Your Passaggi Professor with Sarah Neely is a podcast for singers that provides tools to help you bridge the gap between the "hard" skills you learn in your music degree and the "soft" skills needed to live a focused, intentional life. We’ll talk about mindset, emotional regulation, boundaries and more, so you can navigate the passaggi of your life both on and off the stage. <br/><br/><a href="https://yourpassaggiprofessor.substack.com?utm_medium=podcast">yourpassaggiprofessor.substack.com</a>
Your Passaggi Professor with Sarah Neely
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Your Passaggi Professor with Sarah Neely is a podcast for singers that provides tools to help you bridge the gap between the "hard" skills you learn in your music degree and the "soft" skills needed to live a focused, intentional life. We’ll talk about mindset, emotional regulation, boundaries and more, so you can navigate the passaggi of your life both on and off the stage. <br/><br/><a href="https://yourpassaggiprofessor.substack.com?utm_medium=podcast">yourpassaggiprofessor.substack.com</a>
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June 15, 2026
The Best Investment You'll Ever Make
<p>What’s the one investment that never loses its value — no matter what the economy does, what technology disrupts, or what unexpected detour life throws at you?</p><p>In this episode, Sarah gets personal. Drawing on her own winding path through burnout, career pivots, and some unexpected detours, she makes the case that investing in your own mind, skills, and resilience is the most important thing a singer — or any creative person — can do. She also shares her current, evolving thinking on AI and adaptability in an uncertain world.</p><p>You’ll learn:</p><p>* Why an investment doesn’t have to pay off the way you expected to still be worth it</p><p>* How career detours build the adaptability muscle you’ll draw on for the rest of your life</p><p>* Why neuroplasticity — keeping your brain flexible and learning new things — matters long after formal education ends</p><p>* How to think intentionally about where you invest your finite time and energy</p><p>* Sarah’s current (and openly evolving) take on AI and what it means for singers</p><p>✨ Coming next: Season 2 continues — Sarah takes you on the road with her through a summer of performing, traveling, presenting, and learning.</p><p>🔔 Subscribe & Review If this episode resonated with you, please subscribe and leave a review wherever you listen. It helps this podcast reach more singers who need these tools.</p><p>📲 Connect with Sarah Follow along on Instagram: <strong>@sarahsingersmindset</strong> Link in bio to join the weekly newsletter and grab your free resource, The Singer’s Survival Guide: 5 Mindset Shifts for Life, Auditions, and Everything In Between.</p><p>🎵 Music Credit “Carpe Diem” by Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com) Licensed under Creative Commons: Attribution 4.0 License<a target="_blank" href="http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/"> http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/</a></p> <br/><br/>This is a public episode. If you would like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit <a href="https://yourpassaggiprofessor.substack.com?utm_medium=podcast&utm_campaign=CTA_1">yourpassaggiprofessor.substack.com</a>
June 8, 2026
The Pastiche Career:
<p>What if the non-linear, patchwork nature of a singer’s career isn’t a problem to solve — but actually the point?</p><p>In this Season 2 premiere, Sarah introduces the concept of the <strong>pastiche career</strong>: the idea that a life in music is rarely a straight line, and that the patchwork of jobs, skills, roles, and creative projects that make up a singer’s career is something worth understanding — and even celebrating. Drawing on her own overwhelmingly full summer as a living example, Sarah reframes what it means to build a life in the arts.</p><p>You’ll learn:</p><p>* What pastiche means and why it’s the perfect metaphor for a singer’s career</p><p>* Why the non-linear path is often presented negatively — and why that framing does singers a disservice</p><p>* How even a “stable” university job is its own kind of pastiche</p><p>* What it looks like to consciously choose this life — and own that choice</p><p>* Why the adaptability you build in a pastiche career is one of the most valuable things you can develop as a human being</p><p>✨ <strong>Coming next:</strong> In the next episode, we’re continuing the conversation with a topic that came directly out of this one: investing in yourself, adaptability in an uncertain world, and why developing you is the most resilient thing you can do as an artist.</p><p>🔔 <strong>Subscribe & Review</strong> If this episode resonated with you, please subscribe and leave a review wherever you listen. It helps this podcast reach more singers who need these tools.</p><p>📲 <strong>Connect with Sarah</strong> Follow along on Instagram: @your_passaggi_professor Link in bio to join the weekly newsletter and grab your free resource, The Singer’s Survival Guide: 5 Mindset Shifts for Life, Auditions, and Everything In Between.</p><p>🎵 <strong>Music Credit</strong> “Carpe Diem” by Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com) Licensed under Creative Commons: Attribution 4.0 License <a target="_blank" href="http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/">http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/</a></p> <br/><br/>This is a public episode. If you would like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit <a href="https://yourpassaggiprofessor.substack.com?utm_medium=podcast&utm_campaign=CTA_1">yourpassaggiprofessor.substack.com</a>
May 4, 2026
Performance Anxiety for Singers
<p>Last week we talked about what performance anxiety actually is — the neuroscience, the evolutionary wiring, and why nothing has gone wrong if you’re nervous. This week we get practical.</p><p>If you’ve ever stood backstage running worst-case scenarios, lost access to your breath right when you needed it most, or heard that inner voice tell you you’re not ready— this episode is for you. We go tool by tool through eight specific things that actually help, why they work at the physiological level, and how to build a pre-performance plan that your nervous system can actually use when the nerves hit.</p><p>These are not generic relaxation tips. They’re real tools drawn from years of performing, coaching, and learning and they’re offered here as a starting point for building a toolkit that is genuinely personal to you.</p><p>In this episode, you’ll learn:</p><p>* Why stopping fighting your anxiety is the foundation every other tool rests on</p><p>* How to recognize the three inner voices of performance anxiety</p><p>* Why “name it to tame it” is more than a catchy phrase</p><p>* How to talk directly to the feeling — and why calling the voices by name changes your relationship with them</p><p>* How box breathing works, why it can backfire when your heart rate is already elevated, and how to adapt it to meet your nervous system where it actually is</p><p>* The physical breath technique — what it is, why it works, and why it has a specific bonus for singers</p><p>* Why your pre-performance plan needs to be built before the anxiety arrives — and what to actually put in it</p><p>* How acting tools and character work can help you with your performance anxiety</p><p><strong>✨ Coming next: </strong>Season 2 of the YPP Podcast will start summer 2026</p><p><strong>📣 Resources & Mentions</strong></p><p>* Episode 15: Performance Anxiety for Singers, Part 1: Nothing Has Gone Wrong</p><p>* Episode 3: The Dreaded “F” Word (Feelings) — the backpack concept</p><p>* Arneson, Christopher. “Performance Anxiety: A Twenty-First Century Perspective.” Journal of Singing 66, no. 5 (May/June 2010): 537–546.</p><p>* Ruiz, Don Miguel. The Four Agreements: A Practical Guide to Personal Freedom. San Rafael, CA: Amber-Allen Publishing, 1997.</p><p>* Siegel, Daniel J. Mindsight: The New Science of Personal Transformation. New York: Bantam Books, 2010.</p><p>* Michelle Grosser — High Capacity Podcast (formerly Calm Mom) —<a target="_blank" href="http://highcapacitypodcast.com"> highcapacitypodcast.com</a></p><p><strong>🔔 Subscribe & Review</strong> If this episode gave you something concrete to bring into your next performance, please share it with a singer who needs it. And if you’re enjoying the podcast, leaving a rating and review helps more singers find this work.</p><p><strong>📲 Connect with Sarah</strong></p><p>* Instagram: @Your_Passaggi_Professor</p><p>* Newsletter:<a target="_blank" href="http://sarah-neely.kit.com/d7d3234f95"> sarah-neely.kit.com/d7d3234f95</a></p><p><strong>🎵 Music Credit </strong>“Carpe Diem” by Kevin MacLeod (<a target="_blank" href="http://incompetech.com">incompetech.com</a>) Licensed under Creative Commons: Attribution 4.0 License<a target="_blank" href="http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/"> http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/</a></p> <br/><br/>This is a public episode. If you would like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit <a href="https://yourpassaggiprofessor.substack.com?utm_medium=podcast&utm_campaign=CTA_1">yourpassaggiprofessor.substack.com</a>
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