I haven’t read this yet, but it’s on my nightstand and the reviews are nuts! Conceived in letter form from the author to his son. A Little Life (Yanagihara) - I’m not gonna lie, this book is loooong but the writ

  • EP 23 - A Story About Embracing Your Own Diverse Diversity

    29/04/2016 Duração: 44min

    How a delightful dancer from Columbia and a cunning production guy from Quebec created a successful multi-media entertainment company in LA. This is the story of Rene and Donald. Rene Veilleux and Donald Lopez are partners in business and in life. I went to their Verite Entertainment offices in the heart of Koreatown to get to know them and what they do (which is a helluva lot!). They share some great insights about what they look for when hiring actors…(Practice practice practice!)   Check out ALL they do here (http://veriteentertainment.net/) Like them! https://www.facebook.com/veriteentertainment/?fref=ts

  • EP 22 - How Important Is My Voice?

    22/04/2016 Duração: 18min

    This week it’s me talking to you about your voice. I’ve been noticing people are paying more attention to the way people sound -- especially with the growing popularity of podcasts -- and there have been many studies done of late about how your voice affects both listener and consequently, you. I give you some homework at the end of the Ep to help you become more aware and more in touch with your voice. Please send questions and comments to lauren@firstbreathspeech.com

  • EP 21 - Dazed and Confused is Ok

    15/04/2016 Duração: 22min

    This week Jenny Walters is back to help us break up the hard stones of self-criticism and just curious about our confusion.       From the Wiki for Sankhara: The Buddha taught that all such things are impermanent (arising and passing away, subject to change), are essenceless (not worthy of reifying attachment or aversion), and are not reliable sources of pleasure. Understanding the significance of this reality is wisdom. Saṅkhāra is often used in this first sense to describe the psychological conditioning (particularly the habit patterns of the unconscious mind) that gives any individual human being his or her unique character and make-up at any given time.   Jenny’s website: http://www.jadetree.la/jenny.html BIO Jenny Walters (Marriage and Family Therapist Intern (#80042) earned a B.F.A. from the University of Oregon, and an M.F.A. from University of Illinois at Chicago, before going on to earn a Masters Degree in Counseling Psychology with an emphasis in Depth Psychology from Pacifica Graduate Institute.

  • EP 20 - Web Series Chat with Best Supporting Actress Winner Darcie Siciliano

    08/04/2016 Duração: 41min

    This week it’s all about web series and all about winner for best supporting actress,Darcie Siciliano! We chat about her popular web series, He’s With Me (http://www.heswithme.tv/), and about how she learned to accept herself as one who does not fit in to typical “actress” molds, and how she got more comfortable about her own process.   Links: He’s With Me web series (http://www.heswithme.tv/) Indie Series Network (http://www.indieseriesnetwork.org/) Indie Series Awards (http://www.indieseriesawards.com/) Darcie Siciliano is a professional actress based in NYC who has had the privilege of collaborating on stage with Academy Award winner Alexander Dinelaris, Academy Award nominee Michael Weller and renowned actress Kathleen Chalfant; and on-screen with such acclaimed directors as Joe Pytka, Bob Giraldi and Neil Kraft.  She has recently completed her second season on the hit indie webseries HE'S WITH ME - for which she won an Indie Series Award for Best Supporting Actress in a Comedy, after being nominated twi

  • Ep 19 - Voice Over World, Part Two - Audiobooks with Nancy Linari

    01/04/2016 Duração: 27min

    In today’s episode, I have the pleasure of chatting with my pal Nancy Linari about voice-over and particularly the world of Audiobooks! Nancy began her career in Chicago with the famed improv comedy group, The Second City. She appeared in David Fincher’s Academy Award-winning The Social Network and Oliver Stone’s World Trade Center.  Her numerous television credits include guest-starring roles on Bones, Brothers & Sisters, Criminal Minds, Desperate Housewives, ER, Frasier, Fringe, Grey’s Anatomy, and Modern Family. On stage, Nancy has been seen in resident and touring productions at the revered Briar Street, Drury Lane, and Wisdom Bridge theaters in Chicago, and the Geffen, La Mirada, Canon and Victory theaters in Los Angeles. She originated the role of Myrna Thorn/Emily Block in “Ruthless! The Musical” a schizophrenic combination of an uptight, pill-popping 3rd grade teacher having a nervous breakdown, and a sexy, hardboiled newspaper reporter with the hots for the leading lady – all this in Bob Mackie d

  • EP 18 - Good Friday

    25/03/2016 Duração: 10min

    Hey Easy Speakers, Some recommendations from today’s Good Friday hodge-podge-cast! Podcasts I like: http://offcamera.com/ http://www.wtfpod.com/ http://www.onbeing.org/   Book oriented podcasts I like: http://booksonthenightstand.com/ http://bookriot.com/category/podcast/   Audio books: http://www.audible.com/ Song of Achilles (Miller) Paying Guests (Waters)   Check out the Hillary C post on the website: http://firstbreathspeech.com/voice-notes-on-our-us-political-candidates-part-one-hil/    Love Ya! Speak well….

  • EP 17 - Voice Over World, Part One with Joe Mortimer

    18/03/2016 Duração: 41min

    This week we talk to actor Joe Mortimer about how a jock from Philly ended up at grad school to study theater, and then on to LA where he launched a very successful career in voice-over (much to the surprise of his voice and speech teachers)! Joe Mortimer Joe Mortimer is a professional voice actor.  He can be heard on t.v.’s and radio’s trying to convince you to buy something.  He graduated from Temple University in Philadelphia and has an MFA from West Virginia University.  In his free time he enjoys writing and making shit up at Improv Olympic in LA.

  • EP 16 - Talking About Being Human

    11/03/2016 Duração: 36min

    In this episode my good friend Jenny Walters and I talk about being human. When I teach a class or workshop or coach a client, I am helping not only to open up the vocal instrument, but often times we get into opening up the psyche in regards to self-judging and holding onto old beliefs that don’t work, ideas that tend to manifest physically in the form of tension. Jenny, an artist and therapist, sheds some light about what goes on in the subconscious and how we might look to form a sense of safety internally so we can free ourselves and our voices from constriction. BIO Jenny Walters (Marriage and Family Therapist Intern (#80042) earned a B.F.A. from the University of Oregon, and an M.F.A. from University of Illinois at Chicago, before going on to earn a Masters Degree in Counseling Psychology with an emphasis in Depth Psychology from Pacifica Graduate Institute. She received depth psychological training at Counseling West in Sherman Oaks, CA and continues her training with Dr. Sam Rader in Los Angeles. Ad

  • EP 15 - Change Your Voice Change Your Life

    04/03/2016 Duração: 10min

    Following your fear vs following your bliss is what this episode is about. An email I got from Marie Forleo got me to thinking about fear related to our voices and how we speak, and how working on freeing our voices might well we worth the risks.

  • EP 14 - Pitch Perfect with Deb Setele

    26/02/2016 Duração: 25min

    This week we connect with screenwriter, Deb Setele to hear about her PitchFest experience. We get some great tips and take-aways about how to handle the stress when you’re pitching -- which goes for auditions too! Deborah Setele Screenwriter/Story Analyst Deborah started her career as a screenwriter by writing short stories in her bedroom as a kid. In an effort to become more social as a teenager, she studied acting in high school and then continued her acting and theatre studies at Virginia Tech. While her love of movies brought her to Los Angeles, she also wrote and performed sketch comedy. After some time bouncing around different day jobs, she landed at a production company where, as part of her job, she had to read screenplays every day. She then studied screenwriting, at UCLA Extension Writers’ Program where she earned a Certificate in Screenwriting. Her credits include the independent feature “G.I. Jesus” (winner of the grand jury prize at the Cinevegas Film Festival) and the short film “Latchkey.” In

  • EP 13 - America Young

    19/02/2016 Duração: 34min

    This week I’m talking to producer, director, actor, stunt-person, America Young. We talk about how she broke into the business from Nebraska of all places, and how she went from being accepted into med school to having 32 stunt credits on IMDB, and the importance of good relationships. America Young is currently working in many aspects of film-making. A show she co-created has been licensed by POW! (Stan Lee’s production Company) and Comediva. She has directed 5 entire web series, and episodes from two others. She has directed 2 music videos and 7 shorts. America is so excited that all her years of production experience and geek obsessions culminated into directing her first feature, a pop-culture comedy called, The Concessionaires Must Die!! which is now in post Her IMDB page is here and her women in film project is here:chimaeraproject.org

  • EP 12 - Your Voice and Your Vibrator

    12/02/2016 Duração: 30min

    This week I Skype with Elissa Weinzimmer, a vocal health specialist. She’s got a new program explaining in detail How Your Voice Works launching later this month. She’s also the co-creator of the Vibrant Voice Technique with David Ley where vibrators are used to improve your vocal production and resonance. Elissa attended the University of Southern California and after losing her voice she began to study and then became certified in Fitzmaurice Voicework ®.In 2012 she earned an MFA in Theatre Voice Pedagogy at the University of Alberta

  • EP 11 - Words from a Veteran Dialect Coach About Working on Big Sets

    05/02/2016 Duração: 19min

    This week I’m letting you in on a conversation I had with veteran dialect coach, Andrew Jack about being on big sets like Lord of the Rings and Star Wars. Check out his website here. I also tell you about how they found the sound for BB8 for the latest installment of SW. Here is the article in Post mag  

  • EP 10 - Cold Season

    29/01/2016 Duração: 04min

    Oh great, I’m sick!   Hello Easy Speakers, So this week I’ve been overcome by the dreaded seasonal cold. Those of you out in snowy places are permitted to snicker at our LA “seasons” but it the temps out here do shift and that shifting has an effect on your bod. If you’re like me, you get a bit frustrated with the whole runny nose hazy existence BS, and that frustration can turn into white hot fear if you have to perform, present or say… record a podcast episode.   This week the Ep will be short so you don’t have too much sniffling in your ears, but I thought we should cover what do about your voice if you’re sick.   Tips: Steam -- If you’ve ever seen the movie Terms of Endearment you may remember the most unromantic shower scene in movie history. No naked bodies here, folks! Debra Winger and Jeff Daniels in the heat-clouded bathroom next to the running hot shower. They’re there because their baby has a bad cough and Debra is trying to use the steam to break through the mucus so the tyke can breathe clearly

  • EP 09 - Get Clear

    22/01/2016 Duração: 17min

    This week I wanted to broach the topic of Clarity. Most of us interested in vocal production and accent management are interested in being clear when we speak, right? Well I believe clarity begins inside us with our intention -- before we can communicate clearly we need to be clear about our intention, in our message that is born in our body-mind.   The teacher I mention is Patsy Rodenburg and the book is: The Second Circle, How to use positive energy for success in every situation   Send me comments and questions!

  • EP 08 - Interview with Teen Wolf actress, Maya Eshet

    15/01/2016 Duração: 33min

    This week we are visited my actor, Maya Eshet who plays Meredith on the series Teen Wolf (MTV). We talk (and laugh) about her first auditions in LA and her continuous and very specific work on her accent. She offers some great observations about getting started with your career and about waiting for the “right” moment. Maya Eshet is an Israeli actress best known for her role as Meredith Walker on the MTV series, Teen Wolf. She has also appeared in such films as Voices from the Heartland and Bro What Happened as well as many plays including Shakespeare's A Winter's Tale. She attended The Stella Adler Art of Acting studios in New York, and now lives with her husband in North Hollywood.

  • EP 07 - Your Own Uniqueness is Important

    08/01/2016 Duração: 42min

    In this Episode, Phillip Charles MacKenzie talks about the camera and how…”it really looks into your soul, and your soul better be available...” We talk about starting out with co-star roles and why owning your uniqueness, even when the role is small, is important and can get you more work. Philip Charles MacKenzie is an award winning actor and director. After graduating with an MFA from the Tisch School of the Arts Graduate Acting Program, he worked as an actor in regional theatre, the New York stage and in such films as "Dog Day Afternoon". Moving to Los Angeles, he appeared in many of the most popular shows on television; "Cheers", "Family Ties", "Bosom Buddies", "Three's Company", "Remington Steele", "Newhart", "St. Elsewhere” as well as several Movies for Television. He was also a regular cast member in nine pilots and several short-lived series. He played the role of the flamboyantly gay character Donald Maltby on the groundbreaking and critically acclaimed comedy series "Brothers" for the Showtime Net

  • EP 05 - Accent Management & Vocal Production 101 - You Gotta Listen to This

    18/12/2015 Duração: 20min

    In this episode Lauren talks directly to you -- a bit about breathing, vocal placement and the first steps toward accent management. Please email us with questions after you listen and don’t forget to sign up for our mailing list on www.firstbreathspeech.com so you can get your free gift on Dec 24th!

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