I got a surprise email today advising me that Dan Lenard is bringing Marc Cashman to Buffalo for a weekend training session on May 14 & 15.
For beginners/intermediates, you are invited for a session with Marc on Saturday and the Advanced / Working Pros are invited on Sunday. Both sessions are limited to 10 participants and will be held over at Crosswater Studios.
For more information, click here.
For the past couple of years, I’ve been asked to serve as the announcer for the Buffalo Niagara Sales and Marketing Executives’ Elite Sales and Marketing Awards.
I’m a past President of the association.
Last year I had to travel on the show day so I pre-recorded the intros but this year I was live (or as live as I get) and here’s what it looked like announcing to a room of about 200+ of my closest friends 😉
Congrats to all the winners.
There are so many “nice touches” as my Mom would have said about Faffcon2 that stay with you mentally, spiritually and yes even physically.
I’m not sure if I am allowed to talk about how I received this mug, from who and why – the folks who attended know and it was a very kind and gracious gesture from one person to another. If I am allowed to lift this veil I will but until such time I will move on to the salient point of this post which is…
My wife loves this mug and draws on the blackboard paint with the provided white chalk every morning with her coffee to the delight of my children. Today, the drawing was of my daughter. An uncanny likeness.
Kindness never goes unnoticed.
Voice Talent Wendy Edwards interviews voice talent Mahmoud Taji – who lives in Cairo – about what life was like during the revolution.
You can check it out here.
With those words above, Amy Snively kicked off Faffcon 2 in Atlanta and crystallized for me what the weekend was all about.
Voice Over Talents from Around the Globe at Faffcon 2 - Atlanta, 2011
I specifically took some time following Sunday’s close (which came quicker than any of us wanted) to really reflect on what I came away with.
* I came away with a greater respect for voice talents – who we are, what we do and how we do it
* I heard some voice over performances that infused me with the desire to get better – some were so good I’d quit now if I had any talent at all to do anything else but, oh well
* The challenges people in our industry face are universal – we don’t train enough, we don’t market enough and we are all held back by something – sometimes external and often times internal
I noticed that I think we (me too) are all too often held back by some level of self doubt with in our business. When it is paralyzing, our voice business stalls or worse, fails.
But when we force ourselves to move past or at least forward from our self doubt, we succeed, even a little. I saw this more than I expected among my new and old friends and I saw it most often in the mirror. Because I was among peers, that realization felt a little safer to recognize and build upon for me.
I don’t know if this reads as earth shattering or game changing – it felt that way for me. Your mileage may vary.
What happens at Faffcon stays at Faffcon – many talents generously share intellectual property that rightly shouldn’t be spread everywhere. So if you want diagrams and recordings, you will not find them here.
Besides, the greatest value of what is learned by participants at Faffcon is ingrained individually based on what each Faffcon participant gleans from a shared presentation or conversation. What helped me might be useless to you and vice versa.
I will say this: it is that act of universal giving and sharing -that spirit – that permeates the air of Faffcon and provides maybe the best reason to secure your spot in Hershey this September.
If you can trust in that thought, you’d probably benefit from Faffcon.
If not (and that’s OK) you’ll probably want to pass.
Thanks, Amy, very much.
So I’m standing in Detroit airport Wednesday evening when I get a call from Tim Keenan of Creative Media Recording.
He said that he produces a podcast called “Audio Follow Friday” and he wants to do an interview with me about Faffcon because everybody else he really wanted to interview about Faffcon said no and he knew I was too narcissistic to turn him down.
Well I never!…turn down an interview so we recorded it today and here it is. Thanks Tim!
