What does your voice have to do with the male gaze? More than you think.

In this conversation, I sit down with Julie Anne Shapiro — vocal sound healer, theatre artist, ritualist, community builder and guest teacher inside Awakening the Wild Woman — to explore the profound intersection of voice, performance, and somatic healing.

We talk about what it means to stop performing for the gaze and start expressing from the body. About the difference between singing to be chosen and singing to be close to yourself. About containment, wildness, and why the most magnetic thing you can do is stop giving yourself away.

In this episode:

1. Why your voice freezes when you're performing for approval — and what unlocks it
2. The paradox of containment: how holding your energy in actually makes you more magnetic
3. What musical theater taught us both about unfreezing from perfectionism
4. The "pick-me girl" pattern in performance — and in dating
5. How ritual theater and sacred sound healing reconnect us to our bodies
6. The balance of masculine and feminine in art, voice, and life
7. Why the most compelling performers aren't the most technically perfect — they're the most present
8. Working in nature as a somatic and vocal practice
9. The feminine without the masculine as a wildfire without containment

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Song:

Ayla Nereo “Seeds"