Hi, I'm Stephanie.
A little about me
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For more than a decade, I’d been helping my students improve the sounds, rhythm, and flow of their English without even realizing it had a name.
I didn’t even know “accent coach for normal people” was a real job, until one day I realized I had been doing it for years.
Where It All Started
Before I ever taught English, I studied classical singing and Spanish education.
Two fields that couldn’t seem more different, but actually taught me the same lesson: pronunciation is everything.
When you sing in a language you don’t speak (hello, Italian, French, and German arias), you have to learn every tiny detail of how the mouth and tongue move to make the right sounds.
That experience made me obsessed with the physicality of language – the mechanics behind what makes speech sound natural, musical, and human.
Years later, I realized I could apply those same vocal techniques to my own speech.
Changing My Own Accent
While teaching English in Mexico, my students pointed out that my pronunciation didn’t match the “standard American” sounds they saw in their textbooks. And they were right!
I grew up near Milwaukee, Wisconsin, USA – an area with a fairly neutral accent but a bit of nasality on some vowel sounds. So, I modified my own accent to sound more neutral, more General American, when speaking with my students..
Then, when I moved to Germany, I used those same skills to train my German pronunciation. I wasn’t just learning vocabulary – I was learning to fit in through sound.
Building Something That Didn't Exist
The more I taught, the more frustrated I became.
Language classes rarely, if ever, focused on pronunciation. Everyone knew that actors worked with dialect coaches, but where was the help for normal people – professionals, academics, everyday humans – who wanted to feel like they belonged when speaking English?
So, I went digging. Deep in the corners of the internet, I found a teacher-training program led by a speech-therapist-turned-accent-coach and thought, "Finally!"
From there, I built my own approach – one rooted in voice science, language teaching, and a decade of learning and experimenting – to help others find their most authentic sound in English.
Because I’m more than just an accent coach:
I'm the oldest of 4 kids. There's a 14-year age gap between me and my youngest sister.
I went gluten free in 2010 – before anyone knew what that meant – in preparation for my college voice recital. Turns out gluten was causing me to sound congested even when I wasn't sick. I've been gluten free ever since.
After teaching English in Spain and music and Spanish in the U.S., I left teaching temporarily to be a server and pastry cook in a fine-dining restaurant for a year and a half. I still love to bake.
I've lived in Spain, Mexico, Sweden, and now Germany. I'm fluent in Spanish, speak German at an intermediate level, and have dabbled in learning Catalán, French, and Swedish.
My musical tastes range widely from indie singer-songwriters to reggaeton to anything from the Baroque and Renaissance periods.
I'm not a picky eater and love trying new foods whenever I travel. But I hate the texture of citrus fruits. I'll drink orange juice, but you'll never catch me eating the whole fruit.
Let’s fix that. Book a free call, tell me what’s tripping you up, and I’ll show you exactly how we can get your accent – and your confidence – where you want them.
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