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From everyone here at Voice Coaches to all of you out there, we wish you a very happy holidays!!

By now, you’ve probably heard about Ted Williams, the homeless man in Ohio with the golden voice who was featured on a local news broadcast and has become inundated with voice over jobs. It’s a truly great and heartwarming story, and we wish Mr. Williams all the best of luck. For those of you who are following the story, we’ve put together a collection of the most pertinent interviews and news coverage of Mr. Williams, so you can see this story unfold from start to finish.

Instead of the usual voice over advice and commentary, we’re simply going to leave you with a few funny holiday cartoons and joyful holiday thoughts!

We want to share a few funny Thanksgiving cartoons, and a couple of inspirational quotes to keep you positive and thankful over the holiday weekend!

You might be asking yourself, “Why is there a Gatorade commercial posted here with absolutely no voice overs in it when this is a blog about voice overs?”

The 5 most notable events in the voice over field from 2009 and some New Year’s resolutions for voice actors.

If there’s one thing that having an iPhone in my pocket has taught me, it’s that the future is never very far away.

It’s a short week here at Voice Coaches due to the Thanksgiving holiday, however, I wanted to leave you with something to keep you warm over the weekend besides turkey and stuffing, so today I’m going to share a little Thanksgiving humor, some motivational thoughts, and a little bit of news as well. First off, [...]

I’m fascinated by obscure bits of history. The Boston Molasses Disaster? I’m there. The fact that the first successful parachute jump in history happened on my birthday in 1919? Cool! So I found the Great Blue Norther of 11/11/11 quite an interesting piece of forgotten history. It turns out that exactly 98 years ago today, [...]

Some of you may have already noticed this, but it’s football season. Now, I happen to be a big football fan, but I also happen to be a big San Francisco 49ers fan. The problem with that is that I live smack dab in the middle of New York Giants territory. Yep, most of my [...]

“Life Is Short. Opera Is Long.” I saw that on a T-shirt once. It made me laugh out loud. Having never been a fan of opera (sorry, opera lovers), I got quite a kick out of it, because the idea of sitting in a theater and watching large costumed people sing in a foreign language [...]

It’s not every day that the President of the United States decides to visit your town (unless you live in Washington, DC, of course.) But today, President Barack Obama came to the Capitol Region of New York (where Voice Coaches’ main offices are located) to deliver a speech about the economy. In the course of [...]

Patrick Swayze, the popular star of movie hits such as Ghost, Dirty Dancing, Point Break, Road House, Red Dawn, and The Outsiders, has passed away at age 57. I don’t want to write a standard obituary here. There’s a wealth of information on him all over the Internet where you can read the details of [...]

The British Invasion continues… some 40-plus years after it originally started. Chances are pretty good that you’ve heard by now… The Beatles are back! Tomorrow, on 09/09/09, the world will be treated to two big, exciting new Beatles releases: The Beatles Remastered CD catalogue and The Beatles: Rock Band. For those of you who don’t [...]

As I was posting some information on the Voice Coaches Twitter Page today, I came across this little tidbit of information: 8/24/1932 Amelia Earhart (Putnam – her husband is Putnam of Putnam Publishing) becomes the 1st woman to fly non-stop LA to New York. Intrigued by this factoid, I decided to do some research and [...]

With all of the hubbub over the 40th anniversary of the moon landing a few weeks ago, it got me thinking about what it takes to achieve something great. On July 20, 1969, two men who walked on the moon changed the world; it was the first time mankind had ever set foot on a [...]

So here’s one for you to consider. I was speaking to a guy last week who had ALWAYS wanted to go into professional voice acting. Though he thought the entire field was interesting, he had a specific interest in animation and cartoon voices. In fact, he had been creating his own cartoon ideas since he [...]

Gaining life perspective from 10th graders!

The view from the passengers seat Calling shotgun prior to departing for a destination indicates to all other travelers in your group, that you prefer the passengers seat. Strangely, the passengers seat is where many people choose to spend nearly every day of their entire life. When it comes to pursuing the things that we [...]

About a week ago I was fortunate to have a phone interview with film and television actor Jared Padalecki. Jared is best known for starring in the hit shows Supernatural and Gilmore Girls, as well as having major roles in films such as House of Wax and the upcoming Friday the 13th remake. In Jared’s [...]

My car’s registration is four months out of date. It’s not that I didn’t renew the registration; I did. I just haven’t gotten around to putting the sticker on the inside of my car window yet. The registration itself has been sitting in a pile of mail in my house for four months now, and [...]

And The Winner Is… I am an American and a small business owner. I don’t know about any of you, but I am always impressed with the men and woman who are willing to run for president. Regardless of Obam-inality, or McCain-ism, it is impressive to see individuals who are committed to leading, particularly in [...]

Adopting an “Almost” All About The Money Attitude” In addition to voice over training, a great deal of the work that I do involves hiring professional voice actors and producing them through a variety of material. because of this, you will certainly never hear me suggesting that the voice over field isn’t lucrative. Frankly for [...]

I had an opportunity to regain some perspective last week by getting to know around 1200 10th graders! I was invited to speak and interact with teens attending a day-long career exploration day at a local college. The event was great and the folks I met, all 10th graders from across New York’s Capital Region, [...]

Respect our industry Voice Acting is a business. It is a business in which professionals count on other professionals to provide a service that requires knowledge and skill. These days however, it seems as though there is a lot of banter in the training community about “Breaking In” to our field. The folks who ply [...]

After participating in many blogs and podcasts, and after continued encouragement from our clients, we have decided to create an ongoing blog as a regular component of voicecoaches.com. Our idea is to present relative information on training, effective marketing, and other issues that will benefit our friends and colleagues. Our blog will also be an [...]