Joan Baker : The Myth of Rejection

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Joan Baker : The Myth of Rejection

Join Voice Over Expert Joan Baker with guest Rudy Gaskins as they discuss "The Myth of Rejection". Discover a new philosophy on how you can regard auditions, react positively to rejection, and embrace each audition as a learning experience and opportunity for growth.

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Joan Baker, Myth of Rejection, The Voice Over Master Immersion Class, Learning Annex, Rudy Gaskins, Push Creative, Secrets of Voiceover Success, Don LaFontaine, NYC.

Links from today's show:

JoanBaker.tv
Push Creative
Secrets of Voiceover Success Book

Your Instructor this week:

Voice Over Expert Joan Baker

Joan Baker is a sound to be reckoned with as one of New York’s premier voice-over actors and creator of the wildly successful “Make Millions With Your Voice” through the Learning Annex, the ongoing Immersion Class Workshops and for the first time ever Directing & Working with Voice-over Talent at the Promax/BDA TV Conference 2007 was introduced to producers, writers, TV station managers and VO agents to a sell out crowd. Joan is also the author of “SECRETS OF VOICEOVER SUCCESS”, a compelling collection of stories about the top voice-over actors in the industry, including the one and only, Don LaFontaine and many more. All proceeds benefit the Alzheimer’s Foundation.

Clients include ESPN, Showtime, Chase Bank, American Express, ABC News and Sports, Lifetime, Lexus, SPIKE TV and Disney (she positively ROARED for the Lion King’s national radio campaign!). Other credits include voiceover for HBO Family, WNBC, Nickelodeon, Delta Airlines, Fox 5, NBA Entertainment, NICK at NITE, Imus in the Morning, the ABC Super Sign in Times Square and countless more. Joan’s extraordinary talent has generated the spotlight with feature articles in the Hollywood Reporter, Back Stage, Media Week, ADWEEK and Broadcasting & Cable to mention a few.

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This episode really needs to be heard by all voice talent, new and experienced! The idea of rejection is something that people are too quick to accept.

In the regular business world, when a person is unemployed and job seeking, the notion of rejection is very strong, especially if the unemployment came as a result of being fired or downsized. A person's sense of value is already diminished and to perceive a lack of response as rejection only makes it worse.

Quite often, a job skills training class will prepare you for the task at hand. Keep getting those resumes out there. Network and self promote whenever possible. Your job IS job hunting.

The same principle applies in the entertainment industry. In Bob Bergen's performance at VOICE, he mentioned that he came to the realization that an actor's job is not acting... it's auditioning. "Audition, audition, audition, JOB, audition...", you get the picture.

Keep going, keep auditioning, keep self-promoting. Use all the tools at hand and never think that you are not talented. You just may not be the talent the client is looking for.

Posted by: Carol Mroz - Billing Manager | July 20, 2007 6:50 PM

Thanks Joan and Rudy!

After awhile we start to tell ourselves that the "rejection" doesn't really bother us anymore, but perceiving it as rejection (versus simply not being selected) will chip away at our attitude eventually.

Fortunately we have resources like this to help us move on and keep growing and learning!

Thanks
Rob Ellis

Posted by: Rob Ellis | July 27, 2007 9:22 PM