The VoiceOver Insider Podcast

Julie Williams talks with Joi Brooks of Email&Coffee about how important it is for voiceover talent to structure their email campaigns to reach a desired goal. There’s a lot to understand about how an email travels through the various channels of the Internet, and how a chosen recipient might react to that email when it arrives. Joi and Julie break it down, and discuss some techniques to make your email campaign more effective. For more about Joi Brooks’ email marketing services, visit: https://emailandcoffee.com/

Tech guru George Whittam returns to the Voiceover Insider Podcast to introduce the new PASPort VO. This audio interface developed by voiceover and VO technical talent as a "group-think" product has moved from "wouldn't-this-be-nice-to-have" discussions to an actual product ready to be built in the space of only a few months. It's also something of a crowd-funding project, in that only 100 units are being produced, and the circuit boards don't start getting soldered until those 100 units are sold. This is an audio interface project George has been thinking about for a number of years, and contains as many voiceover-specific capabilities as could be jammed into a unit with a small footprint. (Perfect for a voiceover road kit, by the way.) George notes that Windows users are going to be particularly excited by the PASPort VO interface, because it can work around the audio drivers issues that many Windows users often experience when multitasking. After listening to George describe the development of the audio interface, jump over to centrance.com/pasportvo and take a look at the new unit.

Julie talks with video game voice talent phenom Dave Fennoy and video game director Randall Ryan about misconceptions and mistakes they see in the genre of video game voiceover, and about an upcoming special event: Game VO Mexico 2023 (April 27th thru 30th, 2023) and a special offer for a big price reduction.

Voiceover Insider podcast co-host Gary MacFadden talks with podcast co-host Julie Williams about her new program, Voiceover Momentum. Julie describes how the new VO membership platform will work, and also invites all VO talent to take part in her 5-Day Momentum Building Challenge in early April. If you're not on Julie's e-mail list, this is the time to sign up. Contact her at julie@voice-overs.com so you can take part in the 5-Day Momentum Building Challenge and learn more about her Voiceover Momentum program.

Actress, narrator, and career coach Jodie Bentley has a riveting conversation with Julie Williams about branding and marketing for voiceover talent. Jodie also discusses her upcoming Free 5-Day Challenge for Voiceover Marketing, coming soon in March 2023. (See below for details.) Jodie's FREE 5-DAY CHALLENGE March 20 to 24, 2023 I’ve been hearing from a lot of voice actors lately who are trying to keep up with everything we get to do as artists...it can get pretty overwhelming. Or do you feel like the competition has gotten steeper and you’re not sure how to stand out anymore or make your mark? I want to do something about that! From March 20th-24th I’m hosting a: FREE 5 Day Challenge for Voice Actors Who Want to Level Up. 5 days. 5 tools. To get you where you want to go. You’ll learn 5 key strategies that I’ve been teaching my clients for years. These strategies got them from overwhelm and feeling alone to having the tools, systems and planning for their abundance! Email support@JodieBentleyCareerCoach.com to be put on the wait list for the Free 5-Day Challenge registration link. For information and to contact Jodie Bentley: Websites: https://www.jodiebentleycareercoach.com/ https://jodiebentley.com/ support@JodieBentleyCareerCoach.com Jodie's Products: The Actor’s Think Tank (membership) The Actor’s Office (software)

Gary talks with Don Baarns, a busy VO tech guru and instructor in all things concerning Izotope RX. In fact, Don is the "grandfather" of the well-known and widely used Mouth DeClick function in RX. In this episode, Don discusses the benefits of upgrading to later versions of Izotope RX if you're still back on RX 5 or 6, and some of the changes in the popular software. Don also talks about getting clean audio BEFORE you need to turn to programs such as Izotope RX for eleventh-hour fixes. Plus, he introduces his new resource, the VO Tech Simplified Facebook group.

Julie talks with J. Michael Collins (a.k.a. JMC) about what's new at VO Atlanta 2023, coming up soon in March. JMC pointed out that some of the "X-Sessions," which do deep dives into a particular topic, are filling rapidly, and that signing up sooner than later is a good idea. To learn more about VO Atlanta, and get signed up for X-Sessions of your choice, visit the VO Atlanta web site.

Gary talks with busy voice talent and coach Jonathan Tilley about why the so-called Pay2Play sites (online casting sites) aren't a good bet for most voice talent, and the much better approach for marketing your voice: direct email marketing. They discuss Jonathan's League of List Builders (LOLB) course, and how learning to get your name in front of the right people with the right message can make all the difference in your voiceover career. For more about the League of List Builders course for February 2023, click on this link: https://www.leagueoflistbuilders.com/

Julie Williams talks with Landon Beach, a successful book author (Cabin, The Hike, The Wreck and others) who has just completed a book that will be near and dear to the hearts of audio book narrators, cleverly called Narrator. Landon worked with well-known audio book narrator Scott Brick, as well as other narrators, to gather...

Tim Friedlander talks to Julie about an effort by a new group, the National Association of Voice Actors (NAVA) to acquire health insurance coverage for voice-over talents (YOU!). This would be a potential option for non-union and union talents alike. But NAVA NEEDS YOU to fill out a very short form expressing interest in health insurance for voice actors so they can get proposals from health insurance companies! There is NO commitment involved; you're simply expressing interest. Please do that at www.NAVAvoices.org NOW! NAVA's closing date for submitting the health insurance census is the end of August (less than two weeks away) and they still need 100 to 150 names added to the census (they currently have approximately 900 names. Here's the catch: if you DON'T complete the census form, you will not be eligible for coverage should an insurance program be instituted this year; you'll have to wait until open enrollment for 2024. It's only expressing interest, so do it now! (The census form takes about two minutes to complete.)

Julie Williams interviews J. Michael Collins, who is one busy guy! He's not only an in-demand voice talent and VO demo producer, but he's also the USA territory controller for Gravy For The Brain, a UK-based training organization for voice talent, and a partner in the production of the OneVoice Conference (the USA-version is August 4th-7th in Dallas, Texas). And as if that's not enough, J. Michael and his wife recently became the owners of VO Atlanta, America's largest annual voiceover conference.

In this episode, Julie talks with Dani States, the creator of Voiceover View, a suite of business management tools designed for the voiceover industry. Voiceover View lets voice talent track auditions, jobs, income and expenses, handles invoicing tasks, and more. Listeners can check out Voiceover View and sign up for a free 30-day trial at https://www.voiceoverview.com/. You can also watch Dani do a walkthrough of Voiceover View with Julie at this YouTube link: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YeOX30DXNJI

U.K. voice artist and entrepreneur Brad Shaw talks with Gary about a brand new service, Audition Director, where talents can get coached on important upcoming auditions with top-flight VO coaches/casting directors in a variety of genres.

Gary talks with VO Tech expert George Whittam about noise floor: what it is, why it's an important number to know for your VO studio, how to measure it, and how to lower it if it's too high. If you want to check out the Spitfire CRM program mentioned in this program, visit: https://voiceoverpodcasts.com/spitfire

Julie talks to Mike Verret, marketing expert at Verret and Associates (VerretandAssociates.com) about how to tell people about what you do in a way that makes them want to learn more. Mike explains the three ways to stand out from your competition, and how to market your services more effectively.

Julie Williams talks with Martha Kahn about how she trains children who are considering getting into the wonderful world of Voiceover. Martha’s “Yes I Kahn” students are landing agents and finding work with Disney Junior, Apple TV, Netflix and many others.

Rob Sciglimpaglia, voice talent, on-camera actor, and an attorney who works with voice over issues, discusses the advent of AI (Artificial Intelligence) text-to-speech platforms, how they might influence voice over jobs in the future, and how voice talent might actually take advantage of these technological changes that aren’t just coming…they’re here now.

Julie talks with Rachael Naylor, a busy UK-based voiceover artist, actress, writer, and award-winning entrepreneur. And if that wasn’t enough, Rachael is also the founder and owner of the VoiceOver Network. Note: Since this podcast was recorded, the VoiceOver Network has changed its URL to: https://www.thevoiceovernetwork.org/

Michael Kostroff is an actor who has enjoyed a long career, with credits including The Wire, Billions, Boston Legal, The King of Queens, and many more. Along the way, Michael learned a LOT about the audition process, and has taught thousands of actors over the years through his in-person Audition Psych 101 course. Between January 3rd and January 7th, Michael is releasing three free video lessons entitled Audition Myths, Tough Truths, and Logic. You can sign up for and then view all three lessons at this link: https://voiceoverpodcasts.com/kostroff

Shelley Avellino, a voice talent originally from Wales and now living in and working out of Las Vegas, Nevada, shares ideas with Julie Williams about how to break into the international voiceover marketplace.