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Barbara's books
Now out in audiobook!
Click here to hear a sample and/or purchase your copy. Print version will be released in winter of 2026. 
Available in paperback, e-book, enhanced e-book (for iPad and Nook), and audiobook Also in Portuguese audiobook Your voice matters. Based on your tone and expression alone listeners make up their minds about you before they even process the meaning of your words. And if what you say is at odds with how you say it, they can miss your message altogether.
Barbara McAfee offers a fun, tested method to harness the power of your voice to become a more effective and flexible communicator. She identifies five distinct vocal sounds—earth, fire, water, metal, and air—explaining how to cultivate each one. You’ll learn how to use your voice to support the meaning and message you want to convey. Using this book along with her free online practice videos you’ll experience an authentic shift in how you express yourself – and how you listen to others as well. You’ll discover how opening your full voice connects you to sources of untapped potential, power, and aliveness. Read an interview with Barbara about the book |
Music
To learn more about each recording, click on the cover.
All music is available for download on iTunes. To order physical copies of CD's, please send $10 per CD plus $3 shipping per order. PayPal - [email protected] Venmo - Barbara-McAfee-2 Let me know which CD(s) you are ordering and include your mailing address. To pay by check, please contact Barbara.
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Praise for Full Voice for Leaders:
This offering is perfectly timed. Many of us want to use our voice well as never before. We want to be in conversations not arguments. We want to give voice to our truth without creating problems. How do we use our voice to create possibilities rather than threats, to invite people to join us rather than retreat? How can we tap our voice to strengthen our leadership, relationships, and well-being? This delightful and trustworthy guide will support us in developing our voice in this way–and offers us songs of encouragement and inspiration as we learn.–Margaret Wheatley, author of 13 books from Leadership and the New Science to Restoring Sanity
This book opens a new pathway into personal healing. It offers a means to reconstruct our story about ourselves and our presence in the world. Barbara McAfee calls this practice vocal intelligence. She explains how our relationship to our voice offers a metaphor our life, which opens another avenue to reclaiming our wholeness. This is truly a groundbreaking piece of work–in both its concept and its invitation to engage. Also, in the shape and form of this creation, Barbara reinvents the potential of this thing called an audiobook.–Peter Block, Author and Citizen of Cincinnati
Barbara’s calling is your voice. In ways practical, expert, and skilled—and in ways spiritual and soulful—she will help you realize, share, and enjoy the fullness of your voice. Voice—not just sounds made richer but the expression of your own unique life in all its colors and experiences. You will live more fully, more alive, as you grow from her invitation to full vocal expression.–David O'Fallon, PhD; President MacPhail Center for Music (ret) and President, Minnesota Humanities Center (ret)
This offering is perfectly timed. Many of us want to use our voice well as never before. We want to be in conversations not arguments. We want to give voice to our truth without creating problems. How do we use our voice to create possibilities rather than threats, to invite people to join us rather than retreat? How can we tap our voice to strengthen our leadership, relationships, and well-being? This delightful and trustworthy guide will support us in developing our voice in this way–and offers us songs of encouragement and inspiration as we learn.–Margaret Wheatley, author of 13 books from Leadership and the New Science to Restoring Sanity
This book opens a new pathway into personal healing. It offers a means to reconstruct our story about ourselves and our presence in the world. Barbara McAfee calls this practice vocal intelligence. She explains how our relationship to our voice offers a metaphor our life, which opens another avenue to reclaiming our wholeness. This is truly a groundbreaking piece of work–in both its concept and its invitation to engage. Also, in the shape and form of this creation, Barbara reinvents the potential of this thing called an audiobook.–Peter Block, Author and Citizen of Cincinnati
Barbara’s calling is your voice. In ways practical, expert, and skilled—and in ways spiritual and soulful—she will help you realize, share, and enjoy the fullness of your voice. Voice—not just sounds made richer but the expression of your own unique life in all its colors and experiences. You will live more fully, more alive, as you grow from her invitation to full vocal expression.–David O'Fallon, PhD; President MacPhail Center for Music (ret) and President, Minnesota Humanities Center (ret)
Praise for Full Voice:
In Full Voice Barbara McAfee introduces leaders to the powerful idea of vocal presence, reminding us that how we speak and how we listen really does matter. Barbara offers us a framework and practice guide for how to find our voice and express our ideas more clearly.
Nick Nissley, Ed.D., President, Northwestern Michigan College
Full Voice: The Art and Practice of Vocal Presence is practical and inspirational guide in how we can more fully bring our voice into the world. Barbara McAfee offers tangible ways in which we can strengthen and express our authentic voice.
Angeles Arrien, Ph.D., Author and cultural anthropologist
Every life is a journey into song. To find it, however, has often been a mystery that has involved a long, uncertain journey through a dark forest with no clear path to follow.
Until now. Full Voice is a magnificent guide that illuminates this path and makes this eternal dream possible. It help us appreciate that the vulnerability of our voice is also the source of our greatest power, courage and strength. Every voice is needed now. The world cannot evolve without it. Each of us has a 'song' to sing. Without it, the world will be incomplete.
Michael Jones, Pianist, composer, leadership educator author of Artful Leadership and The Soul of Place
Barbara's words are wise and wonderful; the tools are practical and playful. If, indeed, "voice is the muscle of the soul", Barbara offers a most pleasurable Olympic training opportunity. What a gift!
Jayne Felgen, MPA, RN, President Emerita, Creative Health Care Management Author of I2E2 , Leading Lasting Change