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SOCIAL MEDIA: A GAME OF RISKS AND REWARDS
If you’ve read all six previous installments in this series about my transition from being an invisible voice over to becoming an on-camera social media person, I admire you! Not only do you have good taste, you’re also an inquisitive and highly intelligent person. We need more people like you in this world! Joking aside, I think it’s imperative that you don’t take yourself too seriously if you…
Now that you know all my production secrets, welcome to Part 6 of my series about this Dutch American who’s making the transition from being an invisible voice over and blogger to becoming a very visible on-camera content creator. Yes, I’m talking about me: Paul Holland. I’ll level with you: after having written a new blog post every week for the past twenty plus years, I was suffering from a…
A CLOSER LOOK BEHIND THE SCENES
This is Part 5 of a series about my transition from being an invisible voice over and blogger, to becoming a visible social media personality. If you’ve just read Part 4, you’ve seen the (not so secret or special) formula I apply to practically every video I record. What I didn’t tell you yet is what I do to make these videos look more uniform and recognizable as mine. Again, these are simple…
MY BIG, PLAYFUL EXPERIMENT
If this is your first time here, welcome! You’ve landed on Part 4 of a series in which I describe my move from being a full-time invisible voice actor and blogger, to becoming an on-camera social media personality. Click here for Part 1, Click here for Part 2, and click here for Part 3. We left off with me saying goodbye to my very hard to remember last name, and now using the pseudonym Paul…
CUTTING TIES AND REBRANDING MYSELF
For those who are keeping track, this is Part 3 of my story about how I transitioned from being a full-time voice over and blogger, to becoming an on-camera content creator. Click here to read Part 1, and click here for part 2. Before I talk about the last obstacles I had to overcome, it’s important to mention some of the things I believe I bring to the table when it comes to being present on…
BECOMING MORE VISIBLE AND VULNERABLE
In my previous post “Finding a New Niche,” I started to outline my transition from being a full-time voice over and blogger, to someone searching for a different way to reach out to the world. Given my background and experience, the “big” idea was to focus on the Netherlands. I wrote: “I’ve made it my new mission to tell the world about the influence a small, flat country of 18 million people has…
FINDING A NEW NICHE
One year ago, I announced to the world that I was going to stop doing the two things most people knew me for: Voice overs, and blogging about it. For over twenty years I had been a pesky but predictable presence in the world of voice acting, known as “that Dutch guy who dared to say out loud what others were thinking.” What was I thinking? Well, that’s all documented in over six hundred blog…
LOSING MY VOICE AFTER A STROKE
March 26th, 2018 was no ordinary day. It was the day I nearly died of a stroke. In the sad list of leading causes of death in the USA, stroke takes fifth place. It’s also a leading cause of adult disability. You probably know someone who’s had one, and if you didn’t, you now know me. Click here to learn about the stroke risk factors. I survived -obviously- and I belong to the lucky ones. In fact,…
I remember December and January as being slow months for a freelance business. Predictably slow. And yet, it was only a matter of time before I would see the worried posts from colleagues in a panic: “Did all my clients drop off the face of the earth?” “What am I doing wrong? “Why am I making no money in the most expensive months of the year?” Valid questions, no doubt, but only coming from those…
THREE YEARS IN VERMONT
November 5th 2024 marked our 3rd year of living in Vermont, and of loving every minute of it! Some well-meaning colleagues have called me “lucky,” and I feel fortunate indeed. But Lady Luck had very little to do with it. Being here is the result of careful planning, of saving up, and of not selling myself short. I have been ridiculed for my defense of fair and decent rates by a Fiverr generation,…
WHATEVER HAPPENED TO GRATITUDE?
Can’t think of any sane reason to get back to doing voice overs… Quick story: In all the years I’ve been in the VO business, I have served thousands of clients. During those 40+ years, hundreds of them have asked me for the names of colleagues I would recommend. You know, people of a different gender, people who speak a different language or with a different accent, or people of a different…
LIFE AFTER VO: GRATITUDE AND DISAPPOINTMENT
It’s been a month and a half since I officially left the voice over community and stopped working as a full-time voice actor. I was seventeen years old when I first used my voice on Dutch Public Radio. I’m sixty-one now, so I effectively ended a career of forty-four years. In addition, I’ve been a very vocal member of my community, writing a weekly blog for more than twenty years, doing…
MY LAST HURRAH
We’ve reached the end of this series, can you believe it? If you’ve been with me on this journey, thank you so much for your time and for your patience. By now you should know that I’m Paul, a guy from the Netherlands who carved out an unlikely career in the U.S. as a voice over artist and blogger. I loved what I did for a living, but my voice no longer supports my profession. Don’t feel sorry…
STOP BEING SO NEGATIVE
I think I owe you and apology. Sorry, but I can’t stop talking about why I am going to stop talking… about why I’m leaving the voice over industry. One of the reasons I’m breaking up with voice overs is that some in my community can’t cope with criticism. They label people like me (of which there are very few) as “being negative” and “discouraging.” In my book, having a critical, inquisitive…
DIRTY ROTTEN APPLES
Let’s talk about generalizations. Throughout these blog posts you have heard me talk about THE voice over industry and THE voice over community. In fact, I’ve been painting with some broad strokes to get my points across, and there’s a danger in doing that. Life is too complicated and too rich to capture in all its details, especially on social media where everybody (another generalization) has…
SITTING DUCKS IN AN ECHO CHAMBER
To summarize my last blog post: in my opinion, the voice over industry has turned to you-know-what, and we as voice overs bear the brunt of the blame. What is happening today is the result of all the things we decided to put up with and give in to. In spite of all the warnings. If you happened to stumble upon this blog, I’m Paul, a Dutch voice over who now lives in Vermont. I’ve been in business…
RISING CREAM AND FLOATING TURDS
I’ve been using my voice professionally since I was 17 years old. After a career in Dutch radio I became a voice actor in the United States, and recently I’ve decided to call it quits. In this series I’m telling you why. So far I have cited my health as one of the main reasons I am leaving voice overs. My vocal endurance has gone down since my stroke, and without medication my heart would still…