Why Do You Want to Be a Voice Actor?
One of the first things I ask a new demo student at their first script session with me is; why do you want to be a voice actor? Not only is this question a good ice-breaker, but it also has …
Daily Actions Drive Big Results
Fast forward to December 31, 2022. What does your voice-over business look like? Did you achieve what you wanted to this year? If the idea of moving through another twelve months gets you to an unsure picture of what you …
Planning Your Next Year
Every year around the first of December, I start jotting down any goals or accomplishments – anything I’d like to achieve or do – in the following year. This tends to be random and informal, except for writing them down. …
Working Wednesday: Visualizations For Success in the New Year
Today’s Working Wednesday is all about the power of visualization and the role it can play in your voice-over career success. Some relevant questions you may want to take into your creative visualization practice are: What do I want my …
Gratitude: Year in Review
To me, every holiday season feels like a fantastic blur of color, glitter, food, friends, family, and fun. It’s a bit chaotic, a little stressful, mostly enjoyable, but all-in-all, over in a flash. It’s easy to dash through this season …
New Year, New You?
Have you ever known someone who seems to just play through life? Their attitude is always light; they’re frequently laughing and smiling. They’re nonchalant, easy to be around, and external events rarely knock them off balance. It can be baffling …
Working Wednesday: Outsourcing and Partnering
This week we’re looking at one of my favorite ways to work smarter and not harder as a voiceover artist: OUTSOURCING! I’ll lead you through the three categories of hiring that have helped me grow my team and take things …
Finding Your Niche: A Venn Diagram
At the end of my final coaching session with students, we have a chat about finding one’s niche in voice-over, especially as you begin the process of looking for work. Initially, for most new voice actors, corporate work is often …
Make Room for Romance
It’s not news to say that the audiobook industry is booming. Even before COVID-19, audiobooks experienced steady and predictable growth. In fact, “…the market size of the Audiobook Publishing industry in the US has grown 10.6% per year on average …
Niche Marketing with Your Voice-Over Website
Getting great at direct marketing to potential clients is one of the most important areas of your voice-over business. As a marketing professional with over 30 years’ experience as well as a professional voice-over actor, an axiom that has served …
Working Wednesday: Maximize Your Natural Voice
This week we’re looking at one of my favorite ways to work smarter and not harder as a voice-over artist: maximizing your natural voice. In today’s video we explore three strategies to help you do this: Listen to yourself Research …
Habits, Cal Ripken Jr., and the 80% Rule
I grew up in Baltimore and as such, for better or for worse, I’m a lifelong Baltimore Orioles fan. And while my childhood idol was the great Brooks Robinson, my favorite Oriole of all time is Cal Ripken, Jr. Even …