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July 2007
"What you see and hear depends a good deal on where you are standing; it also
depends on what kind of a person you are." -- C.S. Lewis
Twenty years ago, I was one of the pioneer voices of automated speech systems,
prompting you to press one and two before it was socially acceptable. While today
I bless this entryway into my now diverse voice career, at the time, when I
started, I believed I was second-rate as a talent because of the material I
recorded: voice prompts. I was looked down upon by what I believed to be the
"real" talent, who made their living doing the sexy stuff, the more glamorous
character roles and the broadcast commercial spots that received national
recognition. I was actually told by one voice actor, “How could you do that for a
living?” As a result, I sadly chose to believe I stood on the outside of the glass,
looking in—watching the party that I so much wanted to be a part of.
As time went on, my steady diet of IVR and corporate narration work kept growing
and I became inundated with this regular-gig material. When I ran into my peers
from time to time, I would hear how many of them were hungry for regular-gig work,
and they began questioning me about how I did it. As I became more awake, I started
to see that I was the one at the party they so much wanted to be a part of. This
evolved into my understanding that, in reality, all of us are already at the same
party. And, fully awake I saw the real truth—that serving the world doing what I
love with a regular paycheck was, after all, pretty darn sexy.
And what I share with everyone today is what I see most clearly: that my work and
abundance is the direct result of who I am and how I live my life—waking up each
day with the goal of making a difference in your life, using my passion to serve
and inspire. So, whether I am giving you your bank balance or convince you to use
Tide, I choose to see that I’m always serving my higher purpose. This is one
hell-of-a-party and I see today that I was standing here all along; I just didn’t
always know it. Come stand over here with me; let’s party together.
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