I work at a "transformational" business that expands our human potential, and the people I work with decided to produce a public event in a few months that involved singing... and damn! I have absolutely no experience singing and I even considered myself tone deaf. Now, I'm a pretty brave guy - I can speak to a thousand people without getting nervous and I've even firewalked over 40 feet of red hot coals... but the idea of singing just terrified me!

However, instead of coming up with an excuse for not participating - which is very tough when you're the CEO, I decided to take a few lessons with Katie Guthorn at the Voice Studio to see if I could somehow learn how to carry a tune and not embarrass myself.

I cannot express in the written word, how amazing the process of learning to sing was - over the course of just a few lessons - as taught by Katie... Here: let me demonstrate what I could do after just TWO lessons!

I recorded this on my iPhone this after just two lessons with Katie, using some dumb karaoke app. What's more, I discovered that singing is REALLY FUN, and I don't even CARE if it sounds good or not. Singing is learning how to "play" with your voice. It's like making love with speech. Never having sung is like never having made love! It's, it's.. damn, it just makes you want to quit your job and become a professional musician!

Finally, I found one interesting lasting effect of learning how to sing. When you sing, and bridge your falsetto with your lower "normal" voice, that usually creaky middle range resonates right in your "heart chakra". This is why great singers, like Sade and Sting, can elicit so much emotion with their songs - they sympathetically resonate in your heart. The lasting effect of learning how to sing, is that I have deepened my natural ability as a public speaker, so that my speaking voice can now also "resonate in the heart chakra" which has made more more compelling as a public speaker.

So I am willing to testify... you meet true teachers, like Katie, only once in a lifetime. She shares a deep wisdom & patience that truly actualizes human potential, and makes it possible for the most singing-impaired people, like I used to be, to become one of those wacky people happily singing in the car as they sit trapped alongside you in a traffic jam on the freeway... there's an amazing inner freedom available to you when you learn how to sing when you drive... so I am no longer a prisoner, of the fine white lines, of the white lines on the free, free way...