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This podcast episode is about women empowerment and healing through podcasting. The guest, Susan Warning, is a healer, musician, teacher, and stylist. She discusses how her background in psychology, teaching, and holistic healing informs her work in voice performance and podcasting. Susan emphasizes that the voice contains energy and frequency, which can be felt by others. She uses her voice to connect with and heal her clients, adapting it to be culturally and personality sensitive. Through podcasting, Susan believes that women can find their own voice and feel empowered to be louder, stronger, and more assertive. The podcast medium provides a safe space for women to express themselves and connect with others without judgment. First up, full disclosure, today's discussion and podcast is not a psychology session or podcast. Rather, it is a discussion about women empowerment and healing, especially through podcasting. So with that sorted, let's start the discussion about vocal performance and podcasts and how it can offer healing and empowerment for women. And I have Susan Warning with me. Susan is a healer, musician, teacher, and stylist. Susan, thank you so much for being willing to take part in today's discussion. My absolute pleasure. And I'm so excited to be speaking with you today about voice performance and podcasts and healing. There's so much to offer in these topics. And correct me if I'm wrong, you've studied psychology, teaching, design, and ancestral holistic healing. Yes. Well, I've done a design degree, a master's in education, which majored in linguistics and vocational counseling. Amazing. And... Good on you for giving that study up. Yeah. So in relation to healing through voice, tell us briefly if any of your study has offered voice performance training. Well, ESL teaching is a lot about voice, emphasis, diction. And then I taught overseas as an ESL teacher. So I think that was a lot of, you know, vocal interest, ESL training. ESL, English as a second language. Right. And I worked overseas in South Korea. Right. So you keep your voice interesting, toned, emphatic, you tune in. I've done theatrical training as an actor, so that taught me to have an authentic voice to express and relax. Naturally, I've got a Welsh background, so I have a lot of cadence in my voice. So for example, my Welsh mother came from Cardiff. They have very sing-songy there. They were saying something was beautiful when we said it like that. Kiwiland. But they would say, isn't it absolutely beautiful? So this is great. Very musical. I've got a lot of cadence in my voice. Lovely. Yeah. So with your healing, you do a lot of healing online through, what would you call it? Intuitive counseling. Yeah. And you do video sessions, but also audio sessions. So would you say that you offer healing through voice as a paralinguistic? Yes, because the voice to me contains frequency, and people can feel the energy of my intentions and what it carries through the tone of my voice, through the speed and the pitch, the modulation. So would you say that the variance in your modulation definitely facilitates the healing? Yes. Well, it holds attention, I think, because I've got an interesting voice. And it's quite resonant. It's a bit loud at times. And as quite a mercy-motivated, empathic, sensitive person, I have a lot of empathy in my voice. You can feel the emotions in it. So if you don't see me, you can feel the empathy in my voice, and I use that to connect. I pause. I soften. Where needed. Okay. And so in your experience, using your interpersonal communication skills and how you respond to your clients, how would you describe that? So your vocal cues, do you have specific ways of, you know, you use your skills, all of your skills, to listen, to offer to them you are listening? What would that sound like? What are the different sounds that you offer? Well, probably just what I'm doing now. I'm like, mmm. And they're not polite little listening sounds. They're kind of groans and mmm, oh, mmm. Right. And I think I'm literally feeling their pain. Right. And those listening sounds, pick it up. Because you can tell when someone's just making a listening sound for the sake of validating you, or they're actually feeling it and in your pain, and it's carried across in your frequency. Right. They can tell if it's authentic or not. And so in terms of culture, if we just connect culture and podcasting. Yes. Would you say that your vocal performity is typical to what a social norm would be expected? I adapt my voice to be culturally sensitive, or personality sensitive, or gender sensitive when it's needed. And some people might go, well, that's a bit inauthentic. But actually, I think it's an act of love and empathy to identify. So I adapt my voice. It might be quiet or loud. It might be more formal. It might be sweet or soft or higher, just to get them on the same page to rebuild a rapport. And so in relation to women empowerment and podcasting, do you feel that the vocal performity in relation to that does offer a better form or a higher form of women empowerment or healing because of the podcast? Yes, I think that the medium of audio is powerful because it's not limited by visual stereotypes. We don't judge the person for their gender, the way they look, the way they dress, their age, their attractive level. And also, I use my voice once I've established connection and there's trust there. So I will start to channel and use my voice to reenact things or express things on their behalf. Anger, frustration. So I will start to enact things on their behalf. So it becomes almost theatrical. And so through a podcast, that would be definitely beneficial. It's beneficial and empowering for women because they start to mirror and then demonstrate that they can be a louder, stronger, more assertive, unique, their own brand of weird. And I give them permission to do it. And it's safe. And it's safe because I'm encouraging them to come out in their own voice because we've been taught as women to be quiet and subdued and there's so many subconscious, subliminal messages out there. And so when I go off script and be who I am, I am permitting, giving permission to their unconscious parts and find their own voice. Yeah. And through the podcast, it would be a safer space, right? Because they can do it on their own. Yeah. They can listen. They can access it. They have anonymity to listen and not be seen or known. And they can let down their guard and connect with the tribes of people. So there's also a safety in that. It's not visual. It's not out there. It's not public. They can join and connect with the tribe, open up and unmask without being seen. Which is super interesting. It's super interesting. And it's finding their own voice, I think, in a safe way. Yeah. Yeah. Well, thank you so much. You're so welcome. It's so interesting to talk to you. And I could probably speak for ever, but I think we should probably leave it there. And I think it's been super interesting. And thank you so much. You're so welcome. And for all of you listeners out there, please check out Suzanne Mourning's website. Check out my Twitter website, SuzanneMourning.com. Yeah. Bye. Bye. Bye.