LETTING VOICE CHANGE US

How do we begin to understand the voice? What is it to work on our voice? What happens to us in the process?

In this conversation, Joe Windley speaks from his experience as a trained actor and leading Voice & Speech teacher, working across drama school, theatre, film, and business contexts.

Together, we explore the voice as more than sound alone. Joe reflects on how speaking involves the body’s whole living system - including thought, language and sensation - and offers practical strategies we can use to train the voice when we understand it in this way.

We also look at how sustained vocal practice can change us over time, asking how this work reshapes our sense of self, when it leads us into unfamiliar territory, and why entering that territory might matter.

Joe Windley is a voice and speech coach, actor, and trainer. He trained at Bristol Old Vic Theatre School and completed Postgraduate Voice Studies at the Royal Central School of Speech and Drama, where he later led the course. 

He has held senior roles including Head of Voice at RADA and worked internationally across the UK, Europe, the United States, Australia, Scandinavia and the UAE. His work spans voice, speech, dialects and text for stage and screen, and includes public dialogue.