Is 2010 Your Year?

I’m dedicating this year to be the year of laughter, love, and living life to the fullest! It’s going to be my best year yet!  A year to take hold of my passions and work to make my dreams a reality.  A year to launch Voice Over Club, to speak at VOICE 2010, to challenge myself and step out of my comfort zone!

I am passionate about what I do and am blessed to work from home as a voice talent, producer, and coach.  I thoroughly enjoy all three aspects of what I do – they complete me.  It hasn’t always been this way.  It started as a dream, something I wanted to learn about and pursue.  Then I made the decision, took action, and followed through with resolve.

I had to learn to take action!  Each day I took action in my voice over career created a confidence in me that pushed me forward.  Each week built up momentum. Each month built credibility.  Each year my income increased.  I just had to start.

What are your dreams?  Are you a prospective voice talent or are you a voice talent?  Which one do you aspire to be?  If you’re serious about being a professional voice talent, do you have professional training and demos?  If not, what is your plan to get them?  What is your time-line?  What will you do to challenge where you are today so you can be where you want to be a year from now?  We each have the same number of hours in a day, the same number of days in a week, the same number of days in a year to accomplish what we choose to accomplish.  The only difference is in our priorities.

Go ahead and decide what you want!  Take action!  Follow through with resolve and make this your best year yet!

Wishing you joyful abundance and blessings for the New Year!

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Who Do You Listen To?

“They” say to become a voice over talent you need to drop $10,000 on a home studio.   “They” say to record a bunch of samples, add some background music and you have a demo.  “They” will also tell you that you can get rich in voice overs; that it’s easy.   If only “they” knew!

The cacophony of erroneous information about getting started as a voice over talent, in the honest endeavor to find the truth, is enough to make a head spin. So how do you know who to listen to?  How do you know who is really qualified?

Here are 5 tips to keep in mind:

1.  Ask people who are successful in the voice over industry – not the people who have failed.   If you want to succeed, those who are successful can help you get there, those who failed can’t.

2.  Realize that even the “experts” in the industry will not agree upon everything, so you may have to apply some independent thought. Implement what is relevant to you and your goals, and leave the rest behind.

3.  If it’s too good to be true, it usually is.  The only guarantee you can be sure of is that you will have to put forth effort, invest in developing and honing your skill set and your business, and do what must be done.

4.  Clarify your goals and base your questions on how to achieve your goals. Ask the right questions and get the right answers.  Focusing only on how to make six figures, the costs involved in training, demos, and equipment, what you have to give instead of considering the value of what you get, shows a lack of serious intent and will surely lead to failure.

5.  Reserve final judgment for yourself.  Base your decisions and actions on what you learn.  After all, you live with the consequences of your decisions – good or bad.  “They” don’t!

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Twitter and Voice Over Work

Here is proof that Twitter can be effective for getting voice over work!

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