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Vocal Health for Singers
Long-form conversations with speech-language pathologists, voice clinicians, and working vocalists — about how the voice actually works, what wears it down, and what keeps it on stage.
Latest Episode
Perfectionism Is Killing Your Voice
Crystal Barron — somatic vocal coach, NCVS-trained vocologist, founder of CrystalVoice Studio, voice instructor in USC Thornton’s Popular Music program
Years of vocal injury as a teenager, a body that wouldn’t cooperate, the wrong kind of trying — Crystal on why perfectionism shuts a voice down, the 1-to-10 “readiness” check-in she uses with students, and why your vocal folds are wired straight into fight-or-flight.
Watch the full episode →Why This Show Exists
Straight answers about the voice, from people qualified to give them.
Clinical guests, real credentials
Our guests are CCC‑SLPs, voice-care clinicians, and university voice faculty. When we talk about the voice, we ask the people who examine voices for a living.
Working voices
Vocal coaches and performers who depend on their instrument every night — what their routines actually look like when the stakes are real.
Physiology over folklore
Singers inherit a lot of advice that’s never been checked. We put the folklore next to what clinicians actually see, and let the conversation sort it out.
The Guests
Clinicians, coaches, and professionals of the voice.
Your Host
Aaron Schumacher
Working musician and founder of VocalShop. The team bringing you VocalShop has been supporting voices for 8+ years — 100,000+ voice users. VocalTalk is the long-form version of the conversations we have every day.
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