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Conversational morsels for the mind. Commentary, interviews, reviews, pet peeves, comedy, and good-natured life lessons from the the creative mind of Scott Bertelsen based on four decades of classroom instruction, stage direction, and unmatched experiences. You're invited to Mr. B's Dinner Party every other Wednesday!
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We invite you to turn your laptop on, plug in your earphones, and spend a half hour in the company of books and the team at Mr B's Emporium of Reading Delights, an independent bookshop located in Bath.
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Paul and I B.S. all the time and its our pleasure to share our opinions with you. News, reviews, conspiracy theories with Our friends Truth Seeker and Mr. Nobody. Guest speakers share their stories and views. I ramble on like an idiot. What more could you want? If you like podcasts than follow us because there is a lot more to come ! Send us your thoughts at bstimepod@yahoo.com
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The Environmental Educator will bring you the truth to today's environmental news. This will be a lot of the real solutions that are needed that can be achieved today. Solutions that would have solved our environmental problems decades ago if any environmental voice, organization or government had allowed rather than prevented solutions. Environmental voices preventing solutions starts with Gore, Redford, Sundance, NRDC and Vail in Nov 93, and everyone else since then to today Patagonia, Mr ...
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This podcast is about everyday life and random BS sometimes I make jokes I rap or I tell small stories that is interesting so please like my stuff subscribe to my YouTube channel @ Marrkeeto And also follow me on Instagram @ marrkeeto
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POOLCAST is a value providing podcast dedicated to inspire and educate pool owners to love and enjoy their pool. The POOLCAST is hosted by Natalie and Tomas Hintze, co-directors and head technicians at Australia’s leading eCommerce pool shop, Mr Pool Man and features regular no-BS knowledge on how to look after your pool, as well as Nat and Tom’s journey on what got them to where they are today in the pool industry eComm world. Whether you’re into DIY pool care or motivational mindsets we we ...
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Let's talk innovation, entrepreneurship, patents and intellectual property! Come learn about patents, trademarks, copyrights, and trade secrets patent from conception and idea phase to market commercialization from Bold Patent's Founder, J.D. Houvener. There is a LOT of misinformation out there in this area of the law, and I've made it my mission to educate and inform inventors of all walks, especially those solo inventors out there making the world better through their ingenuity and innovat ...
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Meet the lovechild of Carrie Bradshaw and Crocodile Dundee. That’s me! Hi, I’m Elly Klein – your best friend for all things dating. As a professional dating mentor, I help women go from ‘dating sucks’ to dating success ASAP with my revolutionary approach. Ready for Mr Right? Welcome to the dating revolution! By listening to this podcast, you’ll get a sense of my no-BS, woo-free, results-driven vibe. If you like it, come and join us in the Your Dating Bestie community where you’ll fast-track ...
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Join me as we discuss the hot topics in the voice over industry with voiceover insiders, voice actors, casting directors, agents, movers, shakers. and news makers. I get to the heart of the issues with my own no-BS takes and talk to the people who are shaping and shifting our industry. Plus, the VO strategies, tips, and best practices for growing your voiceover career you’ve come to expect. Available on Spotify, Apple Podcasts, Google Podcasts, Pandora, Audible, Amazon Music, iHeart Radio, S ...
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Richard’s journey in the call center space is filled with twists and turns. When he was 27 years old, he relocated to Costa Rica to train employees for one of the larger call centers in San Jose. With a mix of motivational public speaking style backed by tactful and appropriate rhetoric, Richard shared his knowledge and trained over 10 000 bilingual telemarketers. Richard Blank has the largest collection of restored American Pinball machines and antique Rockola Jukeboxes in Central America m ...
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Welcome to The Better Man Podcast, a podcast with one goal: to help men improve their lives, improve their mental health and help them achieve more, be happier and find the right balance. My name is Gabriel Machuret and every week you can find 2 shows of the Better Man podcast where in 20 minutes or less, I try to help you navigate some of the most difficult challenges and questions us men face. (No pressure right?) Before we start, a quick friendly disclaimer: This is just a conversational, ...
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Welcome to RARING, the voice of the rare disease community and a no-BS forum for patients and their families, rare disease patient organizations, and medical professionals. If you live with a rare disease or love someone who does, RARING is the podcast for you, by you, and with you every day. Tune in to hear leading experts discussing next-generation diagnostics and treatments. Learn from passionate nonprofit leaders talking about their highs and lows fighting for their communities. And laug ...
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Send us a Text Message. Join Mr. B as he dines with three local high school educators: Josh Sparrgrove, Janelle Koch, and Tara Millard and chews over many delectable morsels for the mind. Listen in as they discuss their careers, the use of sarcasm in the classroom, trimesters versus semesters, formative and summative testing, college courses for se…
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Just about everything in the voice over business slows down in June, July, and August. But I also hear a lot of talk about a more macro slowdown in the voice over industry overall. Is that real? Is that just a chicken little reaction to AI? Are there other forces at play? Is this a perfect storm that means existential crisis for our business? Do yo…
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One of the problems with voice over advice on YouTube and in general is that it often comes from successful people. Stay with me. Among the things it takes to be successful is time. So, the people that are successful today started years and often decades ago. And the problem with that is voice over is a very different business than it was 30, 20, 1…
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Our show will feature a Bold Patent's client, Alizah Josette and she will talk about her pillow invention journey and dig into tell her story of perseverance as an inventor and entrepreneur. This is our first 1-hour format, so we'll have longer to answer questions, and talk with our guest a bit more. As always, we will be doing a Shark Tank review …
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We need to talk. Whenever a conversation starts with that sentence, you know it’s going to be uncomfortable. But you need to hear this and I need to say it. I say it with love and kindness, but it’s going to be real, honest, and direct. Blunt, even. Voice actors, I talk to dozens of you every week. I ask you straight up what’s holding you back in y…
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We've got a great show this week, interviewing Nami Khadem, inventor and owner of ND Products, featuring the Smart Swab and the Ear-O-Care products. We will field a few questions that came in over the week from our network as well as any live questions from our broadcast audience. We'll wrap up our show with a live critique/reaction video regarding…
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There are Seven Deadly Sins in voice over. Things you should never do under any circumstances, and things that, if you do try to get away with them, I guarantee you it will bite you in the ass, either in the near or long term. Some of these will seem obvious, some not as obvious, but I can tell you I’ve personally seen multiple examples of ALL of t…
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Send us a Text Message. This week, for our Dinner Party guest, we invite Dan May of Waldorf University and the Boman Fine Arts Center to the table. Check in with Mr. B and Dan as they discuss the life and times of a Fine Arts venue director - belly up! It's time for dinner with delectable morsels for the mind, this week on Mr. B's Dinner Party!…
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We've got a great show this week, with Inventor interview of Michael Molinski, who will explain the Tadpole Swimsuit, and share his inventor story and lessons learned from bringing his product to the marketplace. We also have a bonus guest, Dr. Rolf Biernath, a product developer who helps entrepreneurs like you. Support the Show. Video playlist wit…
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Voice actors are petrified of marketing their services. Today, we’re going to get into what those fears are, why they exist, and why they’re complete and utter B.S. We’ll talk about some of the misconceptions around sales and marketing your voice over business, and what sales and marketing really are at their core. And we'll kick it all off with a …
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The voiceover industry is experiencing significant changes due to the rise of AI and ongoing strikes. However, there are still opportunities for human voice actors in certain genres. Audiobooks, e-learning, animation/video games, and commercials are hot genres that continue to rely on human narrators. On the other hand, telephony/IVR, simple narrat…
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Carin Gilfry, founder of Voice Actors of New York City and co-founder of the National Association of Voice Actors, discusses the Vocation and eVocation conferences, whether Voices is listening to voice actors, the impact of AI on the voiceover industry, and the work of NAVA in advocating for voice actors. She points out the need for legislation to …
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To be a successful business, you have to have great clients. What are great clients? They are ones that understand the value you provide, pay you well, and send you a lot of recurring work. We’re not talking about getting one-off jobs here. Any trained monkey can do that. That means strong relationships with great partners. Obvious, right? But not …
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We had a blast speaking with inventors Donna Lee and Jim Gurule. Donna has invented a novel and sustainable yoga mat made with machine washable materials, and is softer and more durable. Jim has invented many types of cabinetry tools, including a clamp he invented in late 1990s that still sells 5000 units per month. He discussed some of his lessons…
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Thom Pinto is one of the most accomplished voice actors of the last 30 years. In a rare interview, Thom sits down with me and discusses his experience and success in various genres, including commercials, promos, in-show narration, and movie trailers. He talks about the importance of versatility and the ability to adapt to different genres and shar…
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We had a few questions that came in over the week, one patent and one trademark were answered on air. We did have another attorney on the live chat as well - who helped us out too. We then spent a bit over 10 mins with Dr. Aaron Dossey of All Things Bugs! He helped us appreciate (if you're not grossed out) the potential of using bug protein as a he…
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Today’s episode is brought to you by the letter N - 9 Networking No-Fail Nuggets for Non-Assertive Narrators and Voice Actors Let’s face it, the vast majority of the marketing you do to grow your business is online. We live in an age where it’s completely normal, NAY natural, to start and frow relationships digitally through social media, LinkedIn,…
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I'm so happy today to chat with my friend, Mark RIder, as he shares his journey from radio to voiceover and his experiences in the industry. Rider stresses the importance of having a diverse skill set and not limiting oneself to one genre and discusses the need for passion, talent, action, associations, and faith in order to achieve success. He als…
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We will be kicking off our show with a fun interview of Chris Caouette, co-founder and inventor of The Gorilla Bow workout device (found at https://www.gorillabow.com/). He will share his founder's story as well as tell us how he came up with it, protected with IP, and then went to market with his innovative product. We will then jump to Q&A and as…
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We've got an inventor coming on, Joe Santos of Hydrochute to talk with us about his now patented exciting water-based energy solution. We'll take live Q&A throughout the broadcast, answer a few questions that came in over the week, and as always, do a fun critique of a recent Shark Tank episode. Support the Show. Video playlist with recordings of o…
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We will be doing 15 minutes of interviewing two different inventors/entrepreneurs and hearing about what they have brought to market, have them share some stories and field live questions from our audience. We will then move to general Q&A and then our Bold Bite segment where we will review a pitch to the Sharks from an IP Perspective. Support the …
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Today we welcome voice actor, head of UVT Coaching, and my one-time coach, Terry Daniel. Terry discusses his journey in the voiceover industry and his experience as a coach. He shares how he got into coaching and the importance of training with coaches who are still booking voiceover work. Terry also talks about the obstacles people face when start…
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A rebellious approach to online dating has caught fire with women who are sick of most men on dating apps. It’s called the Burned Haystack Dating Method. But will it really help you find your Mr Right? As a dating expert, I'm not so sure. Here are the top 5 points I cover in this episode: ❤ How the Burned Haystack Dating Method has become a movemen…
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There are metric tons of bad mistakes you can make in voice over. You can have no training or be undertrained. You can have a bad recording space or bad equipment. You can do your own demos. You can have a bad website. All of those are fixable. No training? Start training. Bad recording space, bad equipment, bad audio? Totally fixable. Call Uncle R…
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Send us a Text Message. Join Mr. B as he sits down at the table with three elementary school teachers for stories and insights into the world of smaller desks, shorter students, and big personalities at Forest City Elementary School. On this episode, another in the education forum series by Mr. B, we meet Katie Schmidt, Cari Lillquist, and Samantha…
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Stop doing this dumb shit on your voice actor websites! Today we’re going to talk about the nine engagement killers that after you watch this video you should be tripping over yourself to get the hell off your website. They’re like people repellent and you either need to remove them or I will hunt you down with a giant butterfly net and send you of…
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Today we chat with Amazon Best Selling Author and Accountability Coach, Amanda McKinney about the importance of accountability and goal-setting for entrepreneurs. She defines accountability as taking ownership of one's actions, regardless of the outcome, and emphasizes the need to let go of what cannot be controlled. She also addresses the issue of…
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The decision to go full time in voice over or not may be the biggest decision you make in your career, and often one not easily made. There are so many things to think about and consider. It can be super confusing, overwhelming, and deflating – if you let it. When I had this decision to make, I didn’t ask myself all these questions and it almost pu…
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Send us a Text Message. Join Mr. B's Dinner Party on this episode where he reviews Mel Brooks' classic comedy: Blazing Saddles, illuminates the pet peeves of flying commercial (the only way he flies...), discusses ways to potentially make public education even better, and takes us along step 7 of his spiritual journey. For more information on how y…
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In our chat today, Emma and I talk about her journey into voiceover, from discovering the industry to joining an agency and building her business. She also discusses her experience of being homeless and living in different countries, which has influenced her acting. Emma emphasizes the importance of marketing services directly to clients and the li…
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J.D. and Matt tackle some tough questions from the Reddit community channel we're a part of. We discuss slogans, patent eligibility, filing fees/costs for trademarks, what to do post-grant and you see an infringer pop up for patents. J.D. and Matt then review a fun business called "Storage Scholar" and discuss the pitch they gave to the sharks, the…
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You’re brand new to voice over and you think you want to become a voice actor. So how do you get started? Your first real step will be to start training, but in order to do that, you need to understand the various types of voice over training available and that’s what I’m going to guide you through today, so that you can choose the kind of training…
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J.D. and Matt interview the founder of Safeseal systems and their COO who are live from the pizza industry tradeshow in Las Vegas. Their hallmark product is a sealed pizza box container that has as simple no-tamper strip to help give peace of mind to buyers of delivery orders. We also did a Shark Tank pitch critique of a toymaker, Zipstring, and di…
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In the world of voice over, if you want to stand out like a sore thumb and look like a beginner there are a multitude of ways to do that. In today’s video, I’m going to give you 4 ways to look like a voice over newbie so that you can understand how to avoid them. And hang with me until the end, because I’m going to answer the most common question I…
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Send us a Text Message. Belly up this week to the dinner table for delectable morsels for the mind with Mr. B as he revisits his 2024 Academy Award predictions and how they ended up as well as a review of The Daily Show, some pet peeves that include smackers, slurpers, honkers and more and another update on Mr. B's Spiritual Journey. Don't miss a m…
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In this conversation, we chat with voice actor, Troy Holden. We talk about Troy's background, growing up in Nashville, and the influence of transplants on the Southern accent. Troy shares how he got into voiceover and his journey to becoming a full-time voice actor. He talks about the wrong path he initially took and how he course-corrected with th…
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There was a surprise, stealthy, mystery guest this year at VO Atlanta, and fireworks ensued! There I was, on stage in the main ballroom at VO Atlanta, getting ready to take my seat on The Famous Online Casting Panel. J. Michael Collins, the moderator, walks by and announces to the panel, “65 seconds!” I turn and a man in a blue plaid sportcoat hold…
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J.D. and Matt interview special guest, founder/CEO of Octa and hear all about his journey he's had over 15 years designing and running the operations of his wildly successful venture of holding tablets! We also do a fun critique of a Shark Tank episode for a product that probably should have secured some IP along the way. Support the Show. Video pl…
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Business Talks With The Rebel Entrepreneur. Guest B2B telesales trainer Richard Blank.Business Talks with the Rebel Entrepreneur is our bi-weekly live show that is streamed on social media. From the live stream, we cue up the audio and turn it into the Podcast. Diana Noble - Business CoachPura Vida CEO: Dialing Success in Costa Rica. Every once in …
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I go over 5 questions that came in during the week, and critique a fun shark tank pitch from FunkkOff! which is a patented teeth-freshening kit, where you can make sure nothing is stuck in your teeth on the go. Support the Show. Video playlist with recordings of our Bold Inventor Show! https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PL71qnRQ3CykDvpOTLjPwsxhM…
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Not all voice actors know how to set proper rates. Fewer still know what proper rates are. Even fewer quote them consistently. Very few voice actors not only know and quote proper rates consistently, but they also know their worth. Today, we’re going to delve into knowing your voice over rates, knowing and getting grounded in your worth, and the re…
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Send us a Text Message. It's an Academy Award extravaganza! Do you love the Oscars? Well, Mr. B does - and this week - sit down to dinner with Mr. B with your scorecard. Get all the dish on which films, actors, actresses and technicians will take home that little golden statue. And...a special review of several of Ms. Bette Davis - this week - at M…
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Voice actors and photographers have more in common as freelancers than you think, especially regarding marketing. Jeanine McLeod, a successful children's photographer and host of the Fully Booked Photographer podcast, shares insights on marketing strategies and the mindset shift needed to succeed. She emphasizes the importance of focusing on the bu…
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The following post appeared December 21st, 2023 on the VOcation Facebook Group: “Hey everyone. I didn’t want to have to make this post, but I’m trying to look out for others. There is a demo producer and coach who specializes in Children’s Media who has taken money from actors promising to make demos, and then just never made the demos. Some of the…
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