I'm Sick, Now What? - Tom Dheere

Anne Ganguzza (00:00.93)
Hey everyone, welcome to the VO Boss podcast. I'm your host Anne Ganguzza and I am here with Tom Dheere for the Real Boss series. Hey Tom, how are ya?

Tom Dheere (00:10.978)
Hello Anne, how are you doing?

Anne Ganguzza (00:14.208)
You know, Tom, I am a little under the weather today. So, yeah, and you know, I'm so like attuned to, you know, how I sound in the booth and I'm a little bit nasal. And if I'm not 100%, I can't record, Tom. So, perfect time to talk to the bosses about what do you do when you can't record auditions or you can't record for your clients? I mean, there's lots of stuff you can do, I think, to...

Tom Dheere (00:17.472)
Yeah. Yeah, I could hear that.

Anne Ganguzza (00:43.246)
move your business ahead, so let's discuss.

Tom Dheere (00:47.971)
Okay, well, there's a number of things that you wanna keep in mind first, which is how you sound in your head doesn't necessarily sound like what you sound like when you listen to the playback on your audio. Oh, no, I did notice, it's a stitch off, but also, yeah.

Anne Ganguzza (00:56.173)
You

Anne Ganguzza (01:00.717)
But you noticed, but you noticed, Tom. So you noticed I sounded not like myself, yeah. Right? And even a stitch off, can't do, because you can hear a little bit of that, Mm-hmm, yep. Yeah?

Tom Dheere (01:13.568)
Yeah, well, you've also known each other for years. We talk all the time. So like, you know, you would, you'd be able to pick up if I wasn't feeling well either. So, so being in tune with your, with your, with your body and all that stuff, and then reconciling that with the reality of what do you sound like from on the outside? Because in your, in your skull, there's all these resonating chambers, you know, in your skull, in your turbinates. and what you hear when you talk doesn't

Anne Ganguzza (01:34.988)
Yes.

Tom Dheere (01:43.166)
sound like what other people hear who are outside of those resonating chambers. So you gotta give yourself a little bit of latitude and grace on that part.

Anne Ganguzza (01:52.6)
Yeah. You have to have a benchmark, I think. And you know, Tom, that's so interesting that you bring that up because it's kind of when we talk about when people record and then they listen back and they say, ew, I don't like that. And then they re-record 100 times over. It's because what they hear is not what other people hear. And so you have to be familiar enough and know yourself enough so that you can create a benchmark for when your voice is sounding pristine. And also when you're acting and you're not sounding like you're

Tom Dheere (02:13.719)
Mm-hmm.

Tom Dheere (02:17.206)
Mm-hmm.

Anne Ganguzza (02:21.483)
reading something or sounding kind of fake. And so yeah, that ear takes a lot of time to develop. But I will definitely tell you that, yeah, I can tell that my voice is not at its best right now. And so that is one of those things that there are so many things that we can do, probably all the things that you guys don't necessarily want to do, but they're all the things that really help us to move forward and market our businesses.

Tom Dheere (02:24.897)
Right.

Tom Dheere (02:48.705)
Right. So I always recommend the first thing you do is find out what projects you have do, what are the deadlines and what's the dynamic of the relationship with each of those clients. I mean, we all try to get our projects done as quickly as possible. So we meet our deadline, you know, the old under promise over deliver thing. And that also just gives you that much more time to do other things and that much more quality of head space to be like, good, I did that. Now I can look at the

the next project or audition or whatever. like, also you want to look at the genre of voiceover that you're doing. Like for e