Hi! I’m a communication coach who helps people overcome fear, shutting down and overthinking around speaking so that they can express themselves with confidence, clarity, and ease. For over 15 years, I’ve helped thousands of people—from CEOs to yoga teachers—show up powerfully as their authentic selves.

I’m trained in multiple modalities, including TRE® and EFT, and more. I combine communication coaching, mind- and body-based practices, mindfulness, and practical communication tools to help people overcome their fears of expressing themselves and being heard and seen.

I’ve been featured in publications such as GQ, Men’s Health, and Rolling Stone.

When I’m not coaching clients, I’m with my family, and when I have time, I’m making music. I’m a singer, guitarist, pianist, and studio producer. In 2012, I won the South African Music Award for Best Alternative Album. I live with my partner and son between Toronto, Canada, and a beautiful wine farm in Elgin, South Africa.

I’ve always loved that quote but didn’t know quite how meaningful it would come to be in my journey as a public speaker, communication coach, and musician.

My journey to finding powerful tools for the voice started over 25 years ago. An integral part of this journey was training as a Transformation Coach and in other highly effective cognitive and body-based methods.

My search was born both out of a deep curiosity about life and the need to do some serious personal work. Because while I’ve sung on international stages, toured, enjoyed the thrill of playing to thousands of people, and produced award-winning records, I’ve also spent a lot of time feeling nervous and even ashamed of my voice.

In our culture, singing has been elevated to a level of athleticism that few can consistently perform at. On the recordings we sing along to, voices use auto-tune and other production elements to make them sound perfect. And so we get duped into believing that we shouldn't sing unless we sound like the recording. Even top-level singers suffer from shame, fear, and mistrust of their own voices.

I noticed deeply ingrained patterns in my speaking voice too—of shutdown, of not speaking my truth, and a real struggle with expressing boundaries.

I had kept my career as a musician quite apart from my burgeoning path as a coach. But when I finally brought the two together in a moment of clarity, it was like a nuclear reaction going off in my core—a magnetic meeting of two worlds.

It felt exactly right, like I’d found my life’s work. As I traveled around the world leading group classes and workshops, I met people with deeply shut-down voices. And it was clear that the reasons their voices were blocked were deep and would never be addressed by speech-making or singing classes. I found that the origin of people's voice blocks could be found in their childhoods. Their voices ‘became’ through parenting, school, and culture and also got imprinted in difficult experiences big and small. To free a voice, I found that we need to specifically address the expression aspects of these patterns. You need a deep and sophisticated toolkit to release and liberate a voice.

This led me to develop the Radiant Voices Process that I teach now in my communication coaching programmes.

The focus of this work is to empower my clients to go from a place of not trusting their voice to feeling calm and confident to express their magic in the world. There is nothing more rewarding than seeing that change happen and witnessing the confidence and infectious joy it brings.

Liberating your voice is a joyful experience. Yes, it’s a deep process, and it's gentle, caring work to nurture a voice back into freedom and confidence. When our voices are shut down as children, our sense of playfulness gets shut down too. But the upside is that when the clamps come off, the joy comes out. And then we’re free to be our goofy, quirky, unfiltered selves, and the world becomes a better place for it.

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I coach groups and a limited number of private clients online. I also still make music from my studio and play a few shows with my indie rock band, The Dirty Skirts. Check out my gentle ambient piano work here.