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Voice Coaches Radio #689 We’re Here
John: [00:00:00] Well, hello my friends. I am John.
Tina: And I'm Tina.
John: And this is Voice Coaches Radio. Woo
Tina: hoo.
John: Alright. Hey, bear with us everybody. This is our first, this is our first episode and uh, so I'm pretty excited. Yeah. Uh, figured we'd just hop on, talk a little bit about who we are because I know we did a brief introduction, uh, last week, but.
Uh, not, not very much. So we'll talk about who we are and, uh, maybe whatever pops up, right? Yeah. Uh, so, uh, so, so Tina, why don't you talk about yourself, tell everybody, all the listeners who you are, what you do, and, and why you're here.
Tina: Why am I here? I was forced now, so I have, my background is broadcasting.
I've been in radio 35 years and um, got into voice acting about 2013, 14 when I was actually in between radio gigs and I was just like, I knew I wanted to [00:01:00] stay in the broadcast field, but I was like, okay, how do I do this? And knowing that I've done commercials before with radio stations, so I've done commercials and I like doing it, and I was like, you know, maybe I can definitely do this outside of.
Broadcasting and connections on my broadcast, you know, radio stations. So that's when I got into it. And um, so I've been doing voice acting. I do mostly, uh, corporate trainings on hold, messages that seems where my voice seems to fall, which I'm fine with 'cause I do commercials for radio. That's what I have to, you know, that's, that, that part of it.
Um, but I do a lot of, yeah, the corporate trainings on hold messages. Um, I like it. I like it a lot. I just, uh, I get to learn about companies that I've never even heard of before. Things, things like that. So it's been a lot of fun. I've, I have done one book, um, it was to teach guys how to, um, how to act on Tinder.
John: Oh, wow. Okay. There's, so there's a, uh, so I, I, I've been married, [00:02:00] I've been married so long. I was married before internet dating even started. Mm-hmm. But, so, uh, there, there, that must have been a very interesting one. How to act on Tinder.
Tina: Yeah. Yeah.
John: It was, so there is a, uh, there's some kind of. Code or, uh,
Tina: it was, it's more to teach the, it was to teach guys.
Yeah. Kind of, you know, do's and don'ts. The do's and don'ts of dating on Tinder. Yeah, it was pretty funny. Um, I enjoyed it. I was just like, you know, so that's mostly, uh, that is my background actually. I, I skipped a step. Got into, um, came here at Voice Coaches in Jan. This January will be three years.
John: Oh,
Tina: yes, yes.
John: Congratulations.
Tina: Yeah. Yeah. And I absolutely love it. Love it. Yeah. Love meeting students from all over. Mm-hmm. That's, and, and just listening to their voices. Everybody has a unique voice. Everybody's different. And so I just love listening to it and I love listen, um, hearing what our students can do and then.
Especially when they get their demos done. Yeah. That's fantastic. Love
John: it. So you work one-on-one with the students?
Tina: [00:03:00] Yes. Yes. That's great. I do work on one-on-one, uh, from the, you know, from the evaluation all the way to the demo.
John: Wow, that's awesome. And you produce some of the demos as well?
Tina: Yes. Yep. Yep. So I get to, uh, either they're here in person here at our studios or they're somewhere else.
In United States or even across the pond. We've had a lot of people, um, uh, from Ireland, from England. I love listening to their voices. Those are fantastic. Yeah. You know, and I get to do the whole process with them. I love it.
John: Ah, that's awesome. Mm-hmm. All right. Well, uh, it's cool. Well, I'm John Gallogly and, uh, I've been here since the beginning.
Uh, David and I started voice coaches together actually. Yeah. So, uh, but I've been in the voiceover industry for over 30 years, but I'm gonna keep saying 30 years, uh, because. I don't wanna do the math. Yeah. You know, I just keep saying 30 years. I know. Yeah.
Tina: That's a good round number.
John: Yeah. So, uh, but it's been, yeah, I think I got, I, I started in voiceovers when I was.
21, 22. So yeah, it's [00:04:00] been a long time, but, uh, yeah, no, I love it. I've done all kinds of cool work stuff for the New York Yankee, spike TV when it was around. Oh, I remember Spike tv. Yeah. Just some mixed martial arts commercials for, uh, spike TV back when it was around, which is now paramount.
Tina: Oh.
John: Uh, I think that that's how it happened, right.
Spike sold to Paramount. Became Paramount. Something like that. I haven't done anything for Paramount yet. Yes,
Tina: you're out there.
John: You're out there.
Tina: I know. Hey,
John: so, so, uh, but yeah, so, and, and I, and I'm always working, I'm always doing something and, and, because, you know, once you get into voiceovers, what's so interesting is you, uh.
Get all these, not, people don't quite understand. People who aren't in the voiceover industry don't quite understand, uh, what exactly voiceovers is, right?
Tina: Yeah. Right.
John: So I sometimes I get these jobs that are on the periphery of voiceovers. Mm-hmm. Right? So like, I just, I just got this job that I'm gonna be doing Saturday.
It's a really good paying job. But I'm gonna be doing in ring announcing for [00:05:00] mixed martial arts. Oh wow. I, I have to dress up in that crazy outfit with the, the shiny, uh, suit on.
Tina: Yeah.
John: Love it. Yeah. Yeah. But, but when the guy asked me, I said, you know, that's not what I do. I said, yeah, that's not, I, you know, 'cause he heard he got my name from someone else, but you know, someone said, oh no, this guy's a voice actor.
You should get him. And I said, but that's not voice acting. That's not what I do. And he said, that's cool. He goes, but you'd think you could do it. I go, yeah, I could do it. I could mimic anybody. So if I go get, I, I said, send me someone you like and I'll just mimic that guy.
Tina: Oh, that's awesome. That's good.
John: Yeah. So, so I'm doing that this weekend and, and so I'm always doing something, but yeah, sometimes you get these really kind of quirky jobs or, that's what I love about voiceovers. It's never the same thing twice. You know, every day is a little different.
Tina: Mm-hmm.
John: Uh, which is cool. But I, you know, I, again, I've been here and, and voice coaches for, um.
I think I started here when I was 26, maybe 27, 26, 27 years old. I am 54 now.
Tina: Mm-hmm. I that, that's too many fingers that I have to figure out math.
John: I can't do that. Been every 27, [00:06:00] 27 or 28 years, depending. Uh, if it was 20, it's hard to remember. But yeah. And so, uh, and I do it in, I still produce demos sometimes.
I love doing it. Mm-hmm. I love producing demos for people. But, uh, I do a lot of intro webinars, so, uh, a lot of people have met me in the webinar.
Tina: Yes, they, yep.
John: Yeah. So, and I love doing that. I love being the start of someone's journey.
Tina: Oh, that's a good way to look at it.
John: Yeah. You know, because
Tina: that's awesome.
John: And, and, and I'm telling regardless of whether they end up kind of coming through our mm-hmm. Voice of program or doing it some other way. I just love having people go, and I have this all the time, people who say, you know, I, I, I, someone said I had a good voice and they sign me up and then I took this and now I'm really interested.
Yeah. You really keep my interest. I'm like, oh, that's cool. And that that person could go on and be successful. You know, one of our students, I still cannot believe it. One of our students told me once I. That they had done 300 audio books in one year.
Tina: Wow.
John: Yeah. And I said, how's that possible? Yeah. I said, how's that possible?
Uh, so yeah. I mean, this is so cool to work with people and then have them go, thank you so much. I'm [00:07:00] doing the thing I wanna do now. Yeah. It's so awesome. Yeah. So, yeah, that, that's, uh, what I do. I'm sure I left stuff out, but Who? No one cares.
Tina: Yeah.
John: Yeah. Anyone cares. You know, you get, you get the picture, it's a long time and, but, but it doesn't feel like it.
Tina: No. You
John: know,
Tina: it flies by, but it doesn't, it
John: doesn't, it's not that job that you're like. Uh, treading the belly grind. You know, it's not like that every, it's
Tina: something you enjoy.
John: It really is like, yeah, I was thinking about this, uh, today actually on the way here. I was thinking, man, what, what, what a cool job this is.
Tina: It is, yeah.
John: You know, you get to, you know, it's not like that, you know, so many people don't get to do a job that they enjoy. Yeah. And people enjoy everything, by the way. Mm-hmm. So there's, you know, listen, no matter what walk of life, no matter what job there is out there, someone loves that job and that's great.
Tina: Yeah.
John: But many people don't.
Tina: No, no.
John: People's people such job, but they're like, oh,
Tina: oh, I gotta go to work today.
John: Yeah. Yeah. And so I think this, um, this is just something that is really, really fun and cool. It's, it's been, it's funny that it's been cool and fun the entire ride.
Tina: Yeah. Yeah, absolutely. Abs. I [00:08:00] love going, like you said, being on that journey with those people, with people that come here.
Our students, they do great. Love it.
John: Yeah. Yeah, it's great. Uh, it's, and meeting just so many different people from d like I, I just met someone the other day. If he's, if he's listening, uh, you know, he'll know who he is. I just met, this is a pretty wild, the former, you retired, the former vice president of FedEx.
Wow. World worldwide.
Tina: Oh
John: yeah.
Tina: Wow.
John: Wild. Yeah. And this, and he wa inside and he can do a
Tina: voice
act.
John: Yeah. See he's in the program. Yeah. Wow. He wants to come through our voiceover program and do voiceovers when he is retired.
Tina: See? Super cool. That's the all the different backgrounds we get.
John: Yeah.
Tina: You know, and you, you would never, you think about it and I get a lot of people who are.
Those, you know, nine to five, but the suit's on, you know, the very business type and they're just like, I need something creative. And, and so that's why they come to the, to us to do something completely different.
John: Yeah,
Tina: absolutely. I love that. Absolutely. Absolutely. Love that.
John: Yeah. It's so cool. Yeah. That's great.
Now, now, um. What's the most, what, where [00:09:00] is the furthest away you've worked with a student? Like where is that person located?
Tina: I had, um, Ireland, I'm gonna say Ireland, but I, but I don't know the dis, I don't know, distance. So it's across the pond to me.
John: Yeah, yeah, yeah,
Tina: yeah, yeah. I remember her. I had several. I actually had several, several, I had several.
John: Yeah.
Tina: Oh, I love their voice. That's, I always say to 'em, you could read the box back of a serial box and I'd listen to it. You know, their voice is just,
John: Americans in general love accents. I hear that. Yes. I get people my webinar who, who live here in the US but are from Ireland or from. Uh, and it could be anywhere.
Yeah. And they say, well, will my accent hinder me? I'm like, yeah, listen, you, you might not be able to get work. I get
Tina: mm-hmm.
John: But you're gonna get a bunch of work I couldn't get, because Americans love accents.
Tina: Mm-hmm. Yes, they do.
John: We, we just love accents,
Tina: don't we? Yeah, yeah, yeah. Yeah. I had, um, a student who, she was, she was from Ireland, but lived here, is in the States, and we went through the whole, and she was concerned, but, but I'm like, no, don't, don't be concerned.
Like you said, we, we love the voice [00:10:00] right away within. She did the demo, her demo on our end, we didn't complete it yet, but she already got offered a book because of her voice.
John: Oh, that's great. See? Yeah. Yep. So I really do think there's in this industry now, because things have changed, right? Mm-hmm. It's become more conversational.
Yes. It's, uh, not as much announcing. There will always be some announcers out there. Yes. Always. Of course, I still do some of that, you know, and, and, uh, but. It's mostly conversational now and I think it leaves room for just about everybody.
Tina: Yeah.
John: Yeah, it does. I mean, I have people who say, oh, well I don't think my voice is, uh, good enough for this.
And I think they're thinking back to the old days mm-hmm. With the announcers and they're thinking, well, I don't do that and I'm not, I'm never gonna sound like that. But the, you know, the industry's really changed and there really is room for just about everybody if you are willing. To put the time and learn.
Mm-hmm. I, you know, that's the one thing I, I will say, you know, one thing I'll say is, um, although [00:11:00] I, I always don't wanna say this, but I always tell people, listen, don't view this as something different. Now when I say that. It's different in a lot of ways. Yes. Like I just think it is better than everything else.
Tina: Yeah.
John: Like it's more fun. There's so many things. It's, you know, it's an awesome industry, but I always say to be successful, you can't view it differently. Mm-hmm. In other words, you can't go, oh, I'm gonna be discovered, or I'm gonna break into the industry. Mm-hmm. You don't break into being an accountant.
Tina: No.
No.
John: Yeah. Right. You're not discovered as an accountant. And so you, you have to kind of be careful with that. 'cause I, I just had someone recently say, well, what if I don't want to learn? This is a wild question. What if I don't want to learn how to do voiceovers? And what if I don't want to demo? Could I still be a voice actor?
Tina: Hmm.
John: Is that the wild? It's a wild question. And I, yeah, and I, and I was like, I, well, the only thing I could say to you is I'll pose the question back to you, like, what if you wanted to be a barber?
Tina: Mm-hmm.
John: Would you have to learn how to be a barber or would you just start cutting hair? [00:12:00]
Tina: That's, that's good.
John: Right? Bird's like, oh, and I'm like, yeah. Yeah. It's like, because, you know, people have this thing that they think entertainment's way different. Mm-hmm. Like, they're like, oh, I don't, you know, listen, I get it. I mean, yeah, of course I have to learn how to be a barber, but I'm, I have a good voice. I'll just be a voice actor.
Yeah. If it was that easy, the whole world would do it. Everybody.
Tina: Yes.
John: Because it's all, it's the best job in the world. Mm-hmm. In my opinion. And many people's opinion, uh, everyone was in it. You know, so I think pe, everyone, the whole, whole world would be doing it if it was that easy.
Tina: A lot of students, what I get from them is, um, they think, like you're saying, all, all I have to do is read that paper.
That's it. Read it. No, there's more to it. Yeah, there is. Yes, you can read it, but we now you just gotta add a little more to it.
John: No, don't get me wrong. This isn't the hardest job in the world either. But like everything, there are skills necessary to do it. And once you have them, uh, you know, you practice, you practice, and the sky's the limit in this industry.
There's just so much you can do and so many, there is super cool things. Mm-hmm. And yeah, it's, it's, uh, I, I just really can't imagine doing anything else. So, so good news, [00:13:00] everybody. You have. Two hosts that love what they do and Marissa did too, of course. Mm-hmm. Uh, but, uh, I assume, yeah, I assume I listen to the podcast, sound like she loved it.
She's sad.
Tina: It, she seemed
John: like she enjoyed it. Yeah. He loves it. So, so you, I think we're gonna have fun at this podcast. We're gonna keep it going. It is. By the way, I don't know if you know, this is the longest running voice of her podcast. I
Tina: did not know this.
John: Yes. So I started this podcast, which is funny.
It's, it's been a circle. Mm-hmm. I started this podcast, voice Coaches Radio. A little over 20 years ago. Mm-hmm. Before people were podcasting. Really? Yeah. There's just a few of 'em out there. And I started Voice Coaches Radio. I did the first few episodes, which by the way, I don't, I don't think they're there.
I think we took the 'cause. Listen, they're so outdated at this point. They're so outdated. I mean, anything that you heard about voiceovers over 20 years ago is not going to apply, has changed so much. So I think we kind of took those episodes out. Mm-hmm. Um, because I, I went back the other day to say, oh, episode one two, like the first few episodes are not there.
Tina: Yeah.
John: So, uh, but I passed this off to, to, uh. People who work here as, [00:14:00] as, uh, it went on because I just couldn't keep up with it. Yeah. 'cause I was on the road all the time then. Uh, especially and so. Uh, people took it over and eventually trickled down. And Marissa got it for a bunch of years.
Tina: Yes.
John: Yeah. And so Marissa's been the host for a long time, and now I feel like it's full circle.
I'm back. I never thought I'd come back. Honestly, I never thought I would be back to doing this.
Tina: Yep. You're
John: like, I'm
Tina: done.
John: No, you're not. Yeah. You know, because podcast is commitment, right? You're is, you've been doing it every week. Mm-hmm. You know, every week. Um, and so I, I thought I'm never gonna. Not that I don't wanna do it because I do, I I love doing it.
You know, I'm, uh, I couldn't wait to get here today, but I just thought we had, I'm like, Marissa's gonna do this. I'm good. Yes, she's
Tina: all set for life.
John: But here I am, here, I'm back. Everybody has come, has come full circle. And the original host of this show is back as co-host. So I think, uh, there you go. But yeah, I think so.
I think, um. Th that's good for this episode, right? Think so? We just wanna so introduce ourselves. Yeah. Let everyone know who we are. Thought, who are these two people? We, we like Marissa. I like Marissa too. But Marissa's not here. We're here. Mm-hmm. You're [00:15:00] stuck with us. Uh, well, I think at some point the, the word is, and I don't know when this is gonna happen, but the word is we are going to, um, this podcast is going to evolve, right?
Yes. I
Tina: think we're
John: going to start doing. Video podcast, so you can look. That's
Tina: what I heard.
John: That's what I heard. That's the, that's the rumor. Yeah. I don't know. We'll, we'll see. I mean the, these things take time, but we're gonna continue on as we are, and then eventually, I believe we're going to. Add a video component to it or, or a visual component to it?
Do they call it video anymore? Am I old? No. Do we call things video?
Tina: Yeah, they do. They two still
call
John: video. I know.
Tina: Yeah.
John: Not vhs. No, we're not gonna, that's will not be on vhs. That's all. We're gonna do a VHS podcast. We have to. I miss those days. I gotta tell you. I miss. Yeah. You know, that's when you know you're getting old.
By the way, I always say I miss the days when I had to go, not VHS necessarily, but the days when I had to go to Blockbuster. Yeah. And, and just, and wait for that movie to come back. Yeah. It the new movie, you're like, someone's gonna return it.
Tina: Oh, that was, that's too much hassle. Now
John: you just hit the, you just hit the [00:16:00] button.
I know. You'll watch it, whatever you want. Which I guess is good. But, but I, I enjoyed. The adventure of. Mm-hmm.
Tina: Yeah. Seeing what was
John: lived, me and my wife going to Blockbuster and looking around, Ooh, this is how, oh, yep. I,
Tina: I haven't seen this movie yet.
John: Yeah, I know, I know, I know. Getting old all, so I want to thank everybody very much for listening.
I am John.
Tina: And I'm Tina.
John: We out.
Tina: And I'm Tina.
John: And this is Voice Coaches Radio. Woo
Tina: hoo.
John: Alright. Hey, bear with us everybody. This is our first, this is our first episode and uh, so I'm pretty excited. Yeah. Uh, figured we'd just hop on, talk a little bit about who we are because I know we did a brief introduction, uh, last week, but.
Uh, not, not very much. So we'll talk about who we are and, uh, maybe whatever pops up, right? Yeah. Uh, so, uh, so, so Tina, why don't you talk about yourself, tell everybody, all the listeners who you are, what you do, and, and why you're here.
Tina: Why am I here? I was forced now, so I have, my background is broadcasting.
I've been in radio 35 years and um, got into voice acting about 2013, 14 when I was actually in between radio gigs and I was just like, I knew I wanted to [00:01:00] stay in the broadcast field, but I was like, okay, how do I do this? And knowing that I've done commercials before with radio stations, so I've done commercials and I like doing it, and I was like, you know, maybe I can definitely do this outside of.
Broadcasting and connections on my broadcast, you know, radio stations. So that's when I got into it. And um, so I've been doing voice acting. I do mostly, uh, corporate trainings on hold, messages that seems where my voice seems to fall, which I'm fine with 'cause I do commercials for radio. That's what I have to, you know, that's, that, that part of it.
Um, but I do a lot of, yeah, the corporate trainings on hold messages. Um, I like it. I like it a lot. I just, uh, I get to learn about companies that I've never even heard of before. Things, things like that. So it's been a lot of fun. I've, I have done one book, um, it was to teach guys how to, um, how to act on Tinder.
John: Oh, wow. Okay. There's, so there's a, uh, so I, I, I've been married, [00:02:00] I've been married so long. I was married before internet dating even started. Mm-hmm. But, so, uh, there, there, that must have been a very interesting one. How to act on Tinder.
Tina: Yeah. Yeah.
John: It was, so there is a, uh, there's some kind of. Code or, uh,
Tina: it was, it's more to teach the, it was to teach guys.
Yeah. Kind of, you know, do's and don'ts. The do's and don'ts of dating on Tinder. Yeah, it was pretty funny. Um, I enjoyed it. I was just like, you know, so that's mostly, uh, that is my background actually. I, I skipped a step. Got into, um, came here at Voice Coaches in Jan. This January will be three years.
John: Oh,
Tina: yes, yes.
John: Congratulations.
Tina: Yeah. Yeah. And I absolutely love it. Love it. Yeah. Love meeting students from all over. Mm-hmm. That's, and, and just listening to their voices. Everybody has a unique voice. Everybody's different. And so I just love listening to it and I love listen, um, hearing what our students can do and then.
Especially when they get their demos done. Yeah. That's fantastic. Love
John: it. So you work one-on-one with the students?
Tina: [00:03:00] Yes. Yes. That's great. I do work on one-on-one, uh, from the, you know, from the evaluation all the way to the demo.
John: Wow, that's awesome. And you produce some of the demos as well?
Tina: Yes. Yep. Yep. So I get to, uh, either they're here in person here at our studios or they're somewhere else.
In United States or even across the pond. We've had a lot of people, um, uh, from Ireland, from England. I love listening to their voices. Those are fantastic. Yeah. You know, and I get to do the whole process with them. I love it.
John: Ah, that's awesome. Mm-hmm. All right. Well, uh, it's cool. Well, I'm John Gallogly and, uh, I've been here since the beginning.
Uh, David and I started voice coaches together actually. Yeah. So, uh, but I've been in the voiceover industry for over 30 years, but I'm gonna keep saying 30 years, uh, because. I don't wanna do the math. Yeah. You know, I just keep saying 30 years. I know. Yeah.
Tina: That's a good round number.
John: Yeah. So, uh, but it's been, yeah, I think I got, I, I started in voiceovers when I was.
21, 22. So yeah, it's [00:04:00] been a long time, but, uh, yeah, no, I love it. I've done all kinds of cool work stuff for the New York Yankee, spike TV when it was around. Oh, I remember Spike tv. Yeah. Just some mixed martial arts commercials for, uh, spike TV back when it was around, which is now paramount.
Tina: Oh.
John: Uh, I think that that's how it happened, right.
Spike sold to Paramount. Became Paramount. Something like that. I haven't done anything for Paramount yet. Yes,
Tina: you're out there.
John: You're out there.
Tina: I know. Hey,
John: so, so, uh, but yeah, so, and, and I, and I'm always working, I'm always doing something and, and, because, you know, once you get into voiceovers, what's so interesting is you, uh.
Get all these, not, people don't quite understand. People who aren't in the voiceover industry don't quite understand, uh, what exactly voiceovers is, right?
Tina: Yeah. Right.
John: So I sometimes I get these jobs that are on the periphery of voiceovers. Mm-hmm. Right? So like, I just, I just got this job that I'm gonna be doing Saturday.
It's a really good paying job. But I'm gonna be doing in ring announcing for [00:05:00] mixed martial arts. Oh wow. I, I have to dress up in that crazy outfit with the, the shiny, uh, suit on.
Tina: Yeah.
John: Love it. Yeah. Yeah. But, but when the guy asked me, I said, you know, that's not what I do. I said, yeah, that's not, I, you know, 'cause he heard he got my name from someone else, but you know, someone said, oh no, this guy's a voice actor.
You should get him. And I said, but that's not voice acting. That's not what I do. And he said, that's cool. He goes, but you'd think you could do it. I go, yeah, I could do it. I could mimic anybody. So if I go get, I, I said, send me someone you like and I'll just mimic that guy.
Tina: Oh, that's awesome. That's good.
John: Yeah. So, so I'm doing that this weekend and, and so I'm always doing something, but yeah, sometimes you get these really kind of quirky jobs or, that's what I love about voiceovers. It's never the same thing twice. You know, every day is a little different.
Tina: Mm-hmm.
John: Uh, which is cool. But I, you know, I, again, I've been here and, and voice coaches for, um.
I think I started here when I was 26, maybe 27, 26, 27 years old. I am 54 now.
Tina: Mm-hmm. I that, that's too many fingers that I have to figure out math.
John: I can't do that. Been every 27, [00:06:00] 27 or 28 years, depending. Uh, if it was 20, it's hard to remember. But yeah. And so, uh, and I do it in, I still produce demos sometimes.
I love doing it. Mm-hmm. I love producing demos for people. But, uh, I do a lot of intro webinars, so, uh, a lot of people have met me in the webinar.
Tina: Yes, they, yep.
John: Yeah. So, and I love doing that. I love being the start of someone's journey.
Tina: Oh, that's a good way to look at it.
John: Yeah. You know, because
Tina: that's awesome.
John: And, and, and I'm telling regardless of whether they end up kind of coming through our mm-hmm. Voice of program or doing it some other way. I just love having people go, and I have this all the time, people who say, you know, I, I, I, someone said I had a good voice and they sign me up and then I took this and now I'm really interested.
Yeah. You really keep my interest. I'm like, oh, that's cool. And that that person could go on and be successful. You know, one of our students, I still cannot believe it. One of our students told me once I. That they had done 300 audio books in one year.
Tina: Wow.
John: Yeah. And I said, how's that possible? Yeah. I said, how's that possible?
Uh, so yeah. I mean, this is so cool to work with people and then have them go, thank you so much. I'm [00:07:00] doing the thing I wanna do now. Yeah. It's so awesome. Yeah. So, yeah, that, that's, uh, what I do. I'm sure I left stuff out, but Who? No one cares.
Tina: Yeah.
John: Yeah. Anyone cares. You know, you get, you get the picture, it's a long time and, but, but it doesn't feel like it.
Tina: No. You
John: know,
Tina: it flies by, but it doesn't, it
John: doesn't, it's not that job that you're like. Uh, treading the belly grind. You know, it's not like that every, it's
Tina: something you enjoy.
John: It really is like, yeah, I was thinking about this, uh, today actually on the way here. I was thinking, man, what, what, what a cool job this is.
Tina: It is, yeah.
John: You know, you get to, you know, it's not like that, you know, so many people don't get to do a job that they enjoy. Yeah. And people enjoy everything, by the way. Mm-hmm. So there's, you know, listen, no matter what walk of life, no matter what job there is out there, someone loves that job and that's great.
Tina: Yeah.
John: But many people don't.
Tina: No, no.
John: People's people such job, but they're like, oh,
Tina: oh, I gotta go to work today.
John: Yeah. Yeah. And so I think this, um, this is just something that is really, really fun and cool. It's, it's been, it's funny that it's been cool and fun the entire ride.
Tina: Yeah. Yeah, absolutely. Abs. I [00:08:00] love going, like you said, being on that journey with those people, with people that come here.
Our students, they do great. Love it.
John: Yeah. Yeah, it's great. Uh, it's, and meeting just so many different people from d like I, I just met someone the other day. If he's, if he's listening, uh, you know, he'll know who he is. I just met, this is a pretty wild, the former, you retired, the former vice president of FedEx.
Wow. World worldwide.
Tina: Oh
John: yeah.
Tina: Wow.
John: Wild. Yeah. And this, and he wa inside and he can do a
Tina: voice
act.
John: Yeah. See he's in the program. Yeah. Wow. He wants to come through our voiceover program and do voiceovers when he is retired.
Tina: See? Super cool. That's the all the different backgrounds we get.
John: Yeah.
Tina: You know, and you, you would never, you think about it and I get a lot of people who are.
Those, you know, nine to five, but the suit's on, you know, the very business type and they're just like, I need something creative. And, and so that's why they come to the, to us to do something completely different.
John: Yeah,
Tina: absolutely. I love that. Absolutely. Absolutely. Love that.
John: Yeah. It's so cool. Yeah. That's great.
Now, now, um. What's the most, what, where [00:09:00] is the furthest away you've worked with a student? Like where is that person located?
Tina: I had, um, Ireland, I'm gonna say Ireland, but I, but I don't know the dis, I don't know, distance. So it's across the pond to me.
John: Yeah, yeah, yeah,
Tina: yeah, yeah. I remember her. I had several. I actually had several, several, I had several.
John: Yeah.
Tina: Oh, I love their voice. That's, I always say to 'em, you could read the box back of a serial box and I'd listen to it. You know, their voice is just,
John: Americans in general love accents. I hear that. Yes. I get people my webinar who, who live here in the US but are from Ireland or from. Uh, and it could be anywhere.
Yeah. And they say, well, will my accent hinder me? I'm like, yeah, listen, you, you might not be able to get work. I get
Tina: mm-hmm.
John: But you're gonna get a bunch of work I couldn't get, because Americans love accents.
Tina: Mm-hmm. Yes, they do.
John: We, we just love accents,
Tina: don't we? Yeah, yeah, yeah. Yeah. I had, um, a student who, she was, she was from Ireland, but lived here, is in the States, and we went through the whole, and she was concerned, but, but I'm like, no, don't, don't be concerned.
Like you said, we, we love the voice [00:10:00] right away within. She did the demo, her demo on our end, we didn't complete it yet, but she already got offered a book because of her voice.
John: Oh, that's great. See? Yeah. Yep. So I really do think there's in this industry now, because things have changed, right? Mm-hmm. It's become more conversational.
Yes. It's, uh, not as much announcing. There will always be some announcers out there. Yes. Always. Of course, I still do some of that, you know, and, and, uh, but. It's mostly conversational now and I think it leaves room for just about everybody.
Tina: Yeah.
John: Yeah, it does. I mean, I have people who say, oh, well I don't think my voice is, uh, good enough for this.
And I think they're thinking back to the old days mm-hmm. With the announcers and they're thinking, well, I don't do that and I'm not, I'm never gonna sound like that. But the, you know, the industry's really changed and there really is room for just about everybody if you are willing. To put the time and learn.
Mm-hmm. I, you know, that's the one thing I, I will say, you know, one thing I'll say is, um, although [00:11:00] I, I always don't wanna say this, but I always tell people, listen, don't view this as something different. Now when I say that. It's different in a lot of ways. Yes. Like I just think it is better than everything else.
Tina: Yeah.
John: Like it's more fun. There's so many things. It's, you know, it's an awesome industry, but I always say to be successful, you can't view it differently. Mm-hmm. In other words, you can't go, oh, I'm gonna be discovered, or I'm gonna break into the industry. Mm-hmm. You don't break into being an accountant.
Tina: No.
No.
John: Yeah. Right. You're not discovered as an accountant. And so you, you have to kind of be careful with that. 'cause I, I just had someone recently say, well, what if I don't want to learn? This is a wild question. What if I don't want to learn how to do voiceovers? And what if I don't want to demo? Could I still be a voice actor?
Tina: Hmm.
John: Is that the wild? It's a wild question. And I, yeah, and I, and I was like, I, well, the only thing I could say to you is I'll pose the question back to you, like, what if you wanted to be a barber?
Tina: Mm-hmm.
John: Would you have to learn how to be a barber or would you just start cutting hair? [00:12:00]
Tina: That's, that's good.
John: Right? Bird's like, oh, and I'm like, yeah. Yeah. It's like, because, you know, people have this thing that they think entertainment's way different. Mm-hmm. Like, they're like, oh, I don't, you know, listen, I get it. I mean, yeah, of course I have to learn how to be a barber, but I'm, I have a good voice. I'll just be a voice actor.
Yeah. If it was that easy, the whole world would do it. Everybody.
Tina: Yes.
John: Because it's all, it's the best job in the world. Mm-hmm. In my opinion. And many people's opinion, uh, everyone was in it. You know, so I think pe, everyone, the whole, whole world would be doing it if it was that easy.
Tina: A lot of students, what I get from them is, um, they think, like you're saying, all, all I have to do is read that paper.
That's it. Read it. No, there's more to it. Yeah, there is. Yes, you can read it, but we now you just gotta add a little more to it.
John: No, don't get me wrong. This isn't the hardest job in the world either. But like everything, there are skills necessary to do it. And once you have them, uh, you know, you practice, you practice, and the sky's the limit in this industry.
There's just so much you can do and so many, there is super cool things. Mm-hmm. And yeah, it's, it's, uh, I, I just really can't imagine doing anything else. So, so good news, [00:13:00] everybody. You have. Two hosts that love what they do and Marissa did too, of course. Mm-hmm. Uh, but, uh, I assume, yeah, I assume I listen to the podcast, sound like she loved it.
She's sad.
Tina: It, she seemed
John: like she enjoyed it. Yeah. He loves it. So, so you, I think we're gonna have fun at this podcast. We're gonna keep it going. It is. By the way, I don't know if you know, this is the longest running voice of her podcast. I
Tina: did not know this.
John: Yes. So I started this podcast, which is funny.
It's, it's been a circle. Mm-hmm. I started this podcast, voice Coaches Radio. A little over 20 years ago. Mm-hmm. Before people were podcasting. Really? Yeah. There's just a few of 'em out there. And I started Voice Coaches Radio. I did the first few episodes, which by the way, I don't, I don't think they're there.
I think we took the 'cause. Listen, they're so outdated at this point. They're so outdated. I mean, anything that you heard about voiceovers over 20 years ago is not going to apply, has changed so much. So I think we kind of took those episodes out. Mm-hmm. Um, because I, I went back the other day to say, oh, episode one two, like the first few episodes are not there.
Tina: Yeah.
John: So, uh, but I passed this off to, to, uh. People who work here as, [00:14:00] as, uh, it went on because I just couldn't keep up with it. Yeah. 'cause I was on the road all the time then. Uh, especially and so. Uh, people took it over and eventually trickled down. And Marissa got it for a bunch of years.
Tina: Yes.
John: Yeah. And so Marissa's been the host for a long time, and now I feel like it's full circle.
I'm back. I never thought I'd come back. Honestly, I never thought I would be back to doing this.
Tina: Yep. You're
John: like, I'm
Tina: done.
John: No, you're not. Yeah. You know, because podcast is commitment, right? You're is, you've been doing it every week. Mm-hmm. You know, every week. Um, and so I, I thought I'm never gonna. Not that I don't wanna do it because I do, I I love doing it.
You know, I'm, uh, I couldn't wait to get here today, but I just thought we had, I'm like, Marissa's gonna do this. I'm good. Yes, she's
Tina: all set for life.
John: But here I am, here, I'm back. Everybody has come, has come full circle. And the original host of this show is back as co-host. So I think, uh, there you go. But yeah, I think so.
I think, um. Th that's good for this episode, right? Think so? We just wanna so introduce ourselves. Yeah. Let everyone know who we are. Thought, who are these two people? We, we like Marissa. I like Marissa too. But Marissa's not here. We're here. Mm-hmm. You're [00:15:00] stuck with us. Uh, well, I think at some point the, the word is, and I don't know when this is gonna happen, but the word is we are going to, um, this podcast is going to evolve, right?
Yes. I
Tina: think we're
John: going to start doing. Video podcast, so you can look. That's
Tina: what I heard.
John: That's what I heard. That's the, that's the rumor. Yeah. I don't know. We'll, we'll see. I mean the, these things take time, but we're gonna continue on as we are, and then eventually, I believe we're going to. Add a video component to it or, or a visual component to it?
Do they call it video anymore? Am I old? No. Do we call things video?
Tina: Yeah, they do. They two still
call
John: video. I know.
Tina: Yeah.
John: Not vhs. No, we're not gonna, that's will not be on vhs. That's all. We're gonna do a VHS podcast. We have to. I miss those days. I gotta tell you. I miss. Yeah. You know, that's when you know you're getting old.
By the way, I always say I miss the days when I had to go, not VHS necessarily, but the days when I had to go to Blockbuster. Yeah. And, and just, and wait for that movie to come back. Yeah. It the new movie, you're like, someone's gonna return it.
Tina: Oh, that was, that's too much hassle. Now
John: you just hit the, you just hit the [00:16:00] button.
I know. You'll watch it, whatever you want. Which I guess is good. But, but I, I enjoyed. The adventure of. Mm-hmm.
Tina: Yeah. Seeing what was
John: lived, me and my wife going to Blockbuster and looking around, Ooh, this is how, oh, yep. I,
Tina: I haven't seen this movie yet.
John: Yeah, I know, I know, I know. Getting old all, so I want to thank everybody very much for listening.
I am John.
Tina: And I'm Tina.
John: We out.
Tina and John formally introduce themselves to listeners.
