Considering the amazing amount of intelligent and entertaining voice-over talents in this industry, I take it as a special compliment to be invited on to some of the great voice-over podcasts out there.

So I find it an extra special compliment that I was not only invited on to the Girl’s Guide to Voice-over Podcast but that I was chosen as their “Boy Voice-over Crush of the Week”.

I’m pretty sure no woman has ever had a crush on me (including my wife, who woke up in Las Vegas with a hangover, wedding ring and me staring back at her with a goofy smile –j/k).

So anyway, here’s the link to the podcast— please check it out (and thanks to the Voxy Ladies for the invite).

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Some female voice-over talent named Lisa Biggs who I’ve never heard of nor never met has some unique marketing ideas that are only sort of popular 😉 and now has a new blog that you can subscribe to if you’re a girl or a boy.

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So in my years of travel and voice-over meet-ups, I have never happened up a voice-over meet-up that was taking place when I happened to be in town.

But when I contacted my friend and fellow voice-over talent Terry Daniel to let him know I was coming to Minneapolis to see if he wanted to get together, he said he was doing a voice-over meet-up group that night and invited me to tag along.

It was a great night visiting with many established and newly ordained voice-over talents who were very welcoming and friendly.

My thanks to Terry and everyone at the Twin Cities Voice-over Meet Up group who were so kind to me.

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In a recent Voice-Over Xtra! article, my friend and fellow voice-over talent had some great suggestions for how to make sure your voice-over business doesn’t breakdown like her 1997 Honda CR-V.

Reviewing her checklist will probably cost you less than $3,500. It’s a good read from a smart lady.

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I know it sounds silly, but I still get surprised that people read my web site.

Sure I know people visit the site, but when I talk to people that have read the site (cause there is a lot of stuff there), it’s a (pleasant) surprise.

I say all this because I got a call a few weeks ago from Garnet Williams who told me all about…me. He’d read about me and the stuff I’d done and asked if I would be a guest on his voice-over podcast, The Amivos and Friends Super Funtastic Happy Hour Podcast.

The ‘Amivos’ in the podcast (or VOdcast) refers to the 3 Amivos with include Garnet, Dave McRae and Mike Pongracz – all Canadian-based voice-over talents who decided to put together this show about voice talents.

They were under the impression that I was to be their first American guest on the 4-show old program (as their very first guest in Episode 3 was the great narrator and VO in TO co-mastermind Patrick Sweeney) but alas, they found that I have Canadian blood in me, even though I was born in the States. So I am an Americanadian.

The show was recorded while I was driving back from Pittsburgh, PA and I gotta tell you, that drive never went by so quickly. It was enormous fun because these guys clearly know how to run a great show and are fine interviewers. It reminded me about what was great about radio.

We talked so much that they had to leave out the fun story about how I signed with Tanya and Darryl at Ta-Da Voiceworks while at FaffCon in Ventura Beach and how I met Tanya as well as VO in TO co-mastermind Jodi Krangle at a Deb Monroe Voice-over class some years ago in Toronto (see, I get to hang out with ALL the cool Canadian voice talents).

With my sincere thanks to Dave, Mike and Garnet, I hope you’ll not only want to listen to the show that I’m on (ego? moi?!) but also check-out their past and future episodes.

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Have you ever turned down a voice-over job because you disagreed with its content, message or tone?

If so, what was it and what about it made you turn it down, what about it made you say ‘this is not for me’?

Looking back now, would you do anything differently?

I am not asking about a hypothetical nor do I want to know about what you ‘might’ do or what your hot buttons are…I’m sure those are interesting points for another time.

If you have an actual story, an example…I’d like to hear about it.

Please share. Thanks.

But strictly for this post

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