Voiceover Tip – Motivational CD by actress Wendy Braun

I’m a big fan of actress Wendy Braun’s Actor’s Inspiration website. There are so many helpful tips and motivational affirmations there. “Empowering actors to believe, achieve and enjoy the journey” is Wendy’s motto.

She’s come out with a CD of affirmations tailoured for actors. And, there’s a sample affirmation that you can download to see if it resonates for you. I was all set to order one of these CDs for myself, but the high postage cost to England put me off. Hopefully one day it’ll be offered as a download, which would make a better investment costwise. I purchased Yuri Lowenthal and Tara Platt’s “The Voiceover Warm up” in this fashion and it worked a treat.

Anyway, if you’re Stateside, this CD by Wendy could be a valuable tool in your voiceover arsenal. You can order it via the “store”section of Wendy’s website. I’m not getting any kickback on this, I just found the sample affirmation to be brilliant and want to spread the word!

I’ve also now discovered Wendy’s Twitter page and she’s always tweeting some lovely affirmations there as well.

That’s today’s voiceover tip…bye for now!

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VoiceOver/Life Bounceback-ability

Today is a sad day in terms of Japan, the earthquake and resultant tsunami. So much tragedy. I was horrified to see the video. Now I’m eagerly awaiting news from my friends livng there, that they’re ok and safe. If you want to know more about the situation, on twitter @timeouttokyo, is doing a fine job on updates. There are others as well!

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Our life challenges remind me of the little tulip in our garden. It was growing so happily, then came the frost last week. I looked outside and saw that it was all bent over, floppy and lifeless. I mourned the tulip and growled at the cold weather. To my surprise within a couple of days it was back to life, and today it’s standing proudly in the sun with opened petals.

Maybe I need to be like the tulip, when the career and life aren’t moving as smoothly as I would like; take a breath, step back(go “all floppy!”), re-evaluate what needs to be done — more training? Different marketing? — and then step back into the sun with head held high and get on with it! Like the character in Monty Python & my little tulip said, “I’m not dead yet!”

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By the way speaking of training, be sure to think and evaluate if a voiceover teleseminar or class is really right for you before you part with your dosh (cash). There seems to be an explosion of paid teleseminars now. So check out the teacher with respected colleagues and online. Check out their credentials aside from what’s written up in the advert. Can they really deliver what they promise, or is the advert just cleverly written. Read between the lines! Trust your gut, not your hopes of what you would like the class to deliver. There ARE good, brilliant teachers out there…so just be careful.

Cheers for now!

Stefania
@stefsvoice
@AudioMysteryTym
Podcast: stefsvoice4you Broadcast, on iTunes

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