May 2025 Office Hours

TIMESTAMPS

  • 00:00 Introduction

  • 01:35 Wins

  • 2:30 Tatyana shared how her jobs went these days.

  • 8:06 Brooke signed up for a group coaching session

  • 11:47 Barby did an ASMR audition and picked up editing and repeat jobs

  • 17:27 Sion shared how she tested someone's good mic and realized that it's not about having the best hi-tech equipment all the time because it's the same for her (Not a huge difference for her). She also got podcast interviews.

  • 26:16 Trenise has shared that she has gotten 100K views and 970 subscribers on her YT channel — close to monetization!
  • 28:39 Nicky shared that her oldest is graduating HS
  • 29:06 Michaella shared that she went to an IS World Abomination tour (improv and animation together)
  • 38:30 Carrie shares about a callback that she didn't get the job and shares her realizations
  • 39:14 Tracey, a new member, introduces herself.
  • 40:44 Q: Any pointers on how to move forward with VO? I feel like I'm stuck in gathering information stage. I feel nervous to move forward because I'm used to having exact steps and VO is your own story and marketing scares me.
  • 41:41 VO is your own story
  • 43:11 Barby shares her VO story - "It is sort of trial and error process in my opinion. And any one of these ways can work, but they all take time, for sure, and they all take consistency."
  • 49:51 Jen shares her VO Story -"From day one, which I can't go back to day one, but if I could, from day one, I would begin a regular daily practice"
  • 58:29 Michaella advised to focus on just being present.
  • 1:03:46 Trenise shared that accountability partners are helpful.
  • 1:06:51 Nikki shared that she is an introvert so she finds marketing herself difficult.
  • 1:07:53 Jen asked Nikki what stage or where is she in the process/journey.
  • 1:17:23 Michaella advises to do affirmations everyday
  • 1:20:04 Jen asked Tracey where she is most stuck on right now, as she is in the same situation as Nikki, she said. Tracey said, "When I get stuck, I don't know if I should go buy things or if I should study."
  • 1:22:06 Barby notes that Carrie has released a podcast episode about that - episode 2.
  • 1:23:33 Carrie shares about the culture of upgrading
  • 1:26:29 Michele shares that as a newbie, she is too new to worry about whether we're getting caught up in the culture of upgrade.
  • 1:27:26 Michele shares a quote from Georgio O' Keefe.
    I've seen this quote before and I just love it. She says, I've been absolutely terrified every moment of my life and I've never let it keep me from doing a single thing I wanted to do.
  • 1:28:28 Carrie asks where everybody falls in the spectrum "Im scared but I will do it vs Im scared and I need help from someone to help me do it"
  • 1:31:29 Carrie shares that we sometimes need to over prepare
  • 1:33:56 Carrie asks if anybody has worked with the new version of Source Connect
  • 1:38:49 Does anyone have a good subject line for an email marketing message? Sion answers that her advice is "Show me you know me"
  • 1:57:19 Q: Is there anybody on Voices.com? Brooke shared that she feels bad that sometimes her auditions have not been listened to — asks if this is normal. A discussion about how Voices.com and audition listings work. — 166 auditions, 87 are audition listens — from the 87, 7 were shortlisted.
  • 2:20:38 When do you know that it's time to move on from auditioning on pay-to-play sites?
  • 2:24:02 Where do you find work aside from these sites?

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