The Off Air Voiceover Podcast

🚨🚨 SEASON FINALÈ🚨🚨

Cant believe we’ve got here already, the final episode of Season 2!

But what a way to end the season by having 2 amazing people well known in the VO world, Hugh Edwards and Gina Thompson, who are highly involved in Video games Casting, aswell as the infamous One Voice Conference and of course Gravy for the Brain!

In this episode we hear of Michael's VOX late night voice-note shenanigans for the podcast, and...

🚨🚨 New Episode🚨🚨

We didn't know what to call this one at first.  

Bauer Power

The Big One

But inspired by our guest Simon, 'Being Human' is perfectly fitting

In an industry first, we have 3 guys join us who make up a team of 8 excellent folks over at Bauer.  So If you want to work in Radio, Paul, Simon and Tom provide candid insights in what they look for and how it works

In true fashion of the pod, its honest and informative a...

🚨🚨New Episode 🚨🚨

Join us for this weeks episode 'Laugh It Off' where we park all the work chatter and just have fun sharing funny stories experienced on our voiceover journeys After a summer of quiet periods, scaremongering with AI and other things going on, we wanted to try and bring some smiles and we invited you, our amazing listeners to join in Take a break from the seriousness, and enjoy the fun Thank you to everyone th...

🚨🚨New episode! Noble steeds at the ready!🚨

🚨🚨 New Episode🚨🚨

Things are tough at the moment for a lot of people - in and out of the voiceover industry- and when times get tough the scam artists come out to play.

In this episode we shine a light on some of the common scams going round, and perhaps make you aware of some of the lesser known ones too! Red flags at the ready, an episode not to be missed for those trying to keep their businesses a...

**NOTICE**   DUE TO TECHNICAL DIFFICULTIES WITH SOFTWARE WE HAD TO RESORT TO ZOOM AFTER 10 MINS.  APOLOGIES FOR THE LOWER QUALITY

🚨 NEW EPISODE! ‘Rollercoaster’ is now live! 🚨

To be a Voice Actor it takes:

10% talent  30% business and marketing 60% steely mindset

Ok, so we’ve made these figures up to illustrate our point, but this is what it can feel like sometimes.

From the extreme highs of awards and winning coveted jobs, to th...

🚨🚨Episode 2 - Gimme 5🚨🚨

Why Gimme 5? 

Well! Michael started exploring blog ideas via ChatGPT and one thing it brought up was '5 Mistakes to Avoid When Hiring a Voiceover'  So naturally as working Voice Actors we thought we'd look into it and give you our hot take!

We discuss the decline in cable TV viewership v. the increase in commercials via streaming platforms, and the potential impact on the voiceover industry.

Michael ...

Welcome back for Season 2!

Coming out of a slow Summer and emerging like a butterfly from a chrysalis as we enter the wonderful, and often chaotic, premier of season 2 of the Off Air Voiceover Podcast!

But whats different? Well, if you like your videos weve gone full video episodes for this season which you can see on our YouTube page

https://www.youtube.com/@OffAirVoiceoverPodcast so make sure you subscribe to stay on top of the...

🚨 Episode finale: “The Aftermath” is now live! 🚨

In our final episode of Season 1, join us as we discuss our recent experiences at the One Voice Conference and the latest T&Cs scandal with the Mandy site.....

As we draw the season to a close we want to extend a huge thank you to our esteemed guests (in order of appearance):

Shiraz Engineer @oratrix

Scott Tunnix @scotttunix

Kelly Condron @kellycondron

Susie Valerio @susie

Carl...

🚨Episode 8: “Hustle” is now live!🚨

In this penultimate Episode of Season 1, we’re thrilled to have the bundle of positive energy that is Carla Terry (@Voicedbycarla) join us for some VO chat (and dish out a bit of motivation)

If you know or follow Carla on the socials you’ll be familiar with her bright, fun and friendly style as well as sharing some great B...

It was an absolute pleasure to have @susievalerio join us on this week’s episode.  Susie is a multilingual award winning storytelling voice artist, , experienced casting and production pro at @soundcutsltd, and all round bloody legend. 

As a Casting Director in video games, we talk about what it's like to be on the other side, a bit about AI and how going global could help you book alot more work....

We created this podcast to help...

From the bright lights of TV fame to the oven light while making a fishfinger dinner for her kids....Kelly joins us to have an unfiltered talk all about screen acting and voice acting, setting a record with Soho Voices and shares the incredibly inspiring story of taking pen to paper with no prior experience and writing a series that is shaping to be something very very special....

Hope you enjoy it and if you do please consider sup...

In this weeks’ episode we’re joined by vocal wizard Scott @tunnix_vo who shares all his tips for creating a wealth of character voices.

We discuss the conversational read, demo reels, and Mikey recreates his favourite daytime ad…

Sorry Dave

Please check it out, follow and share the love ❤️ 

#voiceovercommunity #voiceactor #demoreel

Scott can be found at @tunnixvo

Join the community! Share, subscribe and come say hi over on Inst...

Hello! Enjoying the voiceover rollercoaster?

Whether you’re flying high or you feel like you’re still waiting to get on the ride, being a voice actor can be tough. We ALL feel like this at times but we don’t always share it in public, this can lead us to assume we’re the only one who struggles.

In this week’s episode we share some of our personal challenges, insecurities and how we both struggle (and have struggled) with the dreade...

Hello! As many newcomers come into the industry and find a plethora of info to help them, we wanted to chat to someone who's on that journey to see how they're finding it, and maybe learn a thing or two ourselves along the way! So In this week’s episode we chat to (relative) newcomer Shiraz Engineer (@oratrixvo) about following your own path, self belief, pink cats and the elation of booking our first gigs....which gives us anoth...

🚨Episode 2 of the Off Air Voiceover Podcast 'Level Up' has landed!🚨

On this week’s episode we discuss our plans to level up, the benefits of coaching, why AI may not need be feared, recent motivations and why Michael sweats anytime someone mentions Beauty and the Beast....

Let us know what you think!

Nice one 👍

n this episode we also mention a few performance coaches who we’ve worked with personally (and recommend) including: ...

Welcome to the launch episode of the Off Air Voiceover Podcast!!

In this first episode, we discuss One Voice, Nominations, the highs and lows of submitting work and a cheeky bit of Imposter Syndrome!

As the launch of the podcast fell right around the nominations being released, we decided to talk about it, the process and the emotional side to being nominated....or not

Hope you enjoy!

M & J

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Hello!

In prep for the release of our first episode on the 26th March, we felt it would make sense to do a quick short episode to introduce ourselves a little bit; who we are, our experience and why we're doing this podcast!

Join the community! Share, subscribe and come say hi over on Instagram @off_air_voiceover_podcast - we can’t wait to meet you!

You can find Michael at www.manchestervo.co.uk

Jens website is

www.jenlawtonhun...