Keep Showing Up
There’s a saying that goes, “You need to be in the right place at the right time.” I used to be discouraged by this idea as it characterized my success as something far beyond my control, and at best, something …
Growing Your Social Media Presence
Social Media – many of us are addicted to it and end up scrolling for hours when we only meant to spend a minute checking out someone’s page or profile. And yet, when it comes to promoting ourselves or our …
Avoiding Monotone
Why is it important to avoid a monotone voice? When we speak in one tone, it doesn’t keep the audience engaged – it makes it easier for your voice to drown out in the background. It also makes it harder …
Marketing Tips for Your Voice-Over Business
Learning how to effectively market your voice-over business is critical to your future success in the industry. Although it feels like a less productive part of creating voice-over success than auditioning and vocal training, creating your business and marketing plan …
Three Tips for Authentic Character Work
While often used interchangeably, there is a difference between a voice-over talent and a voice actor. It’s sort of like, “a square is always a rectangle but a rectangle isn’t always a square” – a voice actor is always a …
Working With Difficult Directors
Whenever people gather together to create something, conflicts are guaranteed to happen. It doesn’t matter whether you are painting a house, shooting a film, or recording a commercial. Everyone dreads conflict, yet the clashing of creative ideas is inevitable because …
Creating Powerful Lead-in Lines
Lead-in lines – most voice-over actors use them and they’re a very simple way of getting whatever it is that we’re voicing off to a running start. A lead-in line is something that we say right before we roll into …
Is Cold Reading the Most Important Voice-Over Skill?
Without a doubt, there’s nothing better for a voice-over career than honing your cold reading skills. Why? Because the mastery of this one skill will allow you to submit auditions more quickly, book more work, and ultimately get paid more …
Strategies for Authentic Performance
Whether you’re doing character work, narrating an audiobook, or announcing for a commercial, our job as voice actors is to give an authentic performance. Some of these roles may lend themselves to our personalities right from the start. Commercials may …
Working Wednesday: This is Your Brain on VO
There are so many good reasons to talk about the voice-over brain and mindset. The first reason to talk about it: if we’re aware of how to take excellent care of our voice-over brains, we get access to lots of …
Authenticity and Direction
A Zen master once said, “We are exactly the opposite of what we appear to be.” Are you authentically you? Many of us think we are at first glance. We may describe ourselves as straight-shooters, assertive, or not caring what …
About NDAs
It’s always exciting when we book an amazing gig and we can’t wait to share the news with everyone. It’s tempting to want to shout our accomplishments from our Instagram accounts or share a video of our voice on TikTok, …