Ten years ago I bought a 1200 Harley Sportster and rumbled my way up from the small town, southern states I called home to Harvard University, to attend my first acting conservatory. Even being invited was a dream--and that dream carried me across various professional stages, over the Atlantic, and even through an MFA in Acting. As an actor, I’ve been fortunate to perform some of the greatest speeches ever written, and as a commercial voice talent I’ve been trusted to speak on behalf of fortune 500s and mom-and-pops alike. Being paid to persuade has been an exciting and challenging field. Then, a year or so into my VO career, I was humbled by a new challenge: two 20-year veterans of the voice over industry approached me to re-coach them in the art and business of voice over. These clients weren’t the sprawling corporations or bustling agencies I was used to working with. Just a couple who’d hung their livelihood on strong communication skills, and who needed help. In those early sessions, I discovered a deep love for coaching, for seeing that my personal speech techniques and business savvy could bring success to others. Since then I’ve worked with actors, doctors, influencers, preachers, salesmen, broadcasters, executives, accented-professionals, disfluent speakers, and many others for whom clear and compelling speech is a necessity. I learned early on that people are looking for speech coaching that brings results: to make them money, persuade others to action, compel deep feeling, or just be clearly understood. I consider it a happy responsibility to guide my clients from functional to natural speech, and from natural to compelling speech. Around the early part of 2019, I started getting referrals for a different kind of client--a client for whom mere functional speech was the goal...Individuals with traumatic brain injury, stroke survivors, etc... Folks who developed a voice of their own, then lost it. I found myself again humbled by the challenge and had to admit that rehabilitation just wasn’t in my wheelhouse...YET. In mid-2020, I resolved to pursue a 2nd masters degree in speech language pathology and became a licensed SLPA. It’s been 10 years since I made that wind-beaten trip up to Harvard. I've lost my Harley since then, but worked hard and found my voice: as an entertainer on stage, an advocate behind the microphone, and a guide in the studio. I still produce voice overs, I still love coaching speech, but now I’ve been gifted with another happy responsibility: to help those who’ve lost what I've spent the last decade working to find.