Five Habits to Master to Improve Your Voice Acting
Podcast Length: 5:58 If the adage, “We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, then, is not an act, but a habit” holds up, then it stands to reason the habits we practice, whether by design or default, ultimately determines our strengths. With that, I give you five...
Six Key Similarities Between Voiceover and On-Camera Acting
Podcast Length: 4:19 There’s a common assumption in the talent industry that can easily trip up an actor by limiting your skills and therefore your employment opportunities. It’s the idea that you must dramatically alter your approach to act for voiceover, as if there...
Branding, Rebranding & Art Direction for Voice Actors
Podcast Length: 10:01 “The world will ask you who you are, and if you don’t know, the world will tell you.” – Carl Jung Let’s assume you’re well-trained. You’ve invested in proper coaching and created competitive voiceover demos with credible producers. And now...
FEED YOUR READ as a Voice Actor: Midsummer Stories
Summer has always been filled with childhood dreams and adventures; challenges and surprises; love, laughter and lifelong friendships you’ll never forget. So, with that in mind, here’s a list of remarkable movies you might never have seen or haven’t seen in a really...
Can You Be a Professional VO Even if You’re Just Starting Out?
Podcast Length: 6:25 Typically training for the average actor and voice-over are categorizes into one of three camps: beginner, intermediate or advanced. Problem is: nothing in this business is lumped into those categories; you’re either a professional or you’re not,...
Auditioning is a Numbers Game
Podcast Length: 8:24 How many auditions do you imagine it takes to land a single voiceover job? Five? Ten? Twenty? There must be an average. There is, but it’s likely to be a great deal more than you might think. Your professional reputation as a voice talent and as...
The Biggest Misconceptions About Voiceover Demos
Podcast Length: 10:54Voiceover demos, by definition, are a professional demonstration of what you do best and what you want more of. Yet many well-meaning, even experienced talent fall prey to many of the following misconceptions regarding what should and shouldn’t be...
To Trust Your Instincts You Have to Use Them
What are the odds of ‘making it’ as a voice actor? Let’s assume you have a work ethic that won’t quit, and everyone says you have a remarkable voice. That’s as good a place to begin as any. However, you can have all the talent in the world, but it’ll die on the vine...
FEED YOUR VOICEOVER READ: Celebrate Juneteenth!
Obviously African American history is a major contributor and crafter of our collective cultural story as Americans, much of which has long been omitted, undermined, overlooked and only in recent years been acknowledged by the broader mass media. Still not all...The SOUND ADVICE VO Podcast
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Auditioning is a Numbers Game