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The V.O. Dojo's Nth Degree Intensive

It was so thrilling to see the forward leaps that are already happening and looking forward to all the goodness that is going to come from each of you being so thoroughly prepared to take the wheel of your sustained successful VO career and drive to your next  desired destination!

We have consolidated the video replays, materials, and bonus recordings for you here for the full weekend.

Day 1 Videos

"WHERE ARE YOU NOW, AND WHERE WOULD YOU LIKE TO BE?"

Welcome and Elevator Pitch

With Tish Hicks

Tish welcomes our participants and has everyone introduce themselves using the elevator pitch exercise, then provide feedback on each other's pitches.

Vision and Intentions:  Your Sustained Successful VO Career

With Tish Hicks

Our goal over this weekend intensive was to create a map including: 

• Creating Your Vision - what’s your picture on the box
• Overview - understanding the parts
• Checklist - what is needed
• Assessment - where are you at
• Blueprint - Plan for vision
• Action Plan - What do you do next, in what order

The Creative Entrepreneurial Mindset

With Melissa McFarlane

During this video, Melissa walks through:

• What it takes to be an entrepreneur.
• Transforming Employee/Gig Worker Mentality to Entrepreneurial Mindset.
• Keeping all aspects of your business running smoothly, both front and back-of-house.
• How to get comfortable with selling yourself/your services.

The follow-up video contains Melissa's full presentation with Q&A from our August 2020 session.

Building Your Business

With Tish Hicks

During this video, Tish walks through:

• Building Your Business
• Zone of Genius: What are you good at?
• Finding your GAPS
  

Day 2 Videos

"WHO ARE YOU AND HOW CAN YOU SERVE?"

Branding:  From Beginning to End

With Jonathan Tilley

During this video, Jonathan walks through:

• Having your website look good AND feel 100% like you.
• Gaining the most from your brand.
• How to approach optimizing your VO website.

Please note, Check In is at the beginning of this video and the Branding sessions starts at 29:00

Start Where You Are - Get to the Top

With Carin Gilfry

During this video, Carin walks through:

• Building a highly successful career over the long haul... to slowly but surely rise to the top of the game. 
• Ensuring a diversified portfolio of VO income 
• Making the P2P work for you
• Staying organized and maximizing workflow 
• Working easy and having fun!
  

Working as a Global VO

With Catherine Campion and Sean Gray

During this video, VO partners, Catherine and Sean share their insights on:

• How to get work from all corners of the world, no matter where you live. 
• Where to secure work without auditing.
• How to maximize your impact working as a VO team.

Managing Your Clientele with Direct Marketing

With Tom Aglio

During this video, Tom walks through:

• Learn the best practices when it comes to cold email and phone marketing. 
• Leave with the tools and resources you need to market, while developing a customized process that works for you.
• Train your brain to find opportunities and clients everywhere to build your own business organically.
  

Day 3 Videos

"MINDING YOUR BUSINESS"

Tools to Manage Your Business

With Dani States

During this first video, Tish walks through the components of managing your business based upon the insights gained from the last two days and introduces Dani States' VoiceOverview system.

Then during this follow-up video, Dani walks through:

• How VoiceOverview can be your complete, all-in-one control center. 
• Keep track of your clients to keep your business moving forward.
• Track jobs from auditions to payment completion. 
• See your trends and compare with other VOV users.
  

Getting Business Up and Running 

With Russell Edge

Establishing sound financial foundations and best practices are crucial for the success of your VO business.  Russell Edge, V.O. Dojo Black Belt and owner of The Library Inc., a bookkeeping company he formed to help small businesses take care of their tedious paperwork while demystifying the financial responsibilities of running a company, will go over the different possible entities available, how they are different, and when they are most beneficial.

• W-2 Employee
• Sole Proprietor
• Single Member LLC
• S Corp 
• C Corp
• Tax implications of each
• And thinking ahead with retirement planning
  

Representation:  Agent/Manager Panel & Showcase

James Murray, VO Agent at A3 LA 

Brandie Ilsen, VO Agent at Aperture Talent LA

Melanie Thomas, VO Manager at ACM Talent

Meet three of the top agents and managers in the country as they share how to find and create a powerful relationship with your representation team!

• In Depth Panel Discussion
• Individual Commercial Demo Review
• Sample Interview Process

Action Plan

With Tish Hicks

During this video, Tish walks through:

• Taking home actionable steps to focus on in the next month, quarter, year, and beyond.
• Identify specific resources you will need to achieve your plans
• Determine what you are willing to invest at each stage -- in time, money, and effort.

Bonus Videos

Knowing Your Worth - Negotiation and Rates

With Maria Pendalino

During this video, Maria walks through:

• Viewing yourself as a premium service / product.
• Setting your “Pick Up Your Mic Fee”.
• Understanding the GVAA rate guide and coming up with your own personalized rate card.
• How to craft emails to properly and professionally negotiate with clients.

If you would like to be a part of Maria's upcoming "Voiceover Negotiations with Maria Pendolino" event, click here.

Mastering the Conversion from Union Work

With Tim Friedlander and Bethanie Monroe, soundBOX: Studio Group

During this video, Tim and Bethanie walk through:

• Understanding Non-Union, FiCore and Union work. 
• Best practices for converting Non-Union work to Union.
• What is a paymaster and how you can use one.
• How soundBOX: Studio Group can provide signatory services. 

Set Up and Workflow to Reach Your Next Level

With Dan Lenard

During this video, Dan walks through:

• Checklist of what you need to set up an optimized working pro home studio
• How to continually improve your setup over your career. 
• Best practices for streamlining your editing process.