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The VO Meter Episode 57, Brad Hyland

August 7, 2020 by Paul Stefano

The VO Meter Episode 57, Brad Hyland

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paul stefano and sean daly

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hi everyone and welcome to episode 57 of

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the vo meter

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measuring your voice over progress so

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today we’ve got a great interview with

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maryland talent brad highland so he’s

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been doing voice over for almost two

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decades right now and he’s got a lot of

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i mean he’s just a great guy he’s very

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down to earth but he’s got a lot of

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actionable advice for people who are

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looking to get into voice over at a

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professional level

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yeah brad and i first met on the way to

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view atlanta a couple of years ago

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i knew his face from social media and

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he’s also a big guy he’s like six foot

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four

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250 pounds of muscle and i saw him in

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the in the

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airport waiting on this we were on the

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same plane it turned out so i ran up to

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him and

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said hey you’re brad something something

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i actually couldn’t remember his last

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name

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and we met we talked while we waited for

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the plane

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and then hung out pretty much all during

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view atlanta when i wasn’t lugging

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around

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a tripod or a mic stand because

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you know i was still on the team there

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and he’s a great guy

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we stayed in touch ever since i’ve been

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to his house to visit his studio

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and uh yeah just a great time whenever

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he’s around so

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looking forward to hearing that talk

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yeah i’m really looking forward to

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hearing his story too

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but before that it’s time for our vo

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uh seriously guys that’s the best you

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could come up with

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hey it’s your show

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so anything cool going on with you sean

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or is it similar to last time where

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it’s kind of uh kind of the doldrums um

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it’s actually well i’ve been keeping

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myself busy

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i mean last week i had like 20 or 25

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auditions alone which is a little bit

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higher for me so that was good i mean

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one project

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was like i auditioned for almost 10

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different characters so that was a fun

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little stretch

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wow but the editing was not like i find

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um when like i mean the bulk of what i

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do is kind of like straight lace

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narration and that i can do with my eyes

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closed at this point

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like it’s just get like you you’ve got

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your styles and like maybe give them two

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or three alternate takes and you’re just

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more confident about it

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but then like some of the video game and

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animation stuff it can be more technical

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you have to make sure you don’t clip

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and the even though the lines tend to be

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shorter you like to experiment more

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so i know sometimes it’s difficult

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putting your babies on the chopping

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block

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but yeah other than that just recorded a

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couple e-learning modules it was a

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really busy week

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at gvaa a global voice acting academy we

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had workouts with uh steven riesberg

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doing an excellent commercial workout

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and it was really cool because we had a

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couple of members who’ve been with us

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for like

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several months to a couple years now and

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everyone

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was just having very noticeable

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improvements in their reads

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and and that that always warms the

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cockles of my heart

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so we did that and then we had one with

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our dialect coach eliza simpson

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um working on an appalachian accent that

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was interesting

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really mm-hmm yeah because i mean it’s

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it’s really

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we’d actually worked on like a texan

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accent which is kind of like

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what people what comes to mind when you

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think of a southern accent

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and so this one was like a little bit

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more what was that so for some people it

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depends on

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how much for some people yeah depending

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on well i mean imagine on the east coast

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appalachia is a little bit more closer

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to mine um yeah

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very close but yeah literally um close

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to mine close to heart

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but yeah so that was really fun learning

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some of the more my new differences

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like the the relationship of the r

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whether or not you pronounce it

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stuff like that and then um other than

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that we had our monthly q a session

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where just

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so many people had so many questions

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some ones we’ve heard before like how do

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you solicit agents or how do i get them

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to work

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one talent actually had an interesting

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question because they were concerned

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that

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like they’d been with an agent for a

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couple of months and they were only

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getting

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like one or one to three auditions a

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month

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and so david rosenthal actually had

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really good advice on

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when you need to kind of like talk with

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your agent and see

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if communicate like hey can i get more

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auditions from you

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is there a reason why like you know not

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being afraid to open up

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the avenues of communication and then

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figuring out if it really is a good fit

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for you

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you’re not being afraid to cut bait

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either you and i have talked about this

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on a

04:57

different episode where where i reached

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out to an agent had

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a conversation like that and their

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answer was yeah i don’t really have

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anything for you

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uh i think we should just cut ties

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that was okay at the time because the

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agent was not really giving me many

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opportunities and it probably wasn’t

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their fault

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but it was fine for me to move on and

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then i ultimately end up with

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three new agents after that absolutely

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and especially when you’re just so

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like beginning your career getting

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representation and stuff like that it

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can be

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nerve-wracking to start those

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conversations but what a lot of people

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forget is it is a partnership

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and like we are as valuable to them as

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they are to us

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so and if there is no value in that

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relationship

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then there you don’t need to have it but

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like we’ve said before if you

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if you do need to cut ties you can

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always be just honest

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and professional about it and i would

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like there’s no need to burn

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any bridges but yeah so the whole point

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like the kind of the theme of that q a

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was just kind of taking ownership of

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your career

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and just being in taking initiative

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whether it be

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seeking agency representation or

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maintaining good relationships with your

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agents

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yeah absolutely awesome then we wrapped

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up the week with one

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uh with another character workout with

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one of my favorite

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mentors brian summer he’s done a lot of

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games for like blizzard

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telltale games like the walking dead

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series

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uh and the wolf the wolf among us

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and um any like it’s a rare find when

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you have like an

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excellent actor who’s also just a great

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instructor

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you know i mean he he gives some of the

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most concise

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direction that i’ve ever seen in like in

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and he’s helped people who do character

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stuff and who joined just because that

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was the only workout available

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and then they still learn because i’m

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just like i think everyone should do

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character work like to even just to

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practice whether

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or not you’re like an audiobook narrator

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or an e-learning narrator

06:54

it’s like nothing stretches your acting

06:57

chops more than that like the character

06:59

work i think and it’s always

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even if it’s not directly applicable it

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definitely stretches you outside of your

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comfort zone and gets you more

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comfortable with experimenting with

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deliveries in

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all of your work all right so that

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pretty much wraps up my week

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uh what have you been up to similar to

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you auditioning and really not a whole

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lot else

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i did have one new book get released in

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in the last two weeks it’s called the

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archimedes principle

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and it’s a it’s a exercise

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nutrition science novel which doesn’t

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sound

07:31

interesting it does sound interesting

07:33

it’s also kind of confusing but

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basically it’s about a scientist who

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does research and

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the research gets sort of

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misappropriated by the government

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and then hilarity ensues are more like

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uh it becomes a thriller after that

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point so

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if you want to listen to that it’s out

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on on audible now uh

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archimedes principle and they’ve had a

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couple of auditions from agents

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uh and from freelance sites

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i had one thing that happened last week

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that was kind of cool it was a live

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audition that was done from my agency in

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new york

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and they set me up with a casting

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director who wanted to hear me read live

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and

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i don’t get to do it very often but what

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i do it’s it’s cool because

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the person that’s live directing knows

08:17

what they want and it sort of makes your

08:19

performance easier so

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i did a read like i thought it should be

08:22

done and they made some adjustments and

08:24

said let’s change this let’s adjust this

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did another one end up doing i think

08:28

four whole takes

08:30

and then all i did was send them the

08:31

takes at the end and uh

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and wait to see if there was a callback

08:35

so that hasn’t happened yet but

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fingers crossed but it was a fun fun

08:39

change of pace to do a live audition

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because i don’t do that very often in

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person

08:45

and because of cobit that’s not really

08:46

possible so it’s nice to be able to

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still do that for my home studio

08:49

with the casting director in new york

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yeah that’s really cool and

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it’s funny because i mean traditionally

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that’s how things used to be done

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right like like actors would drive to

08:59

their agent studios or whatever or they

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would record

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from home but i mean working with the

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director is just so nice because you

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don’t you’re like well at least i gave

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them what they asked for

09:11

yeah it’s almost hard to screw up

09:13

because you’re not doing that constant

09:14

dance in your head where you’re thinking

09:16

oh do they want it this way oh do they

09:18

want that way what do they really mean

09:19

when they say john hamm

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mixed with uh craig robinson and then

09:23

you just get it from the horse’s mouth

09:26

exactly i mean this is something we were

09:28

actually talking about at that that

09:29

workout with steve reedsburg uh the week

09:31

before

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um because a lot of people like he likes

09:34

to get go really in

09:36

depth with his feedback and so i could

09:37

tell that the room is like oh man where

09:39

we suck

09:40

or like no you guys all had really

09:42

strong performances but

09:44

this is what a director does like there

09:46

is no

09:47

even if you do a perfect take they’re

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going to be like that was perfect do it

09:51

again

09:51

different like yeah this is

09:55

supposed to have a different a different

09:57

flavor more than anything

09:58

when you’re on a live session and

09:59

sometimes it’s a good thing you’ll hear

10:01

it when you’re

10:02

listening to other people so when you’re

10:03

doing those workouts listen to how the

10:06

read

10:06

changes from your peers after they

10:08

receive the direction assuming they

10:10

actually take the direction well not

10:11

everybody does but those of us who’ve

10:14

been doing it for a while and are able

10:15

to take direction and change the

10:16

performance you’ll actually hear that

10:18

you’ll have that aha moment

10:20

from somebody else even if you’re not

10:21

directly participating in that round

10:23

absolutely and i was about to say like

10:25

because i see a lot of people when it’s

10:26

not their turn like have their mics

10:28

muted and practicing their own script i

10:30

was like listen to the other

10:31

performances

10:32

because there is a lot to be learned

10:33

from that experience and just the

10:36

the the conversation that a director is

10:38

having because very often that’s just

10:40

you get familiar with their language

10:42

right the the

10:43

the things that they’re asking them to

10:45

do in the shorthand that you kind are

10:47

like the industry lingo that we

10:48

sometimes use

10:50

so it’s all relevant so don’t just spend

10:52

that time practicing for your next round

10:54

yeah definitely not it’s the benefit of

10:56

being there so unfortunately i don’t

10:58

have a whole lot else going on but we do

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have one more

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podcast specific announcement to make

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and that we are

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the official podcast now for the

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vocation conference the second annual

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that normally takes place in new york

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city but it will be done virtually like

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most other events this time and that’s

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in the middle of september so we’re

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looking forward to that

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woohoo awesome it’s all part of our

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podcast global industry domination

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um take over yes indeed

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uh but but that’s all thanks to your leg

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work man i mean it’s

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really great like just making the face

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time at the conferences and then

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encouraging them to trust us with their

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audio

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and i don’t know i i guess we’ve made a

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bit of a name for ourselves and that’s

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definitely a large part thanks to you

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oh thank you let’s not get carried away

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i think it’s more just uh suckering

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people into thinking it’s gonna be good

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it’s all about sincerity once you fake

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that but yeah i’m really excited about

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that

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and that’s actually not the only cool

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thing about the podcast so paul was just

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telling me today that we have broken

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40 000 downloads i can’t believe it i

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mean we

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we used to joke when paul asked me to

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join the podcast i was like

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who’s gonna listen to us apparently 40

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000

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people or the same people 40 000 times

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i don’t know i don’t care but we’re very

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grateful for it so thank you guys so

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much for being avid listeners to the

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podcast

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i’m just so happy that so many people

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are finding it helpful yeah i always

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think of it in terms of

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mike myers when the way i described it

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as saying i wasn’t expecting

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ah download let alone 40 000.

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so we’re so grateful for everybody who’s

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taking the time to listen and i i think

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only about

12:38

ten thousand of those are me downloading

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i’m

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i’m kidding let alone forty thousand

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downloads necessitating an entire rack

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exactly right yep that’s the quote uh

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vo meter reference levels we’re gonna go

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with our guest today

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episode of the vo meter

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today our guest is brad hyland brad’s

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voice resonates with astounding range

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and unwavering control

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that comes packaged with fun passion and

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absolute dedication to his customers

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and craft based near washington dc he is

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an extremely motivated and enthusiastic

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voice actor

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he possesses amazing versatility and

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as an award-winning full-time voice-over

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pro brad has an expansive portfolio of

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satisfied customers around the globe

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connect with him just once and you’ll

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please join me in welcoming brad

16:29

highland

16:31

wow so who are you talking about again

16:36

that’s nice never heard of that guy

16:37

thanks guys i appreciate that

16:39

absolutely it’s not true to you it’s all

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true

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we hope so we hope yeah i wouldn’t put

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it past you but anyways it’s a real

16:46

pleasure to have you brad

16:48

so thanks again for coming oh this is my

16:51

honor yeah

16:51

i always i love listening to what you

16:53

guys do and um

16:55

i’m tickled yeah unfortunately i would

16:57

have loved to have done this in person

16:58

because

16:59

i’ve actually been to your house it’s

17:00

not that far from where i am but you

17:02

know the stupid kobit crisis not a good

17:04

idea these days

17:05

no and if you had come we would have had

17:07

a barbecue and a pool party

17:08

oh and some of your pictures oh my god

17:11

yeah

17:11

we can still do that you could bring

17:13

your kids down and we could we could we

17:14

could replay it

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yeah it sounds good just do right to the

17:17

party okay like a collapsible claw thing

17:20

or something like come on

17:21

get the ribs

17:24

but anyways we’ve heard that you came

17:26

into vo as a second career

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so how exactly did that get started well

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i um

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yeah i was in business for like 35 years

17:34

before i was a landscape

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manager for a huge company but

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this is all i ever really wanted to do

17:41

ever since uh

17:42

college when i was doing you know silly

17:44

voices and

17:46

i started doing stand-up comedy and

17:48

imitating the professors and

17:50

a friend of mine about 25 years ago said

17:53

hey you know what you should this is

17:55

right at the

17:56

right at the cutting edge of um the

17:58

whole digital

17:59

thing everything and he had a he had a

18:02

digital business he said you should be

18:03

in voiceover and i said

18:04

oh what is voiceover and he explained it

18:07

i said yeah that sounds perfect and then

18:09

about

18:10

i don’t know six months later somebody

18:11

else said oh you should do voiceover i

18:12

hear there’s a seminar nearby

18:15

and i went to it and fell in love with

18:17

everything about it

18:18

and started training um with a local

18:21

producer and vo coach in bethesda for

18:24

about

18:25

she’s almost two years and i did demos

18:28

and

18:29

you know master classes and started

18:31

booking some work because back then i

18:32

would have to

18:33

you know take a vacation day to go book

18:35

a job

18:36

or or even to audition i’d have to see

18:38

if they could do it and i would sneak

18:40

out for

18:41

lunch to go do an audition but now it’s

18:43

the glory of the home studio so that’s

18:45

what it started and

18:46

i went i started full time in 2016 in

18:49

the spring

18:50

and it’s just been it’s almost so good

18:53

that i have to pinch myself

18:54

every day a little bit awesome

18:56

congratulations thanks

18:58

i didn’t realize it had been that long i

18:59

mean 25 years i was just talking to a

19:01

friend this morning that i met

19:02

25 years ago and i thought wow i can’t

19:05

believe it’s been that long but

19:07

still i i didn’t realize you’ve been

19:08

doing that long so that’s fantastic

19:10

yeah and it’s always been sort of a

19:12

tickle in the back of your

19:14

mind you know it’s like why why am i not

19:16

doing this and then

19:17

things changed with the company i was

19:19

with and it just was right and we were

19:21

on a bike ride kathy i’ll never forget

19:22

this and i tell this story

19:24

pretty often we’re on a bike ride in

19:26

2015 in the spring

19:28

and i was talking more about how much i

19:30

didn’t like what i was doing and how i

19:31

wish i had

19:33

grown a pair and started doing really

19:36

doing voice-over

19:37

she stopped her bike and she said my

19:39

gosh this is the time

19:41

because she had just retired from being

19:42

a teacher this is kathy your wife right

19:44

yeah and um yeah thanks

19:48

make sure and um she stopped her bike in

19:51

the middle of the path and she says we

19:52

just got to do this

19:53

man we just got to do this and she

19:55

convinced me and i quit

19:56

that’s that september and started full

19:58

time in the spring after a few months of

20:00

of rest and recovery awesome

20:03

yeah it’s funny how the i think a lot of

20:05

us have had this sort of

20:06

epiphany after we started pursuing this

20:09

and it’s the ones that know you the best

20:11

that

20:12

always really should have given you

20:13

advice years ago i was at a

20:16

college reunion a couple of years ago

20:17

well one year ago exactly

20:19

and one of my buddies that i used to

20:21

live with on campus said

20:23

man that’s so great you’re doing this

20:24

but you should have been doing this 20

20:26

years ago and i said

20:27

yeah but what are you going to do life

20:29

gets in the way

20:30

yeah i start kicking myself man where

20:32

would i be and you know

20:34

you’d have to i’d be printing 20s in my

20:36

basement if i’d started

20:38

yeah but well everything happens for a

20:41

reason yeah

20:41

it takes a long time for you to gain

20:43

that experience and confidence to dive

20:45

in head first you know

20:47

well you hit that right and i you know i

20:49

knew

20:50

i was very educated about what was ahead

20:53

of me and i knew everything and i knew

20:54

it was going to be a long haul

20:56

but it still it i auditioned a hundred

20:59

times before i booked a job

21:01

and i thought you know i thought nobody

21:03

liked what i did and i thought oh my god

21:05

this isn’t going to work and

21:07

it was a quick tag for a lacroix

21:09

sparkling water commercial and i ran

21:11

downstairs and said

21:11

oh my god kev this works i just got a

21:14

job

21:16

i’m gonna make 250 dollars i’m going to

21:18

make 250

21:19

for saying lacroix you know it’s just

21:25

it was it was so amazing and it’s just

21:27

been uphill since then

21:29

fantastic so let’s talk about some of

21:31

your other work

21:32

what types of genres do you work in you

21:34

know it’s

21:35

my tag social media tag is the most

21:37

versatile voice from coast to coast

21:39

and like people say don’t say you can do

21:42

everything because you can’t and i

21:43

kind of i kind of i feel like i can so

21:46

i don’t do anything that i’m not good at

21:48

so

21:50

if somebody asks me to be a voice of

21:52

somebody that i absolutely couldn’t do i

21:53

won’t

21:54

i will absolutely not do it but i’ve

21:56

been booked as you know all kinds of

21:57

accents

21:58

um i do video game work i’m doing a

22:01

really fun video game next week

22:03

that’s going to be for um sony ps4 and

22:07

nintendo switch which is a it’s a just a

22:10

great collaboration and they’re letting

22:12

me go crazy on the session by myself

22:14

but i guess my biggest my biggest thing

22:16

is like that corporate

22:18

corporate narration promo big voice kind

22:20

of stuff

22:21

where it can be the intro and outro to a

22:24

big

22:25

uh explainer video or a lot of tool and

22:28

video i did a thing for

22:29

for bosch drills and hammers the other

22:32

day and it’s a lot of like

22:33

these hammers are tough built for every

22:35

day you know it’s that kind of a voice

22:36

stuff seems to be

22:38

almost the old-fashioned kind of stuff

22:39

but with more realism and

22:41

natural sound does that answer your

22:43

question

22:44

he did so thank you okay

22:48

so speaking about some of the the your

22:50

versatility and some of the different

22:51

things you’ve done

22:52

one of your most prominent gigs was the

22:55

voice of santa

22:56

for the elf on the shelf company can you

22:58

tell us a little bit about that

22:59

yeah that’s that’s an ongoing thing

23:01

actually later today i have to do

23:03

um about 10 lines for

23:06

their online kids game where you you

23:08

know you’re feeding a reindeer and santa

23:10

tells them

23:11

now what do reindeers eat that’s right

23:14

carrots you know so i have sound like

23:17

john goodman over there yeah well it’s

23:18

it’s

23:19

i when i i got this job in 2017 as one

23:23

of the big first big customers and

23:25

i had uh four auditions

23:28

recall you know callbacks and then i had

23:31

an interview with

23:33

uh shane debell the ceo and who wrote

23:35

she wrote the book with her mom

23:36

and her her her vp person amy

23:40

and we were just talking back and forth

23:41

and we had another one like that because

23:43

they really wanted to be careful about

23:44

who they chose

23:46

and they wanted me to laugh a certain

23:47

way and she goes i hear

23:49

your lap is so good but what i hear in

23:51

my head of the santa i want is not like

23:53

a ho ho ho it’s a

23:54

ho ho ho so i i did my santa laugh like

23:58

that and it went from going

24:01

to ho ho and they they both just blew up

24:05

on the phone and

24:06

the next day where kathy and i were

24:07

shopping and say in in

24:09

the supermarket she was on one side of

24:12

the crab leg aisle and i was on the

24:13

other and we were looking at things and

24:15

i took the phone call

24:16

and i looked at her and she goes what is

24:17

it what is it i said i i got the elf i’m

24:20

santa i’m trying to pantomime holding my

24:23

beard and she got really excited i got

24:25

almost emotional and then

24:27

as i put my hand over to my phone or put

24:30

it to my chest and i said go ahead get

24:31

the crab legs

24:33

we’re celebrating get three dozen crab

24:35

legs that’s what we and so we got

24:37

king crab legs at like a zillion dollars

24:40

a pound to celebrate

24:41

fantastic that’s great now you’re the

24:43

perfect fit in my mind for santa not

24:45

that you look like the traditional

24:47

you know 85 year old santa but you are a

24:50

big guy you’re a

24:51

former college hockey player and you

24:53

look more like

24:54

in the old cartoon where um it’s like

24:56

the story of kris kringle where they

24:58

first show him with a red beard and he’s

24:59

only in his

25:00

30s oh yes that’s the image i see i

25:03

think of when i hear your voice doing

25:04

santa and it just fits you perfectly

25:06

you know what it’s funny you said that

25:08

because the first the first tv

25:11

holiday special that i voiced we do one

25:13

a year the next one’s coming out

25:14

this december i did that a year ago and

25:17

it takes that long to produce the

25:19

animation they put a camera in the booth

25:22

to to film my mouth close up because

25:24

they matched it and they also

25:26

changed their santa design a little bit

25:28

because the because i was their new

25:30

santa

25:31

and santa went from being short and and

25:34

and sort of rotund to more of a

25:38

maybe santa used to play football

25:40

characters

25:41

when you see that santa now on the elf

25:43

on the shelf uh

25:44

movies and dvds it’s it’s fashioned

25:47

after me a little bit which i thought

25:49

was funny

25:49

they went for like the rise of the

25:51

guardian santa with the two swords and

25:53

all that

25:59

so obviously that’s a high profile gig

26:01

are there any other interesting gigs you

26:03

can talk about that you’ve done or

26:04

maybe are working on like you mentioned

26:06

yeah this this um

26:08

i’ve you know i’ve done cool video game

26:10

jobs and since i don’t play video games

26:12

i don’t get to see them and then someone

26:14

will

26:14

send me an uh imdb link with

26:17

you know brad hyland as this character

26:21

in

26:21

cloud punk and i’m like oh crap i forgot

26:24

all about that and

26:25

i was like the voice of the uh the voice

26:28

of a

26:28

um a cyber mechanic and i was like

26:32

talking like this you don’t want to hear

26:33

about that but

26:35

um so but this one coming up for the

26:38

two big game companies is going to be

26:41

super

26:41

fun it’s a cooking game sweet

26:45

and i can’t i can’t tell you anything

26:46

else about that other than that i’m

26:48

doing a voice that mimics

26:50

um what’s his name from america’s got

26:52

talent

26:53

um simon simon and then the other one is

26:56

a guy fieri knock off with a hispanic

26:58

twist to it

26:59

nice yeah it’s big

27:02

really fun yeah super fun so we talked

27:05

about some of the interesting things

27:06

that

27:06

you’ve had the pleasure of doing um is

27:09

there anything that you won’t do

27:11

um i probably wouldn’t do any

27:14

explicit you know adult content things

27:18

um no offense paul i know

27:22

i haven’t been asked or booked to do

27:26

something that i won’t do because i only

27:27

auditioned for what i’d like to do

27:29

it’s weird i i haven’t really found

27:31

something oh my gosh i would never do

27:33

that

27:34

um just because i never auditioned for

27:36

something unless i want to do it

27:38

yeah that’s a nice place to be in and

27:39

it’s a place that most people strive to

27:41

get to in their careers

27:42

i just recently sort of got to that

27:44

point after five years of just

27:46

throwing anything at the wall that would

27:47

stick but it’s nice that you you have

27:49

that knowledge of your own

27:50

skills and things that you excel at that

27:53

you can

27:54

be in that position oh i thought of one

27:56

somebody

27:57

found me and said we want you to do this

27:59

project for us it’s a santa voice

28:01

and i changed the santa voice in the

28:03

audition a little bit ago okay here’s

28:04

the new script and he sent it to me

28:06

and it was santa coming out of a chimney

28:09

cussing a blue streak yeah you know like

28:12

the first time adult thing you know and

28:14

it was santa going ho ho-ho

28:17

and i and i said i’m not gonna do this

28:18

i’m not i’m sorry i’m not even gonna

28:20

audition for it so

28:21

there you go yeah i can see how that

28:23

could be against sort of your

28:24

your moral temperature check i i

28:27

personally love the santa from south

28:29

park which is exactly that

28:30

yeah but it’s a different style for sure

28:32

no it’s it’s super funny

28:34

and it’s just i have a lot of respect

28:36

for my customers and i try to keep that

28:38

in mind when i’m doing things i don’t

28:39

want to do anything

28:41

where somebody would say hey the santa

28:43

from elf on the shelf is doing

28:45

you know bad santa bad santa or

28:49

mean santa or you know

28:53

whatever so on a related note are there

28:56

any

28:56

genres you haven’t tackled but would

28:59

like to try maybe because you haven’t

29:00

had the opportunity

29:01

or you just never thought it’d be a good

29:03

fit for you you know

29:04

i kind of have done work in almost

29:06

everything

29:08

and i like doing almost everything which

29:09

is why i call myself the most versatile

29:11

voice from coast to coast but

29:13

i’ve never done an audiobook i’ve done

29:15

some really long

29:16

um like promo those fake things where

29:19

you click on something on youtube

29:21

or on facebook and it takes you to this

29:24

super long

29:25

click funnel yeah annoying video of a

29:27

guy going

29:28

now the reason we created this medicine

29:30

is because thousands of people across

29:32

the country

29:33

are overweight you know i’ve i’ve done

29:36

that kind of

29:37

stuff but i haven’t done a book i’ve

29:39

never done an audio book and i’ve

29:40

i’ve been asked to do you know audition

29:42

for a couple and i just have been too

29:44

scared

29:45

you know and it uh my add kicks in and i

29:49

need to you know

29:50

doing a 30 second commercial is just too

29:52

much fun compared to doing a book

29:54

for me start with a pamphlet see how

29:55

that goes yeah

29:57

well i’ve done long-form that kind of

29:58

stuff but i have huge respect and props

30:01

for anyone that does

30:02

audio books and it’s not because i look

30:05

you know like i’m not

30:06

i’m too good to do it i’m afraid to do

30:09

them because

30:10

the people that do them like uh natalie

30:12

um

30:13

ellie natas not us yeah we just had her

30:16

on the show actually

30:17

she her voice is i mean and when she’s

30:20

reading it’s so natural and so full and

30:23

it’s like listening to chocolate

30:25

velvet and then when she does a

30:26

character it goes right into the

30:28

character regardless of who it is and

30:29

it’s just

30:30

i i’m afraid i couldn’t do i couldn’t be

30:33

like that

30:34

maybe i could if i tried and got some

30:36

training i just haven’t yet

30:38

fair enough awesome so you’ve got a bit

30:40

of a

30:41

unique marketing strategy in that you

30:43

have a unique website that

30:44

isn’t just your name which is kind of

30:46

what a lot of people encourage

30:48

newer voice talent to do today yeah so

30:50

that’s why i started i i

30:52

that i came up with that name 20 geez

30:55

20 years ago because i when i started i

30:58

put the cart before the horse you know

30:59

usually it’s like

31:01

get some training get you know get good

31:03

get to understand what it is and i just

31:05

started

31:05

i want to be known as and i just thought

31:07

of what it was because i had

31:09

actually had a car detailing company

31:11

which is what i did

31:12

when i was first in business to pay

31:14

bills because i didn’t want

31:16

kathy to have to put the kids in daycare

31:18

and go to work so

31:19

i detailed cars at night and during the

31:21

weekend and it was american shine auto

31:23

detailing

31:24

and i sort of went with that graphic

31:27

that my sister had designed for me and

31:28

turned into american voice power because

31:30

i wanted it to be

31:32

unique and i you know and i

31:35

just for fun i googled you know american

31:36

voice power it was the first page on

31:38

google

31:39

in all the different spots where it’s

31:41

listed so that’s

31:42

it’s working and it’s different um but

31:46

it’s funny i did i had a conversation

31:49

with

31:49

with paul and after that conversation i

31:52

went ahead and purchased

31:54

the domain for my name just in case you

31:57

want to use it at some point just

31:58

because

31:59

i don’t want somebody mostly i did that

32:01

because i don’t want somebody else

32:02

there are other brad highlands there’s a

32:04

famous uh

32:06

hairstylist in new york city who is like

32:09

he does all the hair the hair care for

32:12

the stars

32:12

and his name is brad hyland but i didn’t

32:15

so i didn’t want him to grab that

32:17

brad highland.com to sell a new shampoo

32:19

or something

32:20

well if nothing else you could forward

32:21

your current domain to there

32:23

because after the notoriety you’re bound

32:25

to get from this podcast episode people

32:27

will be googling brad highland

32:29

and they’ll be saying that’s a lie he

32:32

didn’t come up

32:33

the first whole page it was only half

32:34

the first page

32:37

clear your cash guys so say the whole

32:40

domain because we haven’t actually done

32:41

that yet for people that want to find

32:42

you

32:42

it’s just americanvoicepower.com perfect

32:46

and my you know they can email me

32:48

through that or my

32:50

and on social media on on instagram and

32:54

it uh twitter it’s just at here h-e-a-r

32:58

brad highland okay perfect so

33:02

we wanted to talk about gear a little

33:03

bit because i think as you know sean and

33:05

i

33:06

are unapologetic gear uh bad words

33:10

i want to say on the podcast we like to

33:12

pretty much try everything

33:14

and you dab a little bit with changing

33:16

your your gear up yourself can you tell

33:18

us a little bit about your studio

33:19

yeah it is um i claimed my daughter’s

33:23

bedroom after she grew up and moved away

33:25

and it’s a small bedroom it’s

33:26

you know it’s probably 15 by 10

33:30

and it has canted ceilings which

33:33

i didn’t know it at the time but just

33:34

when i treated them

33:36

acoustically it made for a really good

33:39

um floor and reflection and

33:42

i hired a i actually hired an engineer

33:45

and sound engineer to come in and my

33:47

first

33:47

when i first got started and i had just

33:49

put the stuff up and it was

33:51

not where it is now and he came in and

33:53

he just looked around the room and he

33:54

was going

33:56

snapping his fingers and he goes oh man

33:58

oh man i wish i had this at home

34:00

[Laughter]

34:02

that made me feel good i had bridgette

34:04

over monday and she came up and

34:06

i showed her my stuff and we worked on

34:08

some things and she thought it was

34:09

awesome so

34:10

but uh bridgette reel yeah bridgette

34:12

yeah also but also been a guest on the

34:13

show

34:15

we went up to the um vocal booth to go

34:18

warehouse

34:18

oh you mean the sponsor of the show

34:20

thank you for mentioning them yeah shame

34:22

drop

34:23

they’re awesome man we we we talked with

34:25

jeff

34:26

and uh stephen and just had a great time

34:28

and looked at some exciting new stuff

34:29

that they got going on

34:30

more to come on that but my my so my

34:33

studio is very basic carpeted floor but

34:35

i have um

34:36

everything works well and i have i i got

34:39

a couple of blankets from some guy who

34:41

has a podcast i bought from him

34:43

and i i enclosed my space a little bit

34:45

more to make it more like a

34:47

pro booth so if somebody’s mowing next

34:50

door i have to wait

34:51

or if my dogs are barking at the around

34:52

the pool i have to go yell at them

34:55

but other than that it’s like a really

34:56

good solid sound space

34:58

and um i have a macbook pro and a duet

35:02

interface and a 416. um but that’s the

35:05

basics

35:06

and i use logic i use logic pro 10.

35:09

oh interesting what is it about logic

35:11

that you like you know

35:13

i i bought i spent i spent more money on

35:16

trying different things than most people

35:18

just did you know snuggling up with um

35:21

adobe so i started with i think pro

35:24

tools and then i went to something else

35:26

that was really expensive and hard to

35:27

use

35:28

and a friend of mine said oh i’ve been

35:30

using logic and it’s awesome

35:32

and it’s it’s overkill but here you know

35:35

get it so i did and it has a really

35:38

easy to manage stack for processing

35:41

it has a huge library of loops and sound

35:44

effects and everything if i want to

35:46

if i want to tap that plus i can call

35:49

applecare and

35:50

i can get on the phone with their

35:52

professional media group

35:53

and they’ll spend two hours with me

35:55

noodling around with things and

35:56

explaining stuff and

35:58

it’s it’s it’s really great so that’s

36:00

why i use it it’s overkill but

36:01

i just got not good but

36:05

passable at using it so i kept it

36:07

awesome awesome

36:08

and i totally understand about trying a

36:10

little bit of everything and spending

36:12

way too much on software

36:13

but and i still have a twisted wave icon

36:16

here and an

36:17

audacity icon that i started with so

36:20

very cool

36:21

this next question is a little close to

36:22

my heart you’ve developed quite the

36:24

reputation as one of the more

36:26

caring people in vo and were in fact

36:28

nominated for the unicorn grant at vo

36:30

atlanta 2020.

36:32

tell us how that came about oh well

36:34

thanks for mentioning that i

36:36

that took that blew me off my chair i

36:39

mean um

36:40

i never expected that i didn’t even know

36:42

that that was

36:43

something that i would ever be

36:45

considered for

36:46

um but i’ll never j j michael called me

36:49

one sunday morning early

36:51

like messaged me hey can you get on a

36:53

call i have a

36:55

job for you and i was like wow sunday at

36:57

8 o’clock in the morning

36:58

sure and i get on the zoom and he’s like

37:00

hey how you doing well i just

37:02

i’m really i’m lying to you because

37:04

there is no job but i just wanted to

37:05

inform you of something i think is

37:07

pretty exciting he told me i just about

37:09

fell out of my studio chair and i it was

37:11

very emotional too i had to like pretend

37:13

i wasn’t

37:14

you know i was wiping moisture out of my

37:16

eyes thinking that

37:17

you know hope he doesn’t see that i’m

37:19

sort of touched by this allergies yeah

37:22

i couldn’t believe it i guess the reason

37:24

if i could say any reason why it’s

37:26

because i was so

37:28

so interested in helping somebody else

37:30

that because i got such incredible help

37:32

when i got started from a few people

37:33

there’s a guy in

37:35

the uk named guy harris

37:38

and i just and and diane too

37:41

diane i forget a last name perry and i

37:44

just in doing searches in 2000 i think

37:47

14 i found them and was just fascinated

37:50

by this amazing work they’re doing and

37:52

they both answered the email i sent them

37:55

within

37:56

hours and talked to me and guy and i

37:59

still

37:59

talk all the time and he is one of those

38:03

voice talents in the uk he is like

38:06

everywhere around the world just super

38:08

good

38:09

you if you don’t look up what he does

38:11

it’s just amazing

38:12

and i i just wanted to do something so

38:14

when people started when i started

38:15

booking work and getting traction

38:17

then i would share little things i had

38:19

people that would email me and

38:20

say hey you know can you tell me what

38:23

you’re doing that i’m not doing because

38:24

i don’t get anything

38:26

i just like talking to them and helping

38:27

them so that’s what i started doing and

38:29

i have you know a handful of people here

38:30

and there that i like to

38:33

answer their questions with specifics of

38:35

what i do and i don’t

38:37

give them information from other coaches

38:39

because i’ve had amazing coaches

38:40

i just have a few you know a few hacks

38:43

and a few things that i do personally

38:44

and i

38:45

try to share that with them they don’t

38:46

pay me i’m not a coach i just help them

38:49

you know and

38:50

it’s helped a few people so it’s really

38:52

fun that’s really one of my most

38:53

favorite things to do is connect with

38:54

someone and

38:56

answer their questions and see if i can

38:57

help them to get traction and leverage

38:59

into booking

39:00

well that’s great because we we’ve

39:02

talked to a few of the people who’ve

39:03

received that grant in

39:05

in person and stuff like that and the

39:06

reaction’s always the same like i i

39:08

don’t know why i’m being nominated i was

39:10

like well that’s kind of the point right

39:11

like you just kind of you just give from

39:13

that place because that’s part of who

39:15

you are

39:16

but i’m so happy for you i’m i really am

39:18

so tickled to death about this and the

39:20

fact that it got

39:21

punted into 2021 um

39:24

it just sort of it gives me an extra

39:27

gives me an extra

39:28

year to wallow in the fact that somebody

39:29

is nominated

39:31

and it’ll someday come to fruition and

39:33

we’ll do that whole thing but

39:35

um just just being nominated was really

39:38

enough of a it just was huge do you know

39:41

who nominated you i know it’s supposed

39:42

to be it’s sort of a secret up until

39:44

it’s actually announced but i know i

39:46

nominated somebody from last year and i

39:48

was blabbering about it all over the

39:49

place after it happened

39:51

oh uh no i have no i’m talking about

39:53

2019 i nominated dr kell who was one of

39:56

the finalists in 2019

39:57

oh cool love talking to him about it i

40:00

um i don’t i have no clue about anyone

40:04

who nominated me

40:05

well it’s a nice thing that whoever

40:08

nominated you was also

40:09

doing it out of an altruistic sense of

40:11

responsibility and doesn’t want to

40:13

get any credit for it which just goes to

40:14

show how great the community is once

40:16

again

40:17

yeah and you know jay michael and the

40:19

people on that committee all know who

40:21

nominated right but you know he didn’t

40:23

tell me and i wouldn’t exactly if

40:24

they’re listening they’ll contact you

40:26

oh no no yes i have a

40:29

i have a checkbook ready to send no

40:33

yeah maybe a couple crab legs you could

40:34

send their way yeah

40:36

yeah you see that it all comes back like

40:38

it’s like a stand-up routine

40:41

no when it comes back is when you help

40:42

somebody and i’ve had a few people that

40:44

i’ve helped

40:45

that um they love they love the ideas

40:49

and they’re already super

40:50

talented voice people and they try a few

40:53

things and

40:54

and then it’s like oh hey i booked a job

40:56

hey i booked another job it’s like

40:58

i get a little i get a big pump of

41:01

adrenaline when i hear somebody booking

41:02

stuff

41:03

that i’ve talked to in their when they

41:05

wanted help

41:06

yeah absolutely that’s kind of the whole

41:08

reason we started this podcast is just

41:09

to help out

41:10

people who and like you said pay it

41:12

forward because

41:13

just like you we’ve received so much

41:16

help from the community it’s just hard

41:17

to even

41:18

ever think about how you can repay it

41:19

yeah i feel like a lot of

41:21

people they just feel like like they

41:23

feel isolated for one and they don’t

41:25

know who to ask

41:26

and they feel like there’s kind of the

41:28

expectation that you have to do all this

41:30

stuff yourself

41:31

and that’s so not true i think it really

41:34

does take a village

41:35

and and it’s very important to either

41:38

actively or just be grateful for the

41:40

mentors that kind of come your way

41:42

and don’t you know there’s a lot there’s

41:43

a few people that want to browbeat

41:45

anyone who asks

41:46

what they think is you know that’s below

41:48

them to answer the question

41:50

and either just don’t answer it but

41:52

don’t come back and you know

41:53

beat someone up because they asked hey

41:55

what kind of microphone should i use for

41:57

voiceover there’s there’s so many people

42:00

that don’t have a clue and i

42:01

generally i won’t spend a lot of time

42:02

with those people on the phone but i’ll

42:04

tell them in a message

42:05

hey google this or go to youtube

42:09

put this in and you’ll be able to train

42:11

yourself for four weeks without paying a

42:13

dime

42:14

you know just get the basics and learn

42:16

some things and then

42:17

you know get a funnel out and find out

42:19

who will match your who

42:21

training needs that kind of thing i made

42:23

a whole resource document about that

42:24

because i was tired of answering oh

42:26

we’ve heard

42:26

i mean i never get tired of answering

42:29

the questions but i just didn’t want it

42:30

like i was getting carpal tunnel writing

42:32

out the same thing again and again

42:33

so it’s just copy paste or just like

42:35

send them a link and

42:37

like the same thing it’s just like the

42:38

information’s out there you just have to

42:40

know where to search for it

42:41

yeah and my favorite i i like to help

42:44

anyone

42:44

but helping someone who goes hey someone

42:47

said i have a good voice what should i

42:49

do

42:50

that’s not the person i like to help i

42:51

mean i i will if they ask me

42:54

um but i like to i like the people who

42:56

have already decided that they want to

42:57

try to be a voice actor and they have a

43:00

couple of the

43:01

pieces in place and maybe they’re not

43:03

getting any traction and they really

43:05

need just a couple of

43:06

nudges and i point them to the

43:09

professional coaches you know i point

43:10

people to

43:11

dave walsh and jay michael and marilyn

43:14

wisner and

43:15

whoever name i’m probably not saying

43:17

somebody that i should but you know mark

43:19

scott

43:20

and cliff zellman all those amazing

43:23

amazing um producers and coaches

43:26

who can really take somebody and if they

43:28

want to work their ass off and get said

43:30

get you know denied a thousand times

43:33

before they get a job

43:35

then and they have the work ethic they

43:37

can do it it’s just it takes a lot it

43:39

takes a

43:40

lot and sometimes it’s just a confidence

43:42

thing i had somebody

43:44

contact me last week or maybe it was two

43:46

weeks ago now who knows in combat time

43:47

and they said

43:48

they were worried about their studio

43:49

sound for a big

43:51

live session and they sent me a file

43:53

listened to it and i said

43:55

i it’s perfect i wouldn’t change a thing

43:57

it sounds great

43:58

and sometimes it just takes another ear

44:00

and that boost of confidence from a

44:01

colleague to say

44:02

yeah you’re doing things right yep

44:06

absolutely and and i also love to give

44:08

people advice when they’ve never done a

44:10

session

44:10

like oh my god i got a session what

44:12

should i do i love walking people

44:14

through some of the things that i do

44:15

to make the sessions fun because i i

44:17

make my sessions

44:19

really fun and you just have to

44:22

try to do it that way well brad it’s

44:24

been a pleasure having you on

44:25

we’ve we talked about it for a while and

44:27

frankly i was remiss

44:28

and sending out the invitation but i’m

44:31

glad we finally got to connect and hear

44:33

your story

44:34

um i’m really honored to be talking to

44:36

you guys i love what you got what you do

44:38

and um yeah it’s a super pleasure thanks

44:41

very much

44:42

pleasure’s all ours brad thanks so much

44:43

for being here before we go where can

44:45

people find you if they want to hire you

44:47

um they can just email me or they can go

44:49

to my website

44:51

americanvoicepower.com or email me brad

44:54

american voice power and i’m you know

44:57

for

44:58

instagram and linkedin it’s all the same

45:01

at here brad highland but go ahead and

45:03

message me if you have a question or you

45:04

want to talk or just

45:06

i’ll send you zoom link and we can get

45:07

to know each other

45:09

i’ll turn you on to some great real

45:11

coaching i’m not a coach i’m just a

45:13

friendly person that likes to help

45:14

people once in a while all right well

45:16

thanks again brad and hope to see you

45:18

again in person

45:19

as soon as possible come down for a pool

45:21

party walgreens

45:23

because it’s flu season you live in a

45:25

place with

45:26

doorknobs and handrails and you know

45:30

people we tried booking a vacation

45:32

rental on one of those

45:33

other websites they don’t always tell

45:35

you everything the stars take it to the

45:38

red carpet we are back live from the red

45:40

cross

45:40

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45:42

america and so does kamala harris

45:45

rated m for mature claire redfield

45:48

and who exactly are you so yeah what

45:52

hashtag should i use to describe a grown

45:54

man in a tuxedo

45:55

rustling a goat and prior to 1933

45:59

many of them belonged to a variety of

46:00

political parties that were now outlawed

46:02

in germany

46:03

this is the story of how q got curly

46:06

quinn was crazy about curls

46:07

curly fries curly straws curly haired

46:09

dogs hey

46:11

j michael here thanks for listening to

46:12

the vo meter podcast

46:14

it’s one of my favorites if you’re

46:15

looking for a great demo like the ones

46:17

you just heard check out jmcdemos.com

46:19

for more information

46:22

thanks again to brad for coming on the

46:23

show i think he actually asked me about

46:26

a year ago and i said sure we’ll get you

46:29

on and we’ve been so

46:30

so blessed with all the fabulous guests

46:32

we’ve had on that it’s hard to find time

46:34

sometimes to talk to people that

46:36

we are closest to so i’m really glad

46:38

brad was finally able to come on and

46:39

talk to us about his experience because

46:41

it is vast and

46:42

he has a good story yeah definitely i

46:44

think there’s a lot to learn and just

46:45

being

46:46

like i mean he’s such a likable guy it’s

46:48

like you just want to throw work at him

46:50

he’s like a big lovable teddy bear yeah

46:53

yeah he is a gentle giant if there ever

46:55

was that’s why

46:56

so that wraps up this episode of the vo

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47:00

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47:07

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47:11

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47:16

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47:17

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47:20

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47:24

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