13233: How Much Do You Want To Know? The story of life is filled with dependencies, with our journey being affected by the challenges in our lives. And when we think about how our situat… David H. Lawrence XVII May 26, 2025 4 Comments
13232: Nobody Forced You To Face These Challenges The story of life is filled with dependencies, with our journey being affected by the challenges in our lives. And when we think about how our situat… David H. Lawrence XVII May 19, 2025 6 Comments
13231: One Simple Way To Ease Anxiety As if we don’t have enough things in the world today, helping us move toward the anxious end of the scale, and away from the calm end, right? Here�… David H. Lawrence XVII May 12, 2025 4 Comments
13230: The Moving Target Of AI Every new advance (decline?) in the development of new AI tools can lead to more and more anxiety for performers. It can also lead to more options fo… David H. Lawrence XVII May 5, 2025 5 Comments
13229: True Or False: Non-Fiction Is Easier To Narrate Than Fiction? Characters. That word can strike fear in the hearts of narrators that feel that fiction is a whole ‘nother level of effort when it comes to audioboo… David H. Lawrence XVII April 28, 2025 7 Comments
13228: Is It Easier To Book An Audiobook Job Than Other Acting Gigs? If you’re a professional, acting can take all kinds of forms. TV. Film. Stage. Commercials. Digital. VO. Audiobooks. And so much more. But the rar… David H. Lawrence XVII April 21, 2025 5 Comments
13227: I Feel Seen And Heard…By James Clear So there I am, minding my own business, checking my email after submitting an on-camera audition (I didn’t even change out of my scrubs for this epi… David H. Lawrence XVII April 14, 2025 4 Comments
13226: Narrating Audiobooks? Don’t Forget The Acting Part So you have an audiobook to narrate. Compared to a lot of other acting jobs, it’s a much bigger job - sometimes exponentially larger. And it’s su… David H. Lawrence XVII April 7, 2025 7 Comments
13225: Remember This One Thing About Aiming For Perfection How many times in our lives have we been presented with the reminder that we are human? That we are messy? That we’re struggling? That we are any… David H. Lawrence XVII March 31, 2025 5 Comments
13224: You Are Absolutely Capable Of The Life You Imagine Life is filled with opportunities, but some of them are scary. And it’s natural to try and limit the risk, especially if you need to put a lot at r… David H. Lawrence XVII March 24, 2025 7 Comments
13223: Don’t Ever Use This Creepy Descript Feature On-Camera Life is filled with opportunities, but some of them are scary. And it’s natural to try and limit the risk, especially if you need to put a lot at r… David H. Lawrence XVII March 17, 2025 5 Comments
13222: How Will You Know If You Don’t Give It A Shot? Life is filled with opportunities, but some of them are scary. And it’s natural to try and limit the risk, especially if you need to put a lot at r… David H. Lawrence XVII March 10, 2025 4 Comments
13221: Fighting The Old Or Building The New? Some people worry and fret about what has happened in their past, especially when that past is less than bountiful. They look at failures and past mi… David H. Lawrence XVII March 3, 2025 4 Comments
13220: Science Proves Me Right (And Wrong) About Failure’s Value I often encourage you to embrace failure: we learn from it, we get better because of it and we identify those things that help us do less of what does… David H. Lawrence XVII February 24, 2025 4 Comments
13219: The Competition and Randomness Of Art And Money Most of the decisions that are made in the professional world revolve around money, and they are never on schedule. (Thanks to EM Forster for this ep… David H. Lawrence XVII February 17, 2025 3 Comments
13218: Casting Calculus: Yep. Sometimes Casting Only Needs 4 Seconds. This episode revolves around that Deadline article, tough love, math, logic and being careful what you wish for, because you just might get it. And y… David H. Lawrence XVII February 10, 2025 6 Comments
13217: Amateur? Professional? Being Both Might Be Best. It's a lovely day when you're recognized as a professional at what you do. You likely get paid. You get respect from your peers. You feel accomplishe… David H. Lawrence XVII February 3, 2025 4 Comments
13216: Are You Still Trying Desperately To Make Sense Of It All? Ever since we've been humans, from the very beginning of time, we've tried to make sense of the world around us. And among the hardest things to make… David H. Lawrence XVII January 27, 2025 5 Comments
13215: Hey, You Chose This. Why Be Righteously Indignant? A bit of a rant this episode...about the choices we make in life, and then being upset about those choices. And creative types have enough harsh judg… David H. Lawrence XVII January 20, 2025 5 Comments
13214: Felt Any AI Guilt Yet? AI in general, and synthetic voice and image generators in particular have led to a lot of FUD in our industry. FUD? It's an acronym that means Fear,… David H. Lawrence XVII January 13, 2025 8 Comments