Always appreciate the no BS approach from you. You won my respect when you said to skip audiobooks. ✌🏻 Literally, you were the first VO person I found who was up front about audiobooks not being worth your time, financially speaking.

Well, shoot! Didn't know you were Canadian! Good job on that GenAm accent, brother. 🫡 You got me 😆

I feel like I can knock VO out the fuckin park anywhere except in my booth at the mic lmfao. I swear any talent I have with it just drops at the door of the booth and it's so frustrating I almost have considered tearing the booth down and just treating the whole room so I can record at my desk in comfort or something but i worked so hard building the booth hahaha send help!

I'd describe my accent as "Frightened Northeast Ohio Manchild". It serves me well.

So when you’re doing them diy, are people adding music and production to them or are you referring to just reads?

Great video here! Keep it up:)

This was a great video for dispelling the myth or misconception that you need an agent to be successful.

That last five minutes with all the different voices 😆 Amazing

Your voice sounds like you're about to say you have 5 million power in royal kingdom

The depth of experience shared in this conversation between you two is nothing short of inspiring and humbling. It is fascinating to look at a distinguished career, and it is a privilege to hear such a journey. Thank you for doing this interview and sharing it.

Great advice Jesse, so true if you don’t like your voice forget about it 💯🔥💪🏾🎙️you are not hiring yourself, the client is

This reminds me how some people think that just because they are good looking, that they should be a movie star! Lol

👍🏾✌🏾🎤🤜🏾

Is it free?

💯💯

Voice over is like the 2nd coolest job.... after rockstar.

I forgot how amazing he really is!

This makes me interested in giving bodalgo a shot!

Hey Jesse, just starting out here, Where would one find these auditions? Pay to play sites? Thx for the info

Quick question: when it comes to adding style tags on your demos, do you think it's best to use all ten slots? Or only the ones that MOST fit the style of your demo? Just wondering how that affects the voice match system. Like, if a client is looking for "charismatic + funny" and you have those two plus eight others labeled on some demos.... is that going to negatively affect your voice match scoring? Hopefully I'm making sense here! Thanks for all you do 🫡

Love you, Jessie! You’re a great coach!

Thanks Jesse your channel is awesome, tons of practical info 🙏🏻

Maybe you're going to talk about this in a different video, but did he happen to say where the best places were to audition for jobs like this? In the animation/VG sphere. ✌🏻

Oh, this is wicked cool. Great insider tips. I love the permission to be weird in your audition. 😆 Also the insight that video games/animation will be one of the last things AI can sink its greedy claws into. Fascinating. Definitely looking forward to that animation demo, Jesse! Thanks for this video ✌🏻

Which interface do you use with your mic? Earphones? Thanks.

Unparalleled honesty from you, always. Respect. ✌🏻

So cool

How do you set up source connect right?

Where would you recommend reading from? Cold reading random things that you haven’t read before?

Its standard for your camera to be off? I've found every client expecting video/camera-on during a live session. ....or maybe I just assume they do...? lol

I love that mindset from successful voice artists, I can do this, thanks for sharing! 😀

It is exciting!

I've done that! No guts no glory 💪🏽!!!

Is slating easy?? 🤞😳😅

So helpful 🙌🏼 holy cannoli. Thank you so much Jesse 👏🏼 And the asynchronous banter between you and Paurush is GOLD. Paurush, you rock mate 😂 your fun editing makes me want to start a channel. 🥳

Regret 😂

How do I apply room tone to the entire file??? 😮 what!

Great job adding the “jazzy” garnish to this 😂

Source connect…I heard it’s so convoluted

Loved how off the cuff this was and how funny it was. Some great info too! Keep up the awesome videos

not boring the Focusrite info was very good to hear... cheers mate 🙂

This has been a video 🤣… nooo this was actually helpful anddd funnny!

Dummy question... Is that mic you're using one you use only for videos? Not for voicework?

Callie is so adorable 🤩 I do audio books I would like to mix it up. What in voice over would you suggest that's better than audiobooks that pays better?

I just don't have the attention span for Audio Books and I like money lol.

Your aura is so damn bright!! Super awesome tips! Thanks Jesse for always sharing your positivity… it is infectious!!

Sooo cute! Love the Callie cameo! Will there be more Callie in the future?? Hehe

Needed to hear this. You’re the best!

While I largely agree, a couple details you shared in this video are a touch off to me. I know you mentioned later on that you don't do this genre, but I wish that was stated earlier on because my dude you have such effortless charismatic authority and community that takes what you say very seriously, even when your numbers are a bit off. Anyway, here's my notes from a handful of audiobook-specializing peers: you don't run into significant revision issues, BECAUSE you typically submit a 5-20m sample of the way you intend to read that covers as many major characters as possible, so that eliminates a lot of potential issues/pickiness down the road. Once you're locked into that agreement, they can't just ask you to reread the entire book lol, or if they do, it's on their dime. Also, most decently experienced narrators take 3-6 hours PFH (and when you're starting, 8-12 PFH isn't uncommon). 2 hours is a VERY expert/mastered level of time (unless you're not doing the editing yourself, ofc, which most times you are), and even those with a ton of experience don't hit that because a lot of experienced narrators read the entire book if not a significant swaths of it before even starting to record. So yeah, I'm with you lol. I don't do longform audio jobs for this very reason (I find them to be a huge PITA, AND you have to submit 3-10m long auditions? noooo thank you), though something not mentioned is that there IS something to say about having HOURS of decently pay rate (once you've mastered your process) work lined up, and rarely having to spend time auditioning, so it can be a great fit for those people, or anyone who just enjoys reading haha. Plus, the reality is that audiobooks are a lower competition level because of the lesser rates, so people who aren't booking *regular* gigs (especially if they're not P2Ps), this works really well for. My P2P work, a lot of times I refer to as my "bread and butter" work, the stuff that makes me a base/comfortable/consistent level of income (based on the what is largely the same mathematical strategy you use in previous videos) while I dig deeper into other more interesting or moonshot realms (video games, animation, class A union SAG commercials etc), whether that's training or just spending more time on those usually agented-level auditions. For some people, audiobooks is a great way to have a similar level of 'bread and butter work,' without needing to compete on P2Ps (though I always recommend P2Ps, because if you can't crush P2Ps it's even less likely you can crush agented stuff; that's just the reality of it). Cheers!

Great tips!