A Tony honoree and Grammy nominee on how she trained, how she got cast, and the register-by-register system she now uses with pop and theatre singers.

In this podcast-style conversation, host Aimee Geddes interviews singer and actress Lisa Hopkins Seegmiller, who describes receiving a special Tony honor in Baz Luhrmann's Broadway production of La Boheme and a Grammy nomination for Best Opera Recording. You hear the whole path: waiting until 16 to start formal training, studying with Marlena Malis and Trish McCaffrey, stepping away for a mission in Austria, and the audition that changed everything. Then it turns technical. She lays out her vocal-athlete training and anti-inflammatory eating, why she exercises head, chest and mix as three separate registers every day, her definition of mix as head voice that sounds like chest voice, and the twelve cardinal vowels she drills in two mouth positions.