About Nicki Kennedy Voicecast: Conversations around voice, stories, sound and identity
How does voice shape who we are and how we’re heard?
In this podcast, executive coach, voice coach and classical singer Nicki Kennedy explores the power of voice in all its dimensions: spoken and sung, personal and professional, fragile and fierce. With guests ranging from artists to business leaders and politicians, survivors to advocates, each conversation uncovers the ways voice carries our identity, our stories, and our place in the world.
Blending science, psychology, and the arts, this is a space for listening deeply, questioning assumptions, and rediscovering the human voice, and what it means to have a voice that counts in the world.
Crossing Cultures and Exploring a Musical Voice, with Composer Shruthi Rajasekar
Send us a message A rich conversation with composer Shruthi Rajasekar. We explore Shruthi's own musical upbringing and the development of her own voice as a performer and composer. We talk about what it means to give a voice to different communities, and how to approach this when the story may not be yours to tell. We also look at what it means to give a voice to the people who perform your work, and of course, where Shruthi's own voice fits in all of this. We are a t...
2 Oct 2026
Turning 60 With Purpose, and a Look at the Evidence Around Longevity
Send us a message Turning 60 becomes my prompt to question old stories, choose change with purpose, and rethink what leadership looks like in an age of longevity. I blend research on cognitive ageing with Taoist ideas like wu wei and the Zen notion of the 'beginner’s mind', then land on a practical commitment to keep learning and keep leading. • using milestones as punctuation for reflection and intention • asking better change questions: for me or for others, towards or away, sto...
17 Aug 2026
Who Decides What Sounds Authentic? Voice, Identity, and The Art of Listening
Send us a message This is a rich conversation with Speech and Language Pathologist and Voice Teacher Maurice Goodwin. We really delve deep into what it is to bring all of your attention to a client, whether that be in a coaching, a therapy or a teaching space. We touch on the deep business of congruence, authenticity and voice for leaders, for singers and voice-users and also in the space of gender affirming voice work, This is one where the podcast host has a cold and the p...
9 Aug 2026
How Hormones Can Change Women's Voices In Midlife, And What You Need to Know.
Send us a message We talk with Joanne Bozeman, co-author of 'Singing Through Change: Women's Voices in Midlife, Menopause and Beyond' with Nancy Bos and Cate Frazier-Neely, about how hormones can change the voice across the lifespan, and why perimenopause and menopause can feel like a sudden loss of reliability rather than a slow ageing process. We share what helped her find answers, what research and lived stories reveal, and how teachers and voice users can respond with more knowledge and l...
26 Apr 2026
The Inner World of Ballet: Three Dancers Talk About Art, Expression, Courage and Laughter
Send us a message Ballet can look like weightless beauty, but the lived reality is a daily blend of artistry, athletic demand, nerves, and identity. We sit down with three working ballet dancers to get under the surface of what audiences don’t see: the inner world behind the roles, the discipline behind the ease, and the emotional truth that movement can carry when words fall short. We start with who they are as artists and how that changes over time, especially when you move from free...
19 Apr 2026
Jazz, Storytelling and Voice, with Adria Godfrey
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22 Jan 2026
Voice, and the Problems of Self Protection: with Jenevora Williams PART 2
Send us a message We continue the conversation we started in Part 1, and go on to talk about how fear, safety, and habit can shut down a healthy-looking voice and how to restore freedom with calm breath, gentle exposure, and compassion. Functional voice loss, hypersensitivity, and clear boundaries between coaching and therapy shape a humane approach to vocal change. • the guarded larynx and fear avoidance loop • resilience as faster return to baseline • hypersensitivity, globus a...
21 Jan 2026
Voice, and the Problems of Self Protection: with Jenevora Williams PART 1
Send us a message We explore, in Part 1 of this fascinating conversation, the hidden voice difficulties when scopes are clear but a voice isn't working, and how guarding, fear, and judgement can lock a healthy system. Dr Jenevora Williams shares the 'guarded larynx concept', playful strategies to reset tension, and why deep listening often reveals the real story. • Muscle Tension Dysphonia as a limited descriptor • whole-person view of voice beyond folds and breath • ruling out neurological ...
8 Jan 2026
Why Your Nervous System Isn’t A Master Switch And How Small, Values-Led Habits Stick
Send us a message We explore a potentially kinder path to wellbeing as we enter 2026, and a veering away from 'wellbeing overload', in what is ultimately just a gentle and very personal ramble through the thorny business of making a resolution and actually sticking to it. There are no answers here, more just a pondering. The episode is as errant and wandery as the vagus nerve itself, to be perfectly frank! On the subject of that vagus nerve, we do have some fun questioning t...
6 Dec 2025
How A Jersey Ballet Became A Community’s Voice
Send us a message What if a dance company could speak for its community without saying a word? We sit down with Carolyn Rose Ramsey—international dancer turned artistic director—to explore how movement becomes language, why curiosity beats certainty, and how a small island built a world-class stage from a potato shed and a big idea. Carolyn opens the studio doors on her process: curating choreographers, shaping programmes around living themes, and letting Jersey’s landscape and stories seep ...
23 Nov 2025
Facing Performance Anxiety With ACT
Send us a message We explore how Acceptance and Commitment Coaching helps performers and leaders work with anxiety rather than fight it, building psychological flexibility through mindfulness, 'cognitive defusion', values and committed action. Clinical psychologist Dr Dave Juncos, shares research, metaphors and tools that reduce struggle and increase choice under pressure. • Defining ACT and why acceptance beats control • The core processes and skills • Defusion techniques that unhook sticky...
29 Oct 2025
Giving Voice To The Unheard; Forensics, Compassion, And Justice
Send us a message We explore how a coroner balances rigorous fact-finding with compassion, and how sexual assault services restore control, belief, and choice. Dr Deryn Evans explains survival responses, the “golden minute,” and why flipping the investigative lens from victim to suspect strengthens justice. • coronial duty to find who, when, where, how and why • preventing future deaths through patterns and learning • impartial investigation without blame while holding candour • objectivity ...
12 Oct 2025
The Lost Art of Attention: Why is it so hard to listen?
Send us a message I'm inviting you to join me in a reflection on listening. This is a meander through the topic of hearing, listening, and truly understanding the people around you. There is some philosophical and spiritual leaning here, but ultimately there's practical advice about how to stay calm and use listening skills in moments of conflict or confrontation. There's advice here around negotiation and how listening and truly respecting another person's space can bring y...
22 Sept 2025
Amplifying Silenced Voices: From Prison to Advocacy
Send us a message Former prison governor Susie Richardson shares her journey from advocating for prisoners to leading Jersey Cares, revealing how personal voice loss transformed her understanding of what it means to be truly heard. • Susie's 20-year career in prisons and transition to advocacy work with Jersey Cares • The importance of building trust and empowering individuals to advocate for themselves • How Jersey Cares takes on the role of a "loving, committed, courageous parent" for thos...
18 Sept 2025
The Complex Tapestry of Voice: More Than Just Sound
Send us a message What does it really mean to have a voice? In this short, introductory premiere episode, I introduce Voicecast—a podcast born from years of working with voice in its many forms. I also introduce my very first guest who will appear in the next episode. As an executive coach, I help people find authentic expression and hone their listening to others in the workplaces where they spend so much of their lives. As a classical singer and vocal rehabilitation specialist,...
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