The Voice Talents Prayer

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I read this prayer from one of my fellow voiceover associates and he has graciously allowed me to reprint it. Take a look.

Dear God,

Thank you for giving me the unique and privileged opportunity to be in the voiceover business. Not too many people can say that they absolutely love what they do, but I can!

I’m grateful for clients who must be the absolute best in the world. Well, except for that one guy that totally scammed me, but that’s between You and him now. Please bless my clients! Make their efforts and hard work completely successful. Overwhelm them with the rewards of a job well done.

And thank you for the fellow voice talents You’ve put in my life. You’ve made me better by knowing them, and I am inspired, motivated and challenged by each of them.

Lord, there are some folks who don’t get enough credit or appreciation in this business: the engineers, and producers, and writers, and translators that make magic out of my often inane and inadequate performance. Please bless them in a special way!

But most of all, thank You for a wife and kids that put up with my idiosyncrasies and weirdness. You’ve given them great patience and a high tolerance to my obsession. I know it’s not right to stay up until 3am working on a silly audition that I have a 1 in a 1000 chance of getting, but how cool is it that I can!?!?!

I really only have one thing to ask for. Would it be OK if I kept doing this? I mean, would You connect me with the right people so that I can keep doing this for a long time? That would be awesome!

So, I just wanted to say THANKS! I know I don’t deserve it, but WOW, You’ve been good to me! I am of all people most fortunate, and I am deeply, deeply grateful.

dan

P.S. By the way, thanks for helping me figure out where that stupid buzz was coming from in my studio.

A Voice Talent’s Prayer by #Dan Hurst – May 2010

Couldn’t have said it better myself. Thanks Dan.

JGC Video Promo

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Now Showing…

As you opened the Johnny George Communications website, in the center was our new Video Promo. The window is one of several that slide up to allow you to focus into what you are looking for on our Voiceover pages. You may also access it via our menu on the left.

Produced by good clients of ours, Pixability, we wanted to be able to market our style, share some of the company we work with and give our potential clients a taster of what we are all about.

Many thanks to Bill and the gang at Pixability for putting up with my knit-pickin’. They are the best. If you need any sort of web video, these are the guys to call. See their web address at the end of our video.

Grab a small bag of popcorn and give it a watch!

Auditions – Winter 2010

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We last checked in on our latest auditions in January. Here are several of what we have had the opportunity to audition through February so far:

  • Cabrini College
  • Atlas
  • Mediacom
  • Bank of Ann Arbor
  • Disney Alliance
  • Sears Service
  • Bright House Networks
  • Hungry Howies
  • Captain D’s
  • Centerpoint Energy
  • Rhode Island Lottery
  • Sage Technologies
  • Exxon
  • Shoney’s
  • Carmax
  • Huntington Bank
  • Elanco
  • Tom Adam’s
  • Milwaukee Journal
  • YMCA, NYC
  • GW Hospital
  • Billy Graham Evangelical Assn.
  • Coton
  • Scoop Away
  • Bailey’s Irish Coffee
  • Value City
  • NASA
  • Cardinal Health
  • AAA
  • Budweiser
  • OK Tourism
  • White Castle
  • Lee County Tourism

Auditions listed are from current agencies, my talent agents and online membership-based online sites.

Social Links now available

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If you haven’t been by our website recently, we just launched our new Social Links to Facebook, Linked in and YouTube. You can follow our dribble and nonsensical rants and raves on Facebook and Linked in. You’ll notice that the forums on Linked in for the voice talent community has become quite, uh, vocal.

Additionally, we have uploaded a variety of TV spots to YouTube we voiced for clients over the past few years. Car spots, colleges, doctors, amusements and more.

We welcome your comments and opinions, as always, and hope to see some participation in the forums and our daily observations. Jump in – the water’s fine.

Winners

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Are YOU carrying the ball?

Being a small part of the Butler University alumni and a resident of Central Indiana, I watched with countless other basketball fans as the Butler Bulldogs brought their 25 straight game winning streak to the stadium floor of the NCAA Final Four in Indianapolis this weekend. Saturday night they stayed basket-to-basket with Michigan State… and Monday night, they joined the talented Duke Blue Devils in the final match of a tremendous year.

What a fabulous, edge of your seat game. The final buzzer left Butler’s ball in mid-air as it sailed to the final basket attempt that was just a bit too hard and rolled off the rim to put Duke back in the Winning seat as the NCAA National Final Four winners over Butler 61 – 59. But that’s not to say Butler wasn’t a winner too. This incredible group of young men had bound themselves together as a close-knit band of focused ball players that made us all proud.

My point, in relationship to my voice acting career can be summed up by stating – Just because you don’t win the BIG game, doesn’t make you any less of a winner if you play hard, work hard and aim for that winning game. I may not be announcing each night for FOX or CBS, but my work stands as winning work for me and makes me strive for the next big game. You’re a winner too if you are doing all you can to achieve that next big voiceover job and continue to climb and learn and practice and keep it in your sights. You don’t have to have taken over for the late, great Don Lafontaine as the trailer voice for every new movie coming out of the left coast, but you do need to apply the same work ethic to continue to grow personally and maintain that winning attitude and heart it takes to continue to climb.

Butler can hold it’s head high and proud. They may not be the #1 NCAA team in the country, but coming from obsurity to the #2 college basketball team in the country is no small feat.

In the words from the movie, Hoosiers, “Be the best that you can be….”Go Voice Actors!

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