Author: dianne

Di was my very first voice coach, but she’s so much more than that. I was the youngest graduate in the history of the QUT acting program, finishing at just 18 but it was Di who taught me how to speak, how to own my voice and in many ways, how to teach and big a good hooman!

She is bold, dynamic, fascinating, and absolutely brilliant. Di changed the way I communicate, and she’s changed the lives of so many others along the way.

She has always been honest, provocative, and fiercely authentic and the fact we’re still part of each other’s lives all these years later is something I treasure.

If you’re looking for a voice coach who will challenge you, empower you, and remind you it’s perfectly OK to be YOU… oh, and how to drop the occasional F-bomb for maximum impact… Di Eden is your woman.

Thank you, Di. You showed me how to be loud and proud. I love you, and I’ll always be grateful to have had such a brilliant woman as my teacher and my friend

Felt like doing something new and I had an idea.

I see my clients are busy people. You are working, collecting children, and trying to give everybody in the family the best chance of a rewarding life. You don’t have time to take on too much else, but still, you feel your voice could do with some professional development.

I like to work fast and I like to get results. So, here’s my idea

Express Voice – a 4 session package.  Those 4 hours, one-on-one, will include

*diagnosis and discussion of your voice – why you sound the way you do.

* improve your vocal presence and tone quickly. With tools to take home.

*practise on text to achieve a more elegant fluency with my 10 clever rules of presenting.

Package $440.

The timing can suit you.

That’s my idea. It challenges me and I hope it excites you.

Knowledge is power as far as your voice is concerned.

Thank you for the feedback on my audio workouts. There are more coming – the next one will be a 10 min quickie voice warm up. The kind of voice work I offer you promises you more than just a hardy voice: it promises you a personal boost; it reminds you that the much quoted saying you are enough must be heard and applied. Truly, if you say it and mean it, a  metaphorical load lifts off your shoulders as your nervous system responds. Then your diaphragm will  rise and fall as it will, your throat will open, and therefore your tone will sound more connected.   All this because you are showing generosity to yourself by believing that you are enough.   Your heart, mind and emotions will be as one in your voice. I know I sound a bit hippy-dippy but I have been teaching this work for a very long time and know that it works.  I am not a bit hippy-dippy really.  I am a experienced professional coach.  I do love the work though. Enough about me – what about you?

I just want to say thank you so much, for everything you’ve taught me not just with my voice but with life too, you really made me change my perspective on ways I view myself, that probably wouldn’t of changed for a long time, and for that I’m grateful. Thank you also for making my voice sound absolutely fab and alive.

Thankkkkk youuuuu sooooo muchhhhh

Any moment now this site will offer various work outs and warm ups for your voice.  You can download them and play them at your convenience.  It’s hard to motivate yourself  (I’ve never done any of the exercises any Physio has given me for more than a few days!) so now you can use me for motivation.   Or, if you don’t know my work, you can do a Zoom session with me and I will design a bespoke work out for you. Make no mistake, the most communicable and easy to listen to voices always get the role, get the job etc.  Directors don’t like to take risks.   You know yourself you become very tired of voices  eg “Kardashian throat sound”, or voices that  drone on in a nasal way.  Or, voices that are not emotionally accessible enough to bring a script to life.

So my friends, I hope this new little enterprise of mine is going to be useful to you.  I do hope so.  Let me know.

Personal Trainers – you are opening a new world for me.   I’m an age where I think I have the field of study pretty well covered and yet, here I am finding a new kind of language to use :  Gym talk.  Love it. New lexicon for this voice coach.   I feel at the bottom of another mountain. So I am beginning another hike upwards.   It’s fun – freeing the voice from such fabulous bodies – bodies which already, can isolate, find alignment easily, understand bones and muscle energies.    The challenge is to find the balance between support and push and release and communicate: to work from the inside out for a voice class.