I’m always happy when I received a Testimonial about actual result from my work as a Vocal Coach, this time applied to the acting world. That’s why I’m going to open a studio also in Los Angeles!

I’m pretty sture I will she here in some of the next productions. By Just watching this video you can already tell how skilled she’s now.

Here is the video:

Here is the transcript of the video:

Milena, Milena!
I am so happy, so happy to be working with her!
I hate noted it took me so long to find, you know, a good acting coach.
I had to go through trial and error, you know, with other acting coaches that I came across they only hit the surface.
With Melina she really knows how to dig deep inside of who you are as a person to bring out that believability or whatever character you have to portray,
I don’t know, at first I was a little skeptical about it because I wasn’t used to these types of techniques
I was used to the to the book training that I had in college and, you know, studying the standard versions of acting with Stanislavski also Uta Hagen method
so I was just not familiar with this style and I don’t know how she does it, I don’t know where she gives these homework assignments from, but it works.
It works and you know she has actually been able to help me get more internalized within myself as a person, as a woman, and breaking down what my own personal fears are,
my strengths, my weaknesses, my stressors, all of that, from every single layer that’s part of me and she comes to remove all these negative things that was holding me back
from bringing in that believability, because I did have a fear of showing certain emotions and I felt embarrassed about it.
I was concerned about what people would think if I would show a certain feeling and she helped me to really internalize that to get a better understanding
as to why is this embarrassing or why do I feel ashamed or what’s scares me and then there are other negative things that I had going on internally that has
to be fixed and we worked on it to the core because of that she helped me build back my confidence as an actress and now for her to say to me you know “okay you are now ready to audition”
For her to say that, that really meant a lot because I didn’t know how long this take.
For me, I like to get fast results and it is not proportionate.
I know you’re not supposed to feel this way, but there have been moments where I was like “God I just want to have overnight success”
I don’t want to go through this long process but she helped me to understand that it is going to be a process
It’s not going to be overnight.
You have to practice, practice every single day!
That’s how you get better
You have to do these homework, assignments, every single day
That is how you get better and I love how she would just constantly remind me of well-established actors now
who had to go through this process and who had to overcome a lot of the fears that I’ve had
and look where they are today
you know they are Oscar winners or Golden Globe winners, etcetera
but for me I just kind of lost that confidence in myself because you know I did graduate you know from college with a bachelor’s degree in theatre in South Carolina and I ended up moving to California
Once I got to California it was a struggle
A struggle of finding a stable place to live
I was in a roommate, also you know in and out of work
nothing was nothing was stable for me
So I couldn’t really focus acting you know
Time was moving, other people were auditioning, you know, booking commercials TV and films.
I was just trying to find a place to live!
I was just so emotionally and mentally drained and beaten down even though I still had the passion of wanting to be an actress
I just I just felt that time was just wasting on me
I didn’t want to be where I finally started getting into the industry at an old age
It was so frustrating, so frustrating and I did not realize by coming to California that I really didn’t know how to start my acting career because I’m having a living arrangement problems
and I have to constantly move because this person’s given me a problem and also trying to find work I need money to pay for lessons to be able to get all the materials I need for my acting career as well
At least I can finally say it took time but I finally got myself in order you know I have an apartment here, me and my boyfriend have an apartment together and you know he’s very supportive you know it’s great.
Like Milena said you’ve got to have that support system.
That thinking “I am in no position to have anything in my life” is negative!
That’s just going to cause another downward fall into my career and we have to move forward
so with his support and also my family, a stable job, all this helps me tremendously
the schedule is working out and I feel more confident than ever that I can actually achieve my goal through Milena and her skills
I mean I’ve never come across a woman like her before
she is so skilled, so skilled that I don’t know how she does
I mean I guess you have to just call it a gift in addition to her you know credentials
I mean she’s good and and we only train for 30 minutes you know
I was thinking you know at first when we got started that I would probably need training for two hours or so
but 30 minutes and each time, we train like every week, and it’s just improvement, improvement, improvement.
I was just so happy, so happy, when she finally told me “You are ready, you are ready to audition”
She’s tough, she is tough! Because she you let you know you’re not good, but she said it respectfully but she let you know when you’re not good
she’ll let you know when you are doing great
so her critiques mean a lot to me
I know she’s being honest and I know that she does not want me to look like an idiot going to these auditions
I just learned so much on a more intense detailed level it’s as if she’s making sure that I covered every single little and big portion of acting
because she makes it clear to me she said “I don’t want it to be where you fall, I don’t want it to be where you don’t make it”
She wants to me to fulfill my my joy which acting.
She wants that and I don’t know I just feel so much more at east, so much more at ease knowing that I finally have the right teacher
I mean with other acting coaches it may be working out for other people, whoever they have.
but this woman here, she know what she doing, she knows exactly what she’s doing
I still got to finish her book, the book she wrote but I just can’t believe that I found someone good because the last thing that you need is somebody playing with your career
making it seem like they can teach you and show you how to do things they can’t do! They can’t do anything.
But this woman here she’s passion.
I mean she is so passionate about what she does, even though her focus is on the voice,
but she’s able to help me more with my body movement, the emotions, everything that is layered around developing a believable character
Again to this day I don’t know how she does that
I have no clue because the home assignment she she has me doing
I’ve never heard of it
I’ve never heard of these techniques before
never heard of them
I have not ever been taught these techniques even when I was at school, in college, never!
but I’m just planning this work and I look forward to paying her as needed for the training because it works!
it really works
it works and she’s good, she is really good!
she helps me in ways that I just didn’t think it was possible
I really thought that was necessary a lot of work. I thought
but we were going trough the training she has given me an evaluation to let me know my progress
she say “you really are good, you don’t need a lot of work”
she can tell that there are certain things that need to be tightened up
there are thing that need to be strengthen but it’s not where I have to start from scratch and that’s what I thought
that is what I thought
and I had to start completely from the bottom but I just love, I really love her.
I really do, I really do and I actually feel really blessed to know that, I mean, it’s not being put to waste
but that’s the worst feeling in the world knowing that you’re investing money into somebody who’s making you think that they can help your career and they cannot do anything.
You’re not making progress, you’re not doing any improvement, it is going in circles
I am just so happy, so glad about her, to not give up on that research I to have found her on the Internet and trusting my instincts, my gut
and everything is just working out
just trusting my gut of knowing that I have a good feeling about her
like I said before I can’t explain it but I just felt there’s something about her
I just felt it in the beginning that I think she’s gonna work out
and I’ve seen her results. I think like she was on the cover of Elle magazine and meeting people across the world and countries. And there are schools wanting her.
All these other connection that she’s getting, there are right she’s good
so I will keep her as my Ace, I don’t want her go anywhere else but sticking with me
I tell her all the time “don’t forget about me! keep training me! I don’t want you to stop keep training me! please!”
because I am just seeing so much progress and I’m actually feeling the characters within me
I am feeling it
and she’s really helping me to to just go deeper and deeper into that believability
so thank you Milena
thank you so very much
thank you for being there for me
thank you for being truthful
thank you for being who you are and I can’t wait for our lessons of next week

The voice of New York is the most widespread Italian newspaper in the United States and today was published an interview of me made by the talented Liliana Rossano.

The interview is very long and embraces different aspects of my career, not only the most recent ones that have seen me featured by Learn Italy as “Italian excellence” in the world in the presence of the Consul General in New York Francesco Genuardi and the Deputy Secretary General of the Italian General Committee Abroad, Silvana Mangione, then televised by Rai.

Here is the link to original Inteview to the Voice Guru Mylena Vocal Coach

Today I’ve been officially presented to the City of New York as “Italian Excellence in the World” and first professional to enter of Learn Italy’s “Network of Excellences”.

The Ceremony held place inside the Consulate General of Italy in new York, hosted by the Consul General Francesco Genuardi, the Added Consul Silvia Limoncini, the deputy Secretary of the Italian Abroad General Committee Silvana Mangione. Present also Massimo Veccia, presidente of Learn Italy, that has selected me as first of many to comes “excellences”

I had the privilege to give a little speech there, talking about my “craftmanship” as a Vocal Coach who cares about the voices of every single person, and does her job as an artisan, taking care of each one as an individual.

This is a video extract form the Ceremony.

You have probably already had the opportunity to read in the newspapers or listen to the TV news of my last event in New York to present my work and my book to the entire city.

I was chosen by Learn Italy Communication USA, a leading cultural agency in the United States, as the first testimonial of the Italian Excellence in the World during an event organized at Urbani Truffle, the undisputed leader in the Italian truffle industry.

The event should have been presented by Francesco Semprini, La Stampa reporter in New York, but since he and his photographer were the victims of an unfortunate episode in Syria, where they were on a reportage mission (the photographer was injured in one eye, he was unharmed), his place was quickly taken by Valeria Robecco, journalist of Il Giornale and ANSA, as well as the newly appointed president of the UN reporters’ association.

During the event Valeria has asked me very interesting questions that have taken me to talk about my story, explain my method and tell more about my book. I also had the honor of receiving two questions from Maria Luisa Rossi Hawkins, the renowned Mediaset correspondent in New York.

Also present at the event was the deputy secretary of the General Committee of Italians Abroad, Dr. Silvana Mangione, who also gave a small speech to congratulate with me.

The entire event was broadcasted for Italian Television by RAI Italia, soon I will add the link of the interview I released to them.

For now I’ll give you a preview of the full video (in Italian), soon I’ll add the English Captions and the entire transcript of the interview.

Happy Watching!

Today all European and American news agencies have talked about tomorrow’s event, February 12, 2019, where I will present to the city of New York my Vocal Coaching method, Inborn Voice, and also my latest book, The Way of the Voice.

This is one of the many articles that appeared in his Italian newspapers.

Here is the link to the original content

Here is the Full video footage of the event!