Your voice can do more and Davin is here to help you find out exactly how. In each episode of the Free Your Voice, Free Your Life podcast, singer, voice coach and sound healing artist, Davin Youngs brings his inspirational message of healing and transformation through singing and the voice. Because he knows first hand the power of discovering your freest and most authentic voice, Davin has dedicated his life’s work to bringing folks like you into a more expansive understanding of their voice and subsequently their life. Episodes of the show feature Davin’s signature coaching method as well as heart-to-heart conversations with incredible singers, teachers, coaches and healers. Each listen will offer you new insights into moving beyond constriction in your voice while drawing connections to the ways in which you may be similarly inhibited in your life. You’ll feel challenged, inspired and ready to sing It’s time to remove your blocks and finally let your life sing. Davin can help you do just that. Learn more about Davin’s voice coaching work at http://davinyoungsvoice.com
Episodes
Monday Jan 30, 2023
Monday Jan 30, 2023
In this episode, Singer and Voice Coach, Davin Youngs unpacks a quotation that has become very meaningful to him and the singers he works with on their voice journey. Using "To Know the Sound Is to Make the Sound" as he guide, he shares the functionality of making different types of sounds in our body and what it means to actually know certain sounds and not know others. Further he shares why we are prone toward some sound and afraid of others and whats at stake by keeping ourselves limited to just the sounds we know. Ultimately, he pulls apart the construct of personal identity as it relates to the voice and why being willing to make any sound might just be the key to personal freedom.
Make sure to subscribe to The Sound of You and follow Davin on Instagram @davinyoungs
Wednesday Jan 18, 2023
Wednesday Jan 18, 2023
Singer, voice coach and sound healing artist, Davin Youngs is back for season 2 of The Sound of You, his podcast on the magical mystery experience that is the voice! In this episode Davin shares a bit about how and why he is coming back to podcasting and how he learned to show up in this world more fully as a singer, and subsequently as a coach.
He also shares why calling yourself a singer is a powerful proclamation and why your voice may be your most essential tool on your healing journey. He specifically discusses the body's relationship to the voice, how we create stories that impact our sound, and what it means to know singing as a spiritual act of devotion.
Make sure to subscribe to The Sound of You and follow Davin on Instagram @davinyoungs
Monday Feb 01, 2021
Monday Feb 01, 2021
In this bonus episode to finish out season one, the Doctor is in and he is delivering the medicine of truth. Dr. Sims is a treasure to the voice community, not only for his wealth of knowledge regarding the technical aspects of the voice as a body based instrument, but also for his ability to communicate with and treat the whole person. Having worked with some of your favorite (and most famous) voices, Dr. Sims brings to this conversation a humility and compassion that will have you learning about and loving your voice just a little bit more!
Monday Jan 25, 2021
Monday Jan 25, 2021
Few singers or teachers have done more to illuminate singing, and specifically improvisational singing as a tool in liberation, than Rhiannon. As a long time collaborator of Bobby McFerrin and a seasoned singer, performer and teacher, Rhiannon is a wealth of wisdom and wonder. In this beautiful conversation, she generously offers the story of her own path toward freedom with insights from the women’s movement, singing with Voicestra and sharing with singers around the globe the gift of improvisational singing.
Monday Jan 18, 2021
Monday Jan 18, 2021
Andrew Kerr counts getting hit by a truck to be one of the best things that ever happened to him. In this conversation, the singer-songwriter shares how that fateful day pointed him down a path toward not only transforming his life, but freeing his voice.
Monday Jan 11, 2021
Monday Jan 11, 2021
Tim McIlrath has been singing and screaming with the band Rise Against for more than 20 years and despite the band’s success, Tim’s vocal journey has been complicated. In episode three, Tim tells how he learned to sing and scream in the 90’s punk and hardcore scene, what it’s really like to tour for so many years and the process of disassembling his voice and instrument so that he could have increased ease and longevity.
Monday Jan 04, 2021
Monday Jan 04, 2021
Beth Kuhn had a dream of performing on Broadway, and when she had almost made it there, in her words, her voice “fell apart at the seams.” In this conversation, Beth generously shares her voice journey, from pursuing a career in musical theater to ending up living with her parents nursing her voice back to health to finally finding a freer, healthier and more authentic voice.
Wednesday Nov 25, 2020
Wednesday Nov 25, 2020
So, what's this podcast even about?
In Ep. 1, Davin explains the origin of The Sound of You and what it means to tell the story of one's voice. He speaks specifically to being a voice coach for 20 years and realizing the problems people suffered in their voice often mirrored other areas of their lives. He then tells the story of his voice and how it interweaves with his own coming out story.
The episode concludes with the season one trailer for The Sound of You.