The VOHeroes Podcast

REQUEST: Please join this video's conversation on VOHeroes.com, where the comments are moderated and civil: https://voheroes.com/an-audiocupcake-special-for-black-friday-cyber-monday/ Hey there, hero! Let me start by saying that if you're a current VOHeroes Pro or Pro Emeritus member, you get the Premium version of AudioCupcake for free, so you don't need to do anything but ask me f...

REQUEST: Please join this video's conversation on VOHeroes.com, where the comments are moderated and civil: https://voheroes.com/pozotron-responds-to-narrator-concerns-about-data-retention/ Hey there, hero! If you produce and master your audiobook narration, as you would for ACX, Findaway and as an author-as-narrator, you probably have heard about Pozotron, the digital proofing and pronunciat...

REQUEST: Please join this video's conversation on VOHeroes.com, where the comments are moderated and civil: https://voheroes.com/how-this-pro-members-journey-may-be-different-from-yours/ Hey there, hero! I want you to meet our newest Pro. He has some challenges in his life that are probably unlike any you might have, but he's on it, and doing things to meet these challenges. Once you mee...

REQUEST: Please join this video's conversation on VOHeroes.com, where the comments are moderated and civil: https://voheroes.com/watch-live-as-an-accent-is-built-from-scratch/ Hey there, hero! The Accents Class is open for registration (https://voheroes.com/accents - and if you join before Tuesday night (10/6/20), you'll save $300 in tuition.) And to celebrate that awesome offer, and to...

REQUEST: Please join this video's conversation on VOHeroes.com, where the comments are moderated and civil: https://voheroes.com/how-to-take-a-note-from-a-coach-or-a-casting-director/ Hey there, hero! As an actor and voice talent, I've been on both ends of notes. Meaning I've received them when auditioning or being taught, and I've given them when coaching talent. But when I re...

REQUEST: Please join this video's conversation on VOHeroes.com, where the comments are moderated and civil: https://voheroes.com/pozotron-gets-even-better-you-can-get-7-hours-free/ Hey there, hero! I've been meaning to tell you about the new feature with Pozotron that will help you manage your pronunciation list when narrating an audiobook (or any other long form narration). And now&apos...

REQUEST: Please join this video's conversation on VOHeroes.com, where the comments are moderated and civil: https://voheroes.com/new-class-coming-i-need-your-questions/ Hey there, hero! I'm debuting a new class this Saturday. It's free, and I'm almost finished with it. Since the pandemic, I've had hundreds of questions I'm going to answer in this class, called Masteri...

Hey there, hero! We face daily challenges to the sense of order and control that we crave. This goes for our work as performers, as well as social, political and emotional interactions. We're faced with things we don't understand, can't control and can't fix. And it can be maddening, and make us lash out, or have others lash out at us. (Just google "anti-mask" and cli...

REQUEST: Please join this video's conversation on VOHeroes.com, where the comments are moderated and civil: https://voheroes.com/how-covid-affected-my-first-on-set-tv-booking/ Hey there, hero! I didn't see this coming, but I happened to have been fortunate enough to be one of the first actors back to work on a network TV show after production resumed a few weeks ago. Although I'm st...

REQUEST: Please join this video's conversation on VOHeroes.com, where the comments are moderated and civil: https://voheroes.com/hands-on-demo-of-pozotron-6x-bigger-free-trial-link/ Hey there, hero! After telling my VOHeroes Pros and my students in the ACX Master Class about Pozotron during the last week (they get the inside skinny first, always), it's time to share with you. Pozotron re...

REQUEST: Please join this video's conversation on VOHeroes.com, where the comments are moderated and civil: https://voheroes.com/wait-what-the-levelator-now-works-with-catalina/ Hey there, hero! First, if you use Windows, you can safely ignore this podcast and continue to use The Levelator on your computer. This is super awesome for Mac users only. But... If you're an audiobook narrator,...

REQUEST: Please join this video's conversation on VOHeroes.com, where the comments are moderated and civil: https://voheroes.com/predict-your-future-by-designing-it-then-creating-it/ Hey there, hero! The times we're living in are not ones we would have expected or predicted. And we can chalk that up to external developments that we neither asked for nor engaged in. But for some people, t...

REQUEST: Please join this video's conversation on VOHeroes.com, where the comments are moderated and civil: https://voheroes.com/i-may-have-struck-a-nerve-in-a-good-way/ Hey there, hero! The previous episode of this podcast: https://voheroes.com/the-fear-some-vo-talent-are-now-facing/ ...has generated the most comment content of any podcast episode I've done. It appears that many more VO...

REQUEST: Please join this video's conversation on VOHeroes.com, where the comments are moderated and civil: https://voheroes.com/the-fear-some-vo-talent-are-now-facing/ Hey there, hero! As I say at the outset of this episode, I really need your help. I've been getting tons of fearful messages from VO talent. From clients, students, and strangers out of nowhere. Confusion and fear runs th...

REQUEST: Please join this video's conversation on VOHeroes.com, where the comments are moderated and civil: https://voheroes.com/excellent-news-about-audacity-and-catalina/ Hey there, hero! It's almost like a day we never thought would come. But it did. The new version of Audacity is out, version 2.4.0, and it finally works with macOS Catalina - just in time for us to teach the Home Stud...

REQUEST: Please join this video's conversation on VOHeroes.com, where the comments are moderated and civil: https://voheroes.com/3-things-coming-to-the-defense-of-teachers-a-free-book-and-a-plan/ Hey there, hero! I usually come to you in these podcast episodes with an optimistic, joyful angle on things. Only 2 of the three things I have to talk to you about this week are like that. In the cat...

REQUEST: Please join this video's conversation on VOHeroes.com, where the comments are moderated and civil: https://voheroes.com/dont-recommend-anything-to-anyone-without-doing-this-first/ Hey there, hero! I was forwarded a post on Facebook that the person who sent it to me thought I might find interesting, and for which I might have a useful answer: a question about what mic to use. And as I...

REQUEST: Please join this video's conversation on VOHeroes.com, where the comments are moderated and civil: https://voheroes.com/drew-carey-and-me-this-thursday-facebook-live/ Hey there, hero! Nothing like a little teacher worship. They sure deserve it. So Drew and I are getting together on Facebook Live to talk teachers, teaching, learning and life-changing events that a simple bit of instru...

REQUEST: Please join this video's conversation on VOHeroes.com, where the comments are moderated and civil: https://voheroes.com/that-giddy-feeling-even-though-everything-around-you-is-burning/ Hey there, hero! Ever have an incredible feeling of gratitude, one that just made you giddy? I have a feeling that thinking about those moments might be helpful about now. And that's what happened...

REQUEST: Please join this video's conversation on VOHeroes.com, where the comments are moderated and civil: https://voheroes.com/help-me-help-teachers-hashtag-3forteachers/ Hey there, hero! I didn't create a podcast episode last week. But I had a really good reason, honest. And I hope you'll help me out with why. Hashtag, #3forteachers. Link to course: https://teachyourcourseonline....

REQUEST: Please join this video's conversation on VOHeroes.com, where the comments are moderated and civil: https://voheroes.com/what-will-be-your-king-lear-how-to-stop-zoombombing/ Hey there, hero! [NOTE: This episode begins with a timely bonus public service announcement to show you how to stop Zoombombing - how to set Zoom's settings so that you can't easily be Zoom-bombed. If yo...

REQUEST: Please join this video's conversation on VOHeroes.com, where the comments are moderated and civil: https://voheroes.com/making-social-distancing-your-secret-weapon/ Hey there, hero! In 1984, I got ill, was hospitalized, spent time in the ICU and almost died. I managed not to, and had to recover at home for a week or two after being discharged. After one day of soap operas and game sh...

REQUEST: Please join this video's conversation on VOHeroes.com, where the comments are moderated and civil: https://voheroes.com/five-moments-from-being-on-set/ Hey there, hero! Whenever any of my VO Heroes branch out to working on-camera, it's a special moment of joy for me when I get to hear how much they loved it. And that moment happened this past week when one of my Pro members got...

REQUEST: Please join this video's conversation on VOHeroes.com, where the comments are moderated and civil: https://voheroes.com/using-that-music-on-your-podcast-three-rights-you-should-know-about/ Hey there, hero! I just drove back from San Diego, where I met the people who created eCamm Live, the software  I use when I do Facebook Lives, and a conversation I had there with a podcaster promp...

REQUEST: Please join this video's conversation on VOHeroes.com, where the comments are moderated and civil: https://voheroes.com/why-arent-really-smart-people-always-more-successful/ Hey there, hero! If you look at the most successful people in the world, they're usually pretty resourceful. Pretty charismatic. Pretty...smart. But that doesn't mean that if you're smart (or resou...