When Casey Clark’s national tour of Les Misérables ended after nearly two years, it was time to find a new job. Casey realized she was tired of living the ups and downs that come with professional acting. As she shares in today’s show, professional actors often face long stretches of unemployment – filling in gaps with survival jobs and temping in various roles to pay the bills, sometimes for months, or even years.
One fateful day Casey went on an interview that she thought was about singing coaching, and ended up being asked to teach speaking voice instead. She quickly fell in love with voice coaching, and sought the opportunity to help women amplify their own voices. This session eventually led her to co-found Vital Voice Training.
Around the same time Casey started voice coaching, she read a book called Half the Sky, which left her feeling angry at the depth and enormity of problems facing women in our world. The combination of entering the voice coaching world, and wanting to help women, convinced Casey her mission was to help amplify the voices of women who were helping other women. In the 95th episode of I Want Her Job: The Podcast, Host and Podcast Co-Founder Polina Selyutin discusses with Casey how voice coaching works, tips for improving public speaking skills and much more.