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Borrowed Time: What Bobby Darin Taught Me About Swinging Anyway
A kid told he would not see 16 became a Grammy winner, an Oscar nominee and a cautionary tale. What Bobby Darin teaches us about making the thing anyway.
Everything you loved as a kid… was RESEARCH!
What a Muppets panel at D23 accidentally explained about my entire career... and about a Crow T. Robot audition I had been preparing for since high school.
Back To School, Back To Growth: What Pre-K4 Taught Me About Chasing Excellence in Voiceover
My son's first day of Pre-K4 reminded me why the best voice actors never stop growing. Here's what chasing excellence (not perfection) actually looks like.
That's Not How You Play Guitar.
I've been deep in a YouTube rabbit hole lately. Jimi Hendrix. Stevie Ray Vaughan. Jeff Healey. Watching young people discover these legends for the first time and completely LOSE THEIR MINDS over it. And all I keep thinking is: every single one of these men was told — implicitly or explicitly — that they were doing it wrong. Every. Single. One.
Replace Fear With Curiosity: The Voice Actor's Most Powerful Mindset Shift
Steven Spielberg said it. I've been saying it in coaching sessions. "Replace fear with curiosity." Four words that change everything about how you approach a cold read, an audition, a character, a genre you've never tried before. Here's what that actually looks and sounds like behind the mic.
Mel Brooks at 100 — A Love Letter From a Kid Who Grew Up on His Films
Today is a HOLY DAY for anyone who has ever laughed at a movie. Mel Brooks turns 100. I wrote him a love letter. It got personal. It got a little mushy. I'm not sorry.
Your "Nothing" Is Plenty.
The biggest thing standing between you and your next booking isn't your voice. It's what you think your voice needs to be doing.
You Are Not Who You Think You're Not.
"It's not who you are that holds you back. It's who you think you're not." That one hit me differently when I first read it. Because the box most voice actors are trapped in? They built it themselves. And they can dismantle it the same way.