Today we’d like to introduce you to Sunday Muse.
Hi Sunday, thanks for sharing your story with us. To start, maybe you can tell our readers some of your backstories.
I started out as a teen actor, working in the theater, on television, and as a popular cartoon voice actor. I have always been a bit of a character. Doing different voices and portraying different people came very naturally to me. It was also how I survived growing up. I had a gift for becoming other people and escaping myself essentially. Somewhere around my late 20s, I had a pivotal aha moment where I realized that being other people would only go so far. I felt exhausted trying so hard to make people laugh, and I got in touch with a deep longing to be ME, to be real and at ease with who I was. I’d say the number one life hurdle that opened me up to living a more soul-filled life was my on-and-off health struggles with fatigue. This process taught me to fall in love with living simply, slowly, and with presence. It taught me how to really connect to my body through my voice, through my singing. Ultimately, this is what led me to becoming a singer and a voice coach.
Can you talk to us a bit about the challenges and lessons you’ve learned along the way? Looking back would you say it’s been easy or smooth in retrospect?
I wouldn’t say it was smooth sailing. My Mother passed away in 2011, so I was struck with grief and fatigue for quite a long while. Then, in 2015, I had to move suddenly and I experienced a kind of collapse in my energy system. I was in a new place and I didn’t know anyone. It felt like I needed to sleep for a long time. Everything depleted me except singing, acupuncture, massage, and sleep. My singing career has been the slowest growing career I’ve known in my life. I was always used to success happening very quickly in the entertainment industry, but this is different. I’m not doing it to be a superstar. I’m singing because it feels so darn good and freeing when I do. It’s like my soul is right there with me, and there’s no better feeling in the world. My coaching has also really taken off as a result.
Thanks for sharing that. So, maybe next you can tell us a bit more about your work?
As a voice coach, I help Creatives, Change-makers, and those in Transition get to the heart, soul, and guts of who and what they are in this world and how they can take a stand. How they can thrive. I created The Muse Method: A finely tuned vocal and body awareness practice technique that connects speakers and actors to their material and to their audience.
I work with writers, voice actors, celebrity tv hosts, marketing leaders at Apple, basically anyone who wants to live a more heart-centered, conscious & connected life by using their voice.
I specialize in helping people find their Soul’s work and succeed in the outer world, authentically.
What I’m most proud of is that I’ve overcome a lot of self-doubt through a commitment to my singing and a devoted practice of self-inquiry.
I’m also proud that many of my character voices have been featured many times on PBS, ABC, FOX, and that my students have been very successful.
I’d say what sets me apart from others is that I don’t hide in my life or my music. I reveal what makes me howl and what makes me growl, what I won’t stand for. I share my humor, my love, my light, and my grit. This is the path to freeing the voice. I have a lexicon of creative modalities to draw upon for inspiration as a singer and coach.
We love surprises, fun facts, and unexpected stories. Is there something you can share that might surprise us?
That I have a wild and crazy sense of humor, I’m pretty sure I was a tibetan monk in another life:) I’m very very emotional, and I kinda live like a little old Granny. Gotta have my 3 meals, gotta get my sleep, have my swim, stretch, go slow, have good snacks, and nap lots.
Contact Info:
- Website: sundaymuse.com
- Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/sundaymusesong/
- Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/sunday.muse/
- Youtube: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC_9mreG6xmlZUvhltoQuudg
- Other: https://sundaymusesoulsongs.bandcamp.com/
Image Credits
Kailey Gilchrist
Megan Yalkut
