To Hum is Human

Finding Your True Voice: Singing, Intuition, and the Confidence to Be yourself

Donnabelle Casis Season 2 Episode 53

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Have you ever stopped yourself from singing because you decided you “can’t sing”? Or walked away from a conversation wishing you had said what you really meant?

My guest, Aideen Ni Riada, believes these moments have more in common than we might think.

In Finding Your True Voice: Singing, Intuition, and the Confidence to Be Yourself, Aideen and I talk about the voice as something much deeper than sound. It carries our history, our confidence, our hesitation, and sometimes the places where we learned it was safer to stay quiet.

Aideen knows this journey personally. At 28, when someone asked about her dream, she answered, “I want to be a singer, but I can’t do that.” Hearing herself say those words made her realize that she was the first thing standing between herself and something she deeply wanted. She eventually returned to study jazz vocal performance and began exploring the connection between voice, psychology, intuition, and self-expression.

Today, Aideen brings together her background in psychological studies with voice mastery, intuitive listening, singing, mantra meditation, and embodied practice. She is the author of Discover Your True Value, host of the Resonate Podcast with Aideen, a singer and recording artist, and creator of the annual Voice Summit. At the heart of her work is helping women move beyond self-doubt, perfectionism, and over-giving so they can trust what they have to say.

We talk about the “voice wounds” we can carry from childhood, why singing can feel so vulnerable, how a song we’re drawn to can reveal something about us, and the subtle ways people-pleasing and holding back can actually show up in our voices. We also explore breath, deep listening, difficult conversations, and how singing can help us reconnect with parts of ourselves we may have quieted along the way.

One thing Aideen said really stayed with me: “The inner voice is the precursor to the outer voice.”

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