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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?
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.
Half Empty or Half Full? How You Measure Your Progress Changes Everything
Even the most successful actors at the top of their game can feel like complete failures — while everyone around them looks up to them as role models. How is that possible? It comes down to one thing: how they're measuring their progress. Half Empty or Half Full. And here's the wild part — we can HEAR which one you're in. Every time.
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.
Your Only Competition Is Who You Were Yesterday
Here's something I want every voice actor to hear — especially the ones scrolling through other people's booking announcements feeling that familiar twinge of... something. This post is for you. Your competition is not who you think it is. And understanding that changes everything about how you grow.