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...
Why Your Nervous System Stays in Overdrive (And How to Interrupt It)
In both my psychological work and my voiceover work, and actually in any environment where communication matters, I’m always aware of how quickly someone’s system can shift into urgency. Because when that happens, it doesn’t just affect how we feel. It affects how we...
Voice and Emotional Connection: What a Relaxation Recording Taught Me
For years, I created relaxation recordings for clients to use between sessions - simple guided exercises they could listen to when they were feeling overwhelmed or having trouble sleeping. At one point, a client mentioned, almost in passing, “I don’t even make it past...
Voice and Emotional Connection: A Moment That Changed How I Listen
I didn’t spend much time thinking about my voice in therapy - at least not in a deliberate way. Unless I was guiding a relaxation exercise, my focus was always on what I was saying: how to respond, how to invite the client into the process, how to make it feel...
How Stress Changes Your Voice (And Why It Matters in Professional Communication)
In voiceover work, I’m always paying attention to how something feels to the listener, not just what’s being said. And one of the biggest influences on that is something most people don’t immediately notice. Stress. Most people think stress shows up in their thoughts,...
It’s Not About Me. It’s About You.
It’s Not About Me — And That’s the Point One of the most important professional lessons I ever learned didn’t come from a microphone. It came from the therapy room. Early in my psychology training, I was taught something simple and humbling: It’s not about you. You’re...
Why a Good Voice Isn’t Enough: Storytelling in Voiceover
Anyone can read words off a page. That’s why so many teams try the DIY route—asking a staff member to record narration, or choosing someone simply because they have a “nice voice.” And sometimes, that works… briefly. But in professional voiceover, a good voice is only...
Preparation Is Key — But Presence Seals the Deal
In therapy, preparation mattered. As a psychologist, I spent hours updating my training, reviewing notes, tracking progress over months — sometimes years. Sessions didn’t just happen. They were built carefully, intentionally. But once I was sitting across from...
How Medical Voiceover Helps Patients with a New Diagnosis
There’s a moment many patients remember clearly. They’re sitting in a chair that suddenly feels too small.A doctor says a word they weren’t expecting.And everything after that feels… fuzzy. A diagnosis can arrive like a plot twist you didn’t see coming. One minute,...
Listening Between the Lines: The VO Skill You Don’t See
Sometimes, what matters most isn’t what’s written. It’s what’s implied. In therapy, I learned to listen for what clients weren’t saying.The hesitation before a sentence.The pause that lingered too long.The part of the story that was quietly avoided. Those moments...