Voiceovers and Working From Home – The Not Silent Blog 03/24/20
Many of you are working from home for the first time and it can be a difficult transition. As someone who has been working from home for...
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- Mar 17, 2020
- 4 min
Voiceovers and Getting Sick – The Not Silent Blog 3/17/20
I’m sick. No, not THAT kind of sick that’s turned our collective lives upside down. When we landed in Hawaii last week I got clobbered...
- Feb 18, 2020
- 3 min
Voiceovers And Goodwill – The Not Silent Blog 2/18/20
Goodwill saved my ass last week. Last week was one of those weeks that new voice talent hope for and veteran voice talent have come to...
- Jan 21, 2020
- 3 min
Voiceovers And The Marvelous Mrs. Maisel – 01/21/20
I recently watched Season 3 of ‘The Marvelous Mrs. Maisel‘ and it did not disappoint. If you’ve seen the show, you may know where this...
- Jan 7, 2020
- 3 min
Voiceovers And 2020 Goals – The Not Silent Blog 01/07/20
Have you set your 2020 goals yet? Well, it is 2020 now so you may wanna get on that. Shockingly, I have already set my 2020 goals. I’ll...
- Dec 10, 2019
- 3 min
Voiceovers And 2020 – The Not Silent Blog 12/10/19
2020 is almost here! Are you ready for it? To plan for 2020, let’s look back at 2019. Did you achieve all the goals you set for the year?...
- Nov 19, 2019
- 3 min
Voiceovers And Choices – The Not Silent Blog 11/19/19
Here’s an unexpected exercise in making choices… Last week, I woke up in the middle of the night and scribbled this down: For the life of...
- Nov 12, 2019
- 3 min
Voiceovers And Hope Noah – The Not Silent Blog 11/12/19
25 years ago last week I had my first voiceover lesson with Hope Noah. On November 4th, 1994 I went for a voiceover diagnostic with Hope...
- Oct 1, 2019
- 3 min
Voiceovers And Vocal Health – The Not Silent Blog 10/1/19
Vocal health is critical for all voice talents. Here’s why I bring it up… Last week a voice talent posted on social media about a lost...
- Sep 24, 2019
- 3 min
Voiceovers And Assumptions – The Not Silent Blog 9/24/19
A while back I wrote a blog about managing expectations based on your assumptions. Today let’s talk about examining your assumptions....
- Sep 10, 2019
- 4 min
Voiceovers And Effectiveness – The Not Silent Blog 9/10/19
Effectiveness is everything in your voiceover career, especially in the booth during a live session. Here’s an example… Last week I had a...
- Sep 3, 2019
- 3 min
Voiceovers And Competence – The Not Silent Blog 9/3/19
To be a successful voice talent, competence is critical. I think that’s safe to say that for any profession, but in many professions...
- Aug 20, 2019
- 3 min
Voiceovers And King Kong – The Not Silent Blog 8/20/19
I saw King Kong the musical on Broadway last week. I went with an old friend and we had a great time. The show closed a few days later...
- Aug 6, 2019
- 3 min
Voiceovers and Tension – The Not Silent Blog 8/6/19
There is a lot of tension in the voiceover industry right now. It’s been building over the last five years or so. There is tension...
- Jul 30, 2019
- 2 min
Voiceovers and Gambling – The Not Silent Blog 7/30/19
Gambling and voiceovers. What do they have in common? First off, let me say that historically I’ve never been a big gambler. Until the...
- Jul 23, 2019
- 3 min
Voiceovers and Facts – The Not Silent Blog 7/23/19
Facts are sometimes hard to find in the voiceover industry’s social media conversations. Here are two examples from just last week… In...
- Jul 16, 2019
- 4 min
Voiceovers And The Mental Health Day – The Not Silent Blog 7/16/19
The Mental Health Day. A vastly underrated and often derided term. I haven’t discussed this topic via this here blog in almost seven...
- Jul 1, 2019
- 3 min
Voiceovers And The 21st Century – The Not Silent Blog 7/2/19
Living in the 21st Century is hard, especially for us voice talent. How hard exactly? A few years ago I had the privilege of writing an...
- Apr 23, 2019
- 3 min
Voiceovers and Laziness – The Not Silent Blog 4/23/19
I’ve been engaging in a very specific form of laziness lately. The metric tonnage of questions asked daily on social media by voice...
- Apr 9, 2019
- 4 min
The State of the Voiceover Industry, 2019 Edition – The Not Silent Blog 04/08/19
The State of the Voiceover Industry, 2019 Edition… I’ve been writing this blog for over ten years now. For fun, here’s my first entry....
