What does your great great great Grandfather, Abraham Lincoln, Kurt Kobain, David Bowie, Philip Seymour Hoffman, and Ted Bundy have in common? In this instance the obvious answer is the correct one. They're all dead. Not to sound morbid this morning or to bring...
April 2022 marks the 10 year anniversary of my beginning in this crazy business we call voice over. My original plan for my life was very different. My first real job was cleaning kennels at a local veterinarian. It was crappy work, pardon the pun (or not). I decided...
Perhaps there are times where you look around and what you're doing and where you are in life and ask yourself, am I happy? I'm sure we've all been there a time or two. We take a long look at our jobs or our relationships and really get down to it. Is there more than...
Rejection is a way of life in voice over, or any entertainment business really. How many stories have we seen of actors who have gone on audition after audition after audition only to have the door slammed in their face until that one audition hits and they were off...
2021 is coming to a close, and you've had a pretty good year, business-wise. You're thinking about 2022, but wait! You may be a voice talent and an artist and a creative and all that, but you're a business first. If you want to succeed, you need to think like a...
This might be less of a normal blog post and more of a rant, so stream of consciousness here we go! I've been doing voiceover professionally (meaning being paid) since 2012. I trained for many months before finally booking my first gig voicing a deep sea diver for a...
I am not a patient person. I tend to take a while thinking about a decision, but when I make that decision, I jump in with all my feet. When I got engaged, a decided during the day at work that I was going to propose. I called Rhubarb Jones who was the morning DJ at...
A lot of people talk about imposter syndrome in their jobs. The feeling that you're gonna be "found out" and people will discover you don't really know what you're doing. A lot of voice talent have that feeling. Another affliction we all share is depression. Stefan...
I don't like the renaissance fair. I do like dragons and swords and the Black Plague and torture and all that, but the whole "let's play knights and maidens" thing seems rather silly to me. We have a renaissance fair here in Georgia south of Atlanta. They've built...
I heard on a podcast recently marketing guru Donnie Deutsch say that a company's brand is a set of values. Values are things that you believe in and drive the way you live and work. It got me thinking, what are my values and how do that relate to my brand? As you can...