How To Avoid The Biggest Mistake Voice Talent Make

How To Avoid The Biggest Mistake Voice Talent Make

Like most small business owners just starting out, budding voice talent tend to severely undervalue themselves out of sheer desperation, and for fear they may “lose the job”. For instance, “I’d love to voice your documentary… for FREE!” Insert your own twisted...
A Good Problem To Have

A Good Problem To Have

The entertainment industry doesn’t have a monopoly on problems, but we certainly have more than our share. To add to this, scores of ‘would-be’ professional actors and voice overs, with scads of potential and talent, routinely overwhelm themselves focusing on petty...
Who Does What: Your Agent Is Not Your Manager

Who Does What: Your Agent Is Not Your Manager

There’s a saying that goes, “The definition of unhappiness is when reality does not meet expectation.” This could easily account for so many talent wasting as much time as they do either crabbing about their agents or their lack of representation, as the case may be....
In Memory of a Legend

In Memory of a Legend

We lost Studs Terkel this past week. He was ninety-some-odd years old, a Chicago icon and a national treasure. (No kidding. He literally was.) I met him at a bus stop many years ago and he had me follow him to his office off Michigan Avenue, only to load me down with...