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I don’t ask for much, but here’s a simple request.

I completely understand if you want to unsubscribe from this list. I don’t want anyone on my list that doesn’t want what I have to offer, or doesn’t find value in what I have to share.

But some people are mistaken, or uninformed about how to properly do that. Or, just plain lazy. Or, have more nefarious intentions…

…if they do what I describe in this video.

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I just got off Zoom with a client who was having real difficulty accepting some advice I was giving him.

And I realized about halfway through the session exactly what the difficulty was.

It was not the concept itself, but his ability to accept it was as simple as it actually is.

The concept is simple. Acceptance of it can be unbelievably hard.

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One of the features of Rehearsal® Pro, my app for actors, is that as you add highlighting and other markup to your scripts, record scenes for playback, etc. the app will automatically save all of those changes to the cloud.

That way, if you have more than one device, like an iPhone and an iPad, you can keep your scripts and sides on both devices synchronized.

But let’s back up for a moment…the cloud? What is that? Do you hear that phrase and nod politely?

Here’s what “the cloud” means.

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Today, because I got a question on this from a viewer, let’s take a look at one of the crucial behind-the-scenes mechanisms of my process: my VAs.

What’s a VA? It’s the abbreviation for “virtual assistant,” and boy does she.

The word “virtual” has come to stand for AI as well, but that’s not the case here.

Meet one of my VAs, Stina.

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John Davenport recently left me a comment on one of my videos, the one on how I don’t think age range is a valid descriptor for voices.

He wrote, “I would love to hear you do a discussion about announcer versus non-announcer. So many of us who from the broadcast world who have been labeled as announcers in some genres of voiceover can’t seem to get work too much these days. Why do you think that is? Do you think it will change?”

Here’s what I think about that.

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I just watched a TED talk from psychologist Joan Rosenberg, and I thought what she had to say about irrational thinking was worth sharing with you.

Here are five ways you might be thinking, and how to stop each one.

Link to Joan’s TED talk: https://ideas.ted.com/5-irrational-thinking-patterns-that-could-be-dragging-you-down-and-how-to-start-challenging-them/

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I want to thank my ACX Master Class student Jim Cassidy, and my VO2GoGo Pro client Mike Russo for simultaneously bringing this bit of video to my attention. And I’m calling this to your attention incase you’re one of the last people in the world of audiobook narration that hasn’t seen this clip.

If you thought you were the only audiobook narrator who had trouble getting out a particular stream of words every now and then, let no less than the venerable Stephen Fry put your mind at ease with this moment at the Hay Festival recently, where he recounted a particularly difficult moment with his narrating of Harry Potter and the Philosopher’s Stone.

Link to full Hay Festival video on Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/watch/?v=1247501542079714
Link to full excerpt video on YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=phiMuhhIjAM

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