MOVE TOUCH INSPIRE: The Newsletter for Voice Actors & Creative Pros Who Want to Grow Their Business
Every Thursday, the latest issue is sent to voice actors and other creative pros like you. Each message includes an idea to move you, a thought to touch you, and a quote to inspire you, as well as what I’m writing about that week on YouTube, on The VO Pro Podcast, and in The Pro Blog.
MTI: Being ourselves, leaving our stamp, and Martha Graham on our uniqueness
Move Touch Inspire The Newsletter for Voice Actors and Creative ProsOctober 1, 2026 An Idea To Move You When I was a 22 year old kid, a radio program director/boss told me, "We spend our entire lives in this business learning to be ourselves behind the mic."The same is true for acting. Our job is connection, and we can only do that when we're vulnerable enough to lay ourselves bare, warts and all. To be purely human. A Thought to Touch You* "I am worth putting my stamp on it to be...
MTI: Service, understanding the prospect, and Einstein on value
Move Touch Inspire The Newsletter for Voice Actors and Creative ProsSeptember 25, 2026 An Idea To Move You So many voice actors I talk to have a negative view of sales and marketing. Of course! No one wants to be sold, manipulated, badgered, or lied to. But that's not sales. That's a lack of integrity. Sales and marketing, when done right, is an act of service to others. It is starting a conversation around identifying a problem and how you and the prospect can collaborate to solve it. When...
MTI: Fear, ego, and more on fear...
Move Touch Inspire The Newsletter for Voice Actors and Creative ProsSeptember 17, 2026 An Idea To Move You One of the most pervasive wasters of time is fear. You feel the fear. You hem. You haw. You avoid. You procrastinate. You dawdle. You psyche yourself up. You chicken out. You negotiate. You renegotiate. You take a deep breath. Then, eventually, you do the thing anyway. What if you just did the thing first, with the fear, anyway? Stop waiting for fear to go away. A Thought to Touch You*...
MTI: detachment, identity, Terry Briscoe on freedom, and Simon Mainwaring on brand success
Move Touch Inspire The Newsletter for Voice Actors and Creative ProsSeptember 10, 2026 An Idea To Move You Gus (my 🐾 Husky) and I walk a 5k every morning, which gives me an hour uninterrupted by tech, agents, clients, colleagues, and ads that want to sell me something blue to chew, to just walk and think. I highly recommend it. Lately I've been thinking a lot about detachment. We're all human. We ALL screw the pooch every now and again. We screw up, mess up, foul up, and fuck up. But that's...
MTI: Blame, being right, and Marcus Smart on accountability
Move Touch Inspire The Newsletter for Voice Actors and Creative ProsSeptember 4, 2026 An Idea To Move You The opposite of accountability is blame. If you're blaming the pandemic, your ex, your day job, your parents, AI, the vast (left or right) wing conspiracy, sun spots, unnaturally high gravity, or El Niño for your problems, it's time you parked those grievances and looked in the mirror. The problem not have been your fault, but it's your responsibility to solve. A Thought to Touch You* To...
MTI: Time wasted, work vs. results, and Elbert Hubbard on patience
Move Touch Inspire The Newsletter for Voice Actors and Creative ProsAugust 27, 2026 An Idea To Move You How much energy are you wasting on things outside of your control. (Clients. Casting Directors. Agents.) How much time are you wasting not doing thing under your control? (Marketing. Practicing. Building relationships.) A Thought to Touch You* Creative careers and small businesses don’t grow in a straight line. You can work for months without seeing an obvious payoff, then suddenly book two...
MTI: Just for now, specificity in VO, and Einstein on the importance of clarity
Move Touch Inspire The Newsletter for Voice Actors and Creative ProsAugust 20, 2026 An Idea To Move You I have a new-ish mantra to help mitigate my perfectionism: just for now. Just for now gives me permission to not spend an inordinate amount of time making it (whatever it is) perfect. It give me a space to come back to something later if it truly isn't good enough. It reminds me that conditions will often change and that whatever the thing is, is plenty good enough... ...just for now. A...
MTI: Silence, silence, and Angela Duckworth on... silence
Move Touch Inspire The Newsletter for Voice Actors and Creative ProsAugust 13, 2026 An Idea To Move You When have you wasted time and emotion speaking when you could have been silent? When have you wasted time and emotion remaining silent when you could have spoken up? A Thought to Touch You* Voice actors are especially good at turning silence into rejection. We’re trained to notice nuance, read subtle cues, and think carefully about how something lands. Those are great qualities when you’re...
MTI: On puffery, sales, and Anthony Iannarino on detaching from No
Move Touch Inspire The Newsletter for Voice Actors and Creative ProsAugust 6, 2026 An Idea To Move You Not many people like to put themselves out there, even when it comes to their business. And when they do, they feel like they have to chest thump, puff up, and look bigger than they really are. Let me assure you: you are already as big as you need to be. Your clients don't care who you have or have not worked with, where you trained, how much passion you have, or whether or not you...
MTI: Vacating, consistent marketing, and Kyle Schwarber on consistency
Move Touch Inspire The Newsletter for Voice Actors and Creative ProsJuly 30, 2026 An Idea To Move You Last week, I took vacation. I vacated. I got out of my usual environment. And it was so worth it. Because, removed from my usual environment... auditions, marketing, auditions, paid work, auditions, content creation... did I mention auditions?... I got out of the daily mental cycle of "next task up," and breaking that cycle brought a fresh perspective: the importance of all of those daily...
Every Thursday, the latest issue is sent to voice actors and other creative pros like you. Each message includes an idea to move you, a thought to touch you, and a quote to inspire you, as well as what I’m writing about that week on YouTube, on The VO Pro Podcast, and in The Pro Blog.