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“The VO Meter, Measuring Your Voice Over Progress.

Hi, everybody, and welcome to Episode 20 of The VO Meter.

Measuring Your Voice Over Progress.

We’ve got a great episode for you today. We’ve got an audiobook narrator and casting director from Blackstone Audio, Mr. Grover Gardner. He’s a great guest.

He’s got over 30 years of audiobook experience today. But before we get to him, we’ve got current events. So what have you been up to, Paul?

So much! Unbelievable things happening!

All right, Jerry.

All right. Well, does that… why I went with that?

Okay. Now, a couple of exciting things, actually. I booked my first job on Podalgo this week.

So for all your… It was for an e-learning piece for a company in Holland, Netherlands. And for those of you who have been asking or worrying about your results on pay to play, sometimes it takes a long time.

I was discussing with somebody on Facebook about how I’ve been with Podalgo for two years now, and this is my first job booked. So not the greatest shooting percentage. But I stay with them because I love the founder and owner, Armin Hirschheder, so much.

And[…]”

From The VO Meter…Measuring Your Voice Over Progress: Episode 20, Grover Gardner, Feb 7, 2018
https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/episode-20-grover-gardner/id1167313797?i=1000401735294
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“The VO Meter… Measuring Your Voice Over Progress.

Hi, everybody, and welcome to episode 19 of The VO Meter…

Measuring Your Voice Over Progress.

So we’ve got a very exciting episode for you guys today. It’s a new year, a time of new beginnings and fresh starts. We’ve got a great guest today.

We’ve got voiceover actor and coach, Marc Cashman.

And we’ve got our first fan taking advantage of questionable gear purchases, so you and I don’t have to.

I know. It’s something we don’t have to write off anymore.

Can’t wait for that.

But first, current events. What have you been up to, Paul? It’s been a couple of weeks.

Well, we had the holidays here on the East Coast and lots of snow and ice. We’re right in the middle of the bomb cyclone. I’m not sure if you West coasters have heard of this, but it’s pretty much like snowmageddon all over the East Coast, from Tallahassee to Portland, Maine.

Right now, in my neck of the woods, it’s 9 degrees above zero Fahrenheit. And the high… sorry, the low this morning was 4 degrees.

And it’s supposed to get even colder over the weekend, so[…]”

From The VO Meter…Measuring Your Voice Over Progress: Episode 19, Marc Cashman, Jan 10, 2018
https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/episode-19-marc-cashman/id1167313797?i=1000399531135
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“he VO Meter… Measuring Your Voice Over Progress.

Hi everybody, and welcome to episode 18 of The VO Meter.

Measuring Your Voice Over Progress.

We’ve got a great episode today. We have the coordinator and executive producer of the VO Atlanta Conference. That’s Gerald Griffith coming on in a few minutes.

But first, we have current events. So what have you been up to recently, Paul?

Well, I had my first audition for my new agent, and that was actually the first of three from last week. So that was pretty cool. All signs point to that being positive.

We’ll see if I actually book it. But sent that off and was pretty excited with the results. And so, you know how it goes.

You don’t hear right away. They collect them. I think the actual due date for the first one was today.

So who knows if it’s even been submitted. But then the agent will submit it to the client, hopefully, and along with other agencies that the client has reached out to, and then they’ll come back with an answer. So hopefully that’s me.

Hopefully I’ll have an answer by next episode.

Well, best of luck, man[…]”

From The VO Meter…Measuring Your Voice Over Progress: Episode 18, Coordinator and Executive Producer of VO Atlanta, Gerald Griffith, Dec 15, 2017
https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/episode-18-coordinator-and-executive-producer-of/id1167313797?i=1000397409447
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“The VO Meter, Measuring Your Voice Over Progress.

Hi, everybody, and welcome to Episode 17 of The VO Meter.

Measuring Your Voice Over Progress.

Well, we are gonna get right into the nitty gritty of today, which is our VO Meetup Roundtable, where us and some other In The Trenches voice actors kind of share our stories, get to know a little bit more about us and the people we work with, and talk about how this Meetup Group has benefited the progress of our careers. So without further ado, Paul, why don’t you tell us about how we started our own VO Meetup Group?

Fantastic. So yeah, we’re talking about VO Meetup Groups or affinity groups, another word that I like to use is accountability group. And this is a concept that’s been around for hundreds of years as far as business to business marketing, but we decided to try and make it work back around two years ago now, where a lot of us were interfacing on the venerable Bolton Board, the Voice Over Bolton Board or VO-BB.

Some of you are familiar with that. We’ve talked about it kind of ad nauseam on previous episodes, but[…]”

From The VO Meter…Measuring Your Voice Over Progress: Episode 17, Voice Over Meetup Groups, Dec 1, 2017
https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/episode-17-voice-over-meetup-groups/id1167313797?i=1000395505106
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“The VO Meter, Measuring Your Voice Over Progress.

Hi, everybody, and welcome to Episode 16 of The VO Meter.

Measuring Your Voice Over Progress.

All right, today we have an exciting episode. We have booth junkie Mike DelGaudio coming up in a few minutes. But first off, we have current events.

So what have you been up to lately, Paul?

Let’s say a couple of things. I’m finishing up the second book in a series for my Gnome Divox. I don’t really know that word, but Sean Pratt uses it all the time.

I prefer the word pseudonym. But yeah, the second book in a series for him coming out. And three more were released since our last episode.

So that’s really rolling along nicely. And it’s pretty exciting the way that’s taking it off as far as the audiobook work. And also related to the audiobook work, I was recently audible approved or listed as an audible approved producer with ACX.

So that’s pretty cool as well.

Very cool. And what are the requirements for that? Isn’t it something like 15 or 25 titles?

It’s kind of a nebulous target. Nobody really knows for sure. It’s sort of like[…]”

From The VO Meter…Measuring Your Voice Over Progress: Episode 16, Booth Junkie Mike DelGaudio, Nov 19, 2017
https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/episode-16-booth-junkie-mike-delgaudio/id1167313797?i=1000395021881
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“The VO Meter… Measuring Your Voice Over Progress.

Hello, everyone, and welcome to episode 15 of the VO Meter…

Measuring Your Voice Over Progress.

So we are very excited because we have our Audiobook Roundtable coming up in a few minutes, but we have an interesting episode for you today because several of our little mini-shows, I guess, our questionable gear purchase, our current events, and our VO Meter stick are all related. So why don’t you start this off, Paul?

Questionable gear purchase.

Okay, well, we always like to start with current events, and current events for me was attempting and poorly to improve my recording space again. So I found this ridiculous price on a double walled enhanced whisper room that happened to be located in Beaverton, Oregon. So obviously that’s a little bit further, a little bit of a distance from Baltimore, Maryland, let’s say.

And I had to have it shipped out here. It was a sale on eBay that I found. And because I’m me, I just went ahead and bought it and paid the money and said, I’ll figure out how to get it here.

It’s a great price. Who cares? I’ll figure[…]”

From The VO Meter…Measuring Your Voice Over Progress: Episode 15, The Audiobook Roundtable, Oct 13, 2017
https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/episode-15-the-audiobook-roundtable/id1167313797?i=1000393466703
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