The Inside Voice began as Molly’s Music, a boutique vocal-centric music school in Southern California, whose headquarters is a leisurely ten-minute drive to the ocean. Molly’s Music is a tight-knit company of friends and family, founded by Molly Webb and her husband C. Travis Webb.

In 2010, when Molly’s schedule became so full she was teaching seven days a week to keep up with the demand, Travis decided to stop teaching literature at Cal State Long Beach and devote himself to building a business with his wife.

They hired their first teacher in 2011, and after several years of growth they converted to a nonprofit 501(c)(3) in 2014. They used the revenue from their four locations and nearly three hundred students to fund several charitable initiatives, including after-school music programs, free tutoring services, and research on civic participation.

But something didn’t sit right with them. Although their charitable engagements were important, the thing they believed in the most, the power of music to create and foster community, was only accessible to a few. Voice lessons were reserved for the small percentage of people who had both the time and money to benefit from them.

As a public benefit corporation, The Inside Voice is a mission based business. It’s a mission to help everyone find the voice they were born with, and create the voice they aspire to. It’s a mission to make supportive expertise affordable. It’s a mission to strengthen community by improving individual access to artistic expression. It’s a mission to use technology to create networks of joy through song.

The Inside Voice is the life’s work of people who believe in helping you learn to express yourself with your own voice, in your own way, in a supportive environment filled with knowledge and possibility because we believe you’re here, on this little blue planet, to sing your heart out.

Many people mistakenly believe that you’re either born a singer or not. This is simply not true. There are so many coordinations that go into singing, from pitch matching, to breath support, to soft palate and tongue control. While these things may come easier and earlier to some than others, the bottom line is that they are skills that can be learned. If I can leave you with one piece of advice, it’s that you can learn to sing, and we’d love to be the ones to help you discover your voice.

~Molly Webb