ABOUT
Reconnect with Your Fun, Creative Self
Six Good Words is all about connecting your voice from the inside out to have you voicing out confidently and reaching your people. This is a place that encourages you to go deeper than 'communication' and dig into 'connecting'.
This site is for podcasters, teachers, storytellers, presenters, facilitators, singers and curious humans. You, who want to connect with your voice more deeply, get it that when cultivated even a tiny bit, your voice also connects more deeply and satisfyingly with others.
Here you'll find playfully intelligent activities that help you transform:
- feeling tired after speaking to being in a healthily energised state post-speaking/singing;
- applying boring and outdated voice-training methods to having the information and experience to choose your activities to match your outcomes;
- getting low response from your people to engaging and connecting with your tribe in a way that lights us all;
- being self-critical to gaining evaluation expertise through seemingly simple practices
- really disliking listening to yourself to being playfully curious and intrigued.
Maybe you thought “I just have to suck it up”. NO! There are skills you can learn. You deserve that extra piece of goodness that really connecting your voice gives. You deserve a vibrant, resonant and resilient speaking voice so that you deliver your message and connect with your people.
Let's get your voice going from the inside out.
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"I can approach my voice with more curiosity and less criticism. My attitude toward my voice has improved. Hopefully I can use what I explored in the class with my own teaching. This was a safe place to explore a very personal subject, my own voice. I really enjoyed all the exercises and short explorations of the way I speak and how I use my voice."
"After working with Nicky, I feel my voice being stronger and find myself more playful with it."
"Nicky leads gently in a friendly way. Her instructions step by step reminded me of how to work with my voice. I really appreciated concentrating on myself and my own voice again. I really appreciate her constructive feedback."
"I gained curiosity to find out more about my voice. The desire to play more. The idea to also use my speaking voice for relaxation, not only my singing voice. The desire to be more mindful with my speaking. To tell stories and to read aloud to myself and others from time to time.
I appreciated Nicky's empathetic nature, patience and humour.
The open design allowed me to learn at my pace."
"I learnt to relax and re-find my voice. Now I understand that I do not need to strain my vocal cords to play with my words,
and my abdominal muscles naturally help me."
"Nicky is wonderfully motivating in a completely unobtrusive manner. She has a talent to make her exercises look fun and interesting, so you easily move from watching and listening to doing. I have found the courage to record myself speaking - and watch and share the recording afterwards (and the result was surprising!).
The biggest surprise for me was that I learnt more than voice:
Nicky takes this much further into the realm of emotional literacy, and teaches how to playfully achieve more with less,
how to explore our state and our emotions via our voice.
I would absolutely recommend these trainings!"
I'm Nicky and I help you connect with your voice in speaking, writing and even singing.
It's the rhythm and life in our voice that draws people to us or not. The first person you want to have drawn to you, and on your team, is you!
With a Post Grad in Broadcasting for Commercial Radio, varied voiceover experience, a writer across several realms, a hobby singer and a lover of all things voice, I've traveled half way across the globe to uncover different ways of getting more into my own voice. This is what I bring to you.
Playfully intelligent approaches to getting back to your fun self.
Voices fascinate me… seriously, I’m in love with voice in all forms. By intelligently playing with your voice, you'll have access to your original self. As a result, you'll connect with your people better.
Your voice is an incredible resource right inside of you. I know how to meet you where you're at and guide you into that treasure trove that is in you with activity-based fun and inspiring pieces.
EXPERIENCE
From recording on air commercials, phone prompts and copywriting static real estate brochures, adapting fiction for non-native English speakers, course design, corporate training, presentation & public speaking to English for Work skills, I've covered a lot of voice ground - and I've still got more territory to uncover. Oh and I've worked across private, public and charity sectors. I get where you're coming from and where you're headed.
SECRET SAUCE
My genius is my ability to listen. To listen and hear where and what you want to get going. To hear how you get stuff and help you lean in and listen to yourself too. All this to help you connect your voice so your message gets to your people and energises you every time. I work with small groups, offer downloadable bonus resources, a blog, and also provide a thing I call “Power Pods” - a fancy term for online group sessions that power up you and your voice with lasting results.
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Resources to get you exploring and re-igniting your voice with playfully intelligent activities
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