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How You Use Your Voice Depends On Many Things
How you use your voice is a sum of your experiences, emotions, and situation on hand. Join me and Mark Montgomery French – film composer, podcaster, music historian and YouTuber – as we chat about how different experiences in his life led him to use his voice to make an impact and fuel his creativity. We also chat a bit about my experience with accents and how I use my voice differently in different situations.
In this episode Mark talks about his most empowered and disempowered moments with voice, including a very wise thing that his mother did when he was 10, his wedding, busting the myth that you can’t make money with your art and how clarity of thought powers public speaking.
Mark explains how he found a positive way into teaching without teaching in an institution. He also asks me about changing my accent to be understood!
This whole episode is a study of how nuanced your speaking journey and how your voice sounds to yourself and to people is. I hope you enjoy it.
In This Podcast About ‘Learning How To Use My Voice by Working in Advertising,’ You’ll Learn:
- How Mark uses his voice to make money from art
- How you can reframe history and draw attention to important issues using your unique voice and perspective
- How using your voice to perform on stage is different from using your voice to empower yourself and others around you
- The influence your accent can have on your life and experiences and how that impacts your voice
- You don’t have to be regimented to use your voice and what to do instead
Here’s a glance at this episode:
How Mark Learned to Use his Voice in Advertising
Busting the Idea that You Can’t Make Money From Your Art
Not Wanting to be a Teacher, How Mark Found a Positive Way to Teach
Mark’s Podcast “All Your Favorite Music is (Probably) Black”
Mark’s Disempowered Experience With Voice
Mark’s Empowered Experience with Voice at Age 10
The Voice Mark Loves the Most is Alan Rickman – Here’s Why, and How SJ Met Him
Mark asks SJ About Changing Her Accent to be Understood
Mark’s Insight on How Clarity of Thought Powers Public Speaking
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About Mark Montgomery French
San Francisco-native Mark Montgomery French is an award-winning film composer with the group Spiky Blimp, an award-winning Creative Director and Co-Producer of Glide Memorial Church’s Sunday Celebration, host of the YouTube music review show “Still Got It” and the podcast “All Your Favorite Music is (Probably)…” staff writer at PopMatters, and the manager of critically acclaimed queer country band Secret Emchy Society and classic power-punk band The Furys. He’s also a music historian noted for his talk All Your Favorite Music is (Probably) Black, the series _28 Days, 28 Black Music Documentaries, and Uppity Music—Your Guide to Unsung Black Departure Albums. He was formerly the co-leader of the ’90s progressive funk band Endangered Species.
How to find Mark
Mark is based in the San Francisco Bay Area and gives public talks locally and online. You can find him on his website and here is his podcast, All Your Favorite Music is (Probably)…
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