Rainy Day Musings: Why What Feels Right Isn’t the Same for Everyone
It’s been raining here for a few days, and I’ve been quietly enjoying it. There’s something about overcast light and steady rain that makes everything feel a little more cozy and contained - like an invitation to slow down, stay in, and focus on small, quiet things....
Why You Can’t Fully Relax — Even When Nothing Is Wrong
Some days, it doesn’t seem to matter whether I’ve spent more time in the therapy room or in the vocal booth - I still can’t fully relax at the end of the day. Nothing has gone wrong. In fact, often it’s been a productive, even good day. And still… something in my...
How VO Pros Handle Deadlines and Revisions
Fifteen minutes before the session, a new email came in. I’d been booked for a live-directed voiceover session for a multi-part short story. Everything had been confirmed the day before — session link, direction notes, finalized script. Or so I thought. The message...
Why Some Voices Instantly Feel Trustworthy (And Others Don’t)
In both my voiceover work and my work as a psychologist has made me focus on the importance of building trust in communication. Sometimes it is built really quickly. Because it often happens before a single word is fully processed. You’ve probably heard it...
Turning Complexity into Connection
In therapy, one of my most important jobs was translating. Not between languages —but between ideas. Psychological theory can be dense. Precise. Necessary.And completely unusable if it stays abstract. My job was to take those concepts and help clients apply them in...
Why You Keep Replaying Conversations in Your Mind at Night (And How to Stop the Loop)
I know I'm guilty of this, and I bet you are too - Do you carry conversations with you and analyze them over and over, long after they’ve ended? Replaying what was said.Reworking what could have been said.Trying to make sense of what it meant. It often shows up at the...
Why You Feel “Behind” Before the Day Even Starts
In voiceover work, in my everyday life, and definitely in my psychology work, I’ve noticed how often people start the day already carrying a sense of urgency. Not because something has happened. But because something in the system is already activated. You wake up…...
The Brain Science Behind Why AI Voices Miss the Mark
AI is all around us, including the use of AI voices. But there’s a reason some corporate training modules or medical narration projects feel like background noise, even when the content is solid: the voice doesn’t land. It doesn’t connect. It doesn’t feel like anyone...
Why Your Nervous System Responds to Tone of Voice Before Logic
I learned this years ago in my psychology work, and it translates directly into my voiceover work - how something sounds often matters more than what’s being said. Because the nervous system responds first. Most communication problems aren’t actually about the ...
Voice and Emotional Connection: The Moment I Realized It Was More Than Technical Accuracy
I had only narrated a couple of audiobooks when a friend connected me with someone she knew - an author who had written a collection of short stories, mostly for himself and a small circle of family and friends. They were personal, loosely autobiographical, and not...