8 episodes

Follow my journey to become a voiceover professional. I bring you along with me as I learn, while interviewing other voiceover professionals who offer their advice and experience. 

Talking For A Living Tony Donaldson

    • Arts
    • 4.5 • 2 Ratings

Follow my journey to become a voiceover professional. I bring you along with me as I learn, while interviewing other voiceover professionals who offer their advice and experience. 

    Quick Update, Coaching, Adobe Adding Ai To Make Editing Easier

    Quick Update, Coaching, Adobe Adding Ai To Make Editing Easier

    This is a quick update on my journey. I had to wait until the weekend because of the construction starting up again outside my window this week. I'm diving deeper into coaching, it's a rabbit hole.Adobe has added Ai editing features to Premiere Pro that SHOULD be coming to Audition. Joe Zeija's Voice Acting Academy: https://www.jzvaa.com/Gabrielle Nistico (Gift of Gab YouTube channel): https://www.youtube.com/@GiftofGabSupport the Show.

    • 7 min
    Seth Avergon Talks About Marketing Yourself As A Brand

    Seth Avergon Talks About Marketing Yourself As A Brand

    This episode is not with a voiceover professional, but a marketing expert. The tips he offers me (and of course you!) in this interview are fantastic, truly actionable points that will help me quite a bit as I move along in my endeavor to become a working VO professional.Seth's info:Website: https://www.avergonmarketing.com/LI: https://www.linkedin.com/in/sethavergon/And of course, if you want to help me out, you can Buy Me A Coffee:https://www.buymeacoffee.com/tonywvAnd my own Linktree...

    • 51 min
    Actor, Voice Actor and Podcaster, Ira Heiden

    Actor, Voice Actor and Podcaster, Ira Heiden

    My interviewee in this episode is actor Ira Heiden. He's a prolific actor who has been in many films and TV shows you've likely seen. I know him through mutual friends and actors Bill and Sherman Allen, the latter of which I interviewed in my first episode.We talk about how his career actually started at a young age, how he got discovered, how he got his most fun recent voice acting gig and more.Ira's podcast, Wizard Master podcast, can be found on Spotify:https://open.spotify.com/show/5Ewgai...

    • 30 min
    Voice Actor And Host Of The Scare Me Podcast, Albie Robles

    Voice Actor And Host Of The Scare Me Podcast, Albie Robles

    Albie Robles is a voiceover professional, podcast host and production sound recordist. We talk about how he got started, including his early DIY demos, how and why he started his podcast, and how he gets booked for jobs.His website is AlbieRoblesVoice.com, and you can find him on other platforms as AlbieRoblesVoice.I also recorded my first demo clip. I welcome any critique on it. Support the Show.

    • 43 min
    Audiobook Narrator Liza Jacob

    Audiobook Narrator Liza Jacob

    My guest today is Liza Jacob. She's a prolific audiobook narrator, recording books under her own name and also her pseudonym Clara Abbott. We have a lively discussion about how she tripped and fell into recording audiobooks and booked her first job before she had any training. She offers me some fantastic advice and inspired me to start working on my first demo.It's going to be a DIY demo, not necessarily for use, but for practice. Bill Dewees suggests this in a YouTube video.https://yo...

    • 43 min
    Tansy Alexander

    Tansy Alexander

    This episode is a fun and informative chat with Voiceover artist and actor Tansy Alexander. She was recently up for an award for her work on Stranger Things, a show I love, for her narration for the blind. With her experience, she has a wealth of knowledge of what it takes to become a voice actor. We talk about how and why to find a coach, the importance of treating this as a business first and foremost. I learned a lot from this one, I hope you will, too.Links:VORG: https://voiceoverre...

    • 41 min

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Jumpflyz ,

I’m learning a lot!

This podcast is really great for those of us who are interested in the art of voiceover. Tony is doing a super job of interviewing interesting guests who share their tips and tricks that we all should know to improve our skill.
Thanks Tony, I’ll be waiting for the next episode!

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