About

My name is Natalie Peluso, and I’m the creator behind SingYourTruth.com, a place to dedicated to finding the truth about who you are and then learning to fearlessly sing it loud.

I call this the art of Fearless Karaoke.

I think my entire life has been about learning how to do this.  So I write about it and I work with others to have the fearlessness to do the same thing.

From singing…

Since the age of 15 I have been obsessed with the voice, with a career as a professional singer and voice coach. (See, I even call it The Voice. It has its own identity. Scary, I know.)

In my early 20s I became one of the most successful young Australian opera singers of my generation, living in Europe and performing all over the world. My commitment to developing my vocal talent enabled me to enjoy the kind of early international recognition most singers only dream about.

(Psst…are you a singer, too? You’ll probably be interested in this…)

The best part was I learned to sing some of the most glorious music ever written (I may even sing for you.)

The fun started when I chose to start listening to my own inner voice.

Singing on the inside…

I took the seemingly crazy leap from this successful singing career to focusing on starting a family and giving myself some space to explore the other sides of myself.

This was hard. Hard hard hard.

Opera is glamorous. It was all I knew. It was me. I had to face the real possibility of never being able to go back.

So I really know how it feels to be scared of change. Scared of losing your identity. Scared of wasting all that hard work and money. Scared of letting people down.

But I can say proudly it was the best decision I have ever made. It blessed me with three gorgeous children who are my life. It trained my Fearless Karaoke muscles. It gave me the space to believe I was more than my career. And that my career could be whatever I wanted it to be.

My life was what I chose to do with it. I had choices! Shock horror!

So instead of being scared of letting the diva go, I threw myself into alternate universes that none of my singing friends understood. Having my first child kicked things off. I firewalked with Anthony Robbins, which was wild.

I finally lost the 15 kilos I’d been carrying around with me since I was a Goth teenager (the old Kelly Osbourne had nothing on me). I discovered how insanely perfect sitting alone for 10 minutes on a cushion every morning made me feel. I got fan girl crushes on Thich Nhat Hanh, Wayne Dyer, Eckhart Tolle, Deepak Chopra and Rumi. And Frank Kern. (I know!)

I was tuning out the non-helpful voices.

And I became ever so slightly obsessed with the idea of helping other people to become more themselves too.

But, I also made plenty of mistakes. It took 6 years to find my way towards what was truly making me happy. But I knew that if I just followed the trail of the delicious, eventually it would all become clear. I’m still not there, but at least now I know there is no there.

Helping others to Sing It Back To Me…

My singing friends were the first to ask me. “How did you do that? How did you have the courage to stop?”

I would talk about my process, and it wasn’t long before I was helping others to find the fearlessness they needed, too.

So I started my first fearless-focused blog, The Tiny Soprano, in late September 2009, and it led me to create Sing Your Truth 9 months later. (Quite a number of my posts from Tiny were imported here, which is why you will notice there are comments but no retweets on most of the Archive – sadly TweetMeme doesn’t import your stats.)

Now, I just keep listening to the buzz inside and letting it ring.

The irony is I’m now a much better performer having had a break because I now have evidence that there is more to me than just my singing.

That I am capable of a meaningful and passionate life both on and off the stage. That I can choose to do anything at any given moment. And I understand now, because of this journey, the things that matter most to me.

This is what I want for you, too.

The courage to stand back…and then stand up to Sing Your Truth loud.

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Welcome to Sing Your Truth. I’m honoured that you are here and I can’t wait to connect with you more.