Barb Lyon
Voice Artist

Days fly by like lightning. Sometimes, Friday shows up and I think, what in the heck even happened this week. And that pattern can go on and on till blamo, it's November. It's especially tough when you work alone. There's no one to tell you, "Nice job" or "That was awesome." So it's really easy to just drone on from task to task. Stopping a moment to appreciate or even create the good stuff is essential so you have some markers in life. And it doesn't have to be some "Insta

We’ve all heard the line “fake it till you make it.” I prefer the way Simon Sinek phrases it: “Act as if.” When you think of your situation, is your first thought I can't, because… It'll never work, because… I’ll never…? All those thoughts stop you cold. You don’t because “you can’t”. It’ll never work so you don’t even try. You’ll “never get there” so you just don't even think about it. But what if you made decisions as if things were going to work out exactly as you im

So the last few weeks were…a lot. Like a lot, a lot. And it taught me things about myself. But let me set the stage a bit. See, last fall, I talked with an immersive audiobook company. I’ve done plenty of narration work before, but immersive audiobook narration is a different animal. It sounded interesting, so I went ahead and cut sample audio which they accepted. And then it got quiet. I figured I may never hear from them. Oh well. Easy come easy go. And then it happened.