Helping Make Resolutions Stick
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I just got finished reading an article on Medium.com that had a pretty snacky way of adding some stickiness to New Year's resolutions.
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Voice Over Is REALLY Hard. Until It Isn’t.
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When I talk to my students and clients, and prospective students and clients, I never seem to hear how easy they think VO is going to be …
How To Pick Your Stage Name
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I had an opportunity to meet with an actor the other day whose real name was really simple. When she joined SAG-AFTRA, she had to add a c…
The Secret In Every Commercial Script
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I teach, in my two-part Voicing Commercial VO class, how to work with three simple elements that will change how you audition for and perf…
The Job In Every Commercial Script
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I teach, in my two-part Voicing Commercial VO class, how to work with three simple elements that will change how you audition for and perf…
The Problem In Every Commercial Script
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I teach, in my two-part Voicing Commercial VO class, how to work with three simple elements that will change how you audition for and per…
How To Conquer FOMO (Fear Of Missing Out)
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I was having a conversation with a friend recently, and we were talking about how hard it is to keep with everything new - how it's like a…
Pay Attention To Your Storytelling, Not Removing Your Breaths
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I often get email asking me for advice on how to delete all the breaths from VO work.
I understand how it's possible that someone would t…
“What do you mean, you’re a ‘process guy’?”
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In another video, I mention what a challenge it is for me to be open to riffing and improv and playing, and how I have to work at leaving …
Everyone’s A Customer, Not Just Your Customers
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There's a school of thought I follow that says that everyone's a customer, not just the people that buy your product or service. I think I…
The Trick Charlie Munger Uses To Make Better Decisions
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With all the things we have to distract us in the world, how can we be better at simply making judgements, and thinking about how to solve…
The Curse Of Knowledge
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Ever talk with someone knowledgeable on a subject, and they simply left you in the dust with jargon that they knew, but you didn't? Or hav…
10,000 Hours To Become Good At Something? Not Really.
You may have heard that it takes 10,000 hours to become really, really good at something...a world class expert at a particular skill. You might even …
The Two Things Most Talent Try to Accomplish Way Too Soon
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I'm often approached by talent new to voice over and on-camera acting, and they've already decided what they need for success. They try to…
Playing and Planning
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As artists we're usually pretty good at playing rather than planning, but sometimes we lose sight of the benefits of being able to adjust,…
Go Wake Up Your Luck
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A friend of mine shared with me a Persian proverb some 30 years ago, and I've never forgotten it: "Go wake up your luck." And I've rarely …
Whiteboards In The Hallways
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There's a lot to be said for terrific preparation, a highly productive team, a detailed plan, the precise execution of that plan, and stru…
Don’t Confuse Price With Value
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I had someone write me recently, telling me that for four years she was trying to find a coupon to get a discount on my classes. There was…
Let’s Welcome To The Stage…Failure!
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Short and sweet today...I want to talk about the fear of failure. And so, let's.
And not just the fear of failure itself, and the emotion…
The Perils of Live Performance And Why Jeremy Kappell Should Not Have Been Fired
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You may have seen that, during a live newscast last Friday, Rochester weatherman Jeremy Kappell, of NBC affiliat…