At Home in Your Voice: NPR Funding Credit Voice Artist Jessica Hansen

Jessica Hansen is the voice of NPR's funding credits, and serves as in-house voice coach at NPR headquarters. She coaches voice for NPR, member stations, corporate groups, executives, professional theater companies, as well as hosts, journalists, and private clients nationwide. Jessica began acting at age 5, and was a cast member of a tween TV series at 12. She's performed Guest Star roles on NBC’s Parks & Recreation and HBO’s Veep. In today’s episode of the Soul of Life, I speak with Jessica about how she’s helping performers work with new challenges while working from home. "That separation of your home life just doesn’t exist now. Your kid is in the room with you. The baby’s on your lap while we’re doing this work.... …You can’t curl up in a ball under a bed spread, you can’t breathe that way you can’t make sound that way.” What kind of vocal tips does Jessica give to people like Ari Shapiro, Mary Louis Kelly, or Sylvia Poggioli? What’s in a voice anyway? Does the way we make the sound of our voice really convey what we think it does? Bob Ross' voice is discussed, as is "vocal fry," the lowest register (tone) of your voice characterized by its deep, creaky, breathy sound. "I think it goes back to Paris Hilton, [saying with heavy vocal fry sound] 'That’s hot.'" Follow us on Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/SoulOfLifeShow​ or Twitter: https://twitter.com/SoulofLifeShow​ Want to book Keith as a guest on your podcast? Contact him at [email protected]. ***7-Week Stress Reduction & Relationship Growth Course*** If you and your significant other are looking for ways to improve communication and strengthen your partnership, there is still time to enroll in my upcoming live 7-Week Mindfulness and IFS course, called Mindful Marriage. Partners of any kind are welcome. It's a one-of-a-kind offering that can truly transform how you show up in intimacy. For more information visit: https://community.souloflifeshow.com/