The Voiceover Community: Recent Episodes
Julie Williams and Gary MacFadden
The VoiceOver Insider Podcast The voiceover industry is growing by leaps and bounds! Hear interviews, hints and tips from established voice-over professionals, newbies, casting directors, industry leaders, and more. Julie Williams and co-host Gary MacFadden bring you a new podcast every two weeks.
Voiceover Insider podcast co-host Gary MacFadden talks with podcast co-host Julie Williams about her new program, Voiceover Momentum. Julie describes how the new VO membership platform will work, and also invites all VO talent to take part in her 5-Day Momentum Building Challenge in early April. If you're not on Julie's e-mail list, this is the time to sign up. Contact her at julie@voice-overs.com so you can take part in the 5-Day Momentum Building Challenge and learn more about her Voiceover Momentum program.
Julie talks with J. Michael Collins (a.k.a. JMC) about what's new at VO Atlanta 2023, coming up soon in March. JMC pointed out that some of the "X-Sessions," which do deep dives into a particular topic, are filling rapidly, and that signing up sooner than later is a good idea. To learn more about VO Atlanta, and get signed up for X-Sessions of your choice, visit the VO Atlanta web site.
Tim Friedlander talks to Julie about an effort by a new group, the National Association of Voice Actors (NAVA) to acquire health insurance coverage for voice-over talents (YOU!). This would be a potential option for non-union and union talents alike. But NAVA NEEDS YOU to fill out a very short form expressing interest in health insurance for voice actors so they can get proposals from health insurance companies! There is NO commitment involved; you're simply expressing interest. Please do that at www.NAVAvoices.org NOW! NAVA's closing date for submitting the health insurance census is the end of August (less than two weeks away) and they still need 100 to 150 names added to the census (they currently have approximately 900 names. Here's the catch: if you DON'T complete the census form, you will not be eligible for coverage should an insurance program be instituted this year; you'll have to wait until open enrollment for 2024. It's only expressing interest, so do it now! (The census form takes about two minutes to complete.)
Julie Williams interviews J. Michael Collins, who is one busy guy! He's not only an in-demand voice talent and VO demo producer, but he's also the USA territory controller for Gravy For The Brain, a UK-based training organization for voice talent, and a partner in the production of the OneVoice Conference (the USA-version is August 4th-7th in Dallas, Texas). And as if that's not enough, J. Michael and his wife recently became the owners of VO Atlanta, America's largest annual voiceover conference.
Julie talks with veteran voice talent and VO blogger Kim Handysides about the importance of Search Engine Optimization (SEO) and using social media for marketing, topics that will be covered in their upcoming webinar.
Julie and Jodi Krangle, a voice talent in Toronto, Canada, discuss Jodi’s own podcast, Audio Branding: The Hidden Gem of Marketing, in which she explores various aspects of how powerful sound is.
Pat Fraley, Cliff Zellman, and Deb Munro join Julie Williams in remembering Brad Venable, a talented and prolific video game and anime voice actor who passed away in January 2021 at a young age.
David H. Lawrence has had a long career in both voiceover and as an on-camera actor. He’s also a well-respected voiceover coach. David takes time out of his busy schedule to talk with Julie about how the Covid-19 pandemic has affected voiceover, the response of the SAG-AFTRA union to the pandemic, and where he sees the voiceover industry heading as a home-based business.
Voice talent Josh Alexander talks with Gary about his transition to voice acting from a successful yet soul-deadening career in videography. Josh describes his day-to-day VO auditioning and marketing strategies that many will find surprising at the least, and very likely inspirational.
Julie Williams talks with Lisa Biggs who has built a career voicing toys and children’s voices for commercials and shows.
Co-hosts Julie Williams and Gary MacFadden discuss the return of the Voiceover Insider Podcast, and their new podcast site at www.voiceoverpodcasts.com
As the first award show live announce voice, Randy Thomas paved the way for other women in the voiceover industry to enter the live announce and TV promo genres. Heard on multiple awards shows for more than two decades, Randy talks to Julie Williams about the live announce and promo voiceover genres, what they entail, and how to enter them.
In this VoiceOver Insider podcast, Julie Williams talks with Rae Burell of Light Assistance, a service that provides support for entrepreneurs—mainly voiceover artists.
With two decades of experience, Stanley has voiced, produced, and booth directed local, regional, and national radio commercials, and has created children's audio books. He is a classically trained actor, and participated in the Conservatory Program at 2nd City-Los Angeles. Stanley has dedicated his personal time to helping sick kids and wounded veterans…raising just over $150,000.00 for the Fisher House Foundation. And this year he is running a full marathon for Team Fisher House.
Julie Williams talks with attorney Rob Sciglimpaglia about legal factors that can affect voiceover talent. Rob is the author of the popular VO book, VoiceOver Legal.
Julie talks with Tasia Valenza, a well-known talent in video games, about her work with a new organization called Vocal ID, and about how other voiceover talents can take part in this amazing project.
Julie Williams interviews Dave Courvoisier, board member of The World-Voices Organization (WOVO), and finds out what this new voiceover industry organization can offer individual voice talents. WOVO is at www.world-voices.org