Welcome back to Mavo 2018. We are now joined by John Florian from Voice Over Extra, who was our very first live guest on the show.
My gosh, was that in this century? When was it?
It was actually two years ago, right in this exact spot, actually where your table is now, across the hall at Mavo 2016.
You have come so fast, so far. It’s amazing. Congratulations.
I’ve got nothing to say, but we’re still fumbling like always. So this is four years for you, or five years at Mavo?
I’ve been to every one.
So tell us what you’re looking for when you come to a conference like this.
What I look for is newcomers, people who are looking for answers. And well, at all levels of their career, because Voice Over Extra, it’s the online news and training resource for the voice over industry. And I want to help people.
And we have something for everybody. So I want them to sign up for a free subscription mostly. And in that way, I keep in touch with them daily, with new products, announcements, and then people can also sign up for our news alerts for new articles.
And people have told me, they keep consistently telling me to shows like this, that I’ve helped their careers. And that just makes me feel good. So I want to meet more and more of these people.
Yeah, you’ve definitely helped our careers as well. You were kind enough to put our link to the podcast on your website. And we’ve definitely gotten a great response from that.
It’s still there. It’s still there, proudly there.
We haven’t done anything to make you drop it yet. Good.
What is your goal? Let me, let me reverse to what are you doing here?
My goal is to promote our podcast, to get more listeners and expose some of the people that haven’t had as much experience to some of the things we’ve learned. Basically the thrust of the whole podcast is to give back the knowledge we’ve learned from the kind folks like you at VoiceOver Extra, all the coaches and sponsors that are here and back in 2016 and give back to the community. So help people like we’ve been helped.
We have similar intent here. That’s good. That’s like minds.
That’s very nice.
Yeah, it’s a common theme I’ve heard. I’ve heard Tom Deere in his presentation yesterday say basically the exact same thing, that he teaches because he wants to give back because of all the kindness he’s been shown over the years.
It’s definitely a different industry than the competitive, the acting, and some other industries that I’ve been associated with. Yeah, very nice.
So have you had a chance to attend any sessions, and if so, what was your favorite so far?
I have attended a number of one, a number of them, and I’ve been kind of taken with the animation people. I’m not going to be doing character voices myself, but I just love the way they can just… Sunday Muse and Carrie Waldron can just kind of get into a character so quickly.
It is so fun to see the talent that they display. And of course, they’re here to share everything that they know, too. Yeah, it’s a nice aspect.
The way they started on is amazing.
Yeah.
We were just in that panel with Herb Moore, Kari, Sarah, Sherman, and Sunday.
Yep.
And my kids were there.
I sat behind them. They met the stars, their shows.
Yeah, and now they’re inside the session with Sarah, who casts Finneas and Ferb, and they’re both on Cloud 9, so it was a really great thing to see.
Oh, how wonderful, yeah.
So we’re almost done here, but is there anything you’re still looking forward to at the conference?
I’m looking forward to getting back home and putting all the names that I’ve gathered here and getting to working with people, getting to really helping them.
Well, that’s great. Thanks again for being on this morning and enjoy the rest of the conference.
Thank you. Now here’s a silent handshake. Thanks all.