THE NEXT CHAPTER OF SLAY THE MIC®
EMERGE
Your voice is your ultimate superpower.
What could change when you let yourself be seen and heard?
For over a decade, I’ve built a reputation for creating the kind of vocal breakthroughs that change more than how someone speaks.
Is it your turn?
emerge, verb
/əˈmərj/
To come forth. To become known.
To move out of something and into view.
Where in your life are you still waiting, editing yourself or holding something back?
What are you ready to say, ask for, create, claim or do differently?
And what might happen if you finally gave yourself permission to emerge?
My Emerging Story
Earlier this year, as I was approaching 10 years of Slay The Mic®, I wanted to create a video that told the story of how it all came to be. Why I started it, what made the program different and the community that had grown around it.
As we started telling that story, I realized I couldn’t explain how Slay The Mic® evolved or why I eventually brought the program to a close without talking about what happened to me in 2021, when I was targeted online in a hate crime.
Suddenly, a story I had kept very protected was sitting right there in the middle of the documentary.
The thought of sharing that part publicly made me physically sick. My mom had once told me that my mess could become a message, and I was pissed when she said it. I had no interest in turning what happened to me into something meaningful.
The documentary was finished in February. I shared pieces of it, but I still didn’t know if I would ever share that part.
Then Emerge started taking shape.
And I began to understand that people learn to hide parts of themselves for all kinds of reasons. Sometimes it’s what we were taught. Sometimes it’s what we’ve lived through.
I knew what it felt like when an experience made being fully seen feel less safe.
And if I was going to help other people emerge, I knew I had to be willing to do some of that emerging myself.
Looking back, I can see that my own emerging story had already started unfolding in that documentary months before I even knew what Emerge would become.
Turns out, my mom was right.
THE VOCAL ARCHETYPES
Where do you recognize yourself?
EMERGE
Imagine where your voice could take you.
A life that sounds more
like you.
More Confidence
A Ripple Effect
More of You Gets to be Seen
Bigger Opportunities
More Room to Choose Yourself
You go After What You Actually Want
Say what you mean.
Trust yourself.
Stop second-guessing
every move.
Your children see you speak up. The people you love get to
know more of you.
Others feel permission
to use their voice, too.
Put yourself forward.
Say yes to the bigger thing. Let people know what
you can do.
Set the boundary.
Ask for what you need.
Stop automatically
putting yourself last.
Name it.
Ask for it.
Make decisions that move
you closer to it.
Share your ideas.
Create the thing.
Stop keeping so much
of yourself to yourself.
TWO WAYS TO EMERGE
Give your voice room to emerge.
Choose the experience that meets you where you are right now.
EMERGE: 1:1 COACHING
Imagine how your life could change when you allow yourself to fully be seen and heard.
For some people, the thought of emerging feels exciting. For others, being more seen and heard can feel vulnerable, uncomfortable or even terrifying. Sometimes it’s a little bit of both.
I know what it feels like to have to come back to yourself and your voice.
Through Emerge, I’ll be there to guide you as you do the same, with the accountability to keep choosing what you’re ready for, even when it would be easier to fall back into what’s familiar.
FOUNDATION SESSION
No two people emerge the same way. Your Foundation Session is how I make sure your Emerge experience is built around you.
We’ll define what emerging means for you, where you want to be seen and heard more fully, and what you want to get from our time together. I’ll use what comes out of this session to tailor your coaching, activities, challenges and vocal reps throughout Emerge.
SESSION 1: UNCOVER THE ROOTS
Before we start changing how you use your voice or how fully you allow yourself to be seen, we need to understand what’s underneath it all.
I often compare this to renovating a fixer-upper. You can put on a fresh coat of paint, change the furniture and make everything look better on the surface. But if there are termites eating away at the foundation, eventually it catches up with you.
The same can happen with your voice.
We’ll look at the messages, experiences and patterns that shaped what you learned about speaking up, being visible and allowing people to fully see and hear you. This is where we get curious about what you’ve been carrying, where it came from and whether it still belongs.
We’ll also identify your Who’s Your Kanye?™, helping you recognize the people, experiences, expectations or stories that may still have more influence over your voice than you want them to.
This is the foundation for everything that comes next.
SESSION 2: TAKE BACK WHAT'S YOURS
Once you can see what shaped your relationship with your voice, you get to decide what you want to reclaim.
Your opinions. Your needs. Your choices. Your boundaries. Your self-trust. The parts of yourself you’ve questioned, edited, minimized or kept hidden.
Here, you reconnect with what feels true to you now and make more intentional choices about what you want to say, how you want to express yourself and how much more of yourself you’re ready to let people see.
SESSION 3: COME FORWARD
You’ve uncovered what shaped you and started taking back what’s yours.
Now the person you’ve been reconnecting with starts becoming more visible. Now you get to find out what happens when you don’t automatically pull back, edit yourself or wait for a future version of you to feel more ready. You get to experience yourself speaking, showing up and being seen from a place that feels more grounded in who you are now.
We’ll use what’s actually happening in your life to create meaningful reps and challenges, giving you the chance to build real evidence that you can trust yourself in the moments that matter.
SESSION 4: EMERGE INTO WHAT'S NEXT
You’ve done the unlearning. You’ve taken back what belongs to you. You’ve started allowing more of yourself to be seen and heard.
Now we get intentional about what comes next.
This session is where we look at where you want your voice to take you, how you want to keep showing up and what you’re ready to pursue, create, ask for or make possible from here.
We’ll turn that into a clear plan for your next chapter, so you leave Emerge knowing what you want to do with the voice, visibility and self-trust you’ve been building.
“If I hide from the spotlight, how will my voice shine?”
A SLAY THE MIC® AFFIRMATION
I've seen what happens when you step into the light.
For 10 years, I’ve had the privilege of watching people discover what their voice is capable of.
Many came to Slay The Mic® thinking they were there to become better public speakers. What they discovered was that learning to trust their voice changed so much more than how they showed up on a stage.
They advocated for their health. Walked away from relationships that were no longer serving them. Shared ideas they had been sitting on. Made decisions they had been scared to make...
Said yes to opportunities they might once have talked themselves out of.
They got to experience how good life can feel when you trust your voice enough to use in EVERY AREA OF YOUR LIFE.
Don't you want to find out how good it can get for you, too?
That’s why I believe so deeply in this work. I’ve watched what can happen when someone stops automatically shrinking away from the moments that ask them to be seen. And the spotlight won’t always look like a stage.
Sometimes it’s putting your name on the thing you created.
Introducing yourself before you disappear into the background.
Letting people meet a part of you they haven’t had access to before.
If you’re ready to come out of hiding and find out what your voice can make possible from there, I’d honoured to help you Emerge.