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Being a creative person in the public eye means that bad reviews go with the territory. In narrating 11 audiobooks in 2012, I observed that: People seem more likely to leave a rating than write a review. Negative reviews seem to outnumber positive ones. In looking at the negative reviews, some people actually gave informative […]
Greetings, all, and happy new year! When I began my voice-over career in 1999, one of my friends suggested that I start a journal. She said that when Biography or Intimate Portrait wanted to highlight me in a show, I would have all of this great background material to share with them about how I […]
Every job promotion I earned through my long career at the IRS was a competitive action. Today’s story is about a job I didn’t get due to my own mistakes and how those mistakes help me in my voice-over career today. Once upon a time… I started working at the IRS as a teenager. Daddy […]
Does this paragraph sound like you: I’ve had tremendous anxiety and stress on my job for over a year. Actually, I’ve been stressed out for much longer. Lately, I feel like I’m “on the edge”; I’m about to go crazy. Or what about these comments: I worked 13 hours today…. I have been exhausted all […]
A positive attitude is one thing that people always advise you to have when starting or pursuing a voice-over career. You probably even think you have one. I thought I did….until I realized just how pervasive our negative thoughts and words really are. For instance, in one of the on-line voice-over forums, we were discussing an […]Blog Archives
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