Lessons in Learning to Lead Myself
3 Months. By May of this year, we’d been living in the Dominican Republic for 3 months. Coaching other VO talents was going really good! But my own voice over career was hitting one hurdle after another. First off we’d moved into an open air jungle bungalow. The windows were screened teak slats that allowed a lovely cross flow when …
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Best Online Productivity Tools
5 Tools that optimize online work in 2021 Although I have been working, mostly from home, as a voice over talent for the last 17 years, I also like to work on other dreams and ventures. I’m a proud multi-passionate entrepreneur 🙂 Whether I’m working with subcontractors for voice over projects, or developing a new, unrelated business, it is a …
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VO Consulting Services
Sometimes Consulting is a Better Fit. Not long after I created my signature course, a friend called me up. She was interested in The Workflow of VO, but she had something else in mind as to how to learn the material. She and I were both aspiring on-camera actors in Los Angeles. We had taken classes together over the years …
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Moving to the Dominican Republic
On February 1, 2021, my family moved our lives from Seattle, USA, to Cabarete, DR. This was not a spontaneous decision. It all started in the fall of 2019. We wrapped up a crazy summer season with our Airbnbs in Seattle and I was rocking my best year ever in voice over. A fun vacation was in order! We needed …
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How to do Voiceover Work
17 years. Next month marks 17 years that I have been doing voice over work. It’s crazy how it really doesn’t feel like that long or like it’s getting old. When you pick a profession to do that is something you truly enjoy, it doesn’t feel like work. It just feels like getting up every day doing what you love …
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The End of an AirBnb Era
The first day we ever tried hosting on Airbnb was Friday the 13th. Three years later, it’s now Friday the 13th again, and our last guest checks out. Spooky, right?!! A new law in Seattle goes into effect on December 15th, 2019 that will require all short term renters to have a short term rental (STR) license. You cannot obtain …
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5 Steps I’ve Uncovered to do Audiobooks
In 16 years now (!) of doing voice over work professionally, I never had the desire to do audiobooks. The jobs I usually take can be completed in anywhere from 10 minutes to about a day. So I just assumed I didn’t have the attention span for a several hundred page novel. But over the years, I’ve voiced short stories …
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I did an interview
This is a loooooong interview but if you have time, it’s conversational in a way that is very real:) The host has kids and I have a 14 month old as well as anther baby coming in 10 days, so we got off the subject of VO a lot and talked about parenting. But we do always keep coming back …
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Announcing My Promo Demo
Last year, it was a goal of mine to learn a new skill in voice over. I’d been trucking along with the skills I have for years and it was time to learn a different genre and add it to the list of types of voice over jobs I do. I took some promo classes and learned how different it …
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Bratz Blast from the Past
This was a while ago but I found a compilation of Bratz commercials from 2013 and my voice does nearly all the tag lines! Good times:)
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