#impact Podcast: Social Impact | Social Entrepreneurship | Careers for Social Good · Regina Larko

Arts, Voice, Health, and Human Potential | Jennifer Davison

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So often we play too small as human beings.

Jennifer Davison arrives with more than one life on her resume. Regina Larko introduces her as an opera singer, arts for health professional, social entrepreneur, teacher, mother, and American who has lived in Europe for more than half her life. The room feels close right away. Regina does not rush through that backstory, because Jennifer's distance from two cultures helps explain the way she sees people, bodies, and voice. Voice is not treated as a neat performance skill here. Jennifer talks about vibration, breath, balance, energy, and calm as parts of using the body with some honesty. She catches herself when her thoughts start pouring out. Regina does not flatten that. She meets the overflow with warmth, which gives the episode much of its charge. You can hear the passion in the changed tone, the pauses, and the moments when the conversation slows because something has landed. Then Wagner comes in. Regina remembers hearing Jennifer talk elsewhere about his audacity, and she brings that idea into a question about change making. This is not really about celebrity. Wagner gives them a way to talk about scale, and about the habit of shrinking when something bigger wants to happen. Opera can hold that size, so Jennifer's world gives the conversation permission to treat human potential as bodily, emotional, and practical. The close stays hands-on. Regina asks listeners to look at Jennifer's programs, support them, fund them, connect with them, and give them a shout out. Small actions still count. The image is yeast: quiet, spreading, alive.

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