Welcome

This book is not just about voice.

It’s about life.

It poses some big questions:

Are you willing to be alive?

How alive?

And in service to what?

The words “voice,” “vocation,” and “avocation” all share the common Latin root. Vocare literally means “to call, invoke, or name.” The people who first made these etymological links recognized the deep connection between voice and calling.

Here’s what they knew. The voice emerges from the mysterious intersection of your body, mind, emotions, and spirit. For anything to get created, it must make the treacherous journey from the world of imagination to the physical world.

Your voice is the primary vehicle for making that journey.

If your vehicle breaks down on the way from the inside out, your ...

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