Podcast Voice Over

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This week on the VO School Podcast we are discussing how, when and why you should leave your day job to pursue voiceover full time.

After the hustle, the grind, the constant rejection, the training, and eventually the work comes to the point when you must decide if voiceover is your primary source of income. This is a treacherous time if not done strategically and can result in financial hardship that impacts your bank account and your physical and mental health.

Joining us this week to discuss this is Maria Pendolino, break-out star of the VOcation voiceover conference in NYC she is an experienced voice talent, business Ninja, and mentor. She has navigated these waters herself and helped many others to do so.

What are the signs pointing you toward a full-time career in voiceover? What are the dangers? And what strategies can you employ to mitigate them?

Your voice is one of your greatest assets and instrumental to your success. And, in case you haven’t noticed, “we are living in a voice-first world,” per my guest for this episode of Camera, Ready & Abel, award-winning voice actor and voiceover artist, Maria Pendolino, (who is also the voice of my audio book, How to Get Your Foot in the Door: Television Hosting & Presenting.)

Whether you are a media professional who records audio or video content or have been thrust on-camera via the zoom room, Maria shares tips and insights on how to use your voice most effectively, from warming up and warming-down your voice, to sounding conversational to using your voice to negotiate a contract that values your time and worth.

Maria has been acting since she was 11 years old and has been a professional working actor for more than 15 years. Trained in musical theatre, Maria now lends her voice to commercials, animation, video games, corporate & explainer videos, e-learning courses, audiobooks, telephone systems, and more.

Part I

I’m super pumped for today’s podcast voice over guest – Maria Pendolino! She’s kind of a girl crush of mine, so it’s great that she’s here for not just one but TWO episodes!

This week, listen in as I chat with this gracious woman about how she found her way to voiceovers, why she feels we need to negotiate with our clients, and so much more! This one is chock-full of information, so you don’t want to miss it!

Part II

Welcome to part two of my interview with Maria Pendolino! She needs no introduction, of course, but in case you forgot, Maria is the QUEEN of negotiating. Today, she’ll dive even deeper into questions we should ask potential clients, what kinds of internet voiceover opportunities are out there, and more!

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Everyone’s voiceover journey is different and this episode features the talented Maria Pendolino and her VO journey.

Maria is an award winning professional voice talent with a background in musical theatre and film. In 2019, she launched MillennialVoiceover.com, aiming to help companies “speak millennial.” And she came in second in the “Fastest Talking New Yorker” contest at Madison Square Garden.

Hear how Maria got where she is and the lessons she learned along the way.

Maria Pendolino is an award-winning professional female voiceover actor. Maria has been a professional working actor for more than fifteen years; Maria’s vocal style is honest, conversational, authentic, natural, friendly, relatable, and sassy. Trained in musical theatre, film, television, and voice, Maria’s delivery is youthful, and on-trend – perfect to represent and speak to Millennials and Generation X. Accolades include winning the 2017 and 2018 Voice Arts Award for Best Voiceover Performance in the e-learning and consumer sales video categories. She was also nominated in the radio imaging category. Maria was also awarded the 40 Under 40 Award in 2020 by Business First Biz Journals. In 2020, she was nominated for a German Computer Game Award as part of the Prim Adventure Game team.

Maria Pendolino is an award-winning voiceover artist. A professional working actor for more than fifteen years, Maria’s style is natural, friendly, relatable and sassy. Trained in musical theatre, film, television and voice, Maria’s conversational delivery is youthful and on-trend – perfect to represent and speak to Millennials and Generation X.

Maria specializes in commercials for TV, radio and the web, e-Learning and corporate narration, explainer videos, promos, in-show narration, character voices for animation, telephone systems, radio imaging and more.

A two-time award winner, Maria received the 2017 Voice Arts Award for Best Voiceover in the e-Learning category and the 2018 Voice Arts Award for Best Voiceover in the Consumer Sales Video (Explainer) category.

Maria’s professional home studio, based in Buffalo, New York, is equipped with state of the art audio equipment and offers remote connectivity options including Phone Patch, Source Connect, ipDTL and ISDN. She is a proud member of the Buffalo-Niagara Chapter of the National Association of Women Business Owners (NAWBO), the Buffalo chapter of the American Advertising Federation (AAF) and World-Voices (WoVO).

This week’s episode of the VO School Podcast is all about data. More specifically, a survey conducted by and for voice actors – where they live and work, how much money they make, where they find work etc… Check out the survey at http://www.VoiceoverSurvey.com

Joining me this week on the podcast are voice actors Carin Gilfry, Joey Schaljo, Maria Pendolino and Eric Yang.

Carin Gilfry explains more about the survey and the team members who collected and analyzed the data:

“Have you ever wondered about the real data of the voiceover industry? How much money are people earning? Where are most people finding work? Does someone have to live in New York or LA to be successful? Does a voice actor need to join the union? Many of us have wondered the same thing. So, a group of independent voice actors got together and decided to put together a survey to find these answers and more. The State of Voiceover in 2021 Survey provides a deep dive into the data of the VO industry. 1244 responses were collected from voice actors all over the world, and the results are pretty astonishing.

Carin Gilfry is a well-known voice actor and community leader who spearheaded the survey project. She is also the founder of Voice Actors of NYC and co-chair of the VOcation Conference.
Karin Barth is an amazing web designer who is the Director of Operations/Project Manager at Voiceactorwebsites.com. She designed the State of Voiceover in 2021 website.
Eric Yang is a voice actor and data analyst. He is the brains behind the data portion of the survey!

Maria Pendolino is a voice actor and writer from New York. She is known in the VO community as a master negotiator and has taught classes and conference sessions about knowing your worth and quoting with confidence.

Joey Schaljo is a wonderful voice actor and lover of numbers and data! She helped shape the questions on the survey, and was an instrumental part of the team.”