Regardless of the industry, in an age where our attention is tempted by so many media sources, when so much strife and dissent exists (not to mention the distraction of macroeconomic stresses), it’s key to ensure that we’re taking care of ourselves meaning our minds, soul and body.

I like memoirs because of the access it gives me into someone’s life - albeit a heavily curated one - though an author’s insistence on candor and transparency can relieve the sense that it’s all just for show. Viola Davis’ Finding Me seems to do just that.

There is no end of expenditures that we can make and find a way to justify whether it be an investment in a booth or recording facility, training or coaching, demo production, equipment - we all know how much we love our toys - marketing, conferences, and software subscriptions to name a few.

The earliest and certainly one of the most memorable lessons I was taught was to never stop at 95%.

Voiceover recording is at once freeing in that one can pursue this vocation without limitation and independently of others, but at the same time, it can also be an isolating experience.

As an introvert, the excitement of attending is tinged just a tad by the knowledge that I will need to guard against being overstimulated. For me, that feels like a sudden drop in energy as well as disinterest in attending yet another workshop.

I was recently on vacation and visited Casablanca for a day as a part of a cruise. It wasn’t my first time in Morocco and from my previous experience, I knew that taxi drivers could be aggressive, that negotiating was necessary and that it wouldn’t be as simple as hailing a Lyft as I had been doing at other cruise terminals (gig transport services are not yet available there).

I’ve come across a new VO Podcast, the VO Breakfast Show. While my main VO Podcast continues to be Marc Scott’s Everyday VOpreneur, the Breakfast Show is a welcome addition to my listening stable and I’ve been running through the episodes like nobody’s business. Its hosts are veterans Carin Gilfry and Jamie Muffett.

A deluge of articles on Chat GPT suddenly appeared on all the ways we could put Chat GPT to good use, the inherent risks, how people were already losing their livelihoods to this technology and how even technologists were urging caution until we could design and implement safeguards.

It’s not your imagination. In the United States, the rise in inflation continues to be acute and is on track to be high again in 2023 at 5.5%.

The Voices 2023 Annual Trends Report is now available.

I’m hungry for change. I have my own trail of made and broken resolutions behind me so I’m generally weary of making resolutions, New Year related or otherwise.