Very well said!

David

Paul Hernandez

This friend is a high flier. She has presence and I trust her
opinion. The icing on the cake is that my kids think this whole “acting” thing is totally ‘cool’ too and that is certainly good enough for me. If my kids think I am cool, then what else matters?

The point is we have to BELIEVE in ourselves.

Ironically, I never wanted to start my own business, but I want to do voice-overs. The training from voice coaches got me in the right mind-set and blogs such as this keep me motivated.

Today, even before I received my demo, I sank my first (paying) job for a new company on the web.

Thanks David, Robin, Mike, John, and Kirsten.

Thanks for the kind words! It was a pleasure to work with you on the training piece we did. I have to tell you that I am seeing more and more voice actors find opportunities in web based work. From product descriptions, information and education, there is a lot of opportunity there. Podcasting is also broadening. Keep up your great work and I’m sure the work will continue to LOOK FOR YOU!

Thanks again Kevin!

David at Voice Coaches

No matter what you choose to do … Voice Acting, Carpentry, Ballroom Dancing or making Jam! JUST DO IT! Funny thing is, no one tells you if you are interested in becoming a carpenter that “Eeehhh, maybe that isn’t such a good idea.” But anything in the arts … suddenly the support team around you doubts your success. Don’t doubt yourself, if you love it … DO IT!

I remember a conversation I had with a local (and successful) actress, which said she constantly received comments from her friends like: “Are you still doing that ‘Acting-thing?’” This comment upset her, since the tone, and devaluing made it seem as if it was a trite little whim or phase she was going through. And that she wanted to comment back: “Are you still doing that ‘married and kids thing’ ???” to make them aware that their comments were not supportive.

Moral: Elect your own success; don’t let the “media” dictate your reality.

Thanks so much for making time to comment!! It’s gotta be tough to find time when your busy running the most client friendly service of it’s kind! As you know, our clients LOVE voices.com!
I will say, in regards to the post, that there seems to be a divide in personality type. There are those who feel tremendously impacted by what others, like news agencies, tell them is going on in the world… and then there are those that both you and I are fortunate to work with… individuals who drive and create their own destiny!
I am not in any way saying that the economy hasn’t effected people… it’s effected members of my own family! What I am saying is that it’s sure rewarding to stare the economy in the face and take active steps to rewrite one’s own situation.
I have never experienced more people moving into our field as a way of doing this. And regardless of whether it’s voice over or anything else… I say go out and do it!
I will get you a podcast next week.
Give David our best!

David B at Voice Coaches

This is a great post. Thank you for presenting this timely topic here on your blog. As you may know, we also have an election here in Canada on October 14, 2008. I wonder what your article would sound like as an episode for Voice Over Experts… if you’d like to expand on this topic and record it, I will air it before the US election as the information is very encouraging particularly, given the current economic happenings.

Sound good?

Best wishes,

Stephanie