Analogies can be useful…to a point. Maybe you’re frustrated enough with a polarized America to consider my analogy in today’s blog.
Yin or Yang?
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Auditioning to Your Strengths
What's a Bailiwick? You should audition for every job that fits your wheelhouse. Knowing your wheelhouse is the trick. So…half the jobs are off the slate for me. I’m not a woman, and I don’t do female voices. I’ll also pass on most of those that ask for a youthful, energetic 20-something....
Are You a PROFESSIONAL Voice Actor?
Maybe you don't even care if you rise to the moniker of "professional" as long as the paychecks keep coming. The cynic in me says career professionals are a vanishing breed or just achieve that echelon through sheer chutzpah and persistence . But I could be totally wrong. So, of the many...
Analogy Apology
Despite some really good discussion generated by my blog yesterday -- Ostrich or Coyote? -- I think it was a weak device for me to use to make my point. I even said so IN the article: "...I’m not going to go too far with this analogy…most such comparisons fail at some point..." Usually that...
Ostrich or Coyote?
Cultural observers would have you believe this country represents two irretrievable, polarized positions. Red or Blue. Yin or Yang. Conservative or Liberal. Of course, it's not that easy...nor so clearly defined. The analysis rarely moves beyond this myopia. Which is a shame. Obviously there...
We Are Not Alone
Voice Actors are but one small corner of the freelance universe both cursed and blessed with internet disruption. Photographers might have gone through the biggest change over the last decade. Add to that publishers, authors, graphics artists, and consultants. The list goes on. All have had to...
3 Mindsets Every Voice Actor Must Have
Maybe you're noticing it too. A total erosion of people taking the high road.I'm not just talking about politics. I'm talking about business ethics. Where is the civility anymore?Well, lemme tell you it IS there. The people who CARE and LOVE and GIVE and SERVE are holding sway despite a global...
International Payments
A couple of my recent blogs are getting long-tail readers.First, was my post of last August on GETTING PAID DIGITALLY. The article offers five solutions for securely making digital transactions (esp. being paid) using relatively new services like Square, Venmo, and PayPalHere.The other article...
I Made the Paper!
'Dating myself... but that was the exclamation when someone appeared in the local newspaper for a story. Then it became: "I'm on TV"! Funny, that doesn't happen anymore. I mean, how would it sound to say: "Hey, I made the FB Group!"Anyway, I've been talking to a reporter at the Toronto Globe...
Finger Pointing At Close Range
When ya get too close to something, you lose perspective. Several situations already this week reveal the wisdom of that adage.Just ask Voices.com's David Ciccarelli, who got too close to his own one-man PR campaign...too close to see the outrage of the VO community he professes to serve, and too...