Being Heard with The Brothers Koren is a podcast that explores the human voice in all its dimensions—as a powerful tool for mental health, emotional wellbeing, and personal empowerment. Hosted by brothers Isaac and Thorald Koren, this unapologetically honest series offers deep and sometimes funny brother conversations, alongside interviews with visionary artists, thought leaders, and experts who are redefining what it means to express ourselves fully.
Each episode peels back the layers of how the voice—when fully expressed—can dissolve personal limitations, foster mental wellness, and awaken new levels of freedom, authenticity, and self-connection. From practices that support emotional wellbeing and stress relief to stories of transformation through sound, music, and song, Being Heard reveals how embracing your voice can be a powerful act of liberation and self-care.
This podcast isn’t just for singers—it’s for creators, trailblazers, and anyone ready to reclaim their voice and amplify their truth. Whether you’re looking to reconnect with your authentic voice or curious about how sound and expression can enhance wellbeing, Being Heard with The Brothers Koren invites you on a journey of discovery, freedom, and creative empowerment.
Fear, Excitement, and the Harmonic Series: A Brother Conversation
Episode: Fear, Excitement, and the Harmonic Series
What if fear and excitement aren't opposites, but two sides of the same coin? In this episode, Isaac and Thorald dig into why chasing "fearlessness" does more harm than good, and why the real work is learning to hold both fear and excitement at once, without judgment, without a story attached.
They use the harmonic series (the same mathematics behind Jaws and Willy Wonka's most iconic scenes) to show how dissonance, when held in the right context, becomes beauty. From there, they guide listeners through a hum practice: inviting whatever's uncomfortable and whatever's exciting into the same breath, the same sound, the same space.
If this conversation stirs something in you, our new 8 week course, Your True Voice, begins Wednesday, October 14 at 1pm PT with The Brothers Koren and Your Big Voice Master Coaches. It's an invitation to build more trust in your voice and deepen the relationship with your whole body instrument.
👉 https://brotherskoren.com/yourtruevoice/
2 Sept 2026
50% of Your Voice is Listening: A Brother Conversation
In this episode of Being Heard, Isaac and Thorald explore the other half of the voice: reception. Not just how we express ourselves, but how we listen, receive, and hold space for our own sound. They talk about "small voices," the scared, unsupportive parts of us that often do the listening instead of our true, big voice, and how learning to widen that listening changes everything.
Thorald opens up about his own journey with OCD and the small voices that once had the microphone, sharing how he learned to turn around, take the risk, and slowly rebuild his relationship with reception and self-care. Together they guide listeners through a short practice for meeting a small voice with compassion instead of avoidance, and close with a reminder: you can only sing what you can hear.
If this conversation resonates, our Coming Home to Your Voice cohort begins September 7th with Master Coach Hannah Grant. Scholarships are available to apply for right on the page.
👉 https://brotherskoren.com/cominghome
And if you're ready to go even deeper, Songwriter's Journey is our 7 month group experience for writing, recording, and fully claiming your voice through original song. Reach out through our Connect page and let's talk about what that journey could look like for you.
👉 https://brothers-koren.mykajabi.com/connect
1 Aug 2026
The Power of Play: A Brother Conversation
What if the fastest way back to your voice wasn't through more practice, but through play?
In this episode, Isaac and Thorald talk about why play is a sacred, often overlooked quality in vocal and creative work: the willingness to make a mess, to make sound before it's ready, and to stop rehearsing for the "right" outcome. They explore what opens up when you trade perfection for permission, and why trust, magic, and your truest voice tend to show up right there.
If you're craving more space to play in your own voice, join Coming Home to Your Voice, currently underway with Master Coach Hannah Grant. There's still time to jump in.
👉 https://brotherskoren.com/cominghome
And if you're ready to go even deeper, Songwriter's Journey is our 9 month group experience for writing, recording, and fully claiming your voice through original song. Reach out through our Connect page and let's talk about what that journey could look like for you.
👉 https://brothers-koren.mykajabi.com/connect
1 Jul 2026
Freedom To Feel: A Brother Conversation
In this episode of Being Heard, Isaac and Thorald explore what it really means to be free in your voice. Not freedom from constraint, but freedom to feel: to meet your voice exactly as it is today and find acceptance, even pleasure, in wherever it shows up.
They walk through the five zones of the voice, the foundation, the power zone, the heart, the playground, and the crown, and talk about why "coming home" to your voice as it currently is opens the door to the voice you're actually capable of.
If this conversation stirs something in you, we'd love to have you join Coming Home to Your Voice, a four week journey with Master Coach Hannah Grant (with Isaac and Thorald dropping in on the opening and closing calls). Our next cohort starts July 27.
Coming Home to Your Voice — starts July 27https://brotherskoren.com/cominghome
And if you're ready to go even deeper, Songwriter's Journey is our 9 month group experience for writing, recording, and fully claiming your voice through original song. Reach out through our Connect page and let's talk about what that journey could look like for you.
👉https://brothers-koren.mykajabi.com/connect
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1 Jun 2026
The Voice is a Doorway to Belonging: A Brother Conversation
The Voice is a Doorway to Belonging: A Brother Conversation
What does it mean to truly belong - to yourself, to others, to your own voice?
In this conversation, Isaac and Thorald Koren explore one of the most fundamental human needs: the experience of being heard, seen, and reflected back. Drawing from personal experience -- including Thorald's early brush with isolation and depression at 19 -- they trace the through-line between voice, belonging, and what it means to come home to yourself.
They talk about why belonging to self has to come first. Why singing in a room full of people does something neurochemically real. Why so many people who come to their work aren't chasing fame or playlists -- they're chasing themselves. And what happens the moment someone hears their own voice in a recording for the first time and actually claims it.
This one goes deep. Tune in - and if this conversation moves something in you, we'd love to see you in Come Home to Your Voice, a live four-session experience with Master Coach Hannah Grant beginning June 15, 2026.
Learn more and join us: https://brotherskoren.com/cominghome/
1 May 2026
Emotion in Motion: A Brother Conversation
Emotion in Motion — A Brother Conversation | Being Heard with The Brothers Koren
In this episode, Isaac and Thorald explore what happens to the feelings we don't have time to feel and how the voice can become a place to finally be with them. Includes a brief guided voice and breath experience you can do anywhere.
Continue the practice inside the Embodied Voice Portal: https://brotherskoren.com/evp/
1 Apr 2026
The Heart of the Voice: A Brother Conversation
The Heart of the Voice — A Brother Conversation
If this conversation resonates with you, you can continue the practice inside the Embodied Voice Portal:https://brotherskoren.com/evp/
Or join us live for the upcoming Anthem Experience — write a song live with the Brothers Koren and their community on Tuesday, April 28 at 5pm PT:https://brothers-koren.mykajabi.com/offers/sscxVzHf
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In this episode of Being Heard, Thorald and Isaac explore the Heart of the Voice — and what it means to use embodied voice as a pathway home.
Through breath, voice warm-ups, and mindful sound, they reflect on:• Releasing performance habits• Meeting pain and shadow with curiosity• Prioritizing felt experience over looking or sounding good• Allowing expression to become regulation
This conversation is not about singing better. It's about listening deeper.
What feeling has been waiting inside you? What might shift if you gave it sound?
The Reverberant Heart is less about technique and more about truth — the steady, warm frequency underneath performance, persona, and pressure. That pulse at the center of you that has never stopped speaking, even when life asked you to be quieter.
This month, we're coming home to it.
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If you're ready to go beyond listening and begin practicing, the Embodied Voice Portal is our ongoing membership space for deeper work, live gatherings, and community.
Inside the Portal you'll find:• Monthly Themes + Voice Notes from the Brothers• Guided Voice Resets and Voice Doses• Weekly live Voice Playground with Master Coach Hannah Grant• Monthly Anthem Experience — co-creating original songs together• A growing library of warm-ins, activations, and meditations
Your voice is not a performance tool. It's a way home.
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The Brothers Koren
2 Mar 2026
Discovering Your Inner Resonance: A Brother Conversation
Thorald and Isaac Koren explore Inner Resonance, guiding listeners to use the embodied voice as a pathway home. Through breath, voice warm-ups, and mindful sound, they discuss releasing performance habits, meeting pain and shadow with curiosity, and prioritizing felt experience over looking or sounding good.
This episode offers a gentle invitation to notice what feeling has been waiting inside you, to give voice to emotion, and to discover how authentic expression can heal, transform, and connect both artistically and personally.
23 Nov 2024
Ep 3 The Creative Voice: A Conversation with Nicholas Petricca of WALK THE MOON
Nicholas Petricca of WALK THE MOON shares the transformative power of music as a healing art form and a profound source of soulful connection.
26 Oct 2024
Ep 2 A conversation on activating the voice within with Dr Sue Morter
In our 2nd episode, we are in conversation with Dr. Sue Morter. we explore the profound connection between the voice and the body's innate ability to heal itself.
Drawing insights from her transformative book, The Energy Codes, Dr. Morter delves into the intricate relationship between vocal expression and the energetic pathways within the body. We discuss how the voice, when fully aligned with the body's natural energy systems, can become a powerful tool for self-healing, personal empowerment, and spiritual awakening.
she also leads us in a little expereicne you dont wanna miss!
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22 Oct 2024
ep1 What does it mean to be heard? A conversation between brothers
In the first episode of Being Heard, dive with us into an open and personal conversation about our shared mission toward creating a voice-positive world. This episode sets the tone, weaving together stories from our own lives and experiences to explore what it means to reclaim your voice and feel truly heard.
How is the voice a tool for mental and emotional health? In this episode, we discuss the importance of moving past fear, self-judgment, and the “Small Voices”, often the product of trauma or cultural conditioning, to rediscover the power of authentic expression.
What is Being Heard? Why does the voice matter so deeply in our personal and collective lives? These are just a few of the questions we begin to unpack, reflecting on how the voice can be a tool for mental and emotional wellbeing, healing from trauma, and vitality. Our mission for this podcast? To help foster a world where everyone feels encouraged to build a positive relationship to their own voice, and even befriend inhibitions that may have been holding so many of us back from our greatest human potential.
18 Oct 2024
Welcome to BEING HEARD
Being Heard with The Brothers Koren is a podcast that explores the human voice in all its dimensions—as a powerful tool for mental health, emotional wellbeing, and personal empowerment. Hosted by brothers Isaac and Thorald Koren, this unapologetically honest series offers deep and sometimes funny brother conversations, alongside interviews with visionary artists, thought leaders, and experts who are redefining what it means to express ourselves fully.
Each episode peels back the layers of how the voice—when fully expressed—can dissolve personal limitations, foster mental wellness, and awaken new levels of freedom, authenticity, and self-connection. From practices that support emotional wellbeing and stress relief to stories of transformation through sound, music, and song, Being Heard reveals how embracing your voice can be a powerful act of liberation and self-care.
This podcast isn’t just for singers—it’s for creators, trailblazers, and anyone ready to reclaim their voice and amplify their truth. Whether you’re looking to reconnect with your authentic voice or curious about how sound and expression can enhance wellbeing, Being Heard with The Brothers Koren invites you on a journey of discovery, freedom, and creative empowerment.
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