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Click here for Part 1, and click here for Part 2. One thing I am sure of. Human beings have a hard time dealing with uncertainty. From the moment we’re born till the moment we die, we have a need to know. That’s why we spend a lifetime answering questions, such as: Why am I […]

Click here for part 1 What do you think voice-overs do all day long? Sit behind their microphones and record the most amazing scripts? Make $5,000 for a twenty-second commercial? Narrate yet another best-selling novel? If you choose to believe Facebook, that’s what voice-overs do. They book, they record, and they cash in. Rinse and […]

A new year, a new career? It’s almost 2019, and if you’re one of the many people who are thinking of becoming a voice-over, this is for you. Before you leave your day job, you need to hear from someone on the inside what life is like when you depend on your voice for a […]

One of the joys of visiting Facebook voice-over groups is this. Every day, you’ll find questions from VO-colleagues that have been asked and answered a gazillion times. In most cases, the person asking the question is new to VO (yet they’re on the Voice-Over Professionals group), and simply too lazy to do a quick search, […]

With the midterm elections out of the way, America can finally focus on its favorite pastime. No, I’m not talking about baseball, football, or binge-watching Netflix. I’m talking about… Shopping! It’s one of those things I learned quickly when I entered this country as an immigrant. When America has something to celebrate, people flock to […]

If I were to ask you: “What is one of the greatest motivators of behavior on the planet?” What would you say? Before you answer, let me add this: All animals respond to it, including us, humans. Every year, companies make billions of dollars because of it. People lose sleep over it. Others are driven […]

Words are powerful things. They can inspire us, they make us laugh, they melt our hearts, and they entice our souls to jump for joy. Words can also scare us and scar us. They can intimidate, discriminate, and humiliate. The sound of certain words alone, can petrify people. Try this, will you? Say the following […]

  On Saturday, October 13th, a good group of voice-overs came together in Bloomfield NJ, for Uncle Roy’s 13th annual VO BBQ. For those of you who don’t know him, Uncle Roy is Roy Yokelson, Emmy Award winning sound designer, recording engineer, bagel lover and demo/audio book producer extraordinaire. You can find him at Antland […]

The facts are sobering. Every forty seconds, someone is struck with a stroke. It is the fifth leading cause of death in the U.S. Most people will never make a full recovery, and more than two-thirds of survivors have some kind of disability associated with the attack. Those are the statistics. It’s a good thing […]

Six months ago I was on top of the world. And then my world collapsed. I remember being in Carnegie Hall on Thursday, March 22nd to hear Itzak Perlman and Pinchas Zuckerman play. During the intermission, I checked my phone to see if one of my agents had news about an audition. Seconds later I […]