Three years ago yesterday was my last day of full-time employment. Three years ago today was the beginning of an adventure. When that adventure began, I thought I new roughly how it would play out, not unlike the way that I thought I knew how my animation career would play out. Entering the animation field back in 2001, I envisioned myself steadily growing and improvingRead More »Three-Year Thoughts
I recently discovered author, blogger, podcaster, and leadership mentor Michael Hyatt, and have been learning a great deal from the various things that he puts out on the Interwebs. One that really caught my attention was a podcast episode titled, “Watch Your Mouth”. In it Michael gives several powerful examples of how simply changing the words that we use to describe things can transform howRead More »Change Your Work by Changing Your Words
A journey of a thousand li starts beneath one’s feet. – from Tao Te Ching This Chinese proverb is more commonly translated as: A journey of a thousand miles begins with a single step As I was thinking about this phrase the other day, several possible interpretations/applications came to mind. Planning As you work through the planning phase of any endeavor, whether it be personal or professional,Read More »A Journey of a Thousand Miles
It’s not about linens. It’s about life.
How important are bold choices in auditions? More important than you might think!
My apologies for the inaccessibility of the blog for the past several weeks. I’m migrating the site to a new domain, and somehow it didn’t register in my brain pan (until it was too late) that if I redirected the entire domain, the blog would be effectively dead. I’ve nixed the redirect for now, and have simply put a pointer link on the main page.Read More »Moving mayhem
It’s time to record the next audiobook: Andy Nebula: Double Trouble. This is the sequel to the book I finished last month (Andy Nebula: Interstellar Rock Star), which I hope will be released soon. Recording on the sequel commenced yesterday, though I was only able to complete the main narration for the first chapter. The non-narrator character voices for that chapter were recorded today, andRead More »Audiobook news and notes
There’s an interesting dichotomy in just about any acting situation (aside from improv): you’re following a written script, yet you’re supposed to look/sound unrehearsed. How do you pull that off? While I have very little formal acting training, I feel like I do fairly well in many situations, but I still struggle in many others. For me, it’s actually a fun challenge figuring out howRead More »Succeed by Staying Present
In one month, my life will change. Dramatically. I initially discussed this change with my wife nearly a year ago, and we planned to take action at the end of last year, but it just wasn’t the right time. However, after a few more months of planning and thought and prayer and work, things finally started to fall into place. I announced my plan atRead More »Change is coming
…I’m still finding my voice…largely for this blog. I want to offer more here than just “Here’s what I’ve been doing lately,” but unfortunately that’s about all that it feels like I’ve got to offer at times. Today, though, I’ve got a little story to share. More on that later. It’s been busy here. While most of that busy-ness isn’t on the voiceover front, thereRead More »Like the name says…