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In this episode: How to record your video podcast in a way that requires minimal editing Tips for being more efficient at scripting your podcast episodes   Getting more things done by working according to your energy levels and being more productive   THE THOUGHT LEADER CLUB 1:1 + COMMUNITY PROGRAM: Build a body of work that lets you become known for your unique thought leadership, story, and how amazing you are at what you do For details and to apply https://cheryltheory.com/program/  FREE WEBINAR: https://cheryltheory.lpages.co/webinar INSTAGRAM: @cheryltheory LINKEDIN: Cheryl Lau WEBSITE: www.cheryltheory.com EMAIL NEWSLETTER: https://cheryltheory.lpages.co/email/ 

Our guest this week is Martin Lau. This is his second appearance on The Long View, the first being in August 2021. Lau is a managing partner of FSSA Investment Managers, part of First Sentier Investors. He has been at the firm since 2002 and is the lead fund manager of various FSSA strategies, including FSSA Asian Equity Plus, FSSA China Growth, and FSSA Hong Kong Growth. Lau has been in the investment business for nearly three decades and is based in Hong Kong. He earned a Bachelor of Arts degree from Cambridge University, a master's degree in engineering from Cambridge, and holds the Chartered Financial Analyst® designation.BackgroundBioFSSA Investment Managers“Martin Lau: Now Is a Better Time to Buy China,” The Long View podcast, Morningstar.com, Aug. 3, 2021.Morningstar Global Fund Report: FSSA Asian Equity PlusMorningstar Global Fund Report: FSSA China GrowthMorningstar Global Fund Report: FSSA Hong Kong GrowthChina Market and Foreign Investments“FSSA Martin Lau's Lessons Learnt From 30 Years of Investing in China,” by Kate Lin, Morningstar.com, April 18, 2023.“Meeting Companies Amid China's Post-Covid Rebound,” Fund Manager Q&A With Martin Lau, Winston Ke, and Helen Chen, FSSA Investment Managers, April 2023.“Client Update: A Fast Thaw After a Long Winter,” by Martin Lau, FSSA Investment Managers, March 2023.“China Equities: Keeping a Long-Term View,” by Martin Lau, FSSA Investment Managers, March 2023.“Three Themes and Companies to Play China's Rise,” by Martin Lau, Firstlinks, March 22, 2023.

In this episode: Stage 1: If you're taking notes on other people's content and marketing Stage 2: If you question whether your story and opinions have "value" Stage 3: If you don't feel like an expert And the practical steps to level up from each stage and ultimately build your career as a thought leader   THE THOUGHT LEADER CLUB 1:1 + COMMUNITY PROGRAM: Build a body of work that lets you become known for your unique thought leadership, story, and how amazing you are at what you do For details and to apply https://cheryltheory.com/program/  FREE WEBINAR: https://cheryltheory.lpages.co/webinar INSTAGRAM: @cheryltheory LINKEDIN: Cheryl Lau WEBSITE: www.cheryltheory.com EMAIL NEWSLETTER: https://cheryltheory.lpages.co/email/ 

Today on “Post Reports,” residents in Lahaina are healing after the deadly Maui wildfires with the help of a Hawaiian tradition: surfing. Read more:The Aug. 8 wildfire in Lahaina, Hawaii – the deadliest U.S. wildfire in more than a century – took the lives of at least 115 people, with the number of missing still unknown. With lives and homes devastated, residents are searching for a sense of normalcy. Surfing offers a reprieve for many of those affected by the tragic event.“It can be a great way for people to heal. Like ocean therapy, saltwater therapy,” said former professional surfer and surfboard shaper, Jud Lau. “The ocean is a healing place.”With the help of his Instagram followers and donations, Lau and other board shapers on Maui are replacing boards for those who lost them in the fire. Lahaina resident Victoria Gladden, a mother of three daughters, lost five boards in the fire, as well as everything else she owned. Getting back in the water was crucial for her to reconnect with herself in post-fire chaos. With the help of the Surfboard Replacement Project, Gladden and her eldest daughter Brianna reconnected with the water, finding peace on the waves. “This is just my favorite place in the whole entire world is the ocean,” she said after surfing for the first time since the fire.“I will never, ever live in a place where I cannot be in the water. I wouldn't, no way. What kind of life would that be?”

Anne and Lau recently held an Audition Demolition workshop which included a live callback and casting process. In this episode, the Bosses discuss the audition demolition and how it mirrors the casting process. They explain the importance of taking direction well, researching scripts, and approaching every piece of copy as an actor. During a live callback, don't forget to have fun and enjoy being in a room with other people. Anne and Lau also discuss the importance of feedback and how it can help aspiring voice actors hone their craft Finally, we examine some of the memorable people and performances that stood out. The Bosses finish by reminding listeners that our next Audition Demolition is coming up soon! Transcript 0:00:01 - Intro It's time to take your business to the next level, the boss level. These are the premier business owner strategies and successes being utilized by the industry's top talent today. Rock your business like a boss, a V-O boss. Now let's welcome your host, Anne Ganguzza.   0:00:19 - Anne Hey everyone, welcome to the V-O Boss podcast and the Boss Business Superpower series. I'm your host, Anne Ganguzza, and I'm here with my bossy co-host, Lau Lapides. Hey Anne, how are you? I'm awesome, Lau. How are you Good? Fantastic, Lau. We had the most amazing audition demolition this past weekend.   0:00:45 - Lau Woohoo, it was super, super power.   0:00:49 - Anne Yeah, I think we should chat about it. Oh, let's go, I'm ready. Yeah, well, for those bosses who are unaware, we created a audition demolition workshop, which is very similar. We did it once before a Lau, but we added a couple of new twists to it and essentially it was to mimic the casting process, the audition process, and so people could enter and they could choose to get feedback or not. They could audition and get feedback, or audition and not get feedback through our Dropbox new application called Replay. Lau and I were selecting a short list after that and ultimately did not announce the short list until the live show, which was this past weekend. I think it was so exciting, Lau.   0:01:42 - Lau It was so fun, it was great. It took a while right. It took us time to get through it. It wasn't a quick deal. It took us. How long was the show, how long did it run?   0:01:52 - Anne A couple hours, it was a couple hours and we had 10 people that we called back, just like in a real audition I was talking Lau about. When I used to drive into LA I would get notice from my agent that said you've been called back and they want to hear you. I would drive oh God, I would drive into LA and go to the studio and I'd see a lot of times I'd see my voiceover friends there. It was kind of nice. It was like a big party. But yeah, we were still auditioning and so I was a little nervous. I think all of us had a little bit of nervous.   But we would be called in one by one to read a script and Lau, and I tried to mimic that as much as possible during our weekend, and so people were not aware if they were on the shortlist until they got to the live show and then we announced the shortlist one by one. It wasn't, we announced everybody on the shortlist at once. It basically like as if you were waiting in the studio lobby to be called into the studio to read, and so that's what we did. Everybody was surprised and we had 10 people that we shortlisted and we had them come in and guess what? The client changed the script. Now, we did that before, but that's typically what happens, right, you read an audition and then when you go in person to audition, they have a different script. That's almost always the case, I think, and so we changed the script on them, and I don't know Lau. What were your thoughts?   0:03:15 - Lau I thought it went really well. I mean surprising that I kind of thought to some degree many would fall apart with that and not know what was going on and there would be mass confusion and there would be fire and tornadoes and earthquakes. And Charlton Heston would come out of the booth and then we would be eating alive, right, and then the sea would part.   I was like, oh, what are we doing inviting this? But no, seriously. We had some faith in these wonderful talent, and rightly so. They all came through. Everyone came through, I think, with flying colors, and we did. We're good actors, ann. I mean, we made them sufficiently sweat a little bit as if you would in a real live audition. There was a little stress, little tension in the air. I know people were nervous because I saw conversations beforehand flying around on email and in the chat and I love that.   I think that that gave it that flavor of a real. You know it was a mock audition but it was a real audition feel, which is something we wanted to mirror for the professional development and education of it. Absolutely, that worked well. I thought that really worked well.   0:04:20 - Anne And I think that it's really good to get yourself practiced in a live situation where you're definitely feeling adrenaline, whether you're nervous in a good way or even a bad way, right, it really helps you to get seasoned and to figure out what you have to do to work out those nerves to really perform well, and I think that that was a good experience for everybody that participated.   And I feel that, by the way, and so what? We waited until the very beginning and we said guess what? The client changed the script and then we gave them the new script. So talent did not have a lot of time to prepare. As a matter of fact, I would say the first talent that we called up usually is the one at the disadvantage for this particular show, because typically we're not listening to each other audition. We're going in one by one and it's a private thing and we get private feedback. But this because we wanted this to be an educational experience. We had an entire Zoom room full of people who didn't know if they made the audition and were listening to the feedback live, real time from both Lau and myself, and so that will happen a lot of times.   Lau, right in a real situation, you'll have more than one person giving you feedback. You'll have an engineer in there, you'll have a director, you might have a client. You might have more than one person that's offering you direction at the time, and they could have different ideas about the direction. Now, I think Lau, you and I, we think fairly similarly, but there were some auditions where I wanted to hear something different than you did or feedback that we gave was absolutely, I think, different in different spots, but I think overall, we were sticking to the casting specs that were laid out there and that was very similar to a lot of casting specs. That is, make it authentic, make it real, make it, make it conversational. So that's always a task, I think, for talent, and when they're just seeing the script for the first time and even if we've been directing other people, they might be oh my God, they might be preparing. They might not have listened to our feedback, right?   0:06:24 - Lau Yes, yes, and that was the great part of having everyone in the room. That would not happen in an audition most of the time most anywhere but we wanted that educational experience. We wanted people to observe each other's work and get the benefit of everyone's feedback so that even if they were nervous in preparing, they could absorb some of what they were hearing before they went on. And I think that it was a blessing for people to kind of go later and it was also a blessing for people to go first.   0:06:55 - Anne Sure, oh, I agree.   0:06:55 - Lau Because it's a very different experience. I also wanted to bring up, too, our experience, ann, of when we were commenting in the Dropbox and doing all of our feedback, that I heard in the session from a number of people and post via email thanking us that they felt that the feedback was so wonderful, so detailed, so necessary and it was like a drink of nectar for a lot of people that said I'd like to think what you said was authentic and real and that it gave me time, it made me feel special, it made me feel like someone was paying attention to me, that status casting agency status, coaching status and that I could walk away with some real tools, practice tools to work on.   Absolutely. It wasn't just about am I good, am I bad?   0:07:46 - Anne am I right am?   0:07:46 - Lau I wrong. It was much more about reminding me that I have a full process here and I can go in many different directions, and I'd like to think that you and I gave as much authentic feedback as we could, rather than artificial feedback just for the sake of entertainment value.   0:08:03 - Anne Oh yeah, no, absolutely, and I'm going to say that I think that what I loved about it is that the educational component that came into it with the feedback and this is the feedback not just during the live show, this is the feedback via Dropbox. The really cool thing about Dropbox Replay and offering feedback there's a lot of times you'll notice that you submit your auditions via Dropbox and you always have to be careful how you name them and there's lots of criteria when you upload an audition. The cool thing about being able to offer feedback for all the people that requested it is that we were able to give feedback along a timeline, and so if there was a particular passage that they did well or a particular passage where they maybe lost their authenticity or we had a critique, we could specify it at the specific time that it happened, and that's something that you don't always get in a real audition. As a matter of fact, usually in an audition you'll go in and read, and it's very rare that they'll offer feedback. They might give you a set of directions to do it again and may not offer as much verbose feedback as we did during the session, and you're kind of left with.   Okay, I hope I did good. And so you know, I'm always walking out of the room going well, I think they liked me. I hope they liked me, I hope I nailed it. And a lot of times they will give some generic thank you so much. Sometimes they won't say a word, they'll just say okay, thank you, and you'll walk out that door going gosh, I hope I nailed it. Which is what I love about the audition demolition is that we were able to really go beyond that and really act as like okay, here's what we would offer you feedback for the educational component. And then, when we made our decision Lau this is what I loved we muted ourselves, because a lot of times we're there, live in the studio or we're in a Zoom session and we are being directed and then all of a sudden they're gonna mute and they're gonna talk and we can see them talking behind the glass and you're like okay, did they like that?   What are they talking about? And you know, maybe they're talking about lunch, we don't know. Maybe they're talking about my performance. Was it good, was it bad? Oh, my God, what are they gonna tell me next? And then they'll say okay, thank you, we're done. But I liked our mimicking of that.   0:10:14 - Lau And there was a funny moment, though you can't forget to share, that hilarious moment, where we had talked about giving each other a call, a cell phone call, so that we could have this sort of intercom system between the two of us in case we wanna bring up some details to each other or just remind each other about certain cues. I totally forgot, and it was about a quarter of the way through and I said oh wow, I get a call. And I called Ann and I said Ann, listen, because one person didn't show up. I said do you want to have another call back, since we have an open slot? And she's like Lau, everyone can hear you. Right now Can everyone hear Lau? And they're like, and I'm like, that's okay, they'll learn from it, it's great for them.   0:10:59 - Anne There you go, there you go, and here's the deal In a real situation, right? If you don't show up to that casting call, that's it. You snooze, you lose, you're out, and they may make a decision at the last minute to call more people, or they need to hear more people, or maybe they didn't get what they needed from the first audition. Gosh, that goes on all the time.   Right, Lau, they recast it because they didn't really get what they wanted. So we did that too which I love it through a wrench in it, because everybody that was shortlisted thought that was it. And then all of a sudden we had a discussion. We said we'd like to call back Actually, we were gonna call back two people, but we ended up calling back one other person, which again added that element of surprise which again hypes up the adrenaline and the nerves. And so I think again, this audition demolition Lau we can do this like regularly, because I think it's a skill that every voice artist should have in their toolbox to be able to be prepared on the fly, work through those nerves and just perform and get that gig and be able to take direction well, right, and no matter how we slice it, of course we're always about process or process oriented people.   0:12:14 - Lau But there is a product, there is a gig at stake and in this contest we had prizes, we had some cash.   0:12:22 - Anne We had cash.   0:12:22 - Lau We had cash we had cash, we had a going on. People were really fighting and cLauing for the real deal. It wasn't just oh, you won, congratulations. It was, let's actually reward you. Who is something real world that you can enjoy, right and people love that.   0:12:38 - Anne I think people love that. I mean, who doesn't love cash? Who doesn't love cash? I mean, that's just as you know, that's an investment in your business, right? So invest in the audition demolition and you can win cash and or swag, and so I'm extremely excited to have offered that.   0:12:54 - Lau I wanna ask what were some auditions that really stuck out for you and why did they stick out for you? I mean, even in the larger pool, not just the short list, but even in the larger pool there were so many unique people. Oh yeah, they were diverse talent very across the board. No two people were the same. What were some of the more memorable people and performances that your audience can learn from today?   0:13:18 - Anne Well, first and foremost, understanding that I'm going to be casting for a particular job and a particular company, which this happened to be University of Phoenix, I had a demographic in mind that I wanna advertise to and I had a sound in my head that I thought would be a good representative of this particular company or university that would be able to sell effectively.   And I think that every casting director has an idea in their head as to what kind of a voice they're looking for, which usually ends up in the specs. But sometimes they change their mind when somebody gets creative or maybe interprets the script in a little bit of a different way. And it was always those auditions that stood out to me, the ones that it wasn't like the song that I heard in my head. Right, we were asking for authentic, we were asking for conversational, and those people that could really come into the first few words, that sounded like they had a story, they had a person they were talking to, those were the ones that perked up my ears. And, of course, those that had a very different, a very different sound as well. I mean, I will say I mean I can't say that your sound doesn't come into play here, because, again, we're hiring people based upon how we think they're going to effectively sell our product. Right, what?   0:14:40 - Lau about you Lau? I would agree, and I made a concerted effort to come in with a very open mind and play the producer, who has not as much idea of what I'm actually looking for. I just know, I know the product, I know the school, I know the program, I've seen their advertising campaigns. I get that, yeah, but I want to keep an open mind because I'm not exactly sure which direction I want to go in. Yeah, age wise, diversity factor, accent wise and I'm glad I did that, because everyone was so different and so unique. I would have been let down only in the sense that I would have been looking for that needle in a haystack.   Oh, I was looking at the whole haystack and because we did that, our shortlist was so diverse.   0:15:27 - Anne Oh, it was no two people who are alike, right.   0:15:30 - Lau You'd say, was there even a breakdown involved with this, because they were so large?   0:15:33 - Anne and that's what's so cool. What I love about what you just said was I said okay, I had an idea in mind, right, I know the demographic, I know the product and I know the type of sound that I'm looking for and that's what I'm gonna put in the casting specs. However, you're absolutely right. By being open-minded and hearing a bunch of different voices, then I started to think, well, okay, for this campaign, I like this voice because of this factor. I like this voice because that's the one I originally thought would be a really great choice for selling. But now I can see that this other voice, which may not have been anywhere, like I thought right, would really be effective in helping to sell my product as a casting director.   So, yes, keeping it open-minded, understanding, guys, that even though the casting specs may call for something, right, if you bring something unique to the read, you bring yourself, you bring that personality, you bring something that just makes us go oh, okay, I didn't think about that.   It really is a wonderful testament to, literally, your voice. It could be any voice, right, it doesn't have to be a particular sound, doesn't have to be a particular style, it can be you, it can be what you bring to the read and that can sway a casting director's choice, which is amazing, right, it's wonderful, it's hopeful and it makes you feel like, alright, well then, I still am gonna give my best, right? Well, if you're looking at the casting spectrum, I don't know, I'm probably not gonna get it. I mean, no, don't feel that way at all, because we were surprised very, and actually even in our decisions, right, in terms of who were we going to cast when it came down to it. Right, we were going back and forth between a couple of different voices and I think that, well, let's keep these guys on hold or on call back, or who else would be great for this campaign. There were multiple choices.   0:17:19 - Lau Yeah, and I was playing tricks in my head saying, oh, I can't wait to see who's gonna win this thing, because I have no idea right now. Literally throughout the whole thing, I literally Could not figure out who is going to win and who is going to book the gate, and I think that's very true and very accurate to the casting process. Many times it comes right down to the wire when everyone is disagreeing on a talent or maybe they need to bring in another talent, and you and I did that.   0:17:46 - Anne We weren't necessarily it didn't bring but, we were going back and forth about.   0:17:50 - Anne We wanted to narrow it down, and it was tough for us to narrow down those choices because we each had our own Independent, we had our favorites and we had people that we thought were best suited for the campaign. I'm glad that we were able to. Obviously, we awarded the gig to one person and that's a congratulations to Joshua Goodman and then we awarded to runners up, because that was something that we thought you know we're gonna keep you on our shortlist for perhaps the next campaign and that was Pat Kennedy, was one of our alternates and gender Macintosh. So congratulations to everybody and really congratulations to everyone who auditioned. I mean, I was so impressed with the professionalism and the talent that we heard and I'm excited to do this again, and I'm excited about changing up the scripts, the genre right and changing up the scripts and having even more people audition for this. So I think it was a real success. I don't know what are you excited about for what's up next?   0:18:51 - Lau Well, I'll tell you one piece of excitement, and I don't like to say this at the top. It's what we call metatheatrical. It's a reality within a reality, within a reality, but the truth is, this was not a mock audition when I looked at this, and I'm sure you were thinking this too, in regards to recommending clients for projects that you're a part of. I am always looking for new talent. So there will be people that I'm going to reach out to for MCVO contracts.   0:19:20 - Anne We don't say that and I'll be referring people because it becomes a top of mind. I know who my talent are Top of mind, yeah, and I'll be casting for projects as well. While I'm not a talent agent like yourself, I do have a number of clients that I help cast for and I actually have a couple of rosters that I place people that I recommend I place them for jobs and so the truth is is like it's a mock audition for educational purposes.   0:19:47 - Lau but there's a subtext of reality that whenever you're in front of working people in the industry, they're always going to be thinking about you for potential work. How do you put someone like us in front of some of these people and say don't look at them for work, just look at them as a student? It's not possible, because they're working people, they're working professionals. So we want to give educational value, lots of educational value and development, but we also want to potentially find new people.   0:20:19 - Anne we could be working with Awesome talent. No question, let's there to lose for auditioning, right? So our next audition demolition and again. By the time this airs, it may have passed already, but I really think, talking about our experiences with the first one, I think it ran gosh. It ran smoother than I even thought, and so I'm really excited to continue this on a regular basis because I think it's just so educational and, as bosses, we're all about the education. I'm all about providing a great resource. That's what we do here at the VioBoss podcast, and we're here to help. We're here to hopefully give you some advice and tips along your journey in this crazy voiceover industry that we all love so much. And hey, what can I?   0:21:03 - Lau say I think it's fantastic and I want to be clear to those who have no idea what we're talking about and want to get involved with it that you're getting literally hours worth of feedback. Oh yeah, not just a quick. That was great and you're done. You're getting all the written feedback first Plus and our Dropbox Plus.   You're going to show up on the contest day in real time live and you're going to get all sorts of feedback. You're going to hear everyone else's feedback. You're going to get to observe and steal and absorb everyone else's. Then you'll get your own. So it's like double feedback, Endless feedback.   0:21:38 - Anne It's like double feedback. It's more than if you just go to one session, because you're getting much more written feedback from both Lau and myself, whether you make the shortlist or not, and during the class you're going to have the exposure to finding out. If you're on the shortlist and even if you don't make the shortlist, you get to watch the others perform and be redirected and get that education as well. So I mean, gosh, the value I'm just saying the value is incredible, guys.   0:22:08 - Lau It's massive, it's huge. I mean, I don't know any other circumstance that offers that kind of thing.   0:22:14 - Anne And who offers cash? Who offers? Cash as a prize and the amount of time that we're dealing with a compressed amount of time, right, right, you can win back your money plus some, win back your investment and some, and have fun doing it and be top of mind for those people that may be able to help cast you in further roles.   0:22:34 - Lau So and do you have a couple of quick tips? I love tips, couple of quick tips for the next round of talent. Who are like I have to do this, I got to get in on this or the round that just came through. I know a lot of them are already talking about coming back. They want to have another go of it, they want to be challenged again. Let's talk about quickly a couple of tips that we can offer them when they come back. Good idea, when they're coming in for the first time.   0:22:58 - Anne Well, I'm going to say, first and foremost, do your research on the script, do some analysis before you run into your studio and just read it as if you this is the way you think it should sound.   I really think you've got to spend a few moments and, if you can, google the product, google the company, find out like who their demographic is, find out if they've had other campaigns. Take a look at those campaigns. See what their style is, what their brand is, what their mission statement is, and I think all of that information can help you to voice for that company better. And also make sure that you are, after the analysis, that you really look at it as an actor and I know you're gonna probably expound on this one, but I want you to really look on that script as an actor. You're not gonna probably get a storyboard with it, and so you have to try to imagine what's happening in the scene, always know who you are and who you're talking to, and really put yourself in a scene so that you are authentically in it, telling a story where all storytellers right. We have to tell the story. We have to engage the listener into a believable, authentic performance and Lau. I'm sure you're gonna go off on that one, oh my gosh.   0:24:11 - Lau I second that. I third that I also don't want you to lose that fun factor, because there is a tremendous fun factor to not just voicing the copy but also being with people in a room. When you're with people in a room, I know it's scary, it's nerve-wracking, you don't know who everyone is, but I want you to enjoy, like, really relish the moment and have a little bit of personalization as you. So some of the time when you were giving a direction in, or we gave an adjustment or we were just greeting people, there were some people that stuck out in my mind as being very memorable because they had that mix of business acumen with warmth and fun, and they smiled a lot. There was one talent His teeth were so white I couldn't stop looking at them. He just smiled the whole time because we were visually in a room seeing each other.   We weren't just hearing each other audio wise, but all of that counts for something it does. Yeah, so that I know, okay, this talent knows how to smile on a lot of commercial reads. This person knows how to be a warm, engaging person. So if they're dealing with our clients, they're gonna be that way, like there's a lot of reasons.   0:25:20 - Anne Good points, excellent Right.   0:25:22 - Lau We have to enjoy. Let go be social a little bit, be personable. We're not gonna waste time, we're not getting into huge conversations. It's not a party, but it is a real time engagement of real people, and those people stick in my mind and relationships do matter.   0:25:39 - Anne I mean, it's one of those things that, like you said, it's not a party that you're gonna be talking the director's ear off, but you certainly have to have a little bit of a personality and have a little bit of joy and a little bit of definitely a lot of professionalism, but also let us see a little bit about who you are and that will help us to understand what you can bring to the table Absolutely, and that's within your interactions. When we're giving you direction and feedback, all of that comes out. So, yeah, good advice.   0:26:06 - Lau I'm gonna throw in another one and say it's really important to warm up. We wouldn't know for sure because we weren't asking this question, but I would suspect there were a few people who are not quite as warmed up as they could have been, mainly because they were stumbling a lot, they were going back on lines, they weren't breathing well, they were holding the breath, and I do think a lot of that is just nerves.   0:26:29 - Anne It could be nerves.   0:26:30 - Lau Yeah, real time, but take the time, even if it's an hour. Sit in your booth or take the time to stretch, drink water, breathe the air, go over your lines, feel them through, personalize them, so that it isn't just about getting the script right or I gotta get through this and sound good. It's about how do I feel you and I talked a lot about like the person that you're being and talking to is this real person? Even though it had a little bit of a corporate, boxy language to it, it's real. They're real people. So you gotta do that in your warmup. You have to incorporate that all in your warmup. You can't warm up or come in and you're colder and then you're warming up as you audition. I never recommend that. I think you should come in fully engaged full throttle, full throttle and get ready to go.   I think that that was the difference. That was one of the big differences between the people who are a little bit on a higher level and people who are coming into it, kind of feeling it out.   0:27:29 - Anne Yeah, yeah, and absolutely, when you're hearing direction and feedback as well, if you've got that pencil and you've got the script or your pad, your iPad, whatever it is to make some notes, cause I know, in the heat of the moment, sometimes, when you're getting direction and feedback and they ask for another read, sometimes they give a lot of things, okay, and then over here, I'd like you to lighten up here and who are you talking to and I feel like, if you needed to make some quick notes, make sure that you have the ability to do that. I love that, yeah.   0:27:59 - Lau I even say you know, with a prop. If you're dealing with a prop and you like a prop and a prop works for you, make it a prop that counts. Make it something that is meaningful to you. The first thing that came to my mind was if I'm dealing with the University of Phoenix read, and if you watch the advertising campaigns, traditionally they're pretty heartful. There's a warmth and a thoughtfulness to it. It would be great to have what the diploma looks like in front of you, or what a graduate looks like in front of you or what personally, so that you can see how meaningful that is to someone. That is going to change their whole life. That piece of paper is going to change their whole life potentially, and just bringing that in with you can change your whole delivery versus. Let me just get the first line right. Yeah, Absolutely.   0:28:43 - Anne You know what I mean Absolutely and, like I said, I think that research and maybe looking at other commercials that they've done or other work that they've put out there to their potential clients, yeah, absolutely, that can really make a difference.   0:28:55 - Speaker 1 So wow Good, I'm excited. I can't wait for the next one. I can't wait, bosses stay tuned.   0:29:02 - Anne We will have the next dates on the VO Boss website, vobosscom. The events should be right there on the front page, and so we are looking forward to having all of you come and audition for us and take advantage of the audition. Demolition and Loth. Thank you so much, as usual, for another amazing discussion. Bosses, here's a chance to use your voice to make an immediate difference in our world and give back to the communities that give to you. Visit 100voiceshoocareorg to commit. And a big shout out to our sponsor, ipdtl. You too can network and connect like a boss. Find out more at IPDTLcom. Bosses, have an amazing week and we will see you at the next VO Boss audition demolition.   0:29:46 - Lau Yeah, see you then, woohoo, bye.   0:29:50 - Speaker 1 Join us next week for another edition of VO Boss with your host, Anne Gangusa, and take your business to the next level. Sign up for our mailing list at vobosscom and receive exclusive content, industry revolutionizing tips and strategies and new ways to rock your business like a boss. Redistribution with permission. Coast to coast connectivity via IPDTL yeah.   0:30:23 - Lau You really know your stuff.   0:30:28 - Anne I'd like somebody to say that to me you really know your stuff. I want every session to be like wow, that was amazing.   0:30:36 - Speaker 1 Oh my gosh, I know a man.   0:30:38 - Anne Bob, it's been. It's been years since we've had a talent.   0:30:41 - Speaker 1 It's somebody this talented. It's been years.   Transcribed by https://podium.page

Laurens en Stefan gaan verder deze Vuelta. Over wederopstandingen gesproken. Er wordt een rijtje historische herrijzingen afgegaan, waarvan Evenepoel de hekkensluiter is. En terecht. Wát een Vuelta tot nu toe. Entertainment factor 100. Wat gaan de renners ons morgen brengen?En hoe zat het nou met dat matje van Lau? Je hoort het allemaal in de Live Slow Ride Fast podcast.Krijg nu 1 maand gratis Laka fietsverzekering met code “RIDEFAST”. Ga naar laka.co/nl en verzeker je fiets!Niks missen? Check KLAK.AF/LIVESLOWRIDEFAST!

In het centrum van Venray proberen twee mannen in mei 2006 een wietplantage te rippen. Het alarm gaat af en Lau Geeraets en Geert G. spoeden zich naar hun wietloods. Daar schieten ze de twee dieven met drie geweerschoten dood. De lichamen verbergen ze in de bossen bij Venlo. Pas in 2014 graaft de politie de resten van de stoffelijk overschotten van beide slachtoffers daar op. Justitie doet er alles aan om Lau Geeraets en Geert G. voor de dubbele moord veroordeeld te krijgen. Lau belandt uiteindelijk in de EBI, die hij vanwege de leefomstandigheden ‘Guantánomo Vught' noemt. Op de dag dat hij hoort dat hij levenslang de cel in moet, berooft hij zichzelf van het leven. Advocaat Marcel Heuvelmans stond Lau Geeraets bij en wist van zijn zelfmoordplan. Wat doe je dan, als advocaat? De uitspraak in de zaak lees je hier terug: https://uitspraken.rechtspraak.nl/#!/details?id=ECLI:NL:RBLIM:2015:3472&showbutton=true&keyword=dubbele%2Bmoord%2Bvenray%2B&idx=1   Over Napleiten: Misdaadjournalist Wouter Laumans en strafpleiter Christian Flokstra praten met advocaten en officieren van justitie over bijzondere zaken die hen altijd zullen bijblijven. In deze podcast geven advocaten en officieren van justitie voor het eerst een unieke inkijk in geruchtmakende strafprocessen.  Over de makers: Wouter Laumans is misdaadjournalist bij Het Parool. Auteur van boeken ‘Mocro Maffia' en ‘Wraak'. Maker van podcasts Napleiten en Pro Forma.  Christian Flokstra is partner strafrechtadvocaat bij Ficq & Partners Advocaten te Amsterdam. Geniet bekendheid door zijn rechtsbijstand aan verdachten in grote strafzaken tegen de georganiseerde misdaad, zoals Passage, Marengo en Eris. Maker van podcasts Napleiten en Pro Forma.See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

In this episode: A fun behind-the-scenes of what my day was like before the event  What the actual awards ceremony was like  What winning an award means and what it does not mean for my business  Other post-award observations and insights A message for fellow podcasters who sometimes wonder whether their work is still relevant, whether it's even helping anyone, and whether they should keep going    THE THOUGHT LEADER CLUB 1:1 + COMMUNITY PROGRAM: Build a body of work that lets you become known for your unique thought leadership, story, and how amazing you are at what you do For details and to apply https://cheryltheory.com/program/  FREE WEBINAR: https://cheryltheory.lpages.co/webinar INSTAGRAM: @cheryltheory LINKEDIN: Cheryl Lau WEBSITE: www.cheryltheory.com EMAIL NEWSLETTER: https://cheryltheory.lpages.co/email/ 

Mit der Erklärung Hubert Aiwangers zum Flugblattskandal und der Entscheidung Markus Söders, seinen Vize trotz des Vorfalls im Amt zu belassen, ist die Affäre noch lange nicht ausgestanden – im Gegenteil: Für den bayerischen Ministerpräsidenten fängt das Drama gerade erst an. In wenigen Wochen wird in Bayern gewählt, und bei der Union wird sich früher oder später die Frage stellen, wer Kanzlerkandidat für die nächsten Bundestagswahlen wird. Söders Umgang mit der Causa Aiwanger dürfte für beides gewichtige Folgen haben. In der neuen Folge von „Das Politikteil“ sprechen wir mit Mariam Lau, Redakteurin im Politikressort der ZEIT und dort unter anderem zuständig für die Union, über die gesellschaftlichen und politischen Folgen der Affäre um Hubert Aiwanger. Lau war zuletzt selbst in Bayern unterwegs, unter anderem auf dem Volksfest Gillamoos, und konnte dort aus der Nähe verfolgen, wie die Vorgänge in den bayerischen Bierzelten aufgenommen und diskutiert werden. Besonders schockierend findet sie die Verschiebung des gesellschaftlichen Diskurses in der Angelegenheit – „dass nun viele die Berichterstattung über den Skandal als Ausdruck von Denunziantentum bezeichnen und die Erinnerungskultur zum Holocaust banalisieren, in dem sie diese als Cancel Culture abtun.“ Für Söder räche sich nun, dass er sein Schicksal an das von Aiwanger gekettet habe, argumentiert die Politikjournalistin. „Jedes Mal, wenn jetzt jemand aus der Union das Wort Brandmauer in den Mund nimmt, wird jemand anderes sagen: Ja und was ist mit Aiwanger?“ Söder könne entweder Ministerpräsident an der Seite Aiwangers bleiben oder Kanzlerkandidat der Union werden, ist sie überzeugt. „Beides geht nicht.“ Im Podcast "Das Politikteil" sprechen wir jede Woche über das, was die Politik beschäftigt, erklären die Hintergründe, diskutieren die Zusammenhänge. Immer freitags mit zwei Moderatoren, einem Gast – und einem Geräusch. Neben Ileana Grabitz und Peter Dausend sind auch Tina Hildebrandt und Heinrich Wefing als Gastgeber zu hören.

ShakeDown Radio - August 2023 - Episode 654 - EDM Music Podcast: https://www.podomatic.com/podcasts/chris-carragher1977 Website: http://www.shakedownradio.com Mixcloud: www.mixcloud.com/chriscaggs Amazon Music Podcasts: https://bit.ly/3PhNuvZ Apple Podcasts / iTunes: https://apple.co/3tfyyDP Google Podcasts: https://bit.ly/42JlfcL iHeart Radio: https://ihr.fm/3ss7wr2 Tune In App: https://bit.ly/3qTGsPF Castbox: https://bit.ly/3maXTcb Follow Chris Caggs on Social Media: Threads @ChrisCaggs Facebook Friend Page www.facebook.com/chriscaggs Facebook Fan Page www.facebook.com/chriscaggsradio Twitter www.twitter.com/chriscaggs Instagram www.instagram.com/chriscaggs TikTok @ChrisCaggs Hashtag #ChrisCaggs #ShakedownRadio  Over the span of 25 Years across 15 Radio Stations - Chris Caggs has been on air at: Groove FM 96.9FM & 94.5FM - Sydney Groove FM 97.3FM - Brisbane DJ-FM 87.6FM - Sydney 2RDJ 88.1FM - Sydney 2NSB 99.3FM - Northside Radio Sydney Pump FM 99.3FM - Sydney 2ICR Radio - Sydney Mix It Up Radio - Brisbane STR8OUT Radio - Melbourne Mixxbosses Radio - Sydney Urban Movement Radio - Brisbane Liquid Radio - Sunshine Coast - Dance Starter FM - Sydney - Dance Tune 1 Radio - Perth - Dance 4PLAY Radio - Queensland - Dance V1Radio - Melbourne - Dance Tracklist  1. Jazzy - Feel It (Club Edit) 2. Fedde Le Grand - Elektro 3. Supafly - Jackie (Alex K Extended Mix) 4. Mind Electric - Vital Signs (VIP Club Mix) 5. Sentinel - Get That Love 6. Dillion Francis, Alesso, Clementine Douglas - Free 7. Cassimm - In My Mind (Radio Mix) 8. Dilby, Liv Campbell - Trippin' 9. Alex Preston - It's Not Over 10. Whisper Machine - With You (Original Mix) 11. SIDEPIECE - Westside 12. Slumberjack & Posij - Scout  13. Karen Harding - Wrong Places 14. Danny Bond vs Human Resource - Dominator (Radio Edit) 15. Camille Jones - The Creeps (Brent Anthony x Act On Remix) 16. Going Deeper - Out Of My Mind (Radio Mix) 17. Hutcher - Whine Up (Jay Robinson Remix) 18. Lady Bee - Pam Pam Pam (Radio Edit) 19. Low Steppa & Crusy - This Is The Sound (Extended Mix) 20. Hogland & Salena Mastroianni - Same Wave 21. John Summit feat MKLA - Fade Out 22. Alok & Pickle - Drum Machine 23. FDTD feat Lau.ra - The One (Radio Edit) 24. Mason Flint - Rock The Party (Extended Mix) 25. Riva Starr - How It Feels (Extended Mix) 26. Marasi - Rapture 27. Freejak - Jolene (Extended Mix) 28. Jean Luc & Nick Jay - Ayla 2023 (Radio Edit) 29. Zoe Badwi - One Last Time (Sgt Slick Remix)

And we are back for Part II of our discussion with Dr. Brian Lau. Our conversation picks back up with a discussion of surgical treatment options for more significant glenoid bone loss. There is a 2021 yellow journal article titled Diagnosis and Management of Traumatic Anterior Shoulder Instability that nicely outlines a treatment algorithm based on percentage of glenoid bone loss as well as the presence and severity of a Hill Sachs lesion. Matt Provencher and colleagues explain that good results can be expected after Bankart repair in on-track Hill-Sachs lesions with glenoid bone loss less than 13.5%. Bankart repair without additional procedures is not recommended in off-track Hill Sachs lesions, regardless of the extent of glenoid bone loss. Bone block procedures are recommended when glenoid bone loss is greater than 20% to 25% or when the Hill Sachs lesion is off-track. Then, from the April issue of AJSM this year, we discuss the study performed by our guest Dr. Lau and his team at Duke, titled Distal Clavicle Autograft Versus Traditional and Congruent Arc Latarjet Procedures. This laboratory analysis compared five different configurations of two local autograft options – coracoid and distal clavicle – using both 3D CT and 3D MRI. They looked at how much the glenoid surface area was augmented (important to address the glenoid bone loss) and the amount of glenoid apposition provided (bone-to-bone contact being important for graft healing). The authors found that the congruent arc Latarjet procedure had the largest graft surface area, the standard Latarjet procedure had the most bone-on-bone contact and the distal clavicle attached by its inferior surface had the largest graft width. This paper also found that differences between 3D CT and 3D MRI were small and likely not clinically significant.We finish up our conversation with a focus on rehab and returning to play after shoulder stabilization surgery. The last article we reference is titled Criteria-based Return-to-Sport Testing is Associated with Lower Recurrence Rates following Arthroscopic Bankart Repair. Albert Lin and colleagues and UPMC evaluated the use of a criteria-based return-to-sport testing protocol, which includes assessments of strength and function using the closed kinetic chain upper extremity stability test and the unilateral seated shot-put test. The authors found that athletes who underwent this testing protocol to guide their clearance to return to sports had a lower rate of recurrent instability than those cleared to return based on the time from surgery (5% vs. 22%).

ShakeDown Radio - August 2023 - Episode 654 - EDM Music Podcast: https://www.podomatic.com/podcasts/chris-carragher1977 Website: http://www.shakedownradio.com Mixcloud: www.mixcloud.com/chriscaggs Amazon Music Podcasts: https://bit.ly/3PhNuvZ Apple Podcasts / iTunes: https://apple.co/3tfyyDP Google Podcasts: https://bit.ly/42JlfcL iHeart Radio: https://ihr.fm/3ss7wr2 Tune In App: https://bit.ly/3qTGsPF Castbox: https://bit.ly/3maXTcb Follow Chris Caggs on Social Media: Threads @ChrisCaggs Facebook Friend Page www.facebook.com/chriscaggs Facebook Fan Page www.facebook.com/chriscaggsradio Twitter www.twitter.com/chriscaggs Instagram www.instagram.com/chriscaggs TikTok @ChrisCaggs Hashtag #ChrisCaggs #ShakedownRadio  Over the span of 25 Years across 15 Radio Stations - Chris Caggs has been on air at: Groove FM 96.9FM & 94.5FM - Sydney Groove FM 97.3FM - Brisbane DJ-FM 87.6FM - Sydney 2RDJ 88.1FM - Sydney 2NSB 99.3FM - Northside Radio Sydney Pump FM 99.3FM - Sydney 2ICR Radio - Sydney Mix It Up Radio - Brisbane STR8OUT Radio - Melbourne Mixxbosses Radio - Sydney Urban Movement Radio - Brisbane Liquid Radio - Sunshine Coast - Dance Starter FM - Sydney - Dance Tune 1 Radio - Perth - Dance 4PLAY Radio - Queensland - Dance V1Radio - Melbourne - Dance Tracklist  1. Jazzy - Feel It (Club Edit) 2. Fedde Le Grand - Elektro 3. Supafly - Jackie (Alex K Extended Mix) 4. Mind Electric - Vital Signs (VIP Club Mix) 5. Sentinel - Get That Love 6. Dillion Francis, Alesso, Clementine Douglas - Free 7. Cassimm - In My Mind (Radio Mix) 8. Dilby, Liv Campbell - Trippin' 9. Alex Preston - It's Not Over 10. Whisper Machine - With You (Original Mix) 11. SIDEPIECE - Westside 12. Slumberjack & Posij - Scout  13. Karen Harding - Wrong Places 14. Danny Bond vs Human Resource - Dominator (Radio Edit) 15. Camille Jones - The Creeps (Brent Anthony x Act On Remix) 16. Going Deeper - Out Of My Mind (Radio Mix) 17. Hutcher - Whine Up (Jay Robinson Remix) 18. Lady Bee - Pam Pam Pam (Radio Edit) 19. Low Steppa & Crusy - This Is The Sound (Extended Mix) 20. Hogland & Salena Mastroianni - Same Wave 21. John Summit feat MKLA - Fade Out 22. Alok & Pickle - Drum Machine 23. FDTD feat Lau.ra - The One (Radio Edit) 24. Mason Flint - Rock The Party (Extended Mix) 25. Riva Starr - How It Feels (Extended Mix) 26. Marasi - Rapture 27. Freejak - Jolene (Extended Mix) 28. Jean Luc & Nick Jay - Ayla 2023 (Radio Edit) 29. Zoe Badwi - One Last Time (Sgt Slick Remix)

It can be traced back to his daughter's lifelong fixation with the Hong Kong movie star. Synopsis: Can I Tell You Something Crazy is a new scripted series under the #PopVultures banner, which examines with fresh eyes, events that shook Asian media and entertainment. In March 2007, Hong Kong movie star Andy Lau attended a joyous event organised by Andy World Club, his official fan club. There, he played games, chatted with fans and took photos - including one with Yang Lijuan, a Chinese fan who had travelled from her hometown of Gansu province in China to meet her lifelong idol. Everything seemed fine. But just a day later, Yang Lijuan's father - a retired schoolteacher named Yang Qinji - threw himself into the sea and left behind a 3,000-word suicide note addressed to Lau. In it he wrote: “Andy Lau, your heart is black, you have no conscience. You are worse than a dog.”  What had world-famous film star Lau done to incur such wrath from a humble schoolteacher in China?  In this episode of Can I Tell You Something Crazy, #PopVultures host Jan Lee revisits the most infamous "fan" in China - Yang Lijuan. Her father burnt through his savings, sold their family's house and eventually took his own life, all to support his daughter's lifelong, unhealthy fixation with Lau. This is not just a story of one of the most extreme and tragic examples of what celebrity obsession can lead to, it is also a cautionary tale - about the incredible power the media wields and the incredible damage it can inflict. Produced by: Jan Lee (janlee@sph.com.sg), Paxton Pang and Eden Soh Edited by: Paxton Pang Follow #PopVultures Podcast episodes here every month:  Channel: https://str.sg/JWad Apple Podcasts: https://str.sg/JWaA Spotify: https://str.sg/JWaP  Google Podcasts: https://str.sg/Ju47  SPH Awedio app: https://www.awedio.sg/ Website: http://str.sg/stpodcasts Feedback to: podcast@sph.com.sg Follow Jan Lee on Instagram: https://str.sg/Jbxc Read Jan Lee's articles: https://str.sg/Jbxp --- Discover more ST podcast channels: In Your Opinion: https://str.sg/w7Qt Asian Insider: https://str.sg/JWa7 Health Check: https://str.sg/JWaN Green Pulse: https://str.sg/JWaf Your Money & Career: https://str.sg/wB2m ST Sports Talk: https://str.sg/JWRE #PopVultures: https://str.sg/JWad Music Lab: https://str.sg/w9TX Discover ST Podcasts: http://str.sg/stpodcasts --- Special edition series: True Crimes Of Asia (new): https://str.sg/i44T The Unsolved Mysteries of South-east Asia (5 eps): https://str.sg/wuZ2 Invisible Asia (9 eps): https://str.sg/wuZn Stop Scams (10 eps): https://str.sg/wuZB Singapore's War On Covid (5 eps): https://str.sg/wuJa --- Follow our shows then, if you like short, practical podcasts! #PVSee omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

On today's episode we're focusing on anterior shoulder instability with Dr. Brian Lau, orthopedic sports medicine surgeon, team physician for Duke Athletics and Director of the FIFA Medical Center at Duke.We have some great articles for you that contribute well to our conversation on the treatment of primary anterior shoulder instability. We'll start off our discussion today with a level I RCT published in the March 2020 issue of JBJS titled Primary Arthroscopic Stabilization for a First-Time Anterior Dislocation of the Shoulder, a single-center double-blinded clinical trial compared arthroscopic washout to arthroscopic Bankart repair for the management of primary anterior shoulder instability. At an average follow up of 14 years, the rate of recurrent dislocation was significantly higher in the washout group compared to the Bankart repair group, at 47% compared to 12%. The arthroscopic Bankart repair group also demonstrated significantly better clinical outcome scores, including the WOSI and DASH scores. Then, from the June issue of JSES this year, we review the publication titled Remplissage reduces recurrent instability in high-risk patients with on-track Hill-Sachs lesions.  Albert Lin and Pat Denard performed a multicenter retrospective study of patients with on-track Hill Sachs lesions who underwent arthroscopic Bankart repair with or without the addition of a Remplissage procedure. We'll discuss on-track versus off-track Hill Sachs lesions, how you go about calculating this and what to do with this information in a little bit with our guest. So, for now, we'll just focus on the results of this study, which showed that the addition of a remplissage was associated with a lower rate of recurrent dislocation (1.8% vs. 11%) and revision surgery (0% vs. 6%). Remplissage protected against recurrent instability, particularly in high-risk patients.We are joined today by Dr. Brian Lau, a board-certified orthopedic surgeon dual-fellowship-trained in both sports medicine surgery and foot & ankle surgery. Dr. Lau obtained his medical degree from the University of Pittsburgh and completed his orthopedic residency at UC San Francisco. He then went on to complete two fellowships – the first in Sports Medicine and Shoulder Surgery at Duke University and the second in Foot & Ankle Surgery at Stanford University. Following training, Dr. Lau returned to Duke University, where he is a team physician for Duke Athletics and the Director of the FIFA Medical Center at Duke. Dr. Lau is the associate program director of the Duke Orthopedic Sports Medicine and Shoulder fellowship and serves on numerous educational committees in AOSSM, AANA and ASES. He is passionate about research and leads the Duke Sports Medicine Research Committee.

What fuels your entrepreneurial spirit? The key lies in having a robust support system. This week, Anne & Lau talk about the indispensable role of support in the journey of entrepreneurship. They explore how the encouragement from our loved ones serves as a pillar of strength during challenging times, and discuss ways to navigate situations where support is shaky or absent. They also dive into the essence of financial independence and the peace it can infuse into relationships. Unraveling the secret to keeping your business finances organized and the wonders of a dedicated workspace, they guide you on a path of entrepreneurial success. Entrepreneurship can often feel like a lonely journey, but remember Bosses, you're not alone!   Transcript   It's time to take your business to the next level, the BOSS level! These are the premiere Business Owner Strategies and Successes being utilized by the industry's top talent today. Rock your business like a BOSS, a VO BOSS! Now let's welcome your host, Anne Ganguzza.   Anne Ganguzza: Hey everyone, welcome to the VO BOSS Podcast. I'm your host, Anne Gangusa, and I am here with the one and only, most beautiful, Lau Lapides.   Lau Lapides: Oh, thank you Anne. Hey   Anne Ganguzza: Hey, Lau.   Lau Lapides: everyone. Wonderful to see ya.   Anne Ganguzza: Law, I've been very reflective this week.   Lau Lapides: Oh,   Anne Ganguzza: Yes.   Lau Lapides: I love that chair.   Anne Ganguzza: Very reflective because I was thinking about, oh gosh, I've just been reading. There's so much chaos out there in social media and stuff, and I was thinking to myself, I feel so lucky to have my supportive group that supports me in my business. I know that not everybody has that.   Lau Lapides: Mmm.   Anne Ganguzza: And I thought we should talk about your VO support group, people that support you, and especially people close to you and your family. I don't know where I would be if my husband did not support this endeavor of mine, because it really does, it really takes, I think it takes courage because... Being an entrepreneur, running your own business, it's so much different than the corporate life that I used to lead where   Lau Lapides: Mm-hmm.   Anne Ganguzza: I just got paid every other week and I could depend on that paycheck. And I know that the way that this industry just kind of is up and down and crazy, it takes a lot for   Lau Lapides: Yeah, yeah.   Anne Ganguzza: someone to support that.   Lau Lapides: And gratitude is great. And   Anne Ganguzza: Mmm.   Lau Lapides: we really have to have, honestly, we have to have gratitude. It's so important to just celebrate the moments that we do share with our loved ones, our family, our friends, our colleagues, our really our circle, you know, our inner circle, our   Anne Ganguzza: Mm.   Lau Lapides: outer circle that really helps support us. And like reflect as you said, where would we be? without these people would we be where we are? And I'm going to be even non-PC for a moment and say, where would we be without these people simply tolerating us? Like think about that. Like what person slash woman you know would even say such a thing. But the truth is it's hard. It's a hard life in a lot of ways.   Anne Ganguzza: Mmm, so   Lau Lapides: And   Anne Ganguzza: many   Lau Lapides: it's   Anne Ganguzza: ways.   Lau Lapides: difficult. And we show the stress of it at times.   Anne Ganguzza: Sure.   Lau Lapides: We show the impatience, we show the fast moving, we show the exhaustion. And to have that group, that circle, not only support it, but tolerate it,   Anne Ganguzza: Mm-hmm.   Lau Lapides: when they may not be experiencing that, they may not live that kind of lifestyle, they may not even understand it, but yet they're tolerating it, they're welcoming it, and then they're building you up. That is unbelievable when you have that on your   Anne Ganguzza: Yeah,   Lau Lapides: side.   Anne Ganguzza: yeah. And I think there's so much that as bosses, right, that we don't anticipate having to experience or know or, I guess, go through when you own your own company. There's just so many things that I think, I don't know if you can prepare yourself. Do you know what I mean? You can prepare yourself for, you know, I guess technically, right? You   Lau Lapides: Mm-hmm.   Anne Ganguzza: know, oh, it takes, these are the steps that you need to, you know, create a business entity. These are the steps you need to market your business. These are the steps. So there's these technical steps that we follow, but then if things don't go the way that we hope them to go, right,   Lau Lapides: Mm-hmm.   Anne Ganguzza: that can just throw a whole wrench into... the business and in your mental outlook. And that is something that I think I was unprepared for, the uncertainties of it and handling the uncertainties of that. And then of course, anybody that supports me   Lau Lapides: Mmm.   Anne Ganguzza: has to go through all these emotions with me. And that is asking a lot. So again, I'm very, very grateful that I do have that support. And bosses, I mean, I know this is difficult, and you may not even know, right? Down the road, what sort of things could happen that might, I don't know, change the way that your support system feels about voiceover or being a voiceover entrepreneur, and especially these days with the disruptive technologies that are out there. I can't imagine, I do know that there's a lot of people that are... uncertain about what's happening in the future. And so I think their support system is also like seeing that, reading that. How do you, what would you say for people that aren't experiencing support from their family? What can they do?   Lau Lapides: Gosh, I was just about to ask you, this is the rhetorical question of the day is like, what do we do when we don't have the support or when we feel completely alone or when we have a partner or a spouse   Anne Ganguzza: Mm-hmm.   Lau Lapides: or even a child or even a best friend that is sabotaging your dreams   Anne Ganguzza: Mm.   Lau Lapides: or   Anne Ganguzza: Yeah.   Lau Lapides: getting in the way, maybe they're sucking all the time. the energy from you. Maybe they're dragging you down in the   Anne Ganguzza: Mmm.   Lau Lapides: mud with their own problems, maybe, right? And you think,   Anne Ganguzza: Yeah?   Lau Lapides: wow, who is there with me to go on this journey and really help me through, support me through this? I don't really have that many   Anne Ganguzza: Mm-hmm.   Lau Lapides: people to do that. And I think there are a couple things that we can do to sort of band-aid that situation. I'm not   Anne Ganguzza: Mm-mm.   Lau Lapides: so sure you can ever totally fix it, but the one thing I would like to suggest, and I have a few clients like this too, sneaking around the bushes so that their husband doesn't find out   Anne Ganguzza: Mm.   Lau Lapides: that they're spending the little bit of tertiary income on   Anne Ganguzza: Yeah,   Lau Lapides: on lessons.   Anne Ganguzza: coaching or yeah.   Lau Lapides: I say listen you know um it's easy for me to say listen just be brave and just tell them and just   Anne Ganguzza: Mm-hmm.   Lau Lapides: you know stand up to it but I'm not in that relationship and   Anne Ganguzza: Sure.   Lau Lapides: I don't know the the dynamics of what's going on so in essence I don't really have the right to say that one thing I can say that has worked for me in many times of my life is If there is someone that is not working out, they're not positive minded, they don't have the forward thinking, upward mobility energy   Anne Ganguzza: Mm-hmm.   Lau Lapides: that   Anne Ganguzza: Mm-hmm.   Lau Lapides: I crave and that I want in my connections, I simply cut them loose. Not in a bad way,   Anne Ganguzza: way,   Lau Lapides: not   Anne Ganguzza: not   Lau Lapides: in a   Anne Ganguzza: in   Lau Lapides: toxic   Anne Ganguzza: a toxic   Lau Lapides: way,   Anne Ganguzza: way,   Lau Lapides: not in   Anne Ganguzza: not in   Lau Lapides: an   Anne Ganguzza: an   Lau Lapides: angry   Anne Ganguzza: angry   Lau Lapides: way,   Anne Ganguzza: way,   Lau Lapides: but in   Anne Ganguzza: but   Lau Lapides: a   Anne Ganguzza: in   Lau Lapides: way   Anne Ganguzza: a way   Lau Lapides: where   Anne Ganguzza: where   Lau Lapides: I sort   Anne Ganguzza: I sort   Lau Lapides: of prioritize   Anne Ganguzza: of prioritize that   Lau Lapides: that   Anne Ganguzza: they're   Lau Lapides: they're not   Anne Ganguzza: not   Lau Lapides: going   Anne Ganguzza: going   Lau Lapides: to   Anne Ganguzza: to   Lau Lapides: be   Anne Ganguzza: be   Lau Lapides: taking   Anne Ganguzza: taking   Lau Lapides: a lot   Anne Ganguzza: a lot   Lau Lapides: of my   Anne Ganguzza: of my   Lau Lapides: time.   Anne Ganguzza: time.   Lau Lapides: They're not going to be. forefront in my life because I have to keep my goals alive. And finding those, we talked about this once before, those growth people. Where are   Anne Ganguzza: Mm-hmm.   Lau Lapides: those growth people   Anne Ganguzza: Mm-hmm.   Lau Lapides: that can help me through that I can soundboard to, that I can vent to, that I can learn from, that can help me grow and also validate me? Like   Anne Ganguzza: Sure.   Lau Lapides: really validate the choices. So finding whether it's an accountability group or self-help group   Anne Ganguzza: Mm-hmm.   Lau Lapides: or just a friend that is also working on a career where they're   Anne Ganguzza: where they're   Lau Lapides: moving   Anne Ganguzza: moving   Lau Lapides: up,   Anne Ganguzza: up   Lau Lapides: but   Anne Ganguzza: but   Lau Lapides: others   Anne Ganguzza: others   Lau Lapides: are   Anne Ganguzza: are. Mm-hmm.   Lau Lapides: holding them down, is to help each other grow and get to the next step.   Anne Ganguzza: Right, right.   Lau Lapides: Get a buddy.   Anne Ganguzza: And I, well, I'll tell you what, and I think that that's absolutely something that if you are not getting support, let's say from your spouse or significant other, that I think is almost critical for you to, you know, to survive in the industry. Because I know I've had a few people that I know where their spouses were not in support and consistently   Lau Lapides: Yeah,   Anne Ganguzza: were dragging them down.   Lau Lapides: I have two.   Anne Ganguzza: consistently demanding, you know, where's the money going? Why are you not making any money? You know, you need to help support the family, get a real income, or whatever it is, right? It's hard enough to run your own business and to deal with the uncertainties that you face with your own, maybe, insecurities, in maybe, I'm not familiar with this territory, and I need to learn more, and I need to, you know, what do I need to do to make it? to make it successful, let alone having the people around you, right, trying to bring you down or sabotage you, as you mentioned. So   Lau Lapides: Mm-hmm.   Anne Ganguzza: that's   Lau Lapides: Mm-hmm.   Anne Ganguzza: very difficult. So it's super important to have that support somewhere to keep you lifted up and to keep your momentum going forward   Lau Lapides: Mm-hmm.   Anne Ganguzza: in that situation.   Lau Lapides: And you know what I've seen too, more often than not, that the family or the close people to this   Anne Ganguzza: Mm-hmm.   Lau Lapides: person, it's not that they're unsupportive or they're against them. It's just they're not actively or proactively doing things to make their path easier. So   Anne Ganguzza: Mmm.   Lau Lapides: I'll give you an example. A mom who's got children, whether they're young children or whether they're teenage children, whatever. I've heard this from several of my clients, like it took forever. And like, don't you have a setup? Where's your studio? Where's your   Anne Ganguzza: Mm-hmm. Mm-hmm.   Lau Lapides: desk? Are you setting up a mic? Months and months and months and months would go by. I'd say, what's going on? It's not a money issue. No, it's just, you know, I can't find space in my house. You know, my   Anne Ganguzza: Mmm.   Lau Lapides: kid needs the space for football and my other kid needs the space for this. Then my husband wants the space for his disc. And then   Anne Ganguzza: Mm-hmm, mm-hmm.   Lau Lapides: and I said, well, wait a second. Where's your space? Where's your studio?   Anne Ganguzza: Mm-hmm.   Lau Lapides: Where's   Anne Ganguzza: Mm-hmm.   Lau Lapides: your identity? So it's that idea of that liberation and that freedom and that courage to say, I count too, I matter too. This is not the only role I play   Anne Ganguzza: Mm-hmm,   Lau Lapides: as mom   Anne Ganguzza: mm-hmm.   Lau Lapides: or dad,   Anne Ganguzza: Mm-hmm. Mom or,   Lau Lapides: since   Anne Ganguzza: do   Lau Lapides: we have   Anne Ganguzza: you have   Lau Lapides: a lot   Anne Ganguzza: a spouse?   Lau Lapides: of dads   Anne Ganguzza: Yep,   Lau Lapides: at   Anne Ganguzza: mm-hmm,   Lau Lapides: home too.   Anne Ganguzza: yep.   Lau Lapides: Dad, I'm not only dad, I'm not only a breadwinner. I'm someone who's a creative, I'm an   Anne Ganguzza: Mm-hmm.   Lau Lapides: artist, and I wanna be a talent, and I'm moving towards this. So I have to have the respect zone   Anne Ganguzza: Mm-hmm.   Lau Lapides: of   Anne Ganguzza: Mm-hmm.   Lau Lapides: my   Anne Ganguzza: Mm-hmm.   Lau Lapides: space and really claim that. That's actually, I've seen that a lot, Ann.   Anne Ganguzza: Yeah,   Lau Lapides: I've seen   Anne Ganguzza: yeah.   Lau Lapides: that more often than not.   Anne Ganguzza: Oh, absolutely. And it makes it doubly hard or triple difficult for, I think, these people to gain traction in the industry because it's almost like they have to prove themselves before they'll get any support.   Lau Lapides: Mm-hmm.   Anne Ganguzza: You know, well, when are you going to get a voice-over job? I mean, when are you going to book something? That kind of a thing. And so it's always an uphill climb to get that space, that recording space, to get that that, you know, they have to either go out and get a part-time job so they can make money so they can pay for coaching, so they can get a demo. But I'll tell you what, I would say that the majority of my clients who I have found that have done that and have persevered. through that have been some of the most successful   Lau Lapides: Yes.   Anne Ganguzza: voiceover businesses that I know now because they have the resilience   Lau Lapides: Mm-hmm.   Anne Ganguzza: and they had the commitment and through it all they persevered. and were   Lau Lapides: Yeah.   Anne Ganguzza: able to finally, you know, and not only prove to themselves, but end up proving to any of the members of the family that we're not necessarily as supportive as they could have been, that this is a viable career. It is a viable, you know, it is a viable thing for me to do and to make money at it.   Lau Lapides: Mm-hmm. And you just said it earlier, you know, don't just ask, ask. You got to give too. So don't just ask for space and what you need. Be willing to work a little harder. Be willing to work   Anne Ganguzza: Mmm.   Lau Lapides: extra.   Anne Ganguzza: Yeah.   Lau Lapides: One suggestion I'd like to make too that seems kind of like, oh, but isn't that like a 1952 thing? No, it's not. I'm not suggesting to separate all of your finances in your life. That's how   Anne Ganguzza: Mm.   Lau Lapides: whatever you're gonna do with your spouse, with your partner is what you're gonna do. But I'm just talking about our career, your career, your space as a talent, have separate finances. And that way, not only can   Anne Ganguzza: Mm-hmm.   Lau Lapides: you track for your tax purposes and your studio expenses, and it keeps it really clean for your bookkeeper and your accountants at the   Anne Ganguzza: Yep,   Lau Lapides: end of   Anne Ganguzza: absolutely.   Lau Lapides: the year, but it also keeps this anonymity or privacy about not having to ask permission of the other all the time   Anne Ganguzza: Mm-hmm, mm-hmm.   Lau Lapides: to get what you need or what you want for your career. Like   Anne Ganguzza: Yeah.   Lau Lapides: that should be your choice and your independent choice and if it comes down to money, well maybe you do need to get another   Anne Ganguzza: Sure.   Lau Lapides: side job or another   Anne Ganguzza: Yeah.   Lau Lapides: hustle or   Anne Ganguzza: Yeah.   Lau Lapides: another whatever so that you can have that privacy ready to go when you need it rather than depending on allowances   Anne Ganguzza: Yeah.   Lau Lapides: from others.   Anne Ganguzza: And I love that you said that. And I think honestly, if you want to talk about the single biggest thing that I think that is lacking from the clients who don't get the support from their significant other spouse, it is the financial aspect of it. And so yeah, and I always look before there was even voiceover.   Lau Lapides: Hmm?   Anne Ganguzza: I don't know what it was, but personally when I got married, I always had my own account. I had my account, you know, I was on my own before I met my husband. We met each other late in life. And so I, you know, I had my own account. I owned a house and that kind of thing. And what I love about that is it made me financially independent.   Lau Lapides: Mm-hmm.   Anne Ganguzza: And I was able to, when my husband and I got married, I just said, well, I'm keeping my account and you keep your account and we'll just have a joint account that we both will   Lau Lapides: Yeah,   Anne Ganguzza: put   Lau Lapides: yeah,   Anne Ganguzza: in.   Lau Lapides: yeah.   Anne Ganguzza: But nothing has to go into the main account unless we decide to put it in. We both kept separate accounts. And I was able to keep track. And first of all, it makes it super easy when you are creating a business, right, to keep your   Lau Lapides: Yes.   Anne Ganguzza: business finances separate.   Lau Lapides: Yeah.   Anne Ganguzza: And that's kind of cool because any of you that might have trouble explaining, Why do you need a separate account? Well, it's a business, right? So therefore   Lau Lapides: Mm-hmm.   Anne Ganguzza: you have a separate account. You can do whatever you need to do to put money in that account so that you can make investments, take the money out of that account for coaching, demos, studio space, whatever it is that you need to grow your business. And I think that that has really been something that for me, I mean... They say that a lot of couples argue, and money is the number one thing that they might argue about. I can't say that I've ever argued about money   Lau Lapides: Mm-hmm.   Anne Ganguzza: since having an independent account. And   Lau Lapides: Mm-hmm.   Anne Ganguzza: having the respect that I have one, my spouse has one, and we also have a joint account that we throw money in, if we want to take a vacation, or we want to landscape the backyard, or whatever it might be,   Lau Lapides: Mm-hmm.   Anne Ganguzza: we... put into that account, but there's   Lau Lapides: That's   Anne Ganguzza: no expectations.   Lau Lapides: right.   Anne Ganguzza: And I think   Lau Lapides: That's   Anne Ganguzza: that's   Lau Lapides: right.   Anne Ganguzza: such a great suggestion law for anybody that might be experiencing difficulties or lack of support from a significant other, is just go and open that business account, right? Because you need one anyways, in order to incorporate or run that business efficiently and effectively.   Lau Lapides: Mm-hmm. And then this was a running joke between one of my colleagues and myself at my studio. It was like, well, I literally, law, literally could not find any space in my house for my studio. I   Anne Ganguzza: Mm-hmm.   Lau Lapides: couldn't, it either had a technical issue or my kids were there or the   Anne Ganguzza: Mm-hmm.   Lau Lapides: TV was on or the dogs were there. I said, great. Now you need to get a she shed.   Anne Ganguzza: Yes, absolutely, as   Lau Lapides: Or   Anne Ganguzza: she   Lau Lapides: a   Anne Ganguzza: said.   Lau Lapides: he shed   Anne Ganguzza: Yeah.   Lau Lapides: or a they   Anne Ganguzza: Uh,   Lau Lapides: shed. I   Anne Ganguzza: yep.   Lau Lapides: don't care what pronoun   Anne Ganguzza: Yep.   Lau Lapides: you use, but you need   Anne Ganguzza: Yep.   Lau Lapides: a shed.   Anne Ganguzza: You need a pronoun shed.   Lau Lapides: Yes, you need a pronoun shed that is an independent structure that stands on its own separate from your dwelling   Anne Ganguzza: Mm-hmm.   Lau Lapides: Because I am a person of no excuses. I just don't think there's an excuse for not being able to work I think   Anne Ganguzza: Yeah,   Lau Lapides: like if you   Anne Ganguzza: yeah.   Lau Lapides: have a problem fix it like   Anne Ganguzza: Yeah.   Lau Lapides: make it into this well, but it's expensive Well, it's an investment. It's   Anne Ganguzza: Yeah,   Lau Lapides: a write-off.   Anne Ganguzza: right.   Lau Lapides: It's not a cost, it's a write-off. And it's your private space.   Anne Ganguzza: Mm-hmm,   Lau Lapides: You can decorate   Anne Ganguzza: absolutely.   Lau Lapides: it. You can put up whatever you need to put up. You can scream. You can do   Anne Ganguzza: Mm-hmm.   Lau Lapides: yourself tapes. You can do your MP3s. And it's freedom for you. And I think that if you can't find anything in your apartment or anything anywhere, they say, wait a second, I don't own the land law. I'm in an apartment. What do I do there? Well,   Anne Ganguzza: Mm-hmm.   Lau Lapides: think about that. Where can you go? that you can either build something   Anne Ganguzza: Mm-hmm.   Lau Lapides: or you can rent something by the hour. Now   Anne Ganguzza: Yeah.   Lau Lapides: people are dying to get you into their podcast spaces and their audio spaces to rent by the hour because so many people are at home that   Anne Ganguzza: that   Lau Lapides: they   Anne Ganguzza: they   Lau Lapides: can't even   Anne Ganguzza: can't   Lau Lapides: rent.   Anne Ganguzza: even rent.   Lau Lapides: You can   Anne Ganguzza: Yeah.   Lau Lapides: go to places like workspaces and staples   Anne Ganguzza: Mm-hmm.   Lau Lapides: and   Anne Ganguzza: Mm-hmm.   Lau Lapides: all sorts of places really cheaply. and rent by the hour. I mean, is   Anne Ganguzza: Is   Lau Lapides: it a fix forever? No, but   Anne Ganguzza: it a fix forever?   Lau Lapides: it's   Anne Ganguzza: No. Yeah.   Lau Lapides: in the interim,   Anne Ganguzza: Mm-hmm.   Lau Lapides: it's good   Anne Ganguzza: Mm-hmm.   Lau Lapides: now until you figure out your next move. Like   Anne Ganguzza: Absolutely.   Lau Lapides: there's always an answer to   Anne Ganguzza: Yeah.   Lau Lapides: that.   Anne Ganguzza: Yeah, there's always a solution. I truly believe there is always a solution, if you want it bad enough, right? I mean,   Lau Lapides: Hehe,   Anne Ganguzza: gosh,   Lau Lapides: yeah.   Anne Ganguzza: we travel and we record in hotels. So   Lau Lapides: Yeah.   Anne Ganguzza: pillow forts. I mean, there is a solution, pillow forts. Uh. and the right mic and the right interface will get you, you know, a place, your car.   Lau Lapides: Mm-hmm.   Anne Ganguzza: If you can go to the car, that can be a studio. So I think where there's a will, there's a way. And I will say that, you know, having that, definitely having that independent financial account that allows you to, you know. draw upon that for investment into your she shed, into your renting of a studio, or your rig that allows you to go to the car to record and do your auditions. Whatever that might be, I think that there is a solution for it. And in the interim, I think it just, the tenacity and just keeping through it, making sure that you have support somewhere. that can keep you lifted up, going towards, heading towards your goal. I think that's just very, very important. There's a lot of wonderful supportive communities here. At VOBoss here, we're here to support you. Accountability groups are amazing.   Lau Lapides: Mm-hmm.   Anne Ganguzza: Community groups are amazing. Lots of great Facebook groups out there. I've got my VOP's group and Law, you've got your group   Lau Lapides: Mm-hmm. Mm-hmm.   Anne Ganguzza: as well. And, you know... And Bev Stani has the water cooler group, which is just kind of fun if you want to get together with other voice of artists. I know there's so many wonderful accountability groups that can really help in that situation. And yeah, I mean, I   Lau Lapides: I   Anne Ganguzza: think   Lau Lapides: think   Anne Ganguzza: there's...   Lau Lapides: too, Ann, along with that, like hand in hand, depending on what your belief system is, sometimes you need spiritual groups as well.   Anne Ganguzza: Mmm, mm-hmm.   Lau Lapides: Sometimes you need people that are going to lift your spirit, whether you're religious or not   Anne Ganguzza: Mm-hmm.   Lau Lapides: religious, whether you wanna talk mystical or not, but you find the right match for yourself that helps you build the courage up, that if you are   Anne Ganguzza: Mm-hmm.   Lau Lapides: alone and on your own and you're   Anne Ganguzza: Sure.   Lau Lapides: isolated and you're not accepted in the family, your friends circle, that there are groups out there that are going to help lift you up as a person, not   Anne Ganguzza: Yeah.   Lau Lapides: just as a talent, but as a human being in the world to give you courage. And one more tip I got for you too is, and we will all want to do this, we have to be really guarded about it, like don't overshare. Be careful.   Anne Ganguzza: Mmm.   Lau Lapides: Don't overshare with people   Anne Ganguzza: Yeah.   Lau Lapides: that you know are going to tear you down.   Anne Ganguzza: Yeah.   Lau Lapides: They're going to put up the walls as to why you can't, shouldn't.   Anne Ganguzza: Yeah.   Lau Lapides: not supposed to do things,   Anne Ganguzza: Mm-hmm.   Lau Lapides: don't share too much with those people. Let the sharing go to the people who are like-minded, people who are going   Anne Ganguzza: Sure.   Lau Lapides: to raise your spirit,   Anne Ganguzza: Absolutely.   Lau Lapides: raise your vibration, and get you excited about it versus   Anne Ganguzza: Mm.   Lau Lapides: the people who are going to give you every reason in the book why not to do it.   Anne Ganguzza: Yeah, yeah, exactly, and why you can't and why you won't succeed. Absolutely.   Lau Lapides: Yeah. Yeah.   Anne Ganguzza: So, yeah, absolutely. What's the wonderful advice law?   Lau Lapides: So exciting, right? Like where there's a will, there's a way, but it's really true, there   Anne Ganguzza: Yeah.   Lau Lapides: is. There's   Anne Ganguzza: Yeah.   Lau Lapides: always a way to do things that you love to and want to and deserve to do. And just having the knowledge of like, write down your mantras, write down   Anne Ganguzza: Mm-hmm.   Lau Lapides: your affirmations every morning, stick them on your fridge or wherever you stick them and say, I deserve this. I need this. I want this. I matter. And just believe it.   Anne Ganguzza: Absolutely.   Lau Lapides: And then you'll get it if you believe it.   Anne Ganguzza: And guys, I'm going to say, like, this just transcends even just voiceover industry. This is for anything that you want to do,   Lau Lapides: Yeah.   Anne Ganguzza: right? As entrepreneurs, as bosses, I mean, whether it's voiceover or something else that is aligned with voiceover or acting or whatever it may be, I truly believe that you can... you can get the support where there's a will, there's a way. And I love that you brought up the spiritual aspect of it too, because it is so personal, right? It does affect us being an entrepreneur, and not just a voiceover actor, not just an actor, but being an entrepreneur and running your own business and having a dream and pursuing that dream. It is something so personal to us that, you know, it- It transcends just voiceover groups or voiceover, you know, accountability groups or Facebook groups. It really, you just need to have the people that can help lift you up no matter where.   Lau Lapides: Yeah.   Anne Ganguzza: No matter where you get that. And, you know, spiritually is amazing, is an amazing source   Lau Lapides: Mm-hmm.   Anne Ganguzza: of being able to have a group of people that can lift you up and support you when you need.   Lau Lapides: Yeah, and give yourself that little bit of extra self-care   Anne Ganguzza: Mm-hmm.   Lau Lapides: that you may need, that you may   Anne Ganguzza: Mm-hmm.   Lau Lapides: be missing in your life, whether it's a massage treatment or   Anne Ganguzza: Mm-hmm.   Lau Lapides: an extra whatever, so that you've got that extra bit of health, of mindset, of balance that you need to get stronger and find the right people to get on your side. And you'll absolutely do it. People have come from really, really challenging backgrounds   Anne Ganguzza: Oh yeah.   Lau Lapides: with nothing and have become everything.   Anne Ganguzza: Mm-hmm.   Lau Lapides: So it really is mind over matter for sure.   Anne Ganguzza: Yeah, yeah. What a great discussion, Law.   Lau Lapides: Beautiful.   Anne Ganguzza: Yeah,   Lau Lapides: I loved   Anne Ganguzza: we have   Lau Lapides: it.   Anne Ganguzza: the faith in you, bosses. We definitely,   Lau Lapides: We do.   Anne Ganguzza: we have faith in you. And again, VOBoss, we're here for you guys. And, you know, go out there and believe in yourself. Find people that will help support and lift you up. And yeah, I love it. I love it. And   Lau Lapides: You can do it.   Anne Ganguzza: guys, as individuals, it may seem difficult to make a huge impact, but as a group, We can certainly contribute to the growth of our communities in ways that we never thought possible. Visit 100VoicesWhoCare.org to learn how. Also a big shout out to our sponsor, IPDTL. You too can network and connect like bosses using amazing technology. Find out more at IPDTL.com. You guys have a great week and we'll see you next week. Bye.   Lau Lapides: See you next week.

ShakeDown Radio - August 2023 - Episode 653 - EDM Music feat. Zoe Badwi Podcast: https://www.podomatic.com/podcasts/chris-carragher1977 Website: http://www.shakedownradio.com Mixcloud: www.mixcloud.com/chriscaggs Amazon Music Podcasts: https://bit.ly/3PhNuvZ Apple Podcasts / iTunes: https://apple.co/3tfyyDP Google Podcasts: https://bit.ly/42JlfcL iHeart Radio: https://ihr.fm/3ss7wr2 Tune In App: https://bit.ly/3qTGsPF Castbox: https://bit.ly/3maXTcb Follow Chris Caggs on Social Media: Threads @ChrisCaggs Facebook Friend Page www.facebook.com/chriscaggs Facebook Fan Page www.facebook.com/chriscaggsradio Twitter www.twitter.com/chriscaggs Instagram www.instagram.com/chriscaggs TikTok @ChrisCaggs Hashtag #ChrisCaggs #ShakedownRadio  Over the span of 25 Years across 15 Radio Stations - Chris Caggs has been on air at: Groove FM 96.9FM & 94.5FM - Sydney Groove FM 97.3FM - Brisbane DJ-FM 87.6FM - Sydney 2RDJ 88.1FM - Sydney 2NSB 99.3FM - Northside Radio Sydney Pump FM 99.3FM - Sydney 2ICR Radio - Sydney Mix It Up Radio - Brisbane STR8OUT Radio - Melbourne Mixxbosses Radio - Sydney Urban Movement Radio - Brisbane Liquid Radio - Sunshine Coast - Dance Starter FM - Sydney - Dance Tune 1 Radio - Perth - Dance 4PLAY Radio - Queensland - Dance V1Radio - Melbourne - Dance Tracklist  1. Zoe Badwi - One Last Time (Sgt Slick Edit) 2. Jean Luc & Nick Jay - Ayla 2023 (Radio Edit) 3. Mind Electric - Vital Signs (VIP Extended Club Mix) 4. Solu Music, Kimblee - Fade (Jonas Blue Vocal Extended Mix) 5. St Croix & Beks - Grind & Hustle (Edit) 6. Cassimm - Freak (Short Edit) 7. Birdee & Dr Packer feat Suki Soul - You Know I'm Ready (Extended Mix) 8. Anyma & Cassian - Save Me (Extended Mix) 9. Becky Hill & Chase & Status - Disconnect (Tiesto Remix) 10. Tommy Mc x Billie Clements - Lift Me Up (Rubber People Remix) 11. Kungs x Shadow Childs - Changes 12. Monki feat Lau.ra - Feels Darker (Feel It) (Edit)

ShakeDown Radio - August 2023 - Episode 653 - EDM Music feat. Zoe Badwi Podcast: https://www.podomatic.com/podcasts/chris-carragher1977 Website: http://www.shakedownradio.com Mixcloud: www.mixcloud.com/chriscaggs Amazon Music Podcasts: https://bit.ly/3PhNuvZ Apple Podcasts / iTunes: https://apple.co/3tfyyDP Google Podcasts: https://bit.ly/42JlfcL iHeart Radio: https://ihr.fm/3ss7wr2 Tune In App: https://bit.ly/3qTGsPF Castbox: https://bit.ly/3maXTcb Follow Chris Caggs on Social Media: Threads @ChrisCaggs Facebook Friend Page www.facebook.com/chriscaggs Facebook Fan Page www.facebook.com/chriscaggsradio Twitter www.twitter.com/chriscaggs Instagram www.instagram.com/chriscaggs TikTok @ChrisCaggs Hashtag #ChrisCaggs #ShakedownRadio  Over the span of 25 Years across 15 Radio Stations - Chris Caggs has been on air at: Groove FM 96.9FM & 94.5FM - Sydney Groove FM 97.3FM - Brisbane DJ-FM 87.6FM - Sydney 2RDJ 88.1FM - Sydney 2NSB 99.3FM - Northside Radio Sydney Pump FM 99.3FM - Sydney 2ICR Radio - Sydney Mix It Up Radio - Brisbane STR8OUT Radio - Melbourne Mixxbosses Radio - Sydney Urban Movement Radio - Brisbane Liquid Radio - Sunshine Coast - Dance Starter FM - Sydney - Dance Tune 1 Radio - Perth - Dance 4PLAY Radio - Queensland - Dance V1Radio - Melbourne - Dance Tracklist  1. Zoe Badwi - One Last Time (Sgt Slick Edit) 2. Jean Luc & Nick Jay - Ayla 2023 (Radio Edit) 3. Mind Electric - Vital Signs (VIP Extended Club Mix) 4. Solu Music, Kimblee - Fade (Jonas Blue Vocal Extended Mix) 5. St Croix & Beks - Grind & Hustle (Edit) 6. Cassimm - Freak (Short Edit) 7. Birdee & Dr Packer feat Suki Soul - You Know I'm Ready (Extended Mix) 8. Anyma & Cassian - Save Me (Extended Mix) 9. Becky Hill & Chase & Status - Disconnect (Tiesto Remix) 10. Tommy Mc x Billie Clements - Lift Me Up (Rubber People Remix) 11. Kungs x Shadow Childs - Changes 12. Monki feat Lau.ra - Feels Darker (Feel It) (Edit)

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Being a boss isn't just about calling the shots, it's a delicate balancing act that requires continuous learning, effective people management, and navigating the complexities of business growth. Anne & Lau unpack the multifaceted nature of being a BOSS - the responsibilities, the challenges, the triumphs, and everything in between. Listen in as they share their personal experiences and insights on managing people, mastering outsourcing, and balancing the dynamics of a growing business. You'll learn the significance of industry education, the art of hiring the right people, and the need for continuous learning and adaptability. Plus, they delve into the essential elements of establishing strong relationships with clients and colleagues. This is a conversation you won't want to miss, so tune in and let's learn how to truly embrace being a BOSS…   Transcript   It's time to take your business to the next level, the BOSS level! These are the premiere Business Owner Strategies and Successes being utilized by the industry's top talent today. Rock your business like a BOSS, a VO BOSS! Now let's welcome your host, Anne Ganguzza.   Anne: Hey everyone. Welcome to the VO BOSS podcast and the BOSS Superpower series. I'm your host Anne Ganguzza, and I'm here with the one and only, most beautiful, lovely Lau Lapides.    Lau: Oh, thank you. Miss Anne. Love you right back. Yay.    Anne: Ohh. You know, Lau. I had such a week. Oh my gosh. It is so tough to be a BOSS. I'm just saying.    Lau: Ugh. It is. It is. You have to give that a little accent, because that was such a week. Was it a week? It was a week. It was a week. It was a week, a week from Weekland.    Anne: I Had such a week.    Lau: Such a week.    Anne: Trying to, being a BOSS.   Lau: Oy, tell me about your week. Tell me about it.    Anne: The VO BOSS. Okay, so that was my poor rendition of (laughs) VO BOSS. So being a VO BOSS, you know what? There's so many different types of BOSSes. So I thought it would be a good thing to talk about today, all the different hats that we wear being BOSSes and all the, as you mentioned before, the plates that need to be kept spinning in the air. And those of you who are maybe just getting into this, or if you're into this, realize that you're not alone. We're all spinning plates, and it's one big, crazy, wonderful world of being a BOSS. All these things that I never anticipated having to do when I initially thought, oh, I'm gonna go into voiceover.    Lau: Oh, totally. You know? Oh, you don't know anything. I mean, that's the beauty of it, is like if you knew everything, you wouldn't go into it. So it's better.    Anne: Probably.    Lau: Ignorance is bliss, right? In a way.    Anne: Probably.    Lau: But do you ever literally have vertigo? Like sometimes I literally, at night, I'll sit down, and the room is spinning, and I'm like, why is the room spinning? It's like so many things are entering --   Anne: Could've been those drinks you had, Lau. I'm just kidding. (laughs).    Lau: It could be like, listen, I should drink --   Anne: Vodka, you. No (laughs).    Lau: I should drink. I would be able to see straight. But it's just like so many layers of stuff happening in your mind that literally you get dizzy from it. I get dizzy from it.    Anne: It's funny because I said to -- as I was having a meeting with my assistants the other day -- I said, God, it's hard to be a BOSS. Like, I thought, oh, it's gonna be wonderful going into business for myself, and, and it is. Trust me, I would have it no other way. I've decided that I could never, ever work for someone again outside of an a guest position, like a guest director, that kind of thing. But I just can't work for someone again. But being a BOSS, there's so many responsibilities that you have to take on that you may have never even thought of. And they're scary. Right? Because did I have any experience setting up an S-corp? Did I have any experience hiring employees or firing employees? Things that you just didn't -- in the beginning, did I have any experience negotiating outside of being in the store with my — by the way, my father, my father, every place he went, he tried to bargain. He tried to bargain the deal. He would go into Sears. Okay, Sears is not around much anymore, but I think Sears is  online.    Lau: (laughs). I love Sears.    Anne: But he would go into Sears, like just the retail store, and he'd just, anything he bought, he'd try to, he tried to bargain them down. I mean, it was hysterical. It used to drive my mother crazy, but all the negotiation, I had no idea. Right? No idea how to negotiate, no idea how to set up accounting for my business.    Lau: Yeah. They're hardcore skill sets that we're not, I mean, to be perfectly honest with you, if you're in undergrad, if you're in graduate school, if you go to a conservatory, if you're going to a training studio, they all kind of fall under a similar umbrella in that they're not offering a lot of business training. And so you're really kind of thrown out as a actor in the world thrown out to figure out, how do I do this? Whether I'm a working talent or whether I own a company, how do I figure out all the components that have to make that company really successful? And the truth is, a lot of us end up taking years and years piecing it together, like our own apprentice, and getting people to train with and train under, to figure out what I need to not just survive, but also thrive in the business and get to the level at which we're getting to.    Anne: Absolutely. And even if you outsource, right? Let's just say you're a creative. I know a lot of creatives that come into it. They're like, okay, so this is great, I got my demo, (laughs). Then they're like, why am I not getting any work? Well, because you need to proceed on with the business, right? We need to do marketing, we need to do outreach. We need to reach out to potential clients and get the work. And then once we get the work, we have to figure out how to negotiate a fair price. Or if we're working with an agent, we have to get that agent. How are we going to bill them? And then once we bill them, how are we gonna make sure that they pay us? And then when they pay us, we gonna make sure we're taking out enough taxes for the end of the year, right, so that we can pay our taxes at the end of the year?    So, so many different pieces and components. And I think for me, as a voice talent first starting out, before I really branched off and started coaching and started VO Peeps and VO bus, I had to survive and get through all of that, which I believe most everybody has to kind of experience on their own. Even if you outsource for things, right, for editing, for accounting, you have to understand the business in order to know how to manage the people that you are hiring to help you with the business. Right? Because otherwise, you're kind of just sitting there in the dark and people could take advantage of you, or you're just not gonna understand how your business works or the things that need to get done. So I think first and foremost, being a BOSS requires education, education, education. Oh my gosh, from the start.   Lau: Yes. You have said the magic words, and you have to give yourself enough expertise to understand how to find experts, if that makes any sense. And I, I oftentimes would get frustrated saying, but wait, do I have to be a graphic designer in order to design for a designer for my website? And to some degree, yes, you do. To some degree, yes, you do. You can't run on an assumption that if I have enough money to invest, and I hire this person or this team, that they actually know what they're doing. You cannot assume that, do not assume it. And I will say, not to be a negative Nelly, but just to be a realist in the moment, most of the time they don't.    Anne: Yeah.    Lau: And so it doesn't mean to be overly critical, it just means to have the education behind you to say, well, I sat in on some courses, I took some seminars.    Anne: Yeah.    Lau: I did some homework in the industry, and I have a sense of what a marketing person does. I have an idea of what a designer would do for a website. I have these ideas that I can be a partner, not a subordinate in my own business, but a partner in crime to really make that vision happen. Don't sit back and be passive and say, well, I'm hiring an accountant, and they should know you'll do it.    Anne: Exactly.    Lau: You have to know what an expense is. You have to know what a write-off is. You have to know, as you said, how to save for your quarterly taxes. Otherwise, you're gonna get stuck at the end saying, wow, I'm the loser in this because I didn't do the homework in understanding what my due diligence is in this process, I just completely put it in the whole basket of that professional who, sometimes they're great, but they still are not gonna know everything and about our industry.    Anne: Oh my gosh, yes. And honestly, I will say that for myself, being the tech girl that I am, being, the fact that years ago I taught, let's just, here's an example, marketing, ads, Google Ads, Facebook ads, LinkedIn ads, they've changed. Right? And so when I recently -- well, not recently, it was about a year ago or two years ago, I went to go hire someone to do Google Ads for me. Oh my goodness. So I didn't have a concept of what Google Ads needed at the time. Right? So how was I able to hire a qualified person to create ads for me, manage ads for me, and run them for me, and then charge me. Right? And I will say, I am the first person to say that I did not educate myself enough. I found someone who, sworn up and down, good references, good resource, that was supposed to be a wonderful person that could handle my Google Ads for me. And they did not work out at all for me. I got no return on my investment, and I lost money.    And so that alone, right, that risk that you're taking when you're hiring somebody or outsourcing somebody to help you run your business, that first of all takes courage. And that's a scary thing. And so educating yourself about what you need and the general outline -- like, if I need an accountant, what is that accountant gonna have to do for me? They're gonna have to balance my monthly checkbook. They're gonna have to import data from my banking accounts. We're gonna have to categorize that.    So understand that you need to do these things, and then you're gonna have to manage the person that's working for you. And remember, and this is probably one of the toughest things I have, multiple assistants. Assistants are human, right? Human people have bad days. Right? And if there's a bad day, or more than a bad day, or it turns out to be something where it's not helping you in your business, you're going to have to address that. And that's not necessarily a technical thing that you have to know or learn about, but that is people management. And oh my goodness, Lau. I don't know. Can you take a class on people management (laughs)?    Lau: Well, you know, they have whole degrees on management. They certainly have whole graduate degrees. But I'm here to tell you, and not to say that those are not worth taking part in, they could be.    Anne: Yeah.    Lau: But I'm here to tell you, I am from the school of Old Knocks, and the School of Living Life from --   Anne: Hard knocks.   Lau: Hard knocks. And nothing you learn in school, number one, in a year or two will be obsolete, a lot of it. But number two can match what happens, the class, versus the real life. Nothing can match the nuances and complexities and sophistication and complication of dealing with people every day. And anyone who's in any kind of business will agree with that one. It is amazing, the skillsets that you need to accrue.    Anne: Oh goodness, yes.   Lau: The more diversity, the more skillsets, (laughs).    Anne: And you know, we always encourage outsourcing, right? To be a BOSS, go ahead. Outsource those things that don't bring you joy. Outsource those things that allow you to market yourself more. If you love being in the booth and you want more jobs in the booth, hire someone to help you market. But make sure that you know enough about that marketing and enough about managing that person so that they can truly help you grow. And so that when you do get more work, right, you're gonna be able to complete that as intended.    And if it doesn't work out, I think one of the hardest things for me has been firing somebody. That's a tough thing. That might be the toughest thing I've had to do, is fire people. And that is, whew. I'll tell you, that mentally is draining.(laughs). You know, not so much like if somebody's not performing as you feel, I think letting them go. And then I think the decent thing to do is to connect up with them and talk to them as you're letting them go. I don't wanna just ghost people or do it via a text or an email. Dealing with that is very, very tough.    So BOSSes, if you are outsourcing, make sure you know enough about the topic or whatever it is that you're outsourcing so that you can manage the person. And if that person doesn't work out, make sure that you have the courage and you will develop people skills probably. It doesn't make it easier, I don't think. I always hate letting somebody go. It's not a pleasant thing to do.   Lau: No, it's a hard one. It's a really hard one, especially if you're a people pleaser and you love to get along with people. It's a very difficult one. And another one is, and this is old school management versus a lot of new school theory, in that management does not mean everything is hands off and laissez-faire where you can walk away and take lunch all day and everyone will do everything for you. It is always, in my mind, a hands on skillset and craft that you need to be unafraid and assertive about your team being on top of what's going on, having them know that you know what's going on, the psychology that is important. But walking a fine line between over controlling and being --   Anne: Yeah. Micromanaging.   Lau: — called founder syndrome, that's the founder of the company not willing to budge and let go of old ways and old philosophies. How we balance that as managers of saying, well, yes, I started, I've grown. I have a philosophy and a model in this direction, but I wanna learn, I wanna pivot, I wanna grow. And knowing the difference -- here's one of the best ones I can give to your, to the audience. One of the best ones is know the difference between the people that are static — in other words, they were great at a certain timeframe — and others that are your growth people. They're the people that are gonna help you grow to the next place. Not everyone is that. And when we have an unrealistic expectation and get upset that this person is not moving with us, they're not shaping us, they're not shape shifting, they're not leading us, well, they're not meant to. They're not great at that. That's not why they're there. This other person you're bringing in, because they're great at that. That's what they do. They're there to take you to the next level. And know the difference between the two.    Anne: Absolutely. Yeah. There's a give and a take. Right? I mean, just because you are the boss doesn't mean that you are the be all, all knowing. And so I, I really find that there's such a delicate balance between happy people, happy employees, business grows. I really believe in keeping employees happy. And to do that, you have to pay them fairly. That's number one. And again, that's another mind twist for BOSSes who are starting out thinking, well, gosh, I don't have the money. A lot of what I hear on a daily basis is, I don't have the finances. I don't have the finances to invest. But yet still, if you don't have the finances to invest, I don't believe in your growth, in your company's growth, you're not gonna grow. And what are we here for? I mean, (laughs). I just feel like there's got to be a reason that you want to grow in your career and grow your business.    And so there has to be that mental education that you have for yourself that allows you to make that investment, but also trust in the people. Like hire people that can help you grow. I love the static and the growth people, and also, a back and forth listening to those people, because I don't know everything. Right? I hire people that make me look better. Right? Hire people that make you look good, and you can help them look good as well. I think it's a give and a take. And I think it's always like, if you hire people who are even better than you, I think that's really something to aspire to. I wanna hire somebody, obviously I wanna hire somebody that's better at me in accounting, because that's why I need accounting help. Right? I want somebody who's the expert, who's the best in that. And I wanna encourage them to want to work for me or work with me to help grow my company. So how am I incentivizing?    Lau: And you know, just realize that as you manage people, people, whether they're a contractor and they're coming and going, doing a one-off job for you, or if they're an employee and they're there on a consistent basis, I always run by the philosophy of, I wanna build them up. I wanna grow them and spring them up. Versus rip them down and tear them down. And I'll tell you, I oftentimes say this from some folks that I have worked with in the past, and I think to myself, quietly I think, if they had money and they had power, they would be super dangerous. Because they don't know how to manage people, and they would become tyrannical. And it's very easy to slide into a zone where I'm powerful, I'm omnipotent, I have money, I'm successful, I'm this, I'm that. Now the ego can't get through the door. The ego is larger than life. No one can tell me I'm wrong. No one can show me anything else.    Anne: Right.    Lau: A lot of dictators, we see this in the acting world, especially in academia, a lot of theater professors and people who are tenured, who can't be touched over years and years and years can become very, very tyrannical in nature and just rip to shreds those actors. And so I always had a concerted effort in the front of my mind, not that I have a nature for that, but don't ever go down that path. Always stay humble, stay kind, stay open to education, and just know that I don't know everything. There's so much you don't know. You're always learning --    Anne: Absolutely.    Lau: — learning and learning. But keep your awareness up. If someone is trying to take advantage of you or someone is treating you a certain way that's uncomfortable or inappropriate, put your foot down. Be articulate. Let them know that. Like, don't let them walk all over you. And so it's a very fine line to stay right in the middle, right in that diplomatic middle place.    Anne: Yeah.    Lau: Where you're strong and you have an anchor and you have a state of mind, but you are open, you're kind, you're pivoting and you're learning and just sort of moving back and forth.    Anne: I think some of the most powerful people in business, and of course I've had, outside of the VO industry, I've had experiences obviously before I came into the voiceover industry. But I also try to make a point to really get outside my bubble and experience -- especially with my clients, right? I want to go into their world. I think some of the smartest and most powerful people that I have met have been ones who don't act like they know it all and actively say, I don't know it all. Or I wish I could answer that right now. What I think is this. And I truly believe those are the people that I'm like, wow. Like, wow. You just don't see that. I have such respect. He's a BOSS. Or she's a BOSS. And really, I feel that that has to be part of the mindset that, BOSSes out there, we need to stay humble, stay open to education, and educating yourself at all times. Like we are lifelong learners.    It's not easy. Right? I mean, I, gosh, I wish a lot of times you might look into the industry and people just make it look so easy. They're just getting all the jobs. They're just powerhouses in the industry. But I guarantee if you sit down with every one of them, they can tell you their story. And their story has not been all roses. I mean, it's not easy being a good BOSS. It, it just isn't. There's a lot of trials, tribulations, failures, missteps. I think if you really look at it in a positive light, you always learn from your mistakes. I mean, I don't mind making mistakes. I mean, I don't wanna make big costly mistakes. I try to avoid those. But it happens. I mean, like I said, I made a bad investment in trying to hire someone that was gonna do some ads for me. And it wasn't just that, I mean, it's been multiple, multiple things that have happened that I'm like, well, okay, I've learned now. Now I know. I don't want that. Or now I learned and I know better.    Lau: That's what I call learning money. (laughs).    Anne: Yeah. Learning money.    Lau: Learning money. But you don't wanna keep learning that lesson over and over and over again.    Anne: Exactly.    Lau: Just learn it and then move on and say, hey, I learned that. And I'll never forget that. Yeah. Because that was not the right move for us, but that's okay. That's all right. It happens.    Anne: I try telling people all the time, it's such a thing on the forums in, you know, Facebook groups, oh, I got a demo, and oh, I shouldn't have gotten that demo. And then people come, they'll come to me and they'll say, can you listen to my demo? And I shouldn't have gotten it. And oh God, it was a mistake and it was bad. But honestly, I just tell people like, you cannot beat yourself up over something. It's a learning mistake. Right? I mean, everybody starts somewhere. Right?    Lau: Yeah, I was just thinking of that.   Anne: And so, if you beat yourself up about, yes, it could have been a costly investment, but think of it as a learning investment. And now you know exactly what not to do. And so I always try to make people not feel bad about what they consider to be mistakes. because it, they bring with them all sorts of luggage, which it doesn't always serve them well in trying to build their businesses. Right? When you've got that luggage and that baggage and that bitterness. I mean, just move on, learn, move on. And yeah, it was a costly mistake. And it happens. It just does. And it happens to the best of us, guys. It does. It happens to BOSSes that have been doing this for years, like myself and Lau, I'm sure.    Lau: Oh my goodness. Every year, every year you're learning and you're growing, and you're doing things that are amazing and you're doing other things that you look back and you say, why did I do that? Or I don't think I'm gonna do that again.    Anne: Well, that didn't work, (laughs).    Lau: What was I thinking? You know? Wasn't time well spent. But you know what? I think the older and wiser you get, the more you realize I need to be able to take something away from every single experience that I'm doing. Because that's really the learning curve. Sometimes your biggest mistakes are your biggest learning curves. And sometimes you meet people within that mistake that become immense, immense partners in action for you and your lifetime. So always look for the silver lining of that cloud. Don't walk away and beat yourself up and waste energy and waste time and whatever. Say, listen, I got opportunity costs, I got learning money, (laughs) that I'm spending.    Anne: Yeah, absolutely.    Lau: But you know, I had a thought in my head, and this was like from 20 minutes ago, but I just wanted to say that some of the simplest things that can be blown out of proportion, if not done well, and doing the due diligence to do them well is so important. Like even budgeting, like even budgeting, understanding the difference between like what a fixed cost is versus what your variable costs are. if you don't know that from the beginning and you don't work on that, my goodness, the money is gonna go right through your hands like water. You won't even know what happened to it. You won't know how you spent it. You won't know how you got it. You won't know what to do with it. So your relationship to money is a very powerful and intimate and trusting relationship that you have to really respect and pay attention to, because it symbolizes so many important things for you in your life and in your business. So you have to really do that and not put it off for some day, someday. Do it early. Get yourself in really important patterns.    Anne: I think ultimately we create businesses to have a business and create a profit. Right? We wanna be able to create a profit so that we can I mean, ultimately, if this is your full-time gig, right? I wanna be able to pay the mortgage, and so with my business, I need to make a profit. And so, yes, relationship with money is huge. And I think we had a podcast episode on it not so long ago, or we've spoken about it before. Your relationship with money is critical. It's imperative that you address it and that you face it. Because you have to know at what point, are you making a profit? Are you not making a profit? What are you putting your money into?  And that's not to say that you shouldn't put your money into things, right? And that you should be clenching your fists and not wanting to invest in yourself or in your business, but knowing where that money is going. And then are you making a profit? Or at what point are you making a profit?    Now, profit can mean something other than monetary profit, especially when we're talking about just getting into the business. The first couple of years I was in the business, I expected to take a loss. And of course I reported a loss on my taxes, right? Because you're investing money, or investing money in your training and your equipment, in your demos, you're spending money on, at least I was spending money on pay-to-plays and auditioning and trying to build up that business, build up that clientele. And so as a business entity, I lost money the first couple of years. And of course, ultimately that shouldn't be your goal forever. But I mean, that's very typical I think for any small business just starting out, you're gonna invest more than you're gonna get back.    And so for those people, I love it, I always ask my new students to set goals. Some of the goals are like, I want a national spot in six months, or I wanna be able to make, you know, $100,000 this year, or whatever that is. And I like the fact that there's goals, but I want, I want your goals as BOSSes to also, if you educate yourself enough to figure out what are realistic goals for you in your business, and how much are you going to have to invest, and how much could you realistically get? I mean, of course there's always monetary goals, that I'd like to hit that six figure number this year. I think those are great. But I also think that you have to have the relationship with your money, first and foremost, to know where that money is going, in and out in profit and not profit, to really help you get an idea as to how to continue or to move forward and progress.    Lau: Have a real action plan in place, right, Anne? I mean, don't just fly by the city of your pants. It's okay to have those impulsive moves at times and have the improv spirit, but you have to have a plan of action in place. I would like to see you have it in place every quarter and readjust it, readjust it, readjust it, reinvent it, reenvision it. It should not stay the same year after year, quarter after quarter. You should have new ideas, new ideas. And it's okay if your business is capped. You don't have to go through the ceiling. Not everyone has to go through the ceiling. Some people say, I wanna grow to this level. I'm happy with this level.    Anne: Yeah, absolutely.    Lau: I know if I get above it, it's gonna be too stressful for me. Or I don't have enough of --    Anne: There's gonna be more work involved. Exactly.    Lau: — to help with that. And just know that, like go after your big dream, but be realistic about that big dream. I also wanted to say too, be careful of scams. It is a massive scam market now out there, just in the larger world, in the larger sphere. So as you're spending your money and investing in services and delegating and hiring people and growing your team, do your reference checks, do your research. Ask folks in the industry, do you know this one? Do you know this one? Do you know this one? Because you don't wanna make a mistake where you give a bunch of money to a scam outfit. That happens all the time. Every moment of the day, that's happening. And they're getting very crafty about looking like a real company.    Anne: Yeah, absolutely.    Lau: So just buyer, beware, consumer, beware. Do the due diligence. And I guarantee you two or three people in the industry that you work with and trust are gonna know whether they are legitimate and real or not.    Anne: Yeah. Yeah. BOSSes, educate. I think it all starts with education, all starts with education. And I mean, hopefully our discussion on being a BOSS and things that we've had to encounter ourselves has helped you to know that you're not alone if you're experiencing difficulty or you have questions or you don't know the answers, because a lot of times we don't either. And so that's why we have support groups out there. We have mentors, we have coaches that we trust and believe in. And the BOSSes, we're always here for you if you need us. And so always great conversation, Lau.   Lau: Great conversation. You know what I love the most about being a BOSS? I love developing relationships. Relationships that sometimes can last a whole lifetime. And that to me is one of the biggest payoffs of running a business, is getting to have amazing clients, amazing talent, and amazing colleagues and friends like you, Anne that just make my life happy.    Anne: And cohosts like you, Lau.    Lau:  Yay!   Anne: There you go.    Lau: Yay.    Anne: I love it. Love you, guys.    Lau: Love that. Love it.    Anne: Fantastic. Okay guys. So as individuals, I want to let you know that it can seem difficult not only to be a BOSS, but to make a huge impact. But as a group, we can contribute to the growth of our communities in ways that we never thought before possible. Visit 100voiceswhocare.org to learn how. And big shout-out to our sponsor, ipDTL. You too can network and connect like BOSSes like Lau and myself. Find out more at ipdtl.com. You guys, have an amazing week, and we'll see you next week. Bye!    Lau: Next time!   Join us next week for another edition of VO BOSS with your host Anne Ganguzza. And take your business to the next level. Sign up for our mailing list at voboss.com and receive exclusive content, industry revolutionizing tips and strategies, and new ways to rock your business like a BOSS. Redistribution with permission. Coast to coast connectivity via ipDTL.

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In this episode, Anne & Lau delve into the energizing power of generosity + how integrating it into your personal and professional life can be incredibly rewarding. They explore various ways to incorporate acts of kindness into your daily routine, emphasizing that giving doesn't always have to be monetary – it could be a service, a skill, or even just a few minutes of your time each day. They also discuss the importance of giving without seeking recognition, and how simple gestures can strengthen connections and relationships. Listen in as they share their own experiences, provide insights on how businesses can contribute to organizations like 100 Voices Who Care, and inspire you to unleash the transformative impact of giving in your life and the lives of those around you.   Transcript   It's time to take your business to the next level, the BOSS level! These are the premiere Business Owner Strategies and Successes being utilized by the industry's top talent today. Rock your business like a BOSS, a VO BOSS! Now let's welcome your host, Anne Ganguzza. Anne: Hey everyone. Welcome to the VO BOSS podcast and the BOSS Super Power series. I'm your host, Anne Ganguzza, and I'm here with ah, the one and only Lau Lapides.  Lau: Hey, Anne. Happy Saturday.  Anne: Happy Saturday, Lau. How you feeling this Saturday?  Lau: Awesome. As always. Excited to be here with you.  Anne: Me too. Me too. And you know why? I was gonna tell you before I asked you -- Lau: I have a feeling. Anne: -- do you know why?  Lau: I know what's coming up. I think you're gonna talk about giving today, giving, giving. Anne: I am. I wanna talk about giving. Yes. And I've mentioned this before, purpose beyond profit for your businesses. So, I mean, it's awesome to be BOSSes, right? It's awesome to be a business superpower and to be a BOSS. And I think a big part of being a BOSS is also understanding the power and the power and the grace of giving back. And I think that there are a lot of people who, if they had the opportunity, would really get a lot out of giving back.  I mean, anybody who's given to a charitable organization knows how good that can feel. And I truly believe that today people want to align themselves with businesses who are about more than just profit. You know? That they stand for something, they believe in something, they do good, they give back. I just think it's a good thing to do in your business. And I know it's hard if we're just starting out, trying to get our careers going. And I know there's a lot of people who are like, well, I don't know if I have the money to be able to donate at this time, but I'm going to ask you guys to think about your purpose. Think about the positive outcomes that can come from giving back. Lau, what are your thoughts about? Lau: I am so into that, and I have to say, this isn't an elitist sort of thought process of, oh, I've made it to this amount of money. I'm grossing in my business, then I can give, or this or that. It really is not contingent upon how much you're taking in or how much you're making. Really, I think the truth is, as a business owner and as a human being, a citizen of the earth, I like to say, you should always take a very small percentage of anything that you're bringing in and give it away to the charity of your choice. And I always say to people who haven't done it yet, who don't know what it is, and it's a little scary to do that, just start really small.  Like if you're going through a coffee line, like let's say you're going through the drive-through, pay it forward once a month and just pay for the car behind you, and see what that feels like. What does that do for you for that day? For me, it's very energizing, very inspiring, and very anonymous, which I also like too. It's really coming from the heart, not for recognition. Anne: I actually love that you said that. And there's a couple of different ways when you're giving, and I love the anonymous because I feel like when you're anonymously donating, you're really giving for the reasons coming from your heart. Now, of course, there are a lot of businesses who support different charities or support different organizations, and it becomes a public part of who they are as a business. And I don't think there's anything necessarily wrong with that, especially if it's to the point of they're able to contribute, and it's not a thing where it's front and center, where it becomes like, this is who we are and this is what we're doing for so and so. But it becomes just a side part of what they do on a daily basis.  And I love that you said start small because it doesn't have to be big. As a matter of fact, Lau, our sponsor 100 Voices Who Care has a really cool idea on how you can give and really make an impact. And basically it's a community effort where you can donate $100 a quarter. So that means $100 a quarter, four times a year, $400 total for the year. And essentially, if you can get 100 people together in that organization, they'll be 100 people, that can be a total of $10,000 a year -- Lau: Ooh, that's a lot  Anne: — that can be given away. And so actually that's a large amount. So for you, making your $100 contribution four times a year, and then doing that just minimally, together with however many members that are contributing, can actually make a real difference. And then essentially these members get together, and they do their pitch for their favorite charity, and they say, well, I really like to give to this charity because I feel strongly about how they're helping animals, or they're helping needy people in other countries, or they're -- whatever they might be doing. And you'll be within this group making your pitch. And at the end, everybody votes on what charity that will ultimately win that money. And then what's so great about it is that, even if it doesn't go to the charity of your choice, it's going to a charity.  Lau: Exactly. It's giving back to the world, to the people, the animals, the children, the environment, whatever your causes are, it's going in all of those directions. So in essence, you are personally involved with the giving to all of those different worlds. And to me, I'm about to actually join that organization, 100 Voices Who Care, and I'm very excited about that. Because I'll tell you, I'll be perfectly honest, I've been trying to find organizations to work with, and it's so hard to give money. It sounds ridiculous. But it's hard to get people to call you back. It's hard to find point people. It's hard to find anyone who has information about the organization. And I was very relieved to see this particular outfit at our conference recently that we attended. And I was like, wow, this answered all of my prayers as a business and also as a human being. Like, you're gonna take care of a lot of this for me, but I also have a voice and I can pitch an organization that I'm interested in giving a voice to.  Anne: It's wonderful. Lau: That's exciting.  Anne: And who's leading the organization, who was there at the conference, if you guys were there and didn't get a chance to stop by and see her, is Claire Dinsdale, who is a voice actor herself, and who is fronting that organization to help be able to give to charities. And it's just wonderful because it's something where I wanna feel like I can make a big impact, but I don't necessarily have a lot of money to give. But together we can really make a huge impact. And I think one of the things I thought long ago was the fact that if I was able to have an organization, let's say like my VO Peeps and my VO BOSSes, that now that I've formed this organization, there is this segment of it that I do want to be able to give back if I'm able to give back.  And so it's one of the reasons I formed the VO Peeps Scholarship Fund and have been giving scholarships away for, gosh, close to 11 years. And again, it really is a matter of the community because I accept donations from the community as well as in-kind gifts. So it doesn't always have to be money either. It can be your time, it can be coaching time, it can be equipment, it can be all sorts of different things that you can donate that can really mean something to a person's career. And so that became a very integral part of the VO Peeps business model. And so I really encourage all of you BOSSes out there that if it is possible to either join an organization and get that feeling of being able to contribute to that organization, to give back, I truly believe it makes the world go round. Right? I mean… Lau: It's huge.  Anne: Even if you're giving anonymously, I think it's just, everything comes back. I believe in good karma. I truly believe that it helps in the growth and positive reinforcement of the world and our humanness to each other.  Lau: Hmm. So true. I mean, the karma of that, if you believe in karma, if you believe in that boomerang energy that what you put out into the world will come back to you — I mean, we wouldn't do it for that reason. But I do deeply believe in that. I absolutely believe in that. And I did wanna just give a super quicky anecdote, Anne, about a moment in time that's running through my head right now, where my daughter — and I hope she's not listening because she likes to be anonymous in everything she does — my daughter, about a year ago or two years ago, young kid, she was a young kid, teenager, she saw that one of the customers that came into a store she was working at desperately needed a walker and did not have the funds to get a walker, and was really, really struggling. And on her birthday, I -- this kind of blew me away — on her birthday, on my daughter's birthday, she decided to take the money that we gave her on her birthday and buy her a walker, which was a very expensive walker in the store.  Anne: Yeah. Wow.    Lau: And give it to her. And her and my son delivered it to their door. And I said, that's amazing. Are you sure you wanna do that? They didn't have any money saved, and that was good money for her to do something with. She said, yeah, I can't think of anything I really want or need, but this woman Sarah, needs to walk. And I would feel better giving it to her. Anne, she did that. Long story short, I was amazed. I'm trying not, not to get verklempt about it.    Anne: What a wonderful story.  Lau: I drive up the street now, Anne, and I see this woman, she lives in the area, crossing the street with the walker. And every time I see her, I just quietly, she doesn't know me, she doesn't know I'm the the mother.      Anne: Yeah. Yeah.      Lau: I think my daughter gave her that.    Anne: Yeah. Yeah.      Lau: And it's not about the walker, it's about freedom. And so I always think it's not about the money. If you give a dollar, if you give a million dollars, it's kind of the same, because symbolically what it's really giving to a person, confidence --     Anne: Sure.      Lau: — energy, freedom, all sorts of things that you have to think of it in that way. Don't whittle it down to just monetary. It could be service you do, right?      Anne: Absolutely.     Lau: It could be absolutely something you own that's precious to you that you give to someone else. It could be anything. Right?     Anne: Yeah. I love that story. That's such a beautiful story.      Lau: Amazing story, right?      Anne: Yeah.      Lau: It's amazing. And that taught me a lesson.      Anne: Yeah. And there's so much to be said for when you see someone in need, just being able to help them out, what it can do for you internally, mentally. And I think that of course, as we, again, we say over and over and over again, as we run our businesses, I mean, we are all human, and our businesses are very personal. It's a very personal and proud of our brand. So whatever we do outside of our job, right, outside of our business, affects our business in a lot of ways indirectly. And so I think being able to feel good about what you're doing and feeling good — and again, we're always talking about in our business, let's charge what we're worth. And I still believe in that. But I also believe that if you can help another talent out, or if you can help someone else out around you, then that is just going to contribute to the overall good of your business and of you personally.      Lau: And I do think some of the best times to give, Anne, are not in dire times. I think we always connote that, oh, if someone's starving or they're in war, whatever, of course they need help in assistance. And of course we should assist them. But it's not the only time. Maybe there's a zoo or an animal farm that needs maintenance, constant daily maintenance to feed the animals, clean the animals, keep them, whatever. Or maybe there's the trees in the forest that need-- you know, we are big in terms of Israeli trees being planted every year.      Anne: Sure.    Lau: And we give money to plant new trees every year. so that we can grow that new forest. So thinking about what am I doing to maintain, what am I doing to provide a future for populations or for the environment? It's not absolutely only in dire, dire circumstances. Sometimes it's in good circumstances in order to keep it maintained and keep it healthy.    Anne: Absolutely. Absolutely. And I think that really it is, it's something that I would say, if you haven't already put it into your business plan or into your daily life, really take some time to consider what can I do? What can I do to help give back? And again, as Lau mentions, it doesn't have to be monetary. I mean, it could be your time, it could be some other service that you can provide. If you don't have the money to donate, it could be your service. And that could mean just as much, if not even more. I mean, be a tutor for a child that might need help reading or there's just so many, so many things that we can do.    I have to say, take a part of your workday. I wouldn't feel bad. You know what I mean? If we're busy and we're like, okay, we're focused on our work -- I think you should set aside a part of your workday to consider what am I gonna do to help give back? Maybe even it's something as simple as contributing to, I'm gonna say a Facebook forum in a positive way where you might be helping other talent. Gosh, I know, Lau, this has been going back and forth about people who ask questions in the forums. And some people get really angry about having to answer the same question multiple times. They're trying to pick my brain. And yes, I get that whole thing. But I do believe that as a good service towards people coming into the industry, you can give a little bit and give some helpful advice without sacrificing, giving away the farm. I mean, gosh, the VO BOSS podcast over and over I've said, it was something that I wanted to do to give back to the community, to just have a resource that people could go to.    Lau: Exactly. Right.    Anne: And so, a lot of my stuff that I do, I have that whole series on teachable moments that I put on YouTube. 'cause I love teaching, I love sharing. And yes, I will be the first person to say that. Yes. Some people, when they come to me for coaching, they say, well, I saw you on your videos, or I listened to your VO BOSS podcast. Gosh, Lau. I'm sure people talk to you about that too. I am so grateful for the people that come to me that say, I listen to your podcast religiously, or thank you for what you're doing. And yes, I wanna work together. So that's the bonus.    Lau: I'm blown away. Bonus, bonus, bonus.    Anne: That's just a bonus. Yeah. It wasn't the original intent. And I think that that is obvious too. Right?    Lau: I'm blown away by that. Yeah. We get comments all the time about this wonderful podcast and it's like, woo! I feel like superheroes, we're spending our time together on a Saturday and doing our thing. But then when you hear and you see how it lands, how it affects people, how it has the potential to change someone's life — well, in essence, I mean, that's giving too. You're not giving physical money, but you're giving time. Time is energy. Time is value. Time is money. Right?    And I do wanna mention too, another thing I tend to do, which is hard, I'm not gonna say it's easy. I take as many surveys as I can. And that's the thing that everyone hates and doesn't wanna do. And they get the survey from every hotel and every whatever. And I literally sit there and I think, okay, I have to do this for them. I have to do this. And then if it goes too many windows, too many pages, I can lose my patience. But if it can be done in five minutes, I will do it for them. Because I say, I know they need that feedback, and I'm the person to give it to them in a really constructive way. And that's giving of yourself too.    Anne: And you know what? That's so funny cause you just reminded me because of VO Atlanta -- I'm just gonna say VO Atlanta is one example where the staff, I'm going to say the staff just ran their tushes off and bent over backwards trying to help me. And Lau, if you remember, you were a part of that one night when I was starving to death. And so the staff really went above and beyond. And I said to them, give me the email address of your manager. I will write an email saying how wonderful you were for me tonight. Please, I want to do that for you. And I'm --   Lau: I love that. I love that.   Anne: — very much willing to do that because it helps. It does.    Lau: It totally helps. You don't see it. You don't hear it, but you have to believe it's there. It's like if the tree's falling, do you hear it? Is it happening? Yes, it's happening. Yes, it makes impact. And yes, you don't always need the accolades, you just need the knowledge of knowing it's happening. And I noticed you neglected to mention that I had to threaten the whole staff at that Marriott to get you like some turkey sticks or whatever we got you. And that was my charity for that night.    Anne: Yeah, you had to threaten everybody. But the person that came through, the person that came through for me, they bent over backwards.    Lau: They did. They sure did.    Anne: To help me. Yeah. They really did.    Lau: They did.    Anne: To get me that turkey sandwich.    Lau: They went beyond, they went beyond customer service, beyond hotel service. That happened to me one time up in the Berkshires and it was a hotel, I think it was a Marriott. It was great. It was super great. And I needed baby powder one night. You know, maybe they thought I had a baby, which I didn't, but I needed baby powder. And my husband goes to the front desk and it's like 11 at night. Do you happen to have any baby powder? And the woman who has babies, young children who works at the desks said, we don't sell it here, but hold on, let me run to my car. She runs to her car and gets it from her baby in the car. This is a hotel rep.    Anne: Yeah.    Lau: And gives it to my husband and said, here, give it to your wife. I know sometimes when you need certain things, it's just good to have them. And I never forgot that.    Anne: Yeah.    Lau: I never forgot. That was so above and beyond to me.    Anne: Yeah.    Lau: Was so personal, so personalized --   Anne: Right.    Lau: — to do something like that, you know, whether it's shoe polish or a toothbrush, or baby powder, whatever it is, it's the humanness of the connection and relationships we have together. Was that an extreme need for me? No, I could've lived without it. But the humanity of the honest connection between people is what builds the good juju in the world. Not always, here, let me give you physical cash. Let me help you and do something to make your life easier and it'll connect us for a moment. To me, that's worth everything. I love that. I love those moments.    Anne: And it makes me think of our clients, right?    Lau: Yeah.    Anne: Sometimes can we extend a little bit to our clients once in a while? Do you know what I mean? Like if they need a favor or you know, gosh, they need a pickup like yesterday and is it three words, and they're ready and willing and able to pay, and you're like, you know what? No, it's okay. Like you're just building that good relationship. As a matter of fact, I'm the type of person, oh gosh, I don't even charge. I mean, unless they have completely new scripts, I don't charge. I embed in my price, I embed a certain amount of pickups to it. And if it's a company that I've worked with for a while and I've got a good relationship with them, I'm happy to extend a freebie here and there in a pinch for them, absolutely. Because honestly, the time it would take me to draw up the invoice and charge them and worry about all that, just, it  wasn't even worth the time. So I do think that also in your businesses, you can extend goodwill towards your clients as well and not be threatened that you're not charging what you're worth.    Lau: We used to call that in the olden days, don't nickel and dime people.    Anne: Yes.    Lau: And that means not just getting the pennies from someone, but also the bother, the energy, the exhaustion, the stress.    Anne: Yes. That's what it is.    Lau: Everything that surrounds that transaction. And you have to know intuitively, is it worth it quickly to do that or not? Is it better to just say, hey, let's not worry about that right now. Let's worry about the bigger picture right now of things, versus --   Anne: Let me get you your job on time. Yeah.     Lau: That's a huge gift.   Anne: Let me give this job to you on time. And I think -- yeah, absolutely. And I think that it's something that you can consider every once in a while. Especially if you've developed a great relationship with a client. Now, clients that nickel and dime you, well that's a different story.    Lau: That's a different story.    Anne: Yeah. That's a different story. So I think we have to make wise decisions, but I think for the most part, if you know your client, you're gonna know what the right decision is. You're gonna know if they're nickel and diming you, but I truly believe that a little goodwill can really, really go a long way. And that's personally in your business all the way around. And so, yeah. I like how you associate it with the stress that's wrapped around the request or the stress that's wrapped around the transaction. And I think alleviating as much stress as possible, I'll tell you that's my goal lately, Lau (laughs).    Lau: And that's a great goal to have.   Anne: I don't want stress. I don't want stress in my business.    Lau: No, no one does.    Anne: And I think stress or pain or -- I don't want any of that. I just want joy. I want joy surrounding my job. And sometimes that's tough to do, but I'll tell you what, it's so much easier when you are a BOSS yourself and you're in control of it, because you realize that you have control of those things. You have control over your goodwill towards your clients, your goodwill towards humankind, how you feel on a daily basis and how that translates into your performance, and how it translates into your business. It is absolutely up to you. And it's one of the things that I'm so grateful. I just love the fact that I'm working for myself. And I mentioned this to you just recently, Lau, that I don't wanna go through the stress of if I'm working for someone, why did I work so hard to build my own business? If I wanna experience stress like that? I don't. So anything that causes stress like that, basically I've gotta figure out what I can do to wipe that stress away.    Lau: That's right. And to circle that back with that idea of giving -- and by the way, we have a great term. Most people know that I'm Jewish. We have a great Yiddish term called mitzvah. When you do  a mitzvah, when a boy or girl turns 13, we have a bar or bat mitzvah. it means they are now an adult, and they really need to start thinking about giving, give, give, give, give back. Don't take, take, take, take, give, give, give, give. And that's the whole purpose of a bar or bat mitzvah. So the mitzvah of the giving is to de-stress, to relax, rejuvenate. Give someone the joy, the pleasure, the peace of mind that what they're doing is a life worth living, is goals worth having, and that you're there in their community to support them. I mean, I'd love to see that in the world at large. We'd have a better world if everyone could think in the way in which you are thinking. And as like, to de-stress someone is to give them a huge gift, whether it's a smile. It could be an emoji. It could even be like --   Anne: A compliment.    Lau: A compliment. Like pay attention to someone else for a moment and call attention to something that they're doing really well or something that impresses you or something that delights you. 'Cause a lot of times someone might be thinking it and not articulate it.    Anne: Yeah. Yeah. Absolutely.    Lau: So kind of motivate yourself to articulate those positives. And when you feel the negatives coming on, and you wanna criticize, and you wanna judge, just stop for a second. Like stop and think and say, do I really need to give that out to this person? Is it really necessary? Yep. Or would it be better to build them up? That's a mitzvah.    Anne: Do I need to put that out? Do I need to put that? I love that. Do I need to put that out into the world?    Lau: That's better than money. Honestly. Sometimes that's better than money to say, I recognize you, you matter. You're someone and you're doing something really awesome today. Thanks for doing that. Ooh. Oh my gosh. No one ever, no one tells me that. You need to tell people that.    Anne: And I say, bring that into the booth. We'll just keep going. Lau, every time you mention something that's great. Now I'm like, (laughs). Okay, so, so can we bring that feeling into the booth? And I'm always talking to my students and I've found, I say it more and more is that copy, you need to serve the copy. You need to serve the person you're speaking to. Your delivery needs to come from the heart. It needs to come from a place of service. It's not about how good you sound doing it. It's a place of service. You're helping someone.    And I think if you can take any script that you're doing, commercial, corporate, medical, whatever that is, and you have that place of service, that place of heart where what you are saying is going to benefit and help someone in the end, I really believe that that can be a major impact on your performance. And a good one, a good one at that. Because I believe that the connection that is formed when it comes from that place, right, that place in you really makes a difference in the read. It makes difference on the people listening to it as well.   Lau: I just know personally for myself, when I'm able to give something whatever form it's in, I feel so good. Like right now, I just got a little hot in my like skin and I thought, ooh, am I having a hot flash? No, it's, I'm thinking with about all the ways in which we give, and I'm literally sweating right now because it's so fun to me, it's so exciting because it's not just about giving, it's about seeing how it ripples into the world and into their universe and ultimately your universe too is like seeing the water. Like when you throw the stone, it's the ripple effect of giving.    Anne: Absolutely.    Lau: I love that. That's so cool. To me, it's like a little artistic venture. You don't know where it's gonna go and how it's gonna land, but you just know you threw the rock out there, and you got the ripples going. And so it kind of got me all hot and bothered. (laughs) Fun stuff.    Anne: What a great conversation. What a wonderful — so yeah. BOSSes, one more time, we're gonna talk about the 100voiceswhocare.org. Big impact. Simple mission, big impact, 100 Voices, one hour, $10,000 four times a year. 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In this episode: 7 Questions to ask yourself to start identify the exact tweaks you can make to your brand, right now Examples from my own brand and how I was able pinpoint the gap between my current brand and what my next level brand looks like A practical exercise involving brand archetypes    P.S. Some of you might be able to pick up a difference in my voice and energy on this episode - Yes, I was actually sick when recording this episode

Join Anne & Lau as they embark on a fascinating exploration of the online casting world and analyze the controversial role of Fiverr in the voiceover industry. They shed light on the complex ethical issues prevalent in the freelance industry, emphasizing the significance of transparency, fair compensation, and adherence to industry standards. Listen in as The Bosses discuss online casting's ability to provide global exposure, momentum, and representation for emerging voice talents.  Learn valuable insights into navigating the evolving world of online casting while maintaining ethical practices and fostering a thriving voiceover community.   Transcript   Anne: Hey, hey, everyone. Welcome to the VO Boss Podcast and the Boss Superpower Series. I'm your host, Anne Ganguzza, and I have my amazing, lovely, lovely boss co-host Lau Lapides with me. Yay!   Lau: Hey everyone! Hi Anne! Back, back, back. We're back.   Anne: Lau, I've got a dirty word that I heard.    Lau: And I've got a jar that you're going to put a quarter into.   Anne: Every time you say that word, that F-word, I mean, and I'm not --   Lau: No…   Anne: — talking the F-word that most people think. Or maybe if you're in the voiceover industry, you know what that F-word is?   Lau: What?   Anne: It's not failure either, because that's also another F-word. But the word Fiverr.   Lau: Oh! Quarter in the jar.   Anne: Quarter in the jar every time you say the word Fiverr. So I think we're going to be rich, maybe, Lau   Lau: Quarter in the jar.   Anne: After this podcast. So yeah, it's a hot topic. It's always been a hot topic. And I think that it's a considerably bigger topic because I've been in the industry forever. So before there was Fiverr, there was other places that --   Lau: Always.   Anne: —  always places that like Fiverr. And I think now we just really hear so much more about it because we're all online and everybody can talk about it in groups easily. And so we should talk. Lau, what are your thoughts about -- and before you just come right out and say what your thoughts are about Fiverr, I mean let's talk about business. I think that when you talk about businesses, you're always going to have businesses that are luxury brands, right?   Lau: Hmm, yes.   Anne: You know, that sell luxury brands or luxury, you know, the idea of luxury. And then you have the other that are economical.   Lau: Yes.   Anne: And yeah, cost savings and efficient. And so I'm going to start by saying I think that that Fiverr fits in that model that probably isn't elegant brands, but it is the more cost efficient. And here's where you can get something quick, easy, cheap, and fast.   Lau: Yes. Yeah, I'm going to second that and agree with that. But it's interesting because the way I frame Fiverr and sites that are similar to that, the way I frame that in my business brain is under the umbrella or framing in a context of how do I start my business or how do I gain more momentum in my business and how do I get known in my business? This is  one way that is a way that you can build your client list. And the interesting part about a Fiverr is if you choose to go that direction, you have to know that people are going offline and it's wild west.    So they're building their client list, they're charging all their rates that they're deciding on, they're communicating directly with their clients after awhile. So they're utilizing it as sort of a jumping platform to get out there, get known, and have Fiverr do a lot of the marketing for them so they can get found, and once they're found, then they start to make the rules themselves. They start to build their own clients themselves. So there's something to be said for having a platform. And now this is very common. Marketplaces all over the place are housing voice-over talent and voice-over services so that they are in essence marketing you. You're not doing the marketing, so that potential clients and prospects can find you.   Anne: So, we should clarify. I mean, there are some platforms -- I'm not going to talk too much about the other ones, but there are some online casting platforms that you cannot take the client off of. I love what you said about how it's a jumping point. I mean, look, online casting sites, you know, SEO works on frequency of words, right? And so search engines are built to be good search engines. And so if you're looking for a voice talent or a voice actor, and you do a search at the Google prompt, then essentially they want to be a good search engine and serve back the right material.    So when you've got online casting sites and you've got people that have thousands on thousands of profiles that say, I'm a voice actor — guess who has the best SEO, right? Those online casting sites. And honestly, it's almost impossible for you as a single individual business to go up against that SEO because you've got so many matches, right? And so the search engine says, well, the first, if you're searching for voice artists, well, the first place that comes up that term or that word, that search term, would be a casting site that has thousands upon thousands of profiles that say, I'm a voice artist.   Lau: Yeah.   Anne: And so I love the fact that you use it to get your jumping off point, your marketing, use it for its SEO. And it's well known that Fiverr has great SEO, and as well as the other online casting sites, Voice123, Voices.com, they all have great SEO. And so to get yourself found of hundreds of thousands of people, that is absolutely an approach to doing that. And I'll tell you what, starting off understanding the type of business that Fiverr is, or some of these online casting sites, they're in business to make money. And also the people that are on these platforms are making money. Now, are they making great money? Are they making, you know, is it, You know what I mean?    Like, if you're on Fiverr and you're making money for your family, I'm not even talking voiceover, but you're doing something — and again, this is a global site where there's lots of representation. And we live in the United States, which is very privileged, I'm just going to say, right? There might be people on there that are from other countries where $5 to them is a lot of money, right? And it's a way that they can feed their families. And so I can't, I can't, I can never shun the business. I mean, I can, I can say to them, well, I don't like their advertising. I don't like their ethics. I don't like their lack of transparency for any business, right? And I can choose whether or not I want to associate myself with that business. And I do that every single day. Right?   Lau: Right.   Anne: We do that every single day. So as a voice talent, is it horrible for you to be on Fiverr? And again, there's such. back and forth. And for me, Lau, I've always maintained that, mind your own business. Everybody starts in a different place. Gosh, when I started before there was Fiverr, there was Freelancer. And I'm going to say that --   Lau: I remember that.   Anne: And on Freelancer, it was honestly everybody was underbidding. Everybody was underbidding each other to get the job. What's the difference? Whether they call it Fiverr or Freelancer, start with an F. F word. That's what happened but yet when I was beginning, there wasn't a lot of places there wasn't a lot of opportunities. Look if we're gonna be viable businesses we need to have opportunities right for work and we need to know where those opportunities are and so if they show up in a place like Fiverr, that's an opportunity. Now you make the choice whether or not you go and and and act upon that opportunity.   Lau: And the coach in me says, listen, you know, as a business person, we're in business. We always talk about this like, mind your own business is right.   Anne: Yes, mind your own business.   Lau: Like, you want to set industry standards. Yes, you want to have fair working conditions and and good scale pay. That being said, we're still entrepreneurs slash solopreneurs. And we do have to make decisions, sometimes tough decisions, sometimes controversial decisions about how we put plates on the table, how we take care of our families or our rent, how we deal with everyday waking up and going after our business practices. Like we have to make individual decisions, so as you listen to the cacophony of voices that are out there that are making strong suggestions or they're giving their subjective advice, we have to do that. But we also have to come home and say, let me sift through all of that and let me make my own decisions about what works for my own career. I think that's important.   And I do want to say, one of the perceived negative sides of a Fiverr is the fact that you're not leading people in. They're coming in through their marketing and they're finding you. But they're also finding a lot of competitors to you on the same site.   Anne: Sure.   Lau: So you're in a pool on the same site with direct competitors. So you just have to know, what's my A-game? What makes me unique and artful? What separates my branding from their branding? What makes me get found? Because they're not coming in just finding you. They're finding potentially hundreds of others that are in your category or in your compartment. And you have to work a little harder to separate yourself from the in-house competition that they're finding.    Anne: And you know what's so interesting, too, is, I'm not the person to judge if you're on Fiverr or not. I always say, I'm not here to judge you if you're on Fiverr or you're not on Fiverr. What I am concerned about is that you price yourself what you know your worth and that you price yourself knowing your worth. And understanding that just because you're new or you're less experienced does not mean that you have to price yourself less.   Lau: Mm.   Anne: And so I always try to instill that you need to price yourself what you're worth.    Lau:  Well, It's an interesting topic --   Anne: It is, it is.   Lau: — because it's like any other, I call it a marketplace because --   Anne:  Yeah, it is.   Lau: — you may not find other competing businesses to Fiverr itself, but the businesses under the umbrella of Fiverr, many of them are competitive. So it's like you're on a marketplace, you're in a marketplace. It's like you're in a supermarket, right? Who else is on the shelf right next to you?   Anne: And you can price yourself low, whether you're on Fiverr or not. That's the thing. And I think that if you do that, then you are undervaluing yourself. And it can be, if you become good at it and you do a ton of volume work at a low price, then it will start to probably impact the industry. If you become known enough, where you do enough jobs, then it can start to impact the industry. If you are not doing it, somebody will. It always happens. And again, it's not under our control necessarily. I think there will always be bottom feeders, and always in any, any industry.    And so I think for you, you have to worry again, mind your own business, and worry about what you're charging and making sure that you're charging enough so that you are getting paid fairly. And it's not like, this is an online business, right, like it's a brick and mortar where we're doing unethical things, hiring labor that's not minimum. Now there is the argument that people get paid less than minimum wage. But minimum wage where?   Lau: Yeah.   Anne: Minimum wage in what country? Minimum wage. And I get that. I mean if you want to make a blanket statement in saying people get paid less than minimum wage. Well, first of all I've been offered less than minimum wage to do voiceover and I always choose to say no to that. Because for all the times that I've, and back in the day when I might have said, oh, I'll think about it. I mean, it's always better for me, and I think for most people, to just say no for less than minimum wage, because look, I didn't give up my job, you know, and to go into business for myself to get less than minimum wage.   Lau: Right.   Anne: And that time is better spent finding somebody who understands my value and values me at my fair rate.    Lau: You brought up a really, really important point, though. It's like we're always thinking of Fiverr from our point of view, which --   Anne: Mm-hmm.   Lau: — many of us are in the US or in North --   Anne: Yeah.   Lau: — America or UK, but people are on there from all over the world. And I know when I've hired a service off of Fiverr, you know, I've met amazing people from Sri Lanka and Philippines and on and on it goes, from Russia, I mean, there are artists from everywhere, creators from everywhere. So in one sense, if you come out of your perspective into a more global perspective, you're giving a lot of artists potential work, where they live and what their experiences are, they would never be able to get on their own. They would never have the money to market their business. They would never physically be able to go to a brick and mortar where they live. So it's a marketplace that is very important to a lot of people globally speaking that just would not have the placement opportunities that we have here in the states. It's an interesting way of looking at it.   And then of course, when I've hired someone, we may go offline, and then their rates completely change. Then we're in a total other stratosphere. We're no longer in the Fiverr territory. We're in this person's business territory. And then I will pay them what they think they're worth, and that changes, completely changes, and sometimes it actually gets very pricey. It gets very expensive and rightly so, because their services are worth a lot, oftentimes.   Anne: Yeah.   Lau: So thinking of it as, I don't know how you would say it, but sort of a layered approach. It's not just, oh, they don't charge a lot of money, you're not paying people what they're worth. That's the meeting time, that's the launching place. And then where it goes from there is into a very different kind of bargaining and negotiation. You have to expect that too. No one I have met and worked with on Fiverr stays at that beginning rate. No one.   Anne: And again, I think that I think that you can off the bat — and I don't know I am not I'm not on Fiverr, and I have I've spent very little time on Fiverr. So it's interesting that we've chosen this. This is our topic today because --   Lau: Yeah.   Anne: — I don't have a lot of experience in fiber and I try not to to make statements, you know what I mean, about Fiverr not understanding the impact or having direct experience. I signed up so that I could look for, you know, different types of employees. I've never hired anybody off of Fiverr. However, I've had enough experiences. I understand the concept of Fiverr. I understand, you know, I talked to enough people that are on it, getting their experiences on it. And again I feel it really is one of those things where it is up to to the individual, whether they choose to be on Fiverr, to associate with that. For me, it was just one of those things where I didn't yet need another platform. I just didn't have time to really take part in it or --   Lau: Yeah.   Anne: — do what I needed to do. I don't know, honestly, Lau, if I have to start with a certain amount of money or if I have to work up to it and I didn't have time for that because thankfully my business is doing well. And so I don't have to rely on a platform like Fiverr, but boy, in the beginning, I did. I relied on those platforms, online casting platforms, not Fiverr, but to pick up clients and to get my name out there and to get experience so that I could ultimately be in a successful business where ultimately I didn't need it.   Lau: Right. And you're also having, well, you're having tremendous diversity on a platform like that, which I love because I have a vested interest in working with as much diversity as possible --   Anne: Mmm.   Lau: — giving people opportunities that they may not have.   Anne: Sure.   Lau: And also young people, like anyone under the age of 30, I consider young. Anyone under the age of 30, they don't oftentimes know where to go. They don't have the business practices. They don't have advisors, even if they are lucky enough to go to college and get an education. Even in university environments oftentimes, you're not getting business practices or where to go or any real placement. So you have to think back, for those of you listening in, that if you are 40 and up, where were you at 18? Where were you at 22? What were you thinking at 28? And I know a lot of us were thinking, help, I don't know even what questions to ask. Like, I do a graphic design business, I do a PR business, I create, you know, music for people. I don't know how to get clients. I'm a creative. I don't have that brain.    Anne: Sure.   Lau: So a marketplace like Fiverr was also filling a need of so many people that literally had no idea how to build a business. No idea at all in saying, hey, come in, we'll give you your start. Hopefully you'll stay with us, but if you don't, we'll give you your start, and you'll be able to make those connections all over the world that you want to make. And now that we're all online, you don't even need a brick and mortar in a lot of these professions. So you're all online. So you need the marketplace in order to do that.   Anne: Well, and of course, there was a hole in the marketplace. And honestly, it kind of makes me think about, well, what's going on with AI in the creative world? Not just synthetic voices, but we're talking art and writing and copywriting and the creative where AI tools have come out that can write things for you, that can generate art for you. I do believe that ultimately if you can use these as tools, and that includes online platforms, use them as tools to help grow your business, to grow --   Lau: That's right.   Anne: — what it is. And of course, now I'm not saying that people that steal art or AI that is stealing art is right. I believe this is evolving to a point where we will ultimately come up with standards, guidelines, and laws that will protect our rights --   Lau: Yes.   Anne: — protect our art, protect our writing. And it needs to happen. There needs to be this sense of injustice about it all, or this anger, or this stand up and kind of fight for what you believe in. And I believe in the end it will work out. I'm not going to stand here and stomp my feet if you're on Fiverr and say, you're ruining the industry for me. Because, honestly, I found my own industry. I've found my own clients and that's okay, that it works for my business. And again I like to always look at the positive thing ,the positive spin of everything. I think that Fiverr filled the need. If Fiverr didn't do it, it would be some other company that would have filled the need --   Lau: No question.   Anne: — for that.   Lau: Yeah, no question.   Anne: It's just the way business works here. And there needed to be an option for people that were looking for an effective voice. And I'm just going to say, those people, if they didn't go to Fiverr, they were probably going to one of the other platforms, like Upwork or whatever the other ones would be, so that they could get reasonably priced voiceover. Now, a lot of times, yes, do they value voiceover? It's a perception, right?   People value things in different ways. I think it's just a fact of life, right? They think, yes, this voice contributes to our brand. And as artists, we want to say, yes, our voice has an impact on your brand, and it can help sell for your brand, and it can help elevate your brand. But there are some people who don't see that value, right? And I'm not going to bother fighting those people, nor am I going to bother trying to get work from those people. Because they'll be the first ones to turn around and complain that they paid too much, and then give me tons of revision. And I've done that enough times in my business to know, right? I've accepted a low-ball offer, not too many times, but enough to know that they're usually the most trouble.    So the people that are coming to Fiverr, right? Their expectations, right? And their appreciation of the value may not be where we want it to be. And that's just something to understand, right? I mean, if we are businesses and we can educate our clients, our potential clients on our value and what we can do for them, then I don't think we have problems.   Lau: I agree, Anne, totally wholeheartedly. And I think that we as individuals and as business owners and as citizens of the world create our own morality. We really do. Like we create our own sphere of morality.   Anne: Oh, I like that.   Lau: And you really have to go with what your heart and soul is telling you. And you really have to do it with with an honest heart and a full heart. You're not going with mal-intention. You're not going to hurt someone. You're not going to slight anyone. Like you have to believe that in our industry the space is big enough that you're gaining clients. A lot of them have no level of knowledge of what a rate sheet is or what should be charged or what could be charged. So you're in essence, every time you meet a potential client, you're schooling them, you're teaching them, you're building your own morality base to say, okay, we're meeting at this level.    Listen, what's the difference between that and giving away a free hour of coaching? Or giving away, I'm gonna do like 50% off of class. I want to introduce my value to you. I want to build trust with you. I want you to have a little taste test of what we do. And if you love it and if you want to buy into that and invest into that, then the investment is going to change. We all know that.    It's the same with Fiverr. I want to give you a little taste test. Let me just give it to you for a very low rate. But if you really want to invest in this, then we're going to go to the rates that are established by my business, by me. Because you're already buying into the trust factor of working with me and what I'm offering you is filling the need. So it's very similar to that if you look at it in that way. There's tons and tons of free offers out there, tons and tons of discounts out there. It's ultimately to get buy-in to invest in what the full rate would be for that product or service.   Anne: That's an interesting way of looking at it. Yeah, you're going to buy in or you're going to get a sample. And you know, it's interesting because for me, I want to project my business as not being cheap, because there's a lot to be said, when we've talked about this before, with branding. I mean, there are certain things when I pay a low amount of money, I think, oh, I wonder what's wrong with that? Or I don't now, is that — and so for me, I've always elevated my business and my voice to be, you know, here's my rate and it's okay if you can't meet that. Thank you. That's okay. You know, I hope to work with you in the future, but that's okay. I will spend time with people who will value my rate. I have no bitterness. I have no, there's no malice. There's, you know, nothing like that. I don't know exactly the rules of Fiverr right now, forgive me for that. But I don't know if you have to start at a very low rate or if you have to like work your way up to a certain rate. I'm not sure what it is.   Lau: I don't think so, Anne.      Anne: Yeah, I think you can start at a reasonable rate.   Lau: When you go on the platform, you're going to see, like, let's say you're looking up a service of an attorney, or let's say you're looking up someone, a musician, you want them to create music for you. You may see a layered approach of, I provide this for this amount. But then if you want this, we're going to layer that on at this amount.   Anne: Yeah. Yeah.   Lau: Then we're going to provide it at this amount. So it isn't this flat, like, $5 or $10 thing.   Anne: Yeah, it's not $5.   Lau: It's very much a layered approach to what they do, and some of them start very high. They'll say this is what I'm worth, this is what it is. I'm on the platform that's known as a discount platform, but I'm not offering your discount. And that's what it is. So it's all over the place, it's all over the place.   Anne: And again, it's all about your business. And it's all about how you run your business.   Lau: It is.   Anne: And I truly believe, and I want this for every BOSS out there. I really, really do. I mean, gosh, guys, I've learned so much in my many years. And Lau, you too, I'm quite positive. I've learned so much about valuing my worth and understanding good clients to work with and knowing where to place myself. And if I need to negotiate a specific rate or a custom rate, which is what we do all the time, pretty much, for every single client, and it needs to be a little bit lower to fit a budget, and it's okay with me, and I know I'm going to get more work, or it'll be worth it in some other way outside of monetary value, that is up to me. That is my judgment. That is my business decision, and it is how I run my business. And I will tell you that being able to walk away and saying no, and I've said this multiple times, has given me the confidence to be able to understand my worth and be able to be successful in my business. And I think however you do that, whether you're on Fiverr, whether you're on another casting website, whether it gives you the confidence at some point that you're like, I don't need this anymore, or I can get my own clients -- I think it's all a stepping stone.    And I think it truly is what I want for all the BOSSes is that confidence. You're worthy of a fair price, whether, no matter what platform you're on. You're worthy of a fair price. And once you have that confidence and the confidence to walk away from a low ball price, right, or something that deems you as cheap, right, then your business will grow. And once your business grows, it's kind of like, it's just like a wonderful little snowball that just gathers the confidence and it gathers, you know, oh, this is great. Now I know what I'm worth, and my business can grow and I can be successful and I can put some money in the bank, right? And then if that if that next client says no or offers me something too low it's okay I can walk away. I've got the money in the bank. I'm able to pay the bills and boom.   Lau: That's right.   Anne: And that's what I want for all of you BOSSes out there, however you get there. Know, know, know your worth.   Lau: Mm-hmm, and it goes right into your submissions if you were with an agency. I'm an agent, and I can tell you, there are times we're working with a budget that is minuscule. It's like, oh my gosh, who could even work for this? And yet we have a lot of folks that want to book that job for many, many reasons. And then the next one that comes in is overpriced. They're giving us too much budget for it, and they don't realize it.   Anne: But Lau, is there ever really too much?   Lau: No, no, but like, if you see it in the same category, right next to each other, and you're like, Oh, my goodness, this one's offering $400 with no usage. And then this one's offering, you know, $2000 with three years' usage. You're like, oh my goodness, there isn't much difference between these two. And I know for a fact, I can tell everyone hands down, that I have many people who want to audition and want to submit for both. And I respect that.   Anne: Now as an agent, will you fight for higher rates?   Lau: Oh, always. I mean, that to us is a truism. We're always going to go back and forth on every single thing that comes in and goes, come on, we need another thousand on this. You can do, right? So we're always quoting high.   Anne: You're always fighting for the talent, yes.   Lau: That's not even to be discussed because that's our job. That's what we do.   Anne: Yeah.   Lau: And that's what we want to do. But we know, like as negotiators and anyone who's on that business, and we know where it stops. Like if you push just hard enough, you're going to lose that client. It's okay, sometimes we'll lose the battle, but we always want to win the war, so to speak.   Anne: Yeah. Yeah.   Lau: Is that we don't want to lose the client unless it's like completely insane.   Anne: Yeah.   Lau: We want to keep the clients because we know we have a whole lot of people who still want to submit and work.   Anne: Yeah.   Lau: They just want to work.   Anne: And I love that. I love that you said that, your experience as an agent, because, guys, agents go through it as well. I mean, you're fighting for fair compensation, for good rates. God, it always used to make me wonder, because people would be like, well, my agent shouldn't accept that rate. And I'm like, sometimes the agent has nothing to do with that rate, right? And like you just mentioned, there's a fine line between losing the client forever, right, because you can't push.   Lau: Yeah.   Anne: And understanding that. I mean, voice talent, sometimes I wonder where they get their assumptions from, right? You know what, you've got to understand this is a business, it's negotiation, and that, it happens. It does. Sometimes there is no budget.   Lau: I also don't want to play the omnipotent authority of what everyone could or should be doing. I want to be a conduit to getting people work, and that means at all different rates, at all different levels, at all different -- and those people need to take agency and to self-screen and say, I don't want to do that.   Anne: Exactly.   Lau: I say, great, you don't even have to let me know, just pass on it. That's okay. I don't make any judgment as to why you're doing it or why you're not doing it. I'm just running on an assumption, you're a professional talent, you want to be in the roster, and you want to be privy to what is coming through.   Anne: Yeah.   Lau: And that's all I feel. And to me, Fiverr is the same thing. If you want to be on the platform, you want to be privy to what's coming through, and then you make your own decisions and self-screen. To me, it's very, very much the same.   Anne: Excellent topic. The F word, guys. Remember, mind your own business and know your worth. And thank you, Lau, for an amazing discussion yet once again.   Lau: Awesome.   Anne: Ah, good stuff.   Lau: I loved it.   Anne: BOSSes, I want to take a moment and have you imagine a world full of passionate, empowered, diverse individuals, giving collectively and intentionally to create a world that they want to see. You can make a difference. 100VoicesWhoCare.org to learn more. Also, big shout-out to our sponsor, ipDTL. You too can connect and network like a BOSS. Find out more at IPDTL.com. Thank you so much, everyone. We love you. We'll see you next week.   Lau: See you next week!   Anne: Bye.   Lau: Bye!

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  The second part of our campaign finance history starts with both a scandal and reform linked to Theodore Roosevelt, and carries through to more recent Supreme Court rulings.  Research: Bedard, Paul. “George Washington Plied Voters with Booze.” USNews and World Report. Nov. 8, 2011. https://www.usnews.com/news/blogs/washington-whispers/2011/11/08/george-washington-plied-voters-with-booze Blakemore, Erin. “Elections in Colonial America Were Huge, Booze-Fueled Parties.” History.com. Nov. 25, 2019. https://www.history.com/news/colonial-america-election-day-parties R. Brunson, “Swartwout, Samuel,” Texas State Historical Association. Handbook of Texas Online. https://www.tshaonline.org/handbook/entries/swartwout-samuel. “Buckley v. Valeo.” Federal Election Commission. https://www.fec.gov/legal-resources/court-cases/buckley-v-valeo “Court Decision Stirs Up Fuss.” The Spokesman Review. April 4, 1944. https://www.newspapers.com/image/569336879/?terms=Lonnie%20E.%20Smith%20&match=1 “Did You Know... Samuel Swartwout Skimmed Staggering Sums?” U.S. Customs and Border Protection. https://www.cbp.gov/about/history/did-you-know/samuel-swartwout Dunbar, John. “A Modern history of campaign finance: from Watergate to ‘Citizens United.'” The Center for Public Integrity. Nov. 15, 2017. https://publicintegrity.org/politics/a-modern-history-of-campaign-finance-from-watergate-to-citizens-united/ “Appendix 4 -- The Federal Election Campaign Laws:A Short History.” FEC. https://transition.fec.gov/info/appfour.htm#anchor616480 Encyclopedia of Detroit. “NEWBERRY, TRUMAN HANDY.” https://detroithistorical.org/learn/encyclopedia-of-detroit/newberry-truman-handy Fair Political Practices Commission. “Use of Campaign Funds.” Campaign Manual. June 2020. https://www.fppc.ca.gov/content/dam/fppc/NS-Documents/TAD/Campaign%20Manuals/Manual_4/Manual_4_Ch_7_Use_of_Campaign_Funds.pdf Fuller, Jame. “From George Washington to Shaun McCutcheon: A brief-ish history of campaign finance reform.” The Washington Post. April 3, 2014. https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/the-fix/wp/2014/04/03/a-history-of-campaign-finance-reform-from-george-washington-to-shaun-mccutcheon/ Supreme Court of the United States. “Citizens United v. Federal Election Commission.” October 2009. https://www.documentcloud.org/documents/4163268-Citizens-United-v-FEC-Decision.html “Washington City, May 19, 1840.” The Baltimore Sun. May 21, 1840. https://www.newspapers.com/image/364961740/?terms=%22bill%20to%20secure%20the%20freedom%20of%20elections%22&match=1 Grizzard, Frank E. “George Washington: A Biographical Companion.” ABC-CLIO 2022. Hinnershitz, Stephanie, PhD. “The Smith–Connally Act and Labor Battles on the Home Front.” The National WWII Museum. June 22, 2023. https://www.nationalww2museum.org/war/articles/smith-connally-act-and-labor-battles-home-front “House of Burgesses.” George Washington's Mount Vernon. https://www.mountvernon.org/george-washington/house-of-burgesses/ Lau, Tim. “Citizens United Explained.” Brennan Center for Justice. Dec. 12, 2019. https://www.brennancenter.org/our-work/research-reports/citizens-united-explained “McConnell v. FEC.” Federal Election Commission United States of America. https://www.fec.gov/legal-resources/court-cases/mcconnell-v-fec/ “Mark Hanna and the 1896 Election.” United States Senate. https://www.senate.gov/artandhistory/history/minute/Hanna_1896Election.htm#:~:text=At%20age%2015%20he%20moved,coal%2C%20iron%2C%20and%20steel. “Money-in-politics Timeline.” Open Secrets. https://www.opensecrets.org/resources/learn/timeline “Mr. Crittenden's Speech.” Hartfor Courant. Feb. 14, 1839. https://www.newspapers.com/image/369520711/?terms=%22crittenden%22&match=1 Mutch, R. (2002). “The First Federal Campaign Finance Bills.” Journal of Policy History,14(1), 30-48. doi:10.1353/jph.2002.0004 Lewis, Charles. “Was campaign finance an issue in George Washington's day?” Investigative Reporting Workshop. Sept. 27, 2021. https://investigativereportingworkshop.org/news/was-campaign-finance-an-issue-in-george-washingtons-day/ “Louisville.” The Courier-Journal. Feb. 4, 1837. https://www.newspapers.com/image/118738402/?terms=%22bill%20to%20secure%20the%20freedom%20of%20elections%22&match=1 “Mr. Bell's Bill … “ The Natchez Weekly Courier. June 10, 1840. https://www.newspapers.com/image/248855111/?terms=%22bill%20to%20secure%20the%20freedom%20of%20elections%22&match=1 “Naval Appropriation Bill.” The Buffalo Commercial. April 14, 1866. https://www.newspapers.com/image/282153733/?terms=%22Naval%20Appropriations%20Bill%22%20&match=1 "NEWBERRY, Truman Handy." Biographical Directory of the United States Congress, https://bioguide.congress.gov/search/bio/N000062 “Pendleton Act (1883).” National Archives. https://www.archives.gov/milestone-documents/pendleton-act#:~:text=The%20Pendleton%20Act%20provided%20that,were%20covered%20by%20the%20law. Perlstein, Rick. "Watergate scandal". Encyclopedia Britannica, 28 Jun. 2023, https://www.britannica.com/event/Watergate-Scandal Roosevelt, Franklin D. “Veto of the Smith-Connally Bill.” June 25, 1943. https://www.presidency.ucsb.edu/documents/veto-the-smith-connally-bill Roosevelt, Theodore. “December 5, 1905: Fifth Annual Message.” UVA – Miller Center. https://millercenter.org/the-presidency/presidential-speeches/december-5-1905-fifth-annual-message Scott, Kyle, and Matthew A. Kern. “Buckley v. Valeo (1976).” The First Amendment Encyclopedia. 2009. https://www.mtsu.edu/first-amendment/article/126/buckley-v-valeo “The Election Case of Truman H. Newberry of Michigan (1922).” United States Senate. https://www.senate.gov/about/origins-foundations/electing-appointing-senators/contested-senate-elections/102Ford_Newberry.htm “Naval Appropriation Bill.” The Philadelphia Inquirer. April 14, 1866. https://www.newspapers.com/image/168100996/?terms=%22Naval%20Appropriations%20Bill%22%20&match=1 Terry, Stephen C. “Major Election Reform Legislation Quietly Approved by Senate.” The Times Argus. March 24, 1976. https://www.newspapers.com/image/657291645/?terms=buckley%20valeo&match=1 “Tursts for Roosevelt.” Freeport Bulletin. Oct. 20, 1904. https://www.newspapers.com/image/762693183/?terms=insurance%20roosevelt&match=1 Thompson, Mary V. “Beer.” George Washington's Mount Vernon. https://www.mountvernon.org/library/digitalhistory/digital-encyclopedia/article/beer/#note3 United States. “Defalcations. Reports of majority and minority ... Report of the Committee of Investigation on the subject of the defalcations of Samuel Swartwout and others : ... also the report of the minority of the Committee.” Thomas Allen. 1839. Accessed online: https://catalog.hathitrust.org/Record/007704602 United States Senate. “Presidential Election Campaign Fund of 1966.” https://www.finance.senate.gov/imo/media/doc/SPrt301.pdf Victor, Jennifer Nicoll, Phd. “History of Financing of Federal Campaigns in the US.” Wondrium Daily. July 25, 2021. https://www.wondriumdaily.com/history-of-financing-of-federal-campaigns-in-the-us/ Woodward, Bob and Brian Duffy. “Chinese Embassy Role in Contributions Probed.” Washington Post. Feb. 13, 1997. https://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-srv/politics/special/campfin/stories/china1.htm See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Part one of our discussion of U.S. campaign financing starts before the colonies had gained their independence and covers some of the earliest ways that money was collected for political parties.  That book title we were after during the episode was "A Children's Illustrated History of Presidential Assassination," by Bryan Young. Research: Bedard, Paul. “George Washington Plied Voters with Booze.” USNews and World Report. Nov. 8, 2011. https://www.usnews.com/news/blogs/washington-whispers/2011/11/08/george-washington-plied-voters-with-booze Blakemore, Erin. “Elections in Colonial America Were Huge, Booze-Fueled Parties.” History.com. Nov. 25, 2019. https://www.history.com/news/colonial-america-election-day-parties R. Brunson, “Swartwout, Samuel,” Texas State Historical Association. Handbook of Texas Online. https://www.tshaonline.org/handbook/entries/swartwout-samuel. “Buckley v. Valeo.” Federal Election Commission. https://www.fec.gov/legal-resources/court-cases/buckley-v-valeo “Court Decision Stirs Up Fuss.” The Spokesman Review. April 4, 1944. https://www.newspapers.com/image/569336879/?terms=Lonnie%20E.%20Smith%20&match=1 “Did You Know... Samuel Swartwout Skimmed Staggering Sums?” U.S. Customs and Border Protection. https://www.cbp.gov/about/history/did-you-know/samuel-swartwout Dunbar, John. “A Modern history of campaign finance: from Watergate to ‘Citizens United.'” The Center for Public Integrity. Nov. 15, 2017. https://publicintegrity.org/politics/a-modern-history-of-campaign-finance-from-watergate-to-citizens-united/ “Appendix 4 -- The Federal Election Campaign Laws:A Short History.” FEC. https://transition.fec.gov/info/appfour.htm#anchor616480 Encyclopedia of Detroit. “NEWBERRY, TRUMAN HANDY.” https://detroithistorical.org/learn/encyclopedia-of-detroit/newberry-truman-handy Fair Political Practices Commission. “Use of Campaign Funds.” Campaign Manual. June 2020. https://www.fppc.ca.gov/content/dam/fppc/NS-Documents/TAD/Campaign%20Manuals/Manual_4/Manual_4_Ch_7_Use_of_Campaign_Funds.pdf Fuller, Jame. “From George Washington to Shaun McCutcheon: A brief-ish history of campaign finance reform.” The Washington Post. April 3, 2014. https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/the-fix/wp/2014/04/03/a-history-of-campaign-finance-reform-from-george-washington-to-shaun-mccutcheon/ Supreme Court of the United States. “Citizens United v. Federal Election Commission.” October 2009. https://www.documentcloud.org/documents/4163268-Citizens-United-v-FEC-Decision.html “Washington City, May 19, 1840.” The Baltimore Sun. May 21, 1840. https://www.newspapers.com/image/364961740/?terms=%22bill%20to%20secure%20the%20freedom%20of%20elections%22&match=1 Grizzard, Frank E. “George Washington: A Biographical Companion.” ABC-CLIO 2022. Hinnershitz, Stephanie, PhD. “The Smith–Connally Act and Labor Battles on the Home Front.” The National WWII Museum. June 22, 2023. https://www.nationalww2museum.org/war/articles/smith-connally-act-and-labor-battles-home-front “House of Burgesses.” George Washington's Mount Vernon. https://www.mountvernon.org/george-washington/house-of-burgesses/ Lau, Tim. “Citizens United Explained.” Brennan Center for Justice. Dec. 12, 2019. https://www.brennancenter.org/our-work/research-reports/citizens-united-explained “McConnell v. FEC.” Federal Election Commission United States of America. https://www.fec.gov/legal-resources/court-cases/mcconnell-v-fec/ “Mark Hanna and the 1896 Election.” United States Senate. https://www.senate.gov/artandhistory/history/minute/Hanna_1896Election.htm#:~:text=At%20age%2015%20he%20moved,coal%2C%20iron%2C%20and%20steel. “Money-in-politics Timeline.” Open Secrets. https://www.opensecrets.org/resources/learn/timeline “Mr. Crittenden's Speech.” Hartfor Courant. Feb. 14, 1839. https://www.newspapers.com/image/369520711/?terms=%22crittenden%22&match=1 Mutch, R. (2002). “The First Federal Campaign Finance Bills.” Journal of Policy History,14(1), 30-48. doi:10.1353/jph.2002.0004 Lewis, Charles. “Was campaign finance an issue in George Washington's day?” Investigative Reporting Workshop. Sept. 27, 2021. https://investigativereportingworkshop.org/news/was-campaign-finance-an-issue-in-george-washingtons-day/ “Louisville.” The Courier-Journal. Feb. 4, 1837. https://www.newspapers.com/image/118738402/?terms=%22bill%20to%20secure%20the%20freedom%20of%20elections%22&match=1 “Mr. Bell's Bill … “ The Natchez Weekly Courier. June 10, 1840. https://www.newspapers.com/image/248855111/?terms=%22bill%20to%20secure%20the%20freedom%20of%20elections%22&match=1 “Naval Appropriation Bill.” The Buffalo Commercial. April 14, 1866. https://www.newspapers.com/image/282153733/?terms=%22Naval%20Appropriations%20Bill%22%20&match=1 "NEWBERRY, Truman Handy." Biographical Directory of the United States Congress, https://bioguide.congress.gov/search/bio/N000062 “Pendleton Act (1883).” National Archives. https://www.archives.gov/milestone-documents/pendleton-act#:~:text=The%20Pendleton%20Act%20provided%20that,were%20covered%20by%20the%20law. Perlstein, Rick. "Watergate scandal". Encyclopedia Britannica, 28 Jun. 2023, https://www.britannica.com/event/Watergate-Scandal Roosevelt, Franklin D. “Veto of the Smith-Connally Bill.” June 25, 1943. https://www.presidency.ucsb.edu/documents/veto-the-smith-connally-bill Roosevelt, Theodore. “December 5, 1905: Fifth Annual Message.” UVA – Miller Center. https://millercenter.org/the-presidency/presidential-speeches/december-5-1905-fifth-annual-message Scott, Kyle, and Matthew A. Kern. “Buckley v. Valeo (1976).” The First Amendment Encyclopedia. 2009. https://www.mtsu.edu/first-amendment/article/126/buckley-v-valeo “The Election Case of Truman H. Newberry of Michigan (1922).” United States Senate. https://www.senate.gov/about/origins-foundations/electing-appointing-senators/contested-senate-elections/102Ford_Newberry.htm “Naval Appropriation Bill.” The Philadelphia Inquirer. April 14, 1866. https://www.newspapers.com/image/168100996/?terms=%22Naval%20Appropriations%20Bill%22%20&match=1 Terry, Stephen C. “Major Election Reform Legislation Quietly Approved by Senate.” The Times Argus. March 24, 1976. https://www.newspapers.com/image/657291645/?terms=buckley%20valeo&match=1 “Tursts for Roosevelt.” Freeport Bulletin. Oct. 20, 1904. https://www.newspapers.com/image/762693183/?terms=insurance%20roosevelt&match=1 Thompson, Mary V. “Beer.” George Washington's Mount Vernon. https://www.mountvernon.org/library/digitalhistory/digital-encyclopedia/article/beer/#note3 United States. “Defalcations. Reports of majority and minority ... Report of the Committee of Investigation on the subject of the defalcations of Samuel Swartwout and others : ... also the report of the minority of the Committee.” Thomas Allen. 1839. Accessed online: https://catalog.hathitrust.org/Record/007704602 United States Senate. “Presidential Election Campaign Fund of 1966.” https://www.finance.senate.gov/imo/media/doc/SPrt301.pdf Victor, Jennifer Nicoll, Phd. “History of Financing of Federal Campaigns in the US.” Wondrium Daily. July 25, 2021. https://www.wondriumdaily.com/history-of-financing-of-federal-campaigns-in-the-us/ Woodward, Bob and Brian Duffy. “Chinese Embassy Role in Contributions Probed.” Washington Post. Feb. 13, 1997. https://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-srv/politics/special/campfin/stories/china1.htm See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Laurens, Stefan en Thomas gaan verder. Vandaag is er maar één iemand waar ze het over gaan hebben: Pascal Eenkhoorn.Hoé dicht kwam de voorspelling van Lau bij de werkelijkheid? Ontzettend dicht. In de kopgroep van de dag zaten namelijk ‘onze' Pascalito, Asgreen, Campenaerts en Abrahamsen, waarbij de mannen vanaf het puntje van de bank de Genemuidenaar vooruit schreeuwden, maar het hem nét niet lukte. Wat overheerst is trots en blijdschap, want wát een prestatie: Eenkhoorn wordt tweede in een Tour etappe. Mocht hij nog niet de bekendste man uit Genemuiden zijn, zal hij dat nu ongetwijfeld zijn. Ze belden ‘m in en hoorden het hele verhaal aan. Het ging over de masterclass ‘Voorop Rijden', stront maken, bijna-winnen, geloof, Campenaerts, en het feit dat dit misschien wel de meest intense finale in de Tour ooit is geweest. En hoe zat het nou met die blinde vlek van Philipsen? Je hoort het allemaal in de Live Slow Ride Fast podcast.

Laurens en Stefan gaan verder. Thomas heeft een snipperdag. Nabranders na gisteren: Pogacar heeft waarschijnlijk iets onder de leden, en we zagen voor het eerst een glimlach op Jonas z'n gezicht. Is de Tour nu dan bepaald? Verder hebben de mannen het over de aankleding van Ciccone in de bollentrui, Lau laat zijn fantasie los over hoe etappe 18 - één voor de snelle mannen - een rit gaat worden die we ons over een jaar nog herinneren, en het gaat over wie die sprinter van de derde week gaat worden. Nu Cav niet meer in de Tour zit zullen meer snelle mannen hoop hebben op een ritzege. En hoe zat het nou met Karsten die ging trainen in z'n bollentrui? Je hoort het allemaal in de Live Slow Ride Fast podcast.

They're back! Lau and Rich return to get into important milestones. Ya know, the big life markers. Why exactly? Well Lau may have just crossed a big one. Age goals, significant birthday and life moments, and more, they cover it. Plus this ep is jam packed with HA news. From Goldie's first outing at the Blue Ox Music Fest to an on-the-ground report of double Taylor Swift to new team members, a lot has transpired since the last new ep. So strap in, blow out your candles, and make a wish. If that wish was to hear what was just described, we've got great news for you...Podcast email (for Jewelry & Stuff): pod@helloadorn.comHello Adorn: https://www.helloadorn.comHello Adorn - Loyalty Program: https://www.helloadorn.com/pages/rewardsHello Adorn IG: https://www.instagram.com/helloadorn/Hello Adorn TikTok: https://www.tiktok.com/@helloadornRent Goldie: https://www.helloadorn.com/pages/goldie-endless-bracelet-bar

In this episode, surface pattern designer and artist, Lau, shares her inspiring journey of overcoming self-doubt, embracing opportunities, and transforming her mindset to build her creative business, Lau Monart, this past year. Lau's story will inspire and encourage you to believe in yourself, shift your mindset, and pursue your creative dreams with patience and resilience. Sign up for my FREE 3 day long workshop, "Get Out of Your Own Way Bootcamp." July 19-21 at 10 am PST / 1 pm EST every morning.  Interested in my membership? Join ⁠⁠Tillage Village Waitlist⁠⁠⁠⁠! Doors open July 24-31st. Visit www.thetillagepodcast.com for today's ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠show notes⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠ and more. Follow along on ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠INSTAGRAM⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠ Sign Up for the ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠NEWSLETTER

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When it comes to financial literacy, many banks and financial institutions claim it's something they actively prioritize for their customers. In reality, this often tends to be lip service. “Banks like to think they're doing something in this space….They'll write a long blog that will sit in a resource page on their website. But if you look at the analytics behind those pages, generally they have very few views. They're not teaching anything to anyone, and this content is just not visible.” This is the claim of Alex Jimenez, EPAM's Managing Principal of Financial Services Consulting, as he and Theodora Lau, Founder of Unconventional Ventures, discuss the shortcomings of retail banks when it comes to providing customers with financial literacy and guidance. “What is their [the bank's] intention for putting this information out there? Is it just to check a box? Or are they doing it because they genuinely want to help?” asks Lau. If it's truly the latter, then their efforts are genuinely falling short, especially in this time of unprecedented technological innovation. Worse yet, the one-size-fits-all approach—like an online resource center—fails to address the unique and varied needs of a large swathe of customers. “In the data from a recent survey we conducted, we found that Gen Zers were using physical branches at nearly the same rates as Boomers. It's because mainly they want to have someone in person to talk to them. And part of that is because we have not done a great job to give young people an understanding of finance,” says Jimenez . To that extent, banks also need to be cognizant of how they're training their frontline staff to have financial literacy conversations. Jimenez touches on this, saying, “From a banking side, we also don't tool our customer-facing employees to be able to do some of this. The philosophy has been, ‘Consumers know us as a bank and therefore will come to us because they trust us and that's when we can give them guidance about managing their money.'” However, this shortsighted approach can actually leave banks vulnerable to their FinTech and big tech competitors, providing an opening for them to take away market share. The good news is, there are plenty of opportunities for banks to close this gap with technology. Jimenez says:, “My credit card gives me an alert every time I make a purchase. I love that. But every once in a while, I want that alert to be more than just an alert saying, ‘You just spent $100 on Amazon.' Give me some contextual advice specific to that transaction. That's the sort of thing that we in the industry could do if we had the wherewithal to do it.” Right now, it's time to familiarize yourself with the full *Silo Busting* conversation. Get clicking! Host: Mo Banjoko Engineer: Kyp Pilalas Producer: Scott MacAllister Executive Producer: Ken Gordon

In this episode: Building a body of work if you're not currently signing client consistently  Including both long form and short form content in your body of work The 4 types of content to include in your body of work + practical tips for how to do this    THE SIDE HUSTLE CLUB HYBRID 1:1 + COMMUNITY PROGRAM: Sign Clients by Becoming Known for Your Unique Thought Leadership, Soft Launching, & Doing it on Top of a Full-Time Job For details and to apply https://cheryltheory.com/program/  FREE WEBINAR: https://cheryltheory.lpages.co/webinar INSTAGRAM: @cheryltheory LINKEDIN: Cheryl Lau WEBSITE: www.cheryltheory.com EMAIL NEWSLETTER: https://cheryltheory.lpages.co/email/ 

Laurens, Stefan en Thomas gaan verder. De heren waren van plan de fiets op te springen deze ochtend, maar door een ziekige Laurens besloten ook Thomas en Stefan er een rustdag van te maken, en bleven de drie musketiers thuis. Althans, nadat ze 8 kilometer verderop met eigen ogen de renners voor hun neus aan deze zware vijftiende etappe zagen beginnen.Het grootste en belangrijkste nieuws van de dag: WOUT WINT! ‘Onze' Wout, zegt Laurens terecht, want in december zat de winnaar in de Monaco Tapes van Live Slow Ride Fast. Voor Poels was dit een jongensdroom die is uitgekomen. Naast de prachtige overwinning wordt de etappe van voor tot achter geanalyseerd en binnenstebuiten gekeerd: WVA die na een valpartij voor eigen kansen kon gaan, de toneelstukken (waarbij de Oscar aan Gaudu werd uitgereikt), gentleman agreements in het peloton, ‘wat als'-jes, en zo nog veel meer. Eindstand: we gaan opnieuw een rustdag in met gelijkspel. Jonas en Tadej maken er tot nu toe een Tour de France van om je vingers bij af te likken.En hoe zat het nou met Lau die twee dagen niks tegen kamergenoot Barguil heeft gezegd? Je hoort het allemaal in de Live Slow Ride Fast podcast.

Laurens, Stefan en Thomas gaan verder. De derde podcast van de dag. In Huize Villa Tour werd zoals elke dag gefietst, waarbij Col de Joux Plane werd verkend, en Thomas eigenlijk geen zin had, Stefan de sterren van de hemel reed en Lau een Duitser naar zijn campingplaats duwde. Geen idee waar dit over gaat? Zij ook niet.De etappe van vandaag. Een nieuw stuk Frankrijk, waarbij Izagirre er na een ontregelende rit met de winst vandoor ging. Wat opviel: Fabio out, de kwetsbare kant van Team Jumbo-Visma kwam aan het daglicht, UAE leek de boot af te houden, en Wout zakte er doorheen. Verder werd er gesproken over Stuyven en zijn wijnkelder en kon een belletje met Pascalito niet ontbreken. Of was het toch Florian? En hoe zat het nou met Jonas die geïntimideerd leek door Pogi? Je hoort het allemaal in de Live Slow Ride Fast podcast.