Pro Audio Secrets

The basics and more are handled. The questions I have now are different. I'm Bastian Gerner aka The Foley Teacher, a Foley artist and sound designer with 15+ years in the field and credits on over 100 films, TV series, and AAA games including Avatar: Frontiers of Pandora and Assassin's Creed. I run my own Foley studio, I teach inside my own Foley Guild, I post online across multiple platforms. Do I stay solo and double down on teaching, or build a studio with employees? How do you actually land a AAA client as a freelancer - not as staff? How do other established Foley artists and sound designers structure the next stage of their careers? Who's built something I haven't, and what did it cost them to get there? Pro Audio Secrets is the conversation I have with people whose answers I want. My guests are Foley artists, sound designers, and audio professionals who are further along than me on a path I'm interested in - or working at my level in a direction I haven't taken yet. Some are solo operators with sharp businesses or higher ups in huge firms. Some have built boutique studios with full teams. Others have turned their craft into platforms like communities, courses, content in general and built second income streams that rival their client work. What we talk about: The strategic decisions that shape a long career in film, TV, and game audio. Solo vs. studio. Direct client acquisition at the top of the market. Teaching, content, community: when they are a distraction and when they are a multiplier. The trade-offs nobody talks about publicly. Less "how I got started." More "what I'd do differently with everything I know now." If you're a working professional thinking about your next move, not your first one, you're in the right place. And if you're earlier in your journey but ready to think strategically from day one instead of figuring it out the slow way: even better. Follow the show if you're working in audio and asking the same questions I am. New episodes monthly.