It's a German idiom, literally translating to "The squirrel feeds itself arduously" 🐿️

It means something along the lines of "slow and steady wins the race"..."Rome wasn't built in a day" and all the other sayings that express the idea of taking baby steps towards a bigger goal.

Every now and then I get an audition through, I record it thinking "I nailed that", send it off feeling confident that it might at least end in a pencil, and then....crickets 😂

So...you do like, commercials and things?

That's usually what people ask when they hear that I do voice overs.

Here's a cautionary tale for you.

A creative freelancer, let's call them Sam, starts out in the business.

The Game Directors Panel I hosted at One Voice is already a distant memory.

I was joined by a delightful group of people made up of Gina Thompson, Natalie Winter, Natalia Hinds and HaZ Dulull.

If you produce voice-over content, for corporate videos, commercials, social media content...do you send your voice talent the background music?

Hidden within the vast landscape of voice work, lies a huge sub-genre that is sometimes treated treated like the ugly step-sister of commercial work: corporate narration.

Only last month in my talk on Social Media at One Voice in Dallas, I made a whole song and dance about ✨ CONSISTENCY✨ ...

I've been hearing this a lot recently when new clients have approached me for a quote....

I recently worked with a new client, voicing a character for an escape room...

Last month I met my friend David Monteith for lunch.

(At the National Theatre. Not relevant to the story, just a quick mention of the fact that my friend is in a play at the friggin National. Casually)…

"I'm nervous because I don't know what to expect"
"I'm an introvert and don't know if I'd be able to talk to people"
"I'm worried it will be too overwhelming to make it worthwhile"
These are only a few of the thoughts I had before attending my first ever conference back in 2021…

Is it necessary to have teaching experience to be a great e-learning narrator?
No it isn’t.
But it certainly helps…

Hey look, we're all there because of work, right?
Or at least most of us.
(Maybe some of you get a kick out of reading 25 inspirational posts every day without any business interest attached? In that case, you do you)…

I hate networking!
I have lost count of how many times I've heard fellow freelancers utter those words.
And if I'm completely honest, I used to say the same thing…

Last week, I wrote a little post with some narration tips.
This week, I am flipping the script and sharing some tips with producers who want to achieve the best results when working with VAs…