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Voice coach Nic Redman gives tips for keeping your voice on top form over the winter and shares advice to help your vocals recover after a cold.

Whether you're a seasoned professional voiceover, or an actor looking to add another skill to your repertoire, the VO Social Podcast ladies can help move your career along. The VO Social Podcast's Nic Redman and Leah Marks have got more than 30 years of voice experience between them, and this episode of The Spotlight Podcast is stacked full of tips on not only improving your skills but also setting and smashing your goals. Find out more about the Voiceover Career Planner at https://www.thevosocial.com/the-voiceover-career-planner

We speak to theatre-maker and performer Robert Softley Gale about working in Scottish theatre and making the Arts accessible for disabled creatives and audiences.

In this episode of the Spotlight Podcast, we chat to actor and comedian Jonny Weldon about auditions, theatre, making your own work, comedy and social media.

This meditation is designed to help you feel more present and connected to what you love doing so you can bring your best self to your self-tape audition.  

This 30 minute meditation is inspired by the idea of togetherness and what gets created when we come together. It’s designed to calm and soothe the nervous system and can be helpful to listen to when things in our lives (and the world) are feeling out of control.

There may have been times when things didn’t go to plan. Maybe there were some days when you felt like giving up. But you didn’t. You’re here. So in this 20-minute meditation we gently invite you to celebrate all parts of you. Because all parts of you are worthy of celebration. We recommend listening to this meditation with headphones.

This 13-minute meditation is designed to support young performers to feel more confident in themselves and their abilities. It’s designed to help them to reconnect us to the part of them that knows that anything is possible and to keep trying - even when things don’t go to plan! This meditation is suitable for ages 8+ and parents and guardians are encouraged to listen to this meditation along with their child. We recommend listening to this meditation with headphones.

This 35-minute meditation is designed to help you to unwind and let go of the day, helping to aid a restful night’s sleep. We use a progressive muscle relaxation which is a deep relaxation technique to help release stress and tension out of the body. We recommend finding a cosy and comfortable place where you can lie down for this meditation. You may also like to have a blanket or a cover over you. We recommend listening to this meditation with headphones.

This 12-minute meditation is designed to support young performers who might be feeling a bit nervous or worried - particularly if they have an audition, self-tape or performance coming up. We spend some time relaxing the body and then we go on a short journey where we discover some very special magic clouds. This meditation is suitable for ages 8+ and parents and guardians are encouraged to listen to this meditation along with their child. We recommend listening to this meditation with headphones.

This 25-minute meditation is themed around the idea of ‘New Beginnings’ and is designed to calm a busy mind by gently guiding you back to yourself. We get curious about how each new breath creates space for new awareness by bringing us back to the present moment. We recommend listening to this meditation with headphones.

This meditation is recommended for ages 8+ and is designed to help calm and centre young performers before an audition or self-tape. Parents and Guardians are encouraged to listen to this meditation along with their child. We recommend listening to this meditation with headphones.

This is the thirteenth of our guided meditations from our Powerful Pause series. This 18 minute meditation is designed to help with envy. Feelings of envy or jealousy can come up a lot when you’re an actor or performer but it’s usually just a sign that you care deeply about something. In small doses envy can actually motivate us to move towards what we want. With conscious awareness we can use this energy of envy to help us to move forward. And that’s what this meditation is all about.

This is the twelfth of our guided meditations from our Powerful Pause series. In this meditation we get curious about what choice means for you as an actor or performer. We also explore where we make choices from and how just by choosing to listen to ourselves we are much more able to honour what’s really important to us.

In this episode of the Spotlight Podcast with Ilayda Arden, we're talking to Tommy Jessop. Tommy is the first actor with Down Syndrome to play the lead in a primetime TV drama, he's also been in Line of Duty and is the first actor with Down Syndrome to be professionally cast as Hamlet, and become a full voting member of BAFTA.

This is the eleventh of our guided meditations from our Powerful Pause series. In this meditation you will be guided by Presence and Impact Coach, Su Mee Tan. Some of you will know Su Mee from our regular Powerful Pause meditation sessions. In this 20 minute meditation, Su Mee invites you to connect to the full range of who you are and to get curious about who you are when you give yourself full permission to show up, and to be everything that you are. We recommend listening to this meditation with Headphones.  

This is the tenth of our guided meditations from our Powerful Pause series. This 30 minute meditation is designed to help you to grow and expand your creativity through connecting with the breath and the body. We’ll also get curious about the range of our creativity and how this can be expanded by the connection we have with ourselves. We recommend listening to this meditation with headphones.

In this episode of the Spotlight Podcast, we speak to Aisling Groves-McKeown and Emma Read, members of the five-star, award winning, all female, improvised musical comedy: Notflix the Musical.

This is the ninth of our guided meditations from our Powerful Pause series. This slightly longer (25 minute) meditation is designed to get out of your head and into your body which is one of the key steps to feeling more calm and grounded. We also take a little bit of time to reflect on the gifts that can come from adversity and how this can expand our range. We recommend listening to this meditation with headphones.

This is the eighth of our guided meditations from our Powerful Pause series. This 15-minute meditation may be helpful to listen to after an audition to help you to develop a positive post-audition mindset.