Barbara's book
​Full Voice: The Art and Practice of Vocal Presence

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​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
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., Executive Director Cincinnati's School for the Performing Arts
I’ve worked side-by-side with Barbara for many years and witnessed the brilliance of her talents--her strong, soaring voice that she so skillfully uses to encourage others to find their voices. I’m so grateful she’s written this book, so that many more people may discover the gift of giving voice.
​Margaret Wheatley, Ed.D., author Leadership and the New Science, Perseverance, and So Far From Home
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

Music

Click on CD cover for song samples and to order.
All songs are also available for download on iTunes.
The Morning Star Singers 
The comfort choir Barbara founded
Women's voices  -
​songs for singing together