FREE Voice Over Tips & Insights – From a 25+ year Pro
An Audience of One: The WHO Behind Every Story You Tell
Storytelling is essential to our human identity. The stories we tell are how we know who we are. And as voice actors, we do something both ancient and profound — we share a great story with an audience of one. Here's what that means for every performance you'll ever give.
Cold Reading: The Practice Every Voice Actor Needs and Most Skip
Here's something I've been telling my actors a lot lately: if you call yourself a voice actor... cold reading is not optional. Not for audiobook narrators. Not for commercial actors. Not for animation voice actors. ALL of you. Here's why narration teaches every voice actor something they can't learn anywhere else.
You Are Part of Someone Else's Hero's Journey. Act Like It.
Joseph Campbell spent his career identifying the universal pattern underlying every great story ever told across every culture in human history. Pixar knows it. Disney knows it. Every great video game writer knows it. And voice actors who understand it — who know exactly where their character lives inside that journey — don't just perform a character. They tell a STORY. Let's dig in.
The Suspension of Disbelief: Your Most Powerful Ally — and Your Most Tenuous One
Last week I re-watched WALL-E with my four-year-old. I cried three separate times. Over robots. That don't really speak. In a movie I've seen before. And I knew — the whole time — that I was watching computer animated images on a screen. So why was I weeping? And what does that have to do with your next voice acting audition?
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.
The Two Conversations Happening Every Time You're Behind the Mic
Pete Drucker said it best: "The most important thing in communication is to hear what isn't being said." As voice actors, communication is literally our job description. But here's what most people miss — every time you step behind the mic, there are actually TWO conversations happening at once. Most voice actors only know about one of them.
Stop Just Talking: What Voice Acting Actually Is (And Why It's So Much More)
Here's something a lot of people get wrong about voice acting: it has nothing to do with having a "good voice." The mic doesn't care about your voice. It cares about your TRUTH. After 25+ years behind the mic, here's what I know separates the voice actors who book from the ones who just... talk.