I am currently mentoring a group of voice over beginners. They're great folks-- positive, enthusiastic and I love them to pieces. But most of them are making a big (and potentially expensive) mistake. What is it? They are doing the wrong things first. Like loading up...

If you're of a certain age, I'm sure you remember how cool it was to receive a postcard from a friend or family member visiting a far-off land. Pictures of beautiful scenery, bikini babes, giant lobsters with goofy captions, a circled dot on a distant mountain top...

Happy New Year! Hope you had an awesome celebration and are feeling pumped about the shiny new year ahead. Today I've got a lesson in a voice over basic, pronunciation and enunciation. A lot of people confuse the two or even combine them into a non-word: pronunciate....

I love the week between Christmas and New Year's. I assess what worked and what didn't in the year gone by and plan for the year ahead. I dig into my business growth goals, my health goals and even something I call my peace-of-mind index. Overall, 2017 was pretty darn...

There's nothing like the first time you do voice overs from an exotic and beautiful locale. It could be from a mountainside chalet or a hotel room by the beach You could be in another country, like voice talent Justin Hibbard who recorded voice overs from a tiny hut...

For the Holidays I wish you lots of fun voice over projects and big fat checks. I hope you get to work with great directors and read wonderful scripts that challenge you as a voice actor and help you grow. But alas, such scripts are like dreams of the Sugar Plum...

Back in the day a great sounding home studio cost tens, if not hundreds of thousands of dollars to set up and install. I've worked in quite a few of these expensive basement wonderlands. I wonder what happened to the clunky, multi-track analog tape recorders, the...

Just starting your voice over career? Good. You'll want to print this email and look at it often as you grow your business. Voice buyers tell me the #1 thing that frustrates them the most is when voice talent sound like announcers. And they're right. People tune you...

Ahhh, Thanksgiving. Today boyfriend and I will be heading to upstate New York for a couple of days to spend the holiday with my sister and her family. I'm looking forward to kicking back and disconnecting. As we close out the year, I'm making my gratitude list and you...

I'm you've heard the saying "little hinges swing big doors." In voice over there's a simple performance tweak that's been making a huge difference for our students here at the Great Voice Company and it can do the same for you. Singers use this technique all the time....