Our special guest this week on A Voice and Beyond is Danielle Soccio. She is a Melbourne-based singer, voice teacher, speaker, and creator of the Awaken Your Voice Program.In this episode, Danielle began by telling us about her longstanding professional career as a touring, musical theatre, cabaret, and TV circuit performer and how she started to fall apart vocally amid her performance career. When this happened, she realized some essential technical elements were missing in her training and decided to immerse herself in the emerging voice science and various other modalities hailed as the holy grail of singing. However, it was after the grief and loss of her mum’s passing that Danielle discovered that all the technical training, she had received did not address the impact that this emotional trauma was having on her voice. Inspired by this, Danielle embarked on a new trajectory in her teaching and began to study and use a holistic approach to voice training, using embodiment modalities with great success.Based on her personal and professional experiences, Danielle created a truly remarkable voice teaching program — Awaken Your Voice, that helps singers become confident, courageous, and impactful artists by tapping away at their emotional and physical roadblocks. This is a beautiful and philosophical interview with Danielle Soccio and one you will thoroughly enjoy listening to. In this Episode2:36  – Introduction7:10 – How it all started for Danielle13:15 – Something doesn’t feel right18:28 – The impact of emotional trauma35:19 – Applying the “woowoo” holistically 46:25 – Awaken Your Voice Program48:22 – Creating that safe space in the studioFind Danielle OnlineWebsite: https://www.daniellesoccio.com/Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/DanielleSoccioAwakenYourVoice/ Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/daniellesoccio_awakenyourvoice/ Youtube: https://www.youtube.com/@daniellesoccioawakenyourvo6914 For more, go to https://drmarisaleenaismith.com/135.Like this episode? Please leave a review here - even one sentence helps!Follow me on Instagram.Performance Mastery Coaching - Take Centre Stage In Your Life!!Visit www.drmarisaleenaismith.com/coaching to learn more.