13219: The Competition and Randomness Of Art And Money

Raw transcript:

one of the things that I do at the
beginning of the monthly workouts that
we do for vo Heroes and for uh narrate
your own book is to deal with thought
starters things that have popped up for
me in the last month that uh I think
might be appropriate to share with my
students and my clients and this month’s
thought starter was interesting it was
Showbiz is not organized for your
success and literally moments after I’d
said that something else popped up in my
inbox that I want to share with you that
I think follows on with that and reminds
us that you know we got no right to like
raise our fists to the heavens and go
why doesn’t this work for me the way I
want it to work let me talk about this
in this episode of the vo Heroes
podcast so it would be great if
everything about our business was useful
for talent
for actors for voice talent for writers
Etc but it’s not it’s useful for the
people who have the money to do
Productions the money to pay for
publication the money to pay for
shooting things on set recording things
in studio and it’s kind of built for
their success but even they have
struggles em forer said life never gives
us what we want at the moment we
consider
appropriate Adventures do occur but not
punctually so if you have a a very
frustrated approach to our business that
you know casting directors uh always
like are out to get us and and uh you
know producers and directors in studios
want things that they don’t they’re not
clear about giving us direction to get
what they want or you turn something in
as a writer and the editor is like on
you to make changes or makes changes for
you that they want you
to uh take a look at it can start to
make you feel as though nobody’s paying
attention to you and your soul and your
creative Soul
listen if you’re doing this
professionally you’re doing it to make
money and if you’re doing it to make
money there is a a Commerce aspect to
this that you need to pay attention to
it’s not just about the artwork you can
be as virtuous about this as you want
and say I’m never going to be a Slave
to the the the almighty dollar the
filthy looker as some of my clients used
to put it I don’t want to be making
decisions based on the filthy looker
well a balanced understanding of doing
your artwork so as to make money is not
a bad
thing and knowing that just simply being
open to the idea uh of of the Commerce
of our business allows these momentary
and
spontaneous events to occur in our lives
that keep us going in this business you
know if all of a sudden we could never
make money it would be a fairly short
amount of time before we decided we have
to find something else to do because
we’d get hungry and we wouldn’t have a
car or a place to
live I just want to give you a
permission slip in this
episode I get that sometimes it’s
frustrating that the way you want to
interpret things the way you want to
express things are managed in some cases
by other people and the opportunities
that you get to do
that sometimes require other people to
help you out now you can create all your
own content and try and sell it yourself
there ways to do that uh but even those
you know they require you to be a pretty
good manager of your business so all of
these things being said be open to the
randomness of what our business is all
about you never know what’s coming down
the pike and instead of again being all
frustrated and raising your fist to the
heaven why don’t they do it my way be
open to other people’s ways of doing it
and the opportunities that that presents
yes you’ll have to accept some of the
roadblock some of the speed bumps some
of the stop signs the
nose but if you’re just jovial about it
with yourself if you treat yourself with
Grace and say okay you know there might
be things coming down the pike that I
don’t expect it’ll be great when those
things happen and be open to those it
changes everything about how you
approach our
business now this was a pretty deep
subject and I’m wondering if at some
point along the way you were like
what let me know in the comments below
or if all of a sudden it’s like oh right
okay yeah it’s not all about me the the
world doesn’t revolve around me uh
meaning you um you know be open to what
other people to do to contribute to your
future success let me know in the
comments below hit the like button if
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screen is for uh I’m David H Lawrence
17th I thank you so much for watching
and for listening and I will see you in
the next episode of the vo Heroes
podcast

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