116: Soft Voice, Big Power: Owning Your Voice with Vocal Honey’s Kimberly Lafort

116: Soft Voice, Big Power: Owning Your Voice with Vocal Honey’s Kimberly Lafort

March 17, 2026 · 52 min

About this episode

In this episode, Kimberly Laforte discusses the importance of owning your voice and taking up space in various aspects of life.

You can be very visible and still feel completely unseen. In this episode of Simply Own It , I’m joined by voice guide and visibility coach Kimberly Laforte , creator of Vocal Honey . We go deep into what it really means to take up space with your voice — not just on a stage or a podcast, but at your kitchen table, in your relationships, and in your calendar. Kimberly shares her story of running an award-winning yoga studio while secretly relying on beta blockers just to speak, navigating a marriage where her spiritual self didn’t feel safe, and rebuilding her life (and last name) from the inside out. We talk about the moment she received the vision that became Vocal Honey , and how she shifted from chasing big stages to treating everyday conversations as the most important stage of all. Inside this episode, we explore: The difference between power over and power within —and how it changes who you attract Why silence, pauses, and “not answering yet” can be wildly powerful How scarcity sneaks out of your mouth as filler words like “um, so, like” What it really looks like to say no from self-trust instead of guilt Why your “soft” or “gentle” voice might actually be your greatest…

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