Finding Your Voice Again: Heal Through Music | Demaree Hill

Finding Your Voice Again: Heal Through Music | Demaree Hill

From Pulling Threads, Weaving Authenticity by Leslie Mathews

April 14, 2026 · 1h 53m

About this episode

Demaree Hill shares her journey of reclaiming her voice through music after overcoming personal challenges.

What happens when the voice that was taken from you becomes the very thing that heals you?In this powerful episode of Pulling Threads, Leslie sits down with Nashville-based singer, songwriter, and vocal coach Demaree Hill — a Broadway performer, single mom, and the woman who recorded a duet with Dolly Parton — for a conversation about what it truly means to find your voice again, literally and emotionally.Demaree's story spans from singing as a two-and-a-half-year-old into a candlestick for her family, to performing in Les Misérables on Broadway at age eight, to navigating the silence that a controlling marriage placed over her music and her dreams. After her divorce, she found that words and journaling weren't enough — music became the medicine that unlocked what nothing else could reach. Now, through her "Finding Your Voice Again" workshops and one-on-one sessions at Story Studios, she helps women and men reclaim the voice that life tried to quiet.This episode covers:Why so many women are silenced — and how it starts in childhoodThe deep connection between your nervous system, your throat, and emotional healingHow music creates somatic release that talk therapy alone can't…

People in this episode

Host: Leslie

Guest: Demaree Hill

Topics covered

  • music therapy
  • emotional healing
  • finding your voice
  • women's empowerment
  • personal story

Keywords

  • Broadway
  • vocal coach
  • workshops
  • somatic release
  • emotional connection

Mentioned in this episode

Products: Finding Your Voice Again workshops, Story Studios

Books & works: Finding Your Voice Again, Pulling Threads, Les Misérables

Places: Nashville

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