Barb Lyon
Voice Artist

There’s a moment most people don’t talk about in voice over motivation. It’s not booking the job. It’s not the callback. It’s not the email that starts with “We loved your read…” It’s the Tuesday morning when you step into the booth and think,“Alright… let’s see what happens today.”

If you can overthink the worst, why can’t you overthink the best? We are fantastic at imagining the worst case scenario. It's just easier to envision disaster. We send a cold email and immediately assume we’ve annoyed someone. We reach out to a new agent and picture them rolling their eyes. We send a recording to a brand-new client and wait for the email that says, “This isn’t what we had in mind.” Our brains run straight to the worst-case scenario.