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Jim Edgar, is a fellow Bay Area resident who's been a full time voice actor since 2012 and consistently delivers high quality audio for commercial, character, narration, eLearning and audiobook projects. Prior to delving into the world of voice over, he worked in the cycling industry in the marketing, operations, purchasing, and training sectors.

After attending a weekend voiceover class in 2007, Jim caught the acting bug and knew he had to pursue a career in VO. The many hours spent in recording studios over the years provided him with the expertise to help other voice actors set up their own great audio workspaces. He has assisted hundreds of other voice talents to get their sound sorted out so they can simply focus on being brilliant behind the mic.

What started as a low-key, local VO studio setup service grew into JustAskJimVO.studio, through which he consults online with voiceover and spoken word recording clients around the world. Jim now offers instructional seminars, technical consulting, and studio consultations on an ongoing basis for new and working voice actors.

He was a former VO instructor at Voicetrax SF and currently teaches the Voiceover Training Curriculum at Berkeley Rep School of Theater, is one of the Core Instructors at Voice One in San Francisco, and has led technical webinars for the Global Voice Acting Academy. Jim also created and manages the VO Tech Talk group on Facebook, and publishes a Tuesday Tech Tip blog focused on voiceover studio tips and creative workflow.

I'm delighted to have this multi-talented human join me today and want to welcome Jim Edgar to 19Stories.

To contact Jim for his VO Tech services or to hire him for voice work, you may contact him via the following:

Business email Address: [email protected] or [email protected] Business websites: JustAskJimVO.studio JimEdgarVoices.com Social Media Sites: LinkedIn - https://www.linkedin.com/in/jimedgarvoices/ Instagram - @justaskjimvo @jimedgarvoices @cyclofiend Facebook - https://www.facebook.com/justaskjimvo FB group - https://www.facebook.com/jimedgar.vo/ Creator / Admin of the VO Tech Talk group on FB - https://www.facebook.com/groups/votechtalk If you liked this episode, please remember to like, share and review. To contact me for voice work, a story idea or to email me, visit: www.cherylholling.com Instagram @cherylhollingvo

Hello and a very Happy Summer to you and yours! I hope you are having a good one so far. Whether you're listening during a stay-cation or traveling to some exoctic destination, I thank you for tuning into this encore presentation of the ninth episode of 19Stories.

Since it is summer and people's listening habits change up a bit, I thought that in addition to releasing new episodes, that I'd mix in a few previously released ones from some of the guests that joined me very early on in my podcasting pilgrimage.

Nicole Britton is just one of those gracious and brave souls that chatted with me for Episode 9 that originally dropped on December 16th, 2020 while our world was still in the grips of dealing with Covid 19 and certainly trying to figure out how to navigate holiday and family gatherings.

Given that was 41 episodes ago and I was a new podcast host still figuring out how to finesse the art of an interview, the editing and sound, it's fun to look back in gratitude for what I've learned for the guests who chose to take this journey with me so early on.

Since our initial conversation, Nicole's already successful voiceover career has seen some huge wins with her recent signing to a very well respected talent agency and her subsequent booking in an upcoming Dreamworks Animated Television Series.

I couldn't be more delighted for Nicole and to once again share her episode with you.

You can contact Nicole via the following:

https://www.nicolebrittonvoice.com/

https://www.ctctalent.com/

Via Instagram @NicoleBrittonVoice

Email: [email protected]

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Leave me a recorded message at: www.cherylholling.com

Or email me at: [email protected]

My guest, Diana Daniele, is the founder of Diana Daniele Communications, a boutique PR firm specializing in literary, hospitality, entertainment, political, and non-profit public relations. Known for her media relations savvy, creative branding and social media expertise, Diana began her career while she was earning her master's degree from the Annenberg School of Communication & Journalism at the University of Southern California. She completed a study "How Barbie Speaks Sexually to Children," at USC's Institute for the Study of Women and Men (ISWM), a feminist think tank studying how women's gender roles are portrayed in film and on television. After completing her research, Diana stayed on to work with both the press and sponsors such as Paramount Pictures, DreamWorks, and NBC/Universal. Over the years, she has represented The Beverly Hills Hotel, Saks Fifth Avenue, Ralph Lauren, Martin Katz Jewelry, KUSC-FM Classical Radio, AMC Theaters, Rock the Vote, and the Elizabeth Glaser Pediatric AIDS Foundation, among many others. She has also worked in an international diplomatic capacity, running publicity for and organizing outreach events at the United States Embassy's Cultural Center in Madrid, Spain. A Phi Beta Kappa graduate of the University of California, Los Angeles, Diana has completed coursework in English Literature at the University of Cambridge, England and earned her bilingual certificate from the University of Madrid, (Comp-lu-tan-se) Complutense. As impressive as all of Diana's aforementioned credits are, quite possibly the most important work she's done is the recent completion of her memoir "OUT OF THE DARK: A Memoir of Migraine and Madness" which chronicles the years that she suffered from severe & debilitating migraines while continuing to run her business, being a wife and raising three children.

If you'd like to contact Diana for her PR services or are a literary agent and would like to represent Diana and her memoir, you may contact her via: [email protected]

dianadanielepr.com

FB: Diana Foutz Daniele IG: @dianadanielepr Twitter: @DianaFDaniele LI: Diana Daniele To leave me a recorded review, have a story idea, voiceover projector for podcasting inquiries, you may contact me at:

www.cherylholling.com

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The voice of the guest joining me today may sound very familiar to you and for good cause. For over the past three decades he's been in your ears one way or another, whether you've been watching television or listening to the radio, chances are you've heard Thom Pinto's voice. He's been using his dulcet tones in everything from the introspective storyteller for Audi, an "everyman" for AT&T U-Verse, a whimsical poet on Clorox and a fun-loving retro announcer for Fuze Tea. As a narrator he is a familiar voice on cable documentaries and series that air on the History Channel, Discovery, The Weather Channel, CBS All Access and the Smithsonian Channel.

Since 2007, Tom's been a promo voice for CBS This Morning, 48 Hours, and the CBS Evening News. He has also been the signature promo voice in my neck of the woods for KRON TV/San Francisco since 1995.

Thom is also a revered coach to hundreds of working voice actors in Los Angeles, San Francisco and across the country through the VO Roadshow. He shares the secrets of his success and love of voice acting through his "Colors of Your Voice" coaching technique that he crafted to bring out the specific emotion needed for each project, and steer clear of generic performances.

Given he is the only one I know that can give Spam sex appeal, its' safe to say that he's mastered what he preaches.

You may contact Thom directly at:

Business address: [email protected]

Business website: www.thompinto.com

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To leave me a recorded message, contact me for voice work or a story idea, visit: www.cherylholling.com

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My guest today is actor, screenwriter and producer Joe Coffey, who originally hails from Boston, Massachusetts, and grew up in the Irish neighborhood of West Roxbury, otherwise known as "Westie" in a family with deep Irish and Sicilian roots. Joe began acting at the age of 15 in theater and musical theater throughout Massachusetts.

After graduating from the prestigious Boston Latin high school, attending Stonehill College for theater, apprenticing at the Williamstown Theater Festival under artistic director and highly acclaimed actor Roger Rees, Joe then studied at the Eugene O'Neill Theater in Waterford, CT as part of the ensemble of the National Theater Institute. He continued his training on a scholarship at the University of Florida from which he graduated with a MFA in 2009.

For the past 12 years Joe has been on a steady rise in stage, film and television. One of his most successful television roles is as Horace Dodge, in the highly successful "The Legend of Dodge" campaigns that he co-starred in for 5 years with Tyler Bryan portraying his brother John Dodge.

Joe is in four films that are currently in post-production with one of them being a film that he co-wrote and produced with the Director Keenen O'Reilly: 'Micks Out' about a Boston ICE Agent who is forced to choose between the law and his community. Joe Coffey is speaks to me from Los Angeles, CA.

To Contact Joe:

Business email Address: [email protected]

Instagram: @cupofjoecoffey

Other: imdb.me/joecoffey

To contact Cheryl re 19Stories:

[email protected]

Re Voiceover Work:

www.cherylholling.com

[email protected]

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My guest Veronica Barrera is a fellow podcaster and Native American and Spanish voice actor who originally hails from Saginaw, Michigan and now calls Los Angeles, CA her home.

She graduated from the College for Creative Studies in Detroit, MI, with a degree in Industrial Design. In addition to heading her own Company, she has worked with numerous brands such as TRW Automotive,designed custom jewelry for Chrome Hearts, worked on consumer goods, toys, lighting and a gorgeous bar stool design for Vela Bar, among others. Veronica has also tutored and held faculty positions at both the College of Creative Studies and Otis College of Art & design.

In addition to her design work, Veronica has worked in voiceover for the past eight years voicing projects for Toy Commercials, kids e-learning, animation, audio books and anime.

For three years she worked at the Pantages Theater in Los Angeles where she observed numerous productions that helped her to hone her craft. Veronica's hidden talent is having memorized some of her favorite raps from the ever-popular musical 'Hamiliton'.

In Spring of 2019, she launched her podcast 'Voice acting with Veronica Barrera' where she interviews voice actors, casting directors, engineers, singers, demo producers, writers and the who's who within the field of voiceover.

I asked Veronica to take time out of her schedule talking to others about their stories for her to talk to me about hers!

If you'd like to contact Veronica regarding her voice work, industrial design skills or her podcast, you may do so via the following:

Business email: [email protected]

www.veronicabarrera.com and vbarrera.libsyn.com

Twitter: @vbarrera_vo

IG: @vlbarrera and @voiceactingwithvb

Linkedin: Veronica Barrera

VAWVB Podcast Facebook Group: https://www.facebook.com/groups/631972061329300

If you'd like to contact Cheryl Holling you may do so via her website: www.cherylholling.com

Or email her at: [email protected]

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My guest Crystal Lee is a powerhouse of energy, light and positivity.

For over 20 years she has traveled the world serving our country in the US military. First as a Technical Sergeant with the Defense Information Systems Agency and culminating her military career in April 2020 as a Network Systems Architect with the Defense Intelligence Agency.

As a child, Crystal loved acting, singing, and creating characters. Her mother, who is Filipino and her father, who is of German/English descent, had encouraged and nurtured her creativity from an early age and so she resumed her love of performing and voice work to, in her words, "inspire people throughout the world to follow their dreams through storytelling, make-believe, visualization, and magic!"

During her time in the service, Crystal utilized her voice acting talents while participating in field exercises and deployments. Her voice's unique qualities rendered it invaluable when used to authenticate section callsigns and code-words. She also starred in multiple Armed Forces Network radio and television spots, did some modeling and Hawaiian/Tahitian/Belly dancing as creative outlets from the rigidity of military life.

After she retired, she did a short stint as a government contractor, then a government civilian and quickly realized that between the office politics and her unfulfilled feelings that it was time to leave government work altogether.

After doing so, she says her life opened up to a whirlwind of possibilities and it was time to create her own reality.

Crystal is now a voice actor specializing in voice-over for animation, commercials, and industrials, the Founder and CEO of Crystal J Productions, a service-disabled veteran, Belly Dancing nerd, and magical being, Crystal is an amalgamation of beauty, integrity, discipline, creativity, and quirkiness. Obviously the industry thinks so as well given her commercial demo was nominated for a SOVAS Award in 2021.

To reach Crystal directly, you may do so via the following:

Business Email Address: [email protected]

Website(s): www.crystaljproductions.com and www.animatedvoiceovers.com

LinkedIn: linkedin.com/in/crystaljproductions

Instagram: @crystaljproductions

Facebook: @crystaljproductions

Twitter: @CrystalMLee_VO

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My guest today, James Picard, is a master painter, poet, filmmaker and humanitarian, who originally hails from Burlington, Ontario Canada and now makes his home between Vancouver, BC and Studio City, California. He's been creating works of art since his childhood which led him to study in Ontario at Sheridan College and the Ontario College of Art & Design to become a world-renowned artist working in various mediums. James has also taught art at several renowned art universities and has released three books of his art. His work has been exhibited next to world-renowned art legends such as Picasso, Matisse, Miro, and Warhol.

His use of Ink, pencil and Conte' crayons to depict portraits of musical and historic icons such as Mozart, David Bowie, Shakespeare and Marlon Brando to a whimsical series that James calls "Duets", which feature numerous gifted animals such as Cats giving a Recital to his incredibly gifted use of oils to portray his 'Piano Room Series', 'Children Playing Cards', or his delightful watercolor of Santa Claus, illustrates the depth and range of his remarkable talent.

Having exhibited his artwork in galleries around the globe, it's his work that didn't make it into the traditional showrooms that garnered James the most attention. His 'Dark and Wounded' series of paintings and their unusual staging in abandoned asylums, hospitals and prisons followed by the documentary film of the same name, won numerous awards across the North American Film Festival circuit before culminating in a screening at the 71st Cannes Film Festival in 2018. After a long hiatus due to the pandemic, James is now resuming talks for this to become a feature film.

You may contact James Picard via:

https://jamespicard.com/

https://thedarkandthewoundedofficial.com/

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The guest joining me today is Christine Powers who describes herself as an "activator" for business and thought leaders who are longing to know themselves deeper and step into the next level of their service on the planet.

Melding 30 years of expertise in marketing, design, branding, PR, communications, and fundraising, in 2018 Christine created the Philosophers Camp -- a "summer camp" for leaders, inspired by the 1858 Philosophers Camp led by Ralph Waldo Emerson and William Stillman. The Philosophers Camp offers fellowship, wilderness exploration, a cross-pollination of ideas, and restoration of bodies and souls. It's located on a beautiful 100-acre rustic luxury sanctuary in the Adirondack Mountains of NY.

Chritine studied theater and voice at Northwestern University and the University of Notre Dame and is a world-class soprano with a range that spans three-and-a-half octaves. She uses her powerful voice to create meditative and healing lullaby's such as her 'I Am Word' which she wrote after the Paris attack in the Fall of 2015.

She references how she learned "radical detachment" and the grace of "inhabiting the horizon of pure potential" when the entire contents of her home and business burned to ash. She's nurtured, parented, and as she says "failed three children" that span over a decade in ages, navigating the dynamics of a blended family and maintaining a vibrant (second) marriage.

You may contact Christine via the following:

Business email: [email protected]

Business website: christinepowers.com

https://www.facebook.com/ChristinePowersSong/

https://www.linkedin.com/in/christinepowers1

https://www.instagram.com/christinehpowers

For information about her guided trip to Machu Picchu: SacredTriptoPeru.com

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To honor and celebrate Black History Month, I'm releasing an encore presentation of one of my very first episodes with Eric Jackson who is a true American treasure! Whether you've listened to his story before or are listening for the first time, I think you'll agree with me just how special Eric's contributions to Jazz music education, producing and broadcasting are.✨ Listen on Apple Podcasts, Spotify, 19stories.libsyn.com and all your favorite audio platforms🎙 Remember to Like, Review and Share. It's greatly appreciated!

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