How do you get your first voiceover job? That is the subject of this week’s VO School Podcast!

We investigate four huge tactics that will help you book not only your first gig, but regularly as a voice actor. 

How do you market and brand yourself? Should you reach out to an agent for representation? How do pay to play and online marketplaces fit into your career (and should they!)? And how do you reach out to marketing and advertising agencies to promote yourself. We also discuss how getting recommendations from other voiceover professionals is vital to a successful career.

I’m joined by The Voiceover Network’s Rachael Naylor and Bodalgo.com’s Armin Hierstetter. Two highly respected and well known members of the voiceover industry. We have a frank and sometimes surprising discussion about booking work as a voice actor in the 21st century. And most excitingly (not really), I reveal that my favorite word in the entire world is in fact German!

Episode 8 - Finding Your First VO Job with Rachael Naylor & Armin Hierstetter

Gretchen Peters joins us once again on the show to talk about her new album...

For two decades, Gretchen Peters has been one of Nashville’s most beloved and respected artists.

“If Peters never delivers another tune as achingly beautiful as ‘On A Bus To St. Cloud,'” People Magazine wrote, “she has already earned herself a spot among country’s upper echelon of contemporary composers.”

Inducted into the Nashville Songwriters Hall of Fame in October 2014 by singer-songwriter Rodney Crowell, who called her “both a songwriter and a poet (who) sings as beautifully as she writes,” and said her song “The Matador”, “moved me so greatly, I cried from the soles of my feet”, Peters has accumulated accolades as a songwriter for artists as diverse as Etta James, Bonnie Raitt, The Neville Brothers, Patty Loveless, George Strait, Bryan Adams and Faith Hill. Her song “Independence Day”, recorded by Martina McBride, won a CMA Song of the Year award in 1995.

She has been nominated for 2 Grammys (“Independence Day/Martina McBride, “You Don’t Even Know Who I Am”/Patty Loveless), a Golden Globe (“Here I Am”/Bryan Adams), and numerous other awards. Her 2015 album, ‘Blackbirds’ was awarded International Album of the Year and Song of the Year by the UK Americana Association.

In 2015, The Telegraph named her one of the greatest 60 female singer-songwriters of all time. Her latest album, The Night You Wrote That Song: The Songs of Mickey Newbury, is a loving tribute to another Hall of Fame songwriter and a profound influence on Peters’ own writing.

https://www.gretchenpeters.com

"The Night You Wrote That Song: The Songs of Mickey Newbury" Ft. Gretchen Peters

Host, Stephanie Manns, NYC-based singer-songwriter, goes behind the scenes with some of the best up and coming artists from New York City and beyond for an exclusive behind the scenes look at a song and everything that goes into it. From songwriting to production and then we hear the song in full. Think SongExploder meets Tiny Desk Concert!

"The Night You Wrote That Song: The Songs of Mickey Newbury" Ft. Gretchen Peters

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