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How would you like to create social media content that consistently went viral? Content that would build you a massive audience and following? Content that would generate voice over opportunities for you? Content that would open the door to alternative income streams as well? That's exactly what Tawny Platis has done. She's build a YouTube channel with over 82,000,000 views. She has hundreds of thousands of followers on both Instagram and TikTok. Her videos consistently generate millions of views. In this interview with Marc Scott, she shares a lot about her strategy and creative process. Offering countless tips for the enterprising VOpreneur who is looking to leverage social media to level up their marketing. CONNECT WITH TAWNY PLATIS Tawny Platis Website - https://www.carynclark.com Tawny Platis on Instagram - https://www.instagram.com/tawnyplatis Tawny Platis on YouTube - https://www.youtube.com/@tawnyplatis7866 Tawny Platis on TikTok - https://www.tiktok.com/@tawnyplatis Tawny Platis Facebook - https://www.facebook.com/tawny.platis   Marc Scott on Instagram - https://instagram.com/marcscott RESOURCES FOR VOICE ACTORS * The VOpreneur Guide to Testimonials Visit https://vopreneur.com/testimonials * Get an instant $25 credit when you sign up for VoiceZam Visit https://voicezam.com/marcscott * For voice over services: Visit https://marcscottvoiceover.com * Want VOpreneur Swag? Visit https://teespring.com/stores/vopreneur * Join the VOpreneur Facebook Group Visit https://facebook.com/groups/vopreneur EVERYDAY VOPRENEURS IN THIS EPISODE * Thanks to "Uncle Roy" for production assistance! Visit https://antlandproductions.com * Thanks to Christy Harst for VO contributions! Visit https://christyharst.com * Thanks to Krysta Wallrauch for VO contributions! Visit https://krystawallrauch.com If you need guidance with your voice over business or learning how to more effectively market, I can help. Book a 15 minute free consultation with me to discuss your specific needs. Book Your Consult KEY TAKEAWAYS Find a niche and create authentic content that resonates with your audience. Adapt to the ever-changing algorithms of different platforms and analyze metrics to understand what works. The hook in the first few seconds of a video is crucial to grab the audience's attention. Be genuine and relatable to build a loyal following.  Expose yourself to good content to improve your own content creation skills. Building a successful online presence takes time, effort, and a combination of luck, hard work, and talent. Having a large social media following can open up opportunities for collaborations and monetization. Be prepared for failures and the need to pivot and rebrand, and understand that success may take time. Embrace social media as an essential part of being a voice actor and use it to build an audience and differentiate yourself from AI technology. Even a targeted audience of a few thousand can bring value and opportunities.

Anne welcomes the talented Tawny Platis, an accomplished voice actor and viral content creator. Tawny shares her compelling story, from her early days in childhood acting to launching a successful retail business at just 18, and ultimately thriving in the competitive voiceover industry. Their conversation unearths the business behind content creation and the effort required to engage audiences effectively. The BOSSes insights reveal the importance of passion and joy in crafting content that resonates, whether it's through comedy or informative storytelling. Tawny recounts her own path to becoming a viral sensation and shares how blending various skills and experiences can lead to a fulfilling and impactful career. Tawny shares practical tips for newcomers, from adapting one's voice for various professional settings to building a solid business foundation. 00:02 - Anne Ganguzza (Host) Hey bosses, are you struggling with that ever-elusive, real, conversational, authentic, like you're talking to your best friend, Reed Book? Coaching with me and I'll help you take your voice over to a real and believable place. Find out more at annganguzacom.  00:21 - Intro (Announcement) 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 VO boss. Now let's welcome your host, Anne Ganguzza.  00:40 - Anne Ganguzza (Host) Hey, hey, everyone. Welcome to the VO Boss Podcast. I'm your host, Anne Ganguzza, and I am so very excited to have with me in the studio special guest voice actor and boss viral content creator, tawny Plattis, packard, raid, shadow Legends, raycon Headphones and a billion more Too many for me to read. She's also currently the voice of Harmony's mom in the House on the Outland series by Make Animations and is going to play Sophie Bott in the upcoming Garbage People film now streaming on Tubi Tawny yay, you're here Finally.  01:23 - Tawny Platis (Guest) It was a long time coming. I'm so happy to be here.  01:26 - Anne Ganguzza (Host) Well, thank you so, so much for taking a piece of your busy day and talking with us. Gosh, I've been following you for a long time and, I think, to a lot of people in the industry. All of a sudden they're like hey, have you seen this girl with this? Is it the 10 different styles of voiceover? Which is where I? That's the big one, that's the big one, right? Have you seen this girl? I'm like gosh, she's amazing and I'm like I've known that for many years. So perhaps you could take our bosses, who are not as familiar with you as I am and, by the way, I've been a fan of yours and I've watched you like rebrand, like through my eyes, and we could have five episodes talking about what a boss you are. But why don't you tell our bosses a little bit about your journey into voiceover and your career as it stands today?  02:13 - Tawny Platis (Guest) Yeah, I actually got my first voiceover job when I was six years old for a local radio station in San Diego, but my first on-camera role was for a baby blanket ad, also local to San Diego, when I was about four months old. So I've been doing this for a lot of decades now and kept doing that, you know, local child actor type of stuff until I turned 18. And then I started a retail store because I think we both know at this point, you know, the acting biz is very volatile.  02:41 So I was like I need to make sure I have like a backup plan just in case. This doesn't work out. So my backup plan was to start a retail business. Funny enough, what were you retailing? Just out of curiosity, if you're familiar with like consignment type stores like Buffalo Exchange, I did that, but it was like baby and maternity stuff.  02:58 - Anne Ganguzza (Host) Oh, wow, I love that. And was that just something you decided to do on your own Kind of?  03:03 - Tawny Platis (Guest) I had worked retail. I started working retail when I was like 15, 16, I want to say and I had a knack for it. I was pretty good at sales and I was like I think I could open a store, I think I could do this. I love that. So I was 18 and I did that my senior year of high school. I started doing that. Everybody else was getting ready to go to college and I was opening a store in the neighborhood over to mine and I built it up. It was just me, one other person from this little 500 square foot hole in the wall spot over two years to a 5,000 square foot warehouse type of store and it had 10 to 15 employees. And our biggest year, we did a little under a million dollars in sales.  03:40 So I went from doing like $150 a day in sales to doing that and being able to be financially independent by the time I was 23.  03:49 - Anne Ganguzza (Host) So yeah, that's fantastic. Now, that's one part of your story I was not familiar with and that's fantastic. At a young age, the entrepreneur comes out, the boss entrepreneur. So I can only imagine that that really helped give you a great foundation for running your own voice acting business. I feel like you're so multifaceted that you're not just a voice actor. Right, you're an empire, and a lot of that empire and I want to kind of get right into it, because I know there's so many people that are like how did you do it? How did you become viral? Because that is so elusive to many people out there. So talk to us about the foundations in your business right in your retail business that helped you in evolving and growing in voiceover and how you've come to really not just be a voiceover actor but like, literally, you are a content creator, an influencer.  04:41 - Tawny Platis (Guest) Yeah, influencer that word? Yeah, I am though.  04:45 - Anne Ganguzza (Host) Yeah, but you are, I mean you probably are sick of hearing that, but in reality you really are. I mean you've got the reach out there to really influence a lot of people and affect them. And I know from people who've come to me I'm like have you seen that girl? I mean of course I know that girl, she's super talented. But yeah, talk to the experience of your retail years and how it helped you.  05:05 - Tawny Platis (Guest) I think that is what has helped me the most, to be completely transparent, being able to also have that background with coming from a family that owned businesses, like for generations, you know, and it was all very much like very squarely middle class businesses too. That's another thing is like it definitely wasn't something where, like I came from, a lot of wealth or anything.  05:26 Everybody has always been right smack dab in the middle, but the privilege that I had from that was knowing how to run a business and know how to go about using LegalZoom just to start an LLC, and like knowing how to find the information that I needed to do what I wanted to do, and that's a huge leg up, and I often tell people that do ask me about voice acting so what do I need to do? What kind of agents do I need to pursue, what accents, what microphone do I need? And I'm like, like, but honestly, get a business plan, like I was like learn business.  05:57 - Anne Ganguzza (Host) I love that. I love that.  05:59 - Tawny Platis (Guest) Yeah right.  05:59 - Anne Ganguzza (Host) Because if people don't know who you are and can't find you, they can't hire you right as a business.  06:05 - Tawny Platis (Guest) And get good at sales. That's another thing too is like that has always been, I think really a huge part that gets overlooked in what we do. Like we have people that take all these classes and they're so into the microphone. What microphone do I need? What microphone do you have? Because that's the missing piece of the puzzle. I need to get the microphone, and it really isn't. You know, like that's the easiest part is like getting your sound studio, your recording space, set up. That part's easy. You pay some buddy $100, $200. They do a sample for you, they get you all set up and then you're good to go.  06:34 How are you finding work? How are you finding jobs? And then are you staying consistent with this? I can't tell people enough that, like there are admittedly so many incredibly talented voice actors out there who send me their stuff and I'm like you're better than I am and they don't do anything with it because they don't know how to sell, they don't know how to run a business. You know, which is kind of an unfortunate part about being an artist and a creative is like we are so focused on that, which is wonderful, but the reality, the unfortunate reality is like.  07:03 We have to know how to turn that into a business and be able to boss ourselves, because we don't have somebody telling us what to do. So learn how to run a business. That's the biggest piece of advice to doing well in this industry is being able to manage yourself and learning how to sell your product, which is your voice.  07:24 - Anne Ganguzza (Host) So then let me ask you I assume that your content creation, even though sometimes it seems to have nothing to do with voice, although there's a lot of videos that you've done that talk about voiceover you've also done a lot of videos that don't necessarily talk about voiceover.  07:37 I mean, you did one video, actually, which I really loved, on synthetic voices, and I was like, where does this woman come from? Because, look, as you know, with the VO Boss podcast and I say this all the time literally for about a year I did extensive interviews with CEOs of AI companies and talking about synthetic voices and talking about ethical practices and all that stuff, and you came out with a video that was so in depth about your thoughts and your take on it, which I was just I don't know where this girl comes from I was just so, so impressed with that. I had to tell you that, as a fangirl and, doing the work that I've done and studying it, I thought that that was an amazing video. So your content is not just about the 10 voices of voiceover. So talk about how the type of content that you create, how does that help you to market?  08:26 - Tawny Platis (Guest) I love that. You asked that. So the way that that helps me to market is I'm talking about things that are relevant right now, and so much of how I figured that out is what made me, I think, successful in retail as well, which is very much like analytics driven. It's observational. I spend hours, you know, researching what's trending, what are people talking about, how are people moving, how are successful people who are doing what I'm doing? What are they doing? And then to juxtapose that, what is nobody doing either, you know, and how do I combine those things? So it's like I'm filling a need that's not being filled here, but am I doing it in a way that I have seen as proven successful? Like when I had my retail store it was 2009, so cut me some slack here but like I was obsessed with Mark Zuckerberg and what he was doing. You know, I'm like how is he figuring this out? How is he doing all this? Like how? And then Apple I was obsessed with Apple. Like how is Apple dominating? Like this, like, how is this so?  09:21 relevant dominating the market?  09:23 yeah, now we know what we know, um, you know, but that has continued in my career with voice acting, with content creation. You know how are people editing their videos, so it's not like copying, like verbatim what somebody's doing, but it's like not doing the millennial pause, for instance, like that's like such a huge faux pas when you're creating content. It's like setting up your camera and then, like you know, right then, like you know, like it's recording, and you leave this big old gap in the beginning to make sure you're recording. It's quick edits, it's speaking quickly and then the topics that you know are trending right now. So so much of I think what goes into that is being very aware of trends, and I say the same thing with voiceover.  10:02 It's something I have noticed twice now in my career is like the way that I market in content creation is very similar to like what I do in voiceover, in the sense of I'm very much obsessed with the trends and analytics and tracking all of that, and I have noticed that a couple of times in my career now in voiceover, where we've had these big shifts in style and people are often blindsided and I can usually tell those are the voice actors that have stopped watching commercials.  10:30 They don't take that time every day to go on iSpot TV or Hulu or YouTube or just wherever you find commercials and to watch them and to listen like, okay, who's getting cast what's popular right now? And we had that shift from the announcer read in the 90s and the 1000s to conversational, you know in the 10s. And now we're detached conversational, like with that Poppy commercial in the Super Bowl, and I'm seeing that with voice actors. They're like what does detached conversational mean? What is this? You know, and I'm like I hear it all the time, you know. So I think that, like making sure that you are staying just up to date with everything that's going on, and that means taking those classes, being involved in the community. That's going to ensure that you stay relevant.  11:10 - Anne Ganguzza (Host) Yeah, and also for those people that are doing non-broadcast work like e-learning and corporate narration, it's also important to see what is corporate narration. I have so many people that don't really understand what corporate narration is, and within the word corporate narration is the word corporate. Okay, companies are formed for a reason right To sell. So in corporate narration your focus is a sell. Now it's a longer style, it's a longer format than, let's say, a commercial. So your sell is very nuanced and guess you know what? It's not just information delivery, there's a sell.  11:43 You have to connect and you have to have a back and forth in order to connect with your listener and that becomes a conversation.  11:49 And so if I say I want it conversational, it doesn't mean I want it casual and I may not want it detached if we're talking about corporate, because in reality, for corporate, you're an authority, you know what you're talking about and you've got a long time to talk about it, so you may not be detached unless you're shooting for a specific market.  12:06 So I love the fact that you talk about market research, because anybody that goes and all of you bosses out there can go and do research on okay, what's trending in corporate narration? What's trending in e-learning. There's lots of externally facing e-learning modules out there as well, and the one thing that people say is that e-learning is going to get taken up by synthetic voices. But I say that most people that really want a connected teacher and student connection are not going to go that way, and that's the way it should have been all along. But we ended up reading our material like robots and that's kind of why the first thing people think is that, oh yeah, synthetic voices are going to take that over. So the people who thought that was okay, the buyers are going to continue to think that's okay and maybe have a synthetic voice. But those who want a person that can connect right, no matter what genre, they're going to hire that human.  12:58 - Tawny Platis (Guest) I hope so. That's my thoughts on it.  13:00 - Anne Ganguzza (Host) That's my thoughts on it until, ultimately, our ears become attuned to maybe a different sound. But I love the market research and I love the fact that you kept the word conversational in there, because I don't want to disband the word conversational, because conversation indicates that you've got a back and forth Right. So let's talk about content. In terms of being a boss and creating content, what percentage of your day is thinking of content, creating content? What does it take to create great content? And is there a secret to having that content go viral? Of course, everybody wants to know the secret, that kind of thing.  13:32 - Tawny Platis (Guest) I'm so glad you asked that too, because everybody's like what's your secret to going viral? From my standpoint as somebody who does this, I don't think there is a secret beyond the secret being like you got to be in the right place at the right time.  13:45 So often which I don't think people like to hear, because that's very scary that there is a luck component to everything we do, and that doesn't mean it's only luck.  13:56 That means you have to be really good at what you do, you have to work really hard, and then you also have to get lucky.  14:00 And I think that's terrifying to people, as they're like so I can do everything right and it still won't happen, and I'm like, yeah, so much of it is the right place at the right time, and then it taking time to.  14:11 You know, like I've been doing this for years, yes, and then I am, within the last year or so, I'm at the point where it's like I pretty much just need to upload a video every day, couple days, few days, whatever it is. I pretty much just get emails at this point in my inbox that are like hey, we'd like to hire you for XYZ, and I'm very grateful to be in that position to where it's like that's pretty much all the marketing I really need to do, unless I'm after something really cool and specific. Like I'm like I want to do more, like big animation now, so I'm going to reach out to some people, but like now it's like I'm able to like make a living just posting that content and having people find me as a voice actor and hire me for these jobs, and it has taken, you know, literally decades to get to that point of being able to be your overnight success took decades right.  14:57 Yeah, so yes.  14:59 - Anne Ganguzza (Host) And the viral thing was the luck component of it being in the right part at the right time. But I mean, you've been posting videos for gosh since I've been following you, which is years, and you had, I think, in the beginning and I always thought that this was such a tough shtick, is you were comedy. I mean, a lot of what you do has a comedy element to it. Do you think that that has something to do with, let's say, your success in terms of being viral or just having people love your videos?  15:26 - Tawny Platis (Guest) I do. I think that you have to choose one of two things when it comes to doing content creation, or both things. You have to entertain or you have to educate. Yes, I agree, and you know, if you're like me and you don't have a degree, you're not an expert in anything. You can't be like look, I have the piece of paper that says I'm smart. Yeah, you know, you just went right out of high school into the working world. You have to entertain, you know, or you have to establish yourself so much that you do become an expert in something. And again, that takes time just the amount of years you've been doing it. So I was like okay, I don't have the piece of paper saying I'm an authority to speak on something, so I guess I have to be entertaining. And I think that there's a couple ways you can do that, and one of the ways is through making people laugh. You know, and I think that's a big draw to something. It's like oh, I like this content because it makes me laugh.  16:13 - Anne Ganguzza (Host) Everybody likes to laugh, so that's where that really came from was just not being educated enough to make educational content to me, since I've been following you with the comedy and then also with your experience in retail and having that, I feel like you took on the challenge and you loved it, and so now you've got this really cool mix of. I know maybe you don't want to be called an influencer, but in reality when now people are asking you to create content and sell right and then also use your voice right and you're on camera, so I feel like it just took every piece of you that you've maybe been passionate about or loved. Listen to me, I'm analyzing you right now and it just brought it together into this beautiful like. This is where you are today, unless, of course, it doesn't bring you joy, but I kind of feel like it might. I don't know. I feel like you like what you do. I do like what I do.  17:05 - Tawny Platis (Guest) I'm very, very lucky that I get to do this and I'm very lucky that I was born into a certain situation where it was truly the perfect storm, where it was like having that family that like could teach me how to run a business. Right, right and like you know, for better or for worse, being put into acting as an infant and doing that for 30 some odd years. I'm extremely lucky in that way that, like I really did have kind of all of that stuff that allowed this to happen.  17:32 - Anne Ganguzza (Host) Yeah, it's like all the pieces together into like where you are today just seem to be like it's all the pieces that you're amazing at and that have just come together to work well for you. I always tell bosses that for me it's worked out to kind of follow where my joys and passions are, because the energy that I'm putting out really is what people can connect to. And that is where I think success comes, and it doesn't necessarily have to be success just financially. It can just be success in like I've created some really great content that has changed people's lives and you have certainly done that. And that, see, I'm going to get all choked up because I know what that's like.  18:09 Do you know what I mean? I'm not saying that I'm viral, but as a teacher, right, my mission and my joy is to make an impact right and to really help people or make them smile when they're down or, you know, inspire them. And you, I mean I mean you've done that and see, I get, I get. I'm like emotional. I get emotional because I just love that. I love when people can do that and they do do that and they realize it and that seems to be like their mission to really just help and inspire and entertain and make people smile. So Thank you for that.  18:41 - Intro (Announcement) Thank you for that.  18:42 - Anne Ganguzza (Host) And now I'm going to ask you do you miss any one part of it more than the other? Do you miss, like on-camera acting, or like, do you feel like in the future you might want to do, like, maybe more of that, or maybe you want to open a new store? Where are you going next? I mean, what's up next?  18:58 - Tawny Platis (Guest) for you, it will never be retail again. I will live on the streets before I ever do retail again. Retail is so tough, oh gosh.  19:04 - Anne Ganguzza (Host) What about online retail? Though you don't have the inventory, you don't necessarily have the brick and mortar.  19:09 - Tawny Platis (Guest) That's the problem.  19:10 - Anne Ganguzza (Host) No, I mean, you don't have the brick and mortar.  19:12 - Tawny Platis (Guest) Let's put that right, I always make this joke that I'm like you know, retail is unhealthy. When you go from retail to going to entertainment and go, people are so nice and like encouraging, encouraging, and this is so healthy for me, it's so healthy being in entertainment, you know, like that's really an indicator of how horrendous like working with like retail and customer service and with the public, like that that's so funny that you say that, because I remember when I got married, my in-laws owned a wedding, a bridal shop, and I was like you know, I think this could be a fun thing.  19:40 - Anne Ganguzza (Host) They're like oh God, no fun thing.  19:42 - Tawny Platis (Guest) They're like oh God, no, you don't want to go. No, you don't want to go. Oh, I've worked bridal.  19:44 - Anne Ganguzza (Host) Oh, I've worked, bridal, you don't want to go bridal and God forbid, you don't want to go bridal retail.  19:46 - Tawny Platis (Guest) And I'm like, oh okay, I've worked bridal and I've worked with parents and I don't care for either of those demographics. You know I get you there.  19:56 - Anne Ganguzza (Host) So let me ask you a question in terms coaching, voiceover coaching Tell us a little bit about that.  20:04 - Tawny Platis (Guest) Sure, yeah, I do business coaching for voiceover. That is like kind of my main thing. And then I do the surrounding stuff around that. So, like I do like voiceover 101, which is like very like step one through a million of like how to go, and specifically for that person, when it comes to like private coaching, I'm like, okay, what are your goals, what is it you want to do?  20:28 And then what's your background you know, and then we can talk about like how to get from point A to point B and then also like my opinion on kind of like what you should do, let's get you a voiceover evaluation, kind of get an idea of like how much coaching you're going to need here roughly. And then I also, you know, do the specialty coaching, where it's stuff that I particularly have mastery in. So I teach stuff like you know, the content creation that I've been doing for a lot of years, the business side of things been doing business for a lot of years and then the areas of voice acting where I predominantly work, which is a lot of corporate e-learning and then commercial. I don't think it's really ethical to teach voiceover stuff that you don't have like at least 10 years of experience in, so yeah audiobooks is not one of those things I teach just for that reason.  21:07 I'm like audiobooks. I'm still newer in that game. So, yeah, that is what I do coach and I have pre-recorded classes that are more generic. So it's more like this is all the ins and outs of the industry as of the beginning of 2024. So that's always a great option for people if they're looking for something that is like more. Let me just hear 130 plus minutes of like what the voiceover industry is and how to like kind of go about it. That's always something that is really really helpful, I have found, for people. But, yeah, I do that kind of coaching and typically with my private sessions, I try to only keep a few people that.  21:42 I work with at a time so I can really give them the time that I do have, because that's another important thing. If you're teaching voiceover, I think you should be working in voiceover and I am booked every day, agreed, agreed.  21:54 - Anne Ganguzza (Host) I know myself, I'm scheduled to the max because I do voiceover and I coach and I produce demos and I do a couple other things. I do this podcast, so it is every minute of the day is scheduled for me, which I assume is exactly the same for you. So, absolutely, that's wonderful. So, in terms of the future, where do you see yourself in the future?  22:12 - Tawny Platis (Guest) Honestly, I have no idea and I think that that is because I very much follow where my career is going at the time, where the leads are, and I'm very open to what that could be. I didn't think I'd be here Like I oftentimes tell people, particularly in with what got me into voice acting full-time. I never thought that was going to be where I ended up. I went into corporate and I was like this voice Because like I pitch my voice lower so I sound like an adult, but like I have a very high pitch, like I don't usually show people my natural voice, but like my natural voice is really up here, like when I talk to people, but I sound like a baby. So I'm like always like sound like an adult and like one of my teachers told me that in high school she was like you need to do something about your voice.  22:54 - Anne Ganguzza (Host) Oh, interesting, yeah, otherwise nobody's going to take you seriously.  22:58 - Tawny Platis (Guest) And I was thinking like, even with this being my pretend speaking voice. I still feel like it's pretty high. So it was like nobody's going to hire me for corporate. And then somebody found me for corporate and that's where I ended up and I do a lot of that kind of e-learning corporate stuff in San Diego that's so interesting.  23:17 - Anne Ganguzza (Host) So now, when you're completely relaxed, does your voice, do you let your voice go back up, or is it something you've just kind of muscle memory trained yourself to kind of just speak in a particular pitch?  23:25 - Tawny Platis (Guest) It's very muscle memory. The only time when that does come out is when I am really comfortable and relaxed. So, like you know, if my voice starts going up, like that, like that's how you know I'm like really comfy with you.  23:37 So if I start talking to you like this, that's how you know that we're really tight, so pretty much like my roommate, my best friends, like family, like they will hear that one, but even with them it usually like it'll take a few minutes or a drink to like a drink or two, and then it comes back. Yeah, I got you, I got you.  23:57 - Anne Ganguzza (Host) Wow. Well, what would be your best tip for those bosses just starting out in the industry?  24:03 - Tawny Platis (Guest) My best tip business class, like from somebody who teaches business, like and general business, is great too. I think it applies, I think retail applies so heavily to voice acting funny enough or maybe not so funny, but I think like just that is such an oversight. You know so much of voiceover you can learn very quickly, and then the rest of it is practice, which there's no rushing, there's no rushing practice. You know, some of us have, I think, kind of more of an inclination similar to like learning piano, where like you have that friend.  24:32 that just it makes sense to them and it doesn't make sense to you and you have to practice more and that's just is what it is. But I don't feel like there's enough emphasis put on the business and the sales side of what we do. So, like that's, my biggest advice is like get those classes, do your research before you pay for anything like ask around, make sure you take your time so you find somebody who's reputable. I think we both know that's another big issue in our industry. So, yeah, I think that is probably the best piece of advice I could give to people who are starting out in this.  25:04 - Anne Ganguzza (Host) Well, that's great advice. So how can bosses get in touch with you if they would like to find out more and overwork with?  25:10 - Tawny Platis (Guest) you? Yeah, my website is tawnyvoicecom and I have all my contact information there. Depending on how you want to get in touch with me, there's a lot of different ways, awesome.  25:20 - Anne Ganguzza (Host) Well, thank you so much. Oh my gosh, I could talk to you for another hour or so, and then maybe we'll be at that level where you're talking with your real voice to me. But anyways, thank you so much. We so appreciate the words of wisdom that you've given to us Bosses. I'm going to give a great big shout out to our sponsor, IPDTL. You too, can network and connect like bosses. Find out more at IPDTLcom. Tani, you're the best. Thank you so much.  25:45 Thank you, Bosses have a great week and we'll see you next week. Bye.  25:50 - Intro (Announcement) Join us next week for another edition of VO Boss with your host, anne Ganguza, 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 bosscom 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.   

We talk with Voice Actor, and Social Media Star Tawny Platis. Plus a big announcement from Paul and could it be? An episode WITHOUT a Questionable Gear Purchase? 

Voice acting brings life to everything from corporate training videos to tearjerker holiday commercials to your favorite characters in animated movies or video games. But the daily grind isn't as easy as sitting down and reading a few lines. Tawny Platis is a lifelong actress who has found recent success behind the microphone, and she guides us through what it takes to make it in the cutthroat world of microphone jockeys.  Social links: Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/headonfirepod/ Twitter: https://twitter.com/headonfirepod TikTok: https://www.tiktok.com/@headonfirepod Support my work on Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/headonfirepod Subscribe to the Head On Fire podcast Apple Podcasts: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/head-on-fire/id337689333 Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/show/4qTYYhCLMdFc4PhQmSL1Yh?si=5387b774ed6e4524

On today's episode of IGYE I'm joined by comedian, voice-over-artist and podcaster extraordinaire, Tawny Platis.Tawny hosts the fantastic, Death is Hilarious podcast, which serves as a safe space for those going through grief or the morbidly curious to learn more about how grief can manifest in a person's life and how to navigate it. If that sounds 'a bit much' and quite heavy for a podcast, fear not, because if Tawny was to receive any criticism from her work around death it'd be more likely to be that she isn't taking it seriously enough. But that's the crux of her identity and why her podcast is so wildly popular - in approaching grief with complete honesty and sincerity, Tawny, learnt that humour was integral to her ability to process and manage the intense emotions that come with losing a loved one.We chat about the inception of her podcast, the story of love and loss which took her down this path and why, if you're suffering with grief, comedy could be an option, but maybe don't go straight into writing stand-up material about it!You can find Death is Hilarious on all podcasting platforms : https://open.spotify.com/show/7ujNspj87KLDkGSsNAWcbA-You can find Tawny on IG @tawnyplatis-You can find me on IG @johnliot and my personal website is JohnLiot.com-Music by 'Sizzlebird' Opening track - 'I'm Glad You Exist'Closing track - 'Lost Lands'Album: HorizonsBandcamp - https://sizzlebird1.bandcamp.com/album/horizons

This week I spoke with Steven Ho (@steveioe), a first generation Vietnamese-American who started sharing comedic yet brutally honest ER skits online, eventually becoming known as “that ER guy” and launching his own brand tied to that sentiment – MuFKR. Now, with over 13 million followers across TikTok, YouTube and Instagram, Steven creates funny, real, and informative (with a hint of profanity) content related to the ER, providing transparency and comedic relief around a place people often dread. Everything he shares with his audience is through the lens of honest ER experiences, letting them in on the joke no matter how ridiculous, traumatic, or silly. You're listening to Death is Hilarious, the podcast that talks about using humor and jokes to cope with grief. I'm Tawny Platis, your host and founder of the nonprofit Death is Hilarious Grief Relief Foundation- an organization that aims to provide daily virtual grief peer support groups, mentorships, content, and resources for grieving people who respond to a humerous, realistic, and death positive approach, all at no cost. Learn more about how you can access our services, or support our mission by volunteering or donating at deathishilarious.com Special thanks to Jeff Jorgensen, Mary Jane Murphy, Nicole Cruz, Jeff Brower, Brian Jump, CJ Infantino, Lindsey C, Kevin McClowery, Cristina, Ruckus, Liz Moya, Sarah Long, and Trenton Bennet, our monthly donors at the $15 level. Your support helps us keep our services accessible for everyone. Learn how you too can support our mission by visiting Patreon.com/DeathisHilarious This episode first appeared on Instagram Live. You can watch future episodes of Death is Hilarious live by following us on Instagram @thatdeathpod or by following me on TikTok @tawnyplatis, You can watch the video recording of this episode and enjoy other bonus content by visiting Patreon.com/DeathisHilarious

Join host Ned Buskirk in conversation with podcaster & comedian Tawny Platis, while they talk about her husband's death, using dark humor to cope with grief, & creating community after loss with real, raw, visible being in the world.Check out Death is Hilarious - the podcast & 501(c)3 nonprofit: https://deathishilarious.com/ Follow Tawny on IG HERE: https://www.instagram.com/tawnyplatis/ And HERE: https://www.instagram.com/thatdeathpod/Produced by Nick JainaSoundscaping by Nick Jaina”HUSTLE” written & scored by Nick Jaina”YG2D Podcast Theme Song” Produced by Scott Ferreter & eO w/vocals by Jordan Edelheit, Morgan Bolender, Chelsea Coleman & Ned BuskirkTHIS PODCAST IS MADE POSSIBLEWITH SUPPORT FROMLISTENERS LIKE YOU.Become a podcast patron now at https://www.patreon.com/YG2D.

You're listening to Death is Hilarious, the podcast that talks about using humor and jokes to cope with grief. I'm Tawny Platis, your host and founder of the nonprofit Death is Hilarious Grief Relief Foundation- an organization that aims to provide daily virtual grief peer support groups, mentorships, content, and resources for grieving people who respond to a humerous, realistic, and death positive approach, all at no cost. Learn more about how you can access our services, or support our mission by volunteering or donating at deathishilarious.comI recently spoke with Mary Jane Murphy, a comedian and widow who debuted her set of dead husband jokes during our first comedy show fundraiser for the Foundation- and I'm excited to be able to share that set with you today during this episode.Mary Jane and I talked about what it's like working as comedian when experiencing grief and when we both started making jokes about being widowsSpecial thanks to Nicole Cruz, Jeff Brower, Brian Jump, CJ Infantino, Lindsey C, Kevin McClowery, Cristina, Ruckus, Liz Moya, Sarah Long, and Trenton Bennet, our monthly donors at the $15 level. Your support helps us keep our services accessible for everyone. Learn how you too can support our mission by visiting Patreon.com/DeathisHilariousThis episode first appeared on Instagram Live. You can watch future episodes of Death is Hilarious live by following us on Instagram @thatdeathpod or by following me on TikTok @tawnyplatis. You can watch the video recording of this episode and enjoy other bonus content by visiting Patreon.com/DeathisHilarious

Editor's Note: Chris sat on this episode for way too long. It's embarrassing how long actually. But it's still good so you still get to hear it. Some people are just good at writing stories. Like really good. Those are the kinds of people I want to pick the brains of. Or in the case of horror writers, maybe steal the brains of and see if I can get those brains to do some work for me. This time we have Cullen Bunn, one of the current masters (in my opinion) of writing for comics. Listen in as we see part of his process and how he got to be where he is today. Be sure to visit Jay & Miles X-Plain the X-Men to see how you can help support people effected by Florida's recent passing of HB1557, commonly known as the “don't say gay” bill. If you find yourself in need of grief counseling, give Tawny Platis at Death is Hilarious a visit. Learn such things as: Is Cullen a robot? Why haven't Marvel and/or DC let Cullen write a real horror comic yet? Will there eventually be a story about me hacking into Cullen's email? And so much more! You can find the guest on Twitter @cullenbunn and on his website CullenBunn.com. If you want to be a guest on the show please check out the Be a A Guest on the Show page and let me know what you're interested in. If you want to help support the show check out the Play Comics Patreon page or head over to the Support page if you want to go another route. You can also check out the Play Comics Merch Store. Use the coupon code “ireadshownotes” for 15% off your order. Play Comics is part of the Gonna Geek Network, which is a wonderful collection of geeky podcasts. Be sure to check out the other shows on Gonna Geek if you need more of a nerd fix. You can find Play Comics @playcomicscast on Twitter and in the Play Comics Podcast Fan Group on Facebook. Intro/Outro Music by Best Day, who would rather be creative than administrative.

I recently spoke with Barnie Duncan, a comedian from New Zealand, about his latest comedy special Bunny, in which he talks about missing both clubbing and his recently deceased mother. We talked about how grief can feel like waiting for the bass to drop, why we incorporate our grief into our comedy, and what our dead loved ones would think of our work. This episode first appeared on Instagram Live. You can watch future episodes of Death is Hilarious live by following us on Instagram @thatdeathpod or by following me on TikTok @tawnyplatis, You can watch the video recording of this episode and enjoy other bonus content by visiting Patreon.com/DeathisHilarious Death is Hilarious is the podcast that talks about using humor and jokes to cope with grief and is hosted by Tawny Platis, founder of the nonprofit Death is Hilarious Grief Relief Foundation- an organization that aims to provide daily virtual grief peer support groups, mentorships, content, and resources for grieving people who respond to a humerous, realistic, and death positive approach, all at no cost. Learn more about how you can access our services, or support our mission by volunteering or donating at deathishilarious.com

Several of you reached out after a diagnosis called Prolonged Grief Disorder was recently added to the DSM, so I got in touch with my friend, licensed clinical social worker, and peer support group facilitator at Death is Hilarious, Katie Zicarelli, to answer your questions and discuss her thoughts on the topic as a mental health professional and a widow. Find more of Katie's content on TikTok and Instagram @goodgriefbitesThis episode first appeared on TikTok Live. You can watch future episodes of Death is Hilarious live by following us on Instagram @thatdeathpod or by following me on TikTok @tawnyplatis, You can watch the video recording of this episode and enjoy other bonus content by visiting Patreon.com/DeathisHilarious Death is Hilarious, is the podcast that talks about using humor and jokes to cope with grief. I'm Tawny Platis, your host and founder of the nonprofit Death is Hilarious Grief Relief Foundation- an organization that aims to provide daily virtual grief peer support groups, mentorships, content, and resources for grieving people who respond to a humerous, realistic, and death positive approach, all at no cost. Learn more about how you can access our services, or support our mission by volunteering or donating at deathishilarious.com

Why laugh? Because it's messed up that your spouse is dead and sometimes humor can help you cope. Tawny Platis of Death Is Hilarious is our special guest on this week's episode of the Filled With Gold Widow Podcast.   Tawny is a comedian, actor, and the founder of the nonprofit organization Death is Hilarious Grief Relief Foundation which provides grief mentorships, virtual peer to peer support groups, education, and community resources.  Listen in to find out about: Tawny crushing on her future husband, George, in the 6th grade His resemblance to a famous actor! Knowing George would die young and her anticipatory grief How an impromptu stand-up routine for the EMT's who tried to revive George was key to Tawny's survival after his death Creating the non-profit organization, Death is Hilarious Grief Relief Foundation! Tawny's widow centric comedy special!! Website: DeathIsHilarious.com Twitter + Instagram: @thatdeathpod TikTok: @ tawnyplatis This episode is brought to you by: Filled With Gold, a monthly box of comfort to help widows through this difficult and overwhelming time. It's the gift of hope and healing every widow needs to arrive on her doorstep each month. Get 50% off your first box - use code PODCAST50 (shipping is included for all US orders). Visit our website filledwithgold.org to learn more about our monthly boxes for widows.

Dale speaks openly for the first time about his personal experience with loss this week when he welcomes fellow podcaster Tawny Platis, founder of the Death is Hilarious Foundation. When Tawny's husband died suddenly, she found herself a young widow with not a lot of avenues for support. Hoping to connect with others who were...

Dale speaks openly for the first time about his personal experience with loss this week when he welcomes fellow podcaster Tawny Platis, founder of the Death is Hilarious Foundation. When...

The February 2006 crime spree of ex-con Patrick Selepak and his 19 year old girlfriend, Samantha Bachynski. #Michigan #murder #MacombCounty #truecrime  **This episode contains explicit descriptions of torture and murder. Listener discretion is advised.** Written by Gemma Grace, Audio Production by Bill Bert.  Sponsors: BetterHelp.com – use code GONE for a special savings on your first month.  Audiobook - Lies in Bone by Natalie Symons. Read by my friend Tawny Platis.  EVENTS: Houston Texas | 3/20 at 5pm | Line & Lariat bar. Drop me a note if you're attending!  True Crime Podcast Festival: http://truecrimepodcastfestival.com/ Follow Nina on Social Media: https://twitter.com/AlreadyGonePod https://www.instagram.com/ninainnsted/ Thank you for listening – if you enjoyed this episode please leave a positive review and rating on apple podcasts or your podcast player of choice, it really does help.  Support the show: https://www.patreon.com/AlreadyGone See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Today is or most uncomfortable and possibly offensive show ever. If you have kids around or are a kid, skip this episode. It's our Valentines Special! NEWS - We chat with - Fish Love Thanks to Olukai for sponsoring this episode www.OluKai.com/fishnerds “Tawny Platis is the founder of Tawny Voice, an audio production company. She was one half of The Dirty Bits Podcast with her late husband, George. https://www.tawnyvoice.com/.” Kate Wallinga is a forensic psychologist and crisis clinician turned podcaster. She is the host and producer of Ignorance Was Bliss, a podcast https://iwbpodcast.podbean.com/

Episode 21 of World's Dumbest Criminals is a special about rentahitman.com. Although it is a clever and hilarious parody website, many people still try to actually hire hitmen to murder people though it. Tara interviews rentahitman.com founder Bob Innes about how the website came about, the many cases of murder for hire people have tried to procure through the site and the lives that have been saved because of the course of action he took.Social MediaFacebook Group: https://www.facebook.com/groups/374526270632196Facebook Page: https://www.facebook.com/Worlds-Dumbest-Criminals-Podcast-100965498857602/?ref=pages_you_manageTwitter: @WDCriminalsPod and InstagramInstagram: @worldsdumbestcriminalspodcastPatreon: https://www.patreon.com/worldsdumbestcriminalsPromos:Lies in Bone by Natalie Symons, narrated by legendary voice over artist Tawny Platis, available on Audible.Largely the Truth with Brennan Storr. See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

Surprise!  Deathmedians, spousal deaths, and widhoe-ing… Join your macabre MCs, Maria and Ammo, as we bring Philotimo back to life with this bonus intro episode – two weeks early. We'll start by catching you up on our improved format, release schedule, and what to expect from season two.  We'll then bring in Tawny Platis, host of the super-popular podcast, Death is Hilarious, where she chats with others about using dark humour to cope with grief. You'll also know her from her “Trashy Widowed Aunt” TikTok sketches that bring widows together, globally.  Finally, we'll explore how Philotimo Life fits into the larger “Deathmedian” space. Ooooh! It's great to be back, and it's better to know we're not alone. Links: Death is Hilarious – Follow Tawny on social media! Facebook Twitter Pococha Instagram TikTok Trauma Response = People Pleasing via Paces Connection “Daily Consequences of Widowhood”  What is Dia de los Muertos What is Hypoplastic Right Heart Syndrome? “Humor can help you manage grief and cope with loss” via Thrive Works Follow Philotimo Life on social! Twitter Facebook Instagram TikTok - Philotimo Life is produced and recorded by Maria Vassiliou and Ammo Somal in Toronto, Ontario. Audio by Stacie Hunter. Follow us on Twitter, Instagram, LinkedIn, and Facebook!

Tawny Platis has been a podcaster and comedian since 2017. Her podcast, Death Is Hilarious, was #10 on Scary Mommy's 2021 list, “17 Of The Best Grief Podcasts To Help You ThroughThis Difficult Time.” Her comedy sketches have also been featured in publications like LADbible. She is a sponsored streamer on the app Pococha and hosts funny, death centric game nights Sunday-Thursday on the app. She also works as a voice actor and has provided services for Similac, Emmis Communications on WIBC Indiana, Sawyer, and USA Today bestselling authors Anna Applegate and Angela Sanders. Before creating Death Is Hilarious, she created the comedy and history podcast, The Dirty Bits, along with her late husband, George. She lives in San Diego with her longtime friend and dog, Barbara Streisand. In this interview Tawny shares about how she's been using humor as her tool to navigate her grief, after the sudden death of her husband George just 2 years ago. As an atheist, she has found comfort in metaphysics, and also in the idea of time not being linear and that she and George were, are and will always be connected. Connect with Tawny Platis https://www.instagram.com/thatdeathpod/ https://www.tawnyvoice.com/ Tik Tok and Pococha @tawnyplatis Contact Kendra Rinaldi to be a guest or for coaching: https://www.griefgratitudeandthegrayinbetween.com/

Welcome back to the True Crime Fan Club podcast. I'm your host, Tawny of the Death is Hilarious podcast. I'm filling in for Lanie, who is on maternity leave. Transgender violence is a growing epidemic, particularly against women of color. Murders of transgender women reached an all-time level in 2020, with 37 transgender deaths by […]

This episode is a recording of a live session from the Storytelling Podcast Week live program! There will always be those stories, those parts of our journey so tender and grief-stricken that while they're not what we'd choose, we know we have to tell them. Shannon Martin from the Podbean team leads this panel with Last Day's Jackie Danziger and Kegan Zema from Lemonada Media with Death is Hilarious' Tawny Platis as they discuss how diving deep into life's lessons and struggles brings resolution to more than just us. Storytelling Podcast Week is brought to you by Podbean. We're a podcast hosting and monetizing platform and home to over 500,000 podcasts, and we also offer the ability to livestream directly from the app to your audience with Podbean Live, where podcasts come to life! You can also start your own live stream for free on Podbean and to get your first 30 days of hosting for free use the code “story”!

I am Marc Hershon, your every-other-weekly-host for Succotash, the Comedy Soundcast Soundcast, and this is Ep262. I'm calling it “Revisitin' 3 Old Faves Plus 2 New Faves, And A Sad Goodbye, Too.” Before we jump into the deep end, I want to remind you that, if you missed last week's Epi261 “Clippin' My Way Back To You”, with my illustrious co-host-at-a-distance Tyson Saner, in which he featured clips from Girls 1 Kitchen, Strange Times, and Round Springfield, you can still fill your ears with it up at Apple & Google Podcasts, Spotify, Stitcher, iHeart Radio, and pretty much everywhere else in the known soundcast universe. For this week's installment, I have a sack stuffed to the gills with not three, not four, but FIVE clips from – as the title intimates – 3 faves, which are namely Wheelbarrow Full Of Dicks, Story Worthy, and Monster Party. In addition, I have clips from two shows we've not featured before: 91 Donkey Lane, and Death is Hilarious. We're sponsored this time around by Henderson's Pants new Poncho Pantz, which would be welcome news for all of those folks suffering from unseasonal flooding going on around the world if these pants weren't fictional in nature. RIP MAT GEORGE Before we wade into this week's clippage, though, I wanted to take a few moments out to get to the “Sad Goodbye” part of this episode's title, and observe a sad milestone we passed this past week. Podcaster Mat George died this past Saturday morning in Los Angeles, the victim of a hit-and-run traffic accident. Mat was 26 years old, and the co-host of She Rates Dogs along with Michaela Okland. Known for his Twitter and Insta feeds under the handle @matchu-chutrain, the soundcast he did with Michaela brought the popular social media page SheRatesDogs to the soundcast world — and listeners' worst dating stories along with it. The milestone I mentioned is that fact that, in most of the accounts of Mat's death, he is being identified as a “podcaster”. Our podcast, or soundcast, medium has been around for almost 20 years now but it's only now being recognized as a profession and I think that, through his untimely passing, Mat is the first among us to have the status of “podcaster” dignified by the mainstream press. In honor of Mat George, we've got a short clip that includes his final sign-off from the last episode of She Rates Dogs to drop before his death. Gone too soon at the age of 26, rest in peace Mat George. He and Michaela's show is very entertaining, and I urge you to listen to She Rates Dogs from wherever you get your soundcasts. CLIPS WFODThe inspiration for playing the next clip came up on Twitter this past week, when I saw the the account for WFOD, or Wheelbarrow Full of Dicks, as it is actually called, had retweeted a tweet from Spreaker, which had asked them, “Has your podcast received any media coverage?” They answered, “We were featured on Succotash Show twice!” Which is true: First in Epi47 back in 2013, and again in Epi100 in 2014. (They were also mentioned in Epi141 for their wrong side of the argument position of Soundcast vs Podcast, when they said “soundcast” sounds “silly”.) Well, Mike and the gang, clearly your stance was wrong as the world has long since embraced “soundcast” BUT we're not sore winners at Succotash and we are pleased and proud have having run the soundcast gamut along with you lo these many years. So hoping that the third times the charm, here is a clip from the most recent episode of Wheelbarrow Full of Dicks, in which the crew reminisces back to the beginning of the pandemic and a little old felon named Joe Exotic. Story WorthySo one of the reasons I even saw the tweet from Wheelbarrow Full of Dicks was that it got re-tweeted by longtime soundcast friend Christine Blackburn. We have only ever crossed paths in real life at the old LA Podcast Festivals, but she's always been game to recommend soundcasts and help connect me to folks to interview for this show. And her show, the Story Worthy soundcast, is one of the longest running story-telling shows out there. And she's done a great job of gamifying the format over the years and in various kinds of judged settings, including Story Smash, which you can catch on YouTube. (See the blog entry for this episode at our homesite, SuccotashShow.com, for clickable links to the show I'm mentioning as well as the socials for the people themselves!) So, anyway, I figured it was high time to clip Christine's show. This snippet comes from recent Episode 684 featuring guest comedian and video director Gary Robinson. They're chatting about how some celebrities become so heavily identified for a defining role. Death Is HilariousNow I certainly don't mean this episode of Succotash to be a downer, what with the memorial notice about Mat George up top and all, but I had received a note this week from Rachel Diamond, a PR assistant for a soundcast called Death Is Hilarious, asking if I'd give it a listen and consider playing a clip. So I listened and I liked it and I clipped it and it's here. Hosted by Tawny Platis, a widowed comedian who lost her husband George just a couple of years ago, and helped by her friend Sam Peterson, she was determined to channel her grief in helping herself and others to heal, find relief, and the power to laugh again in the face of death and other trauma. This clip is from a recent installment where Tawny chats with alt New York comic Ben Wasserman about dealing with the passing of his father. Monster PartyGetting back into the swing with one more old fave this show, it's a clip from a recent episode of Monster Party. Hosted by a quartet of my old chums Matt Weinhold, Shawn Sheridan, Larry Strothe, and James Gonis, they usually sit around or, more recently because of the pandemic, Zoom around with a guest and go to town on horror, suspense, and sci-fi movies. They recently had a phenomenal “get” of a guest, actor Steve Railsback, and they talk extensively with Steve about his long career in movies and TV. A film that he became well-known for was 1980's The Stuntman, in which he starred with Peter O'Toole, and directed by Richard Rush. In this clip, the guys talk to Steve about that project and he gets into what it was like working with the likes of O'Toole and director Rush. (NOTE: If you download THIS week's episode, you'll hear yours truly – that's right: Me, – guesting on the show for a couple of hours or so yakking about movies in the theme of “Summer Scare-cation”. A ton of fun and you can grab it everywhere online.) 91 Donkey LaneRounding our our true handful of clips – that's 5: One for each finger – is 91 Donkey Lane, a very funny sketch-ish soundcast that feastures the misadventures of Robert Bacon and Nate Lopez who become roommates in an apartment at 91 Donkey Lane, a place described as “magical but very dangerous.” This clip is from the episode entitled “Total Recall”, and featured Robert trying desperately to get away on a “mind vacation” so he can relax. This requires the same technology seen in the movie Total Recall, and the doctor helping him sounds suspiciously like Arnold Schwarzenegger. And the first place he travels to is the version of Mars featured in the Total Recall movie. Too many clips for us to get to the Tweetsack this week — sorry Tweety — but we'll hit it next time. Remember to listen for me on this week's edition of the Monster Party soundcast. If you have seen any of friend-of-Succotash comedian Dana Carvey's Instagram postings lately, @TheDanaCarvey, and see him using these kind of flat photo puppets of Joe Biden, well, that's MY handiwork! For reals. We used to make these bizarre puppet videos years ago and he's started to do some new ones as part of his soundcast Fantastic! With Dana Carvey. So he called me up and asked me to make up some new ones. Up next week in this very same feed will be Tyson Saner with another sweaty clutch of soundcast clips for you so be sure to come back around. And don't be afraid to rate and review our show up on Apple or Google Podcasts, especially with some tasty 5-star reviews. Stay safe as the summer wears on and the Delta COVID variant spreads out. Mask up inside when you can, wash your hands in a thorough manner – you know that drill – and and if anyone should happen to tap you on the shoulder to ask if you've heard anything good lately, please be sure to pass the Succotash. — Marc Hershon

Join us for this special episode as part of the recorded episode showcase for Storytelling Podcast Week. This episode is brought to you by Tawny Platis of the Death is Hilarious podcast. … I've been creating the podcast Death Is Hilarious for a year now. If you're new to the podcast, It's a show that explores how we as comedians and creatives use comedy and dark humor to cope with grief through storytelling and jokes. In some episodes, I interview other artists and entertainers - and in other episodes, my creative collaborator, Sam Peterson and I, read each other funny letters we've written about trauma and loss in what I call “comedy routines masquerading as correspondence.” All together, I've produced over 100 podcast episodes to date. So in honor of all of this and many other milestones I mention in the show, I'd like to share with you some of my favorite moments from the past 35 episodes that have given me hope, perspective, and laughter. This episode features Michael Drane (professor at Antioch University and host of Unpopular Culture Podcast), stand-up comedians Glen Tickle ("Good Grief") and Rich Kiamco (Bravo's "Queer Eye For The Straight Guy," Netflix/Buzzfeed's “Follow This,” and the Broadway Comedy Club), Actress and author Reagan J. Pasternak (HBO's “Sharp Objects”, Syfy's “Wynonna Earp,” Netflix/HULU/HBO's “Being Erica”, BET's “Ms. Pat," and "Griffin's Heart: Mourning Your Pet With No Apologies - A Memoir, Healing Journal, and Keepsake"), Shyni (Lipstick Laundry Podcast), and Lisa Keefauver (MSW and host of the podcast "Grief is a Sneaky B!tch"). For more information about Death Is Hilarious, visit deathishilarious.com To get in touch, email deathishilarious@gmail.com. You can support the podcast by subscribing, becoming a patron at patreon.com/deathishilarious, or by simply sharing the show with your friends and on social media. ... Storytelling Podcast Week is brought to you by Podbean. We're a podcast hosting and monetizing platform and home to over 500,000 podcasts, and we also offer the ability to livestream directly from the app to your audience with Podbean Live, where podcasts come to life! You can also start your own live stream for free on Podbean and to get your first 30 days of hosting for free use the code “story”!

Is it just me or does anybody else hate the word "acceptance" when we're talking about the loss of our spouse? I mean, I TRULY despise this word. Acceptance. In this episode, we talk about a concept called Radical Acceptance, which basically means that we understand that bad things do indeed happen to good people - and all the time! Radical Acceptance shows us ways we can practice to better cope with the stress we have to deal with.  In this episode we go over 5 exercises we can do to practice Radical Acceptance. For a list of 273 Healthy Coping Strategies, go to www.widow180.ck.page/coping I would LOVE to hear your thoughts on this topic! Email me at jen@widow180.com or  DM on Insta: @widow_180 Check out this clip from my interview with Tawny Platis on Widow 180: The Channel: https://youtu.be/TK6tvo6RWFk Be sure to subscribe! Please leave a rating and review for the podcast! Join our Facebook Group here Widow 180 Community: facebook.com/groups/312036956454927    

Tawny Platis's husband George had a very rare heart condition since birth and lost his life in November 2019.  Initially, Tawny found herself spiraling into depression, wanting to end her own life, but 2 things saved her: 1. making other people laugh! 2. Their precious puppy Babs! In this episode we chat about: ~how she started a podcast called Death Is Hilarious ~how she went through a "wid-hoe" phase ~using humor as a way of bringing control back to us ~how "widow brain" affects focus and memory ~how strangers can show up in our lives from out of nowhere, just when we need them the most ~how much her life has changed and improved just in the last year! Be sure to check out Tawny's podcast at https://deathishilarious.com Also check out this week's blog post on RADICAL ACCEPTANCE as a concept and coping mechanism for grief. You can read that at https://www.widow180.com/resources/radical Check out our new YouTube Channel! It's Widow 180: The Channel Here's the latest episode:  https://youtu.be/rAxtcni1Z4U Please leave a rating and review for the podcast!

In this episode I talk with fellow grief podcaster Tawny Platis! Before Tawny's husband George passed away in their home in November 2019, the two had a popular podcast together. After his untimely death, Tawny coped with the trauma by turning the podcast into the show now known as Death Is Hilarious. Her show features conversations with other creative types who use dark humor and jokes to combat their grief. We talk about the difficulties of being widowed at 29, and finding ways to give ourselves permission to laugh at the absurdity of it all. Follow https://deathishilarious.com @ThatDeathPod Follow Tawny @TawnysVoice

This week, Shohana chats about toxic positivity, hyper-specific support groups, and the link between grief and comedy with Tawny Platis, host of the dark comedy podcast “Death is Hilarious.” Follow Finders Grievers on Instagram & Twitter @findersgrievers and write to us at findersgrievers@gmail.com About Tawny Platis: Tawny Platis is a voice actor, comedian, and influencer. She also created the Dirty Bits Podcast with her late husband, George. He passed away on November 8, 2019, in their home due to complications associated with a heart condition (hypoplastic right heart syndrome) and a respiratory disease (mycobacterium avium complex). Now Tawny chats with others about using dark humor to cope with grief on her podcast Death Is Hilarious. Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/findersgrievers/ Twitter: https://twitter.com/findersgrievers Email: findersgrievers@gmail.com Hosted by: Shohana Sharmin Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/soleahm/ Twitter: https://twitter.com/soleahm Guest: Tawny Platis Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/tawnyplatis_voicetalent/ https://www.instagram.com/thatdeathpod/ Brought to you By: The Sonar Network

This week, Shohana chats about toxic positivity, hyper-specific support groups, and the link between grief and comedy with Tawny Platis, host of the dark comedy podcast Death is Hilarious. Follow Finders Grievers on Instagram & Twitter @findersgrievers Brought to you By: The Sonar Network https://thesonarnetwork.com/

Anita and Mel interview fellow young widow and podcaster, Tawny Platis of Death is Hilarious. Dark humor, dead husband jokes, the Babs Bible, and psychopathy are just a mere few of the intriguing topics the trio explores. Check out Tawny's podcast on every major podcast platform! https://deathishilarious.comJoin Anita and Mel's  Patreon starting at $5:www.patreon.com/wwdnWant to buy us some tacos?https://www.buymeacoffee.com/widowwedonowMel's custom relaxation YouTube music channel (Drömkatt):https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCL1WrSiQGVw2qavRi_7BlQA/featuredMel's meditation music album:https://music.apple.com/us/album/inriktning-chakra-balancing-music/1558390723This episode is sponsored by:The Misner Family Foundation in memory of Elisabeth MisnerBetter Help | Our listeners receive a 10% discount off their first month of professional online counseling with this unique link: https://trybetterhelp.com/wwdnCheck out our website:  http://www.widowwedonow.comContact Anita and Mel at widowwedonow@gmail.comAll original music by Melanie Shore: http://www.melanieshore.comhttps://www.youtube.com/channel/UCF0NQ2Ej8bthJvSa-4jp3OA

Widowed at twenty-eight, Tawny Platis is the queen of dead husband jokes. Tawny is a comedian, voice actor, and host of the podcast Death Is Hilarious. Tawny’s podcast explores how comedians and creatives use comedy and dark humor to cope with grief and trauma through storytelling and jokes. In this episode, Tawny discusses her botched suicide plan.  Why laughter is like her heroin. PSDD--Post Spousal Death Disorder. Pennsylvania Serah (she’s a lifesaver). Covid isolation perils. Bumble and honest dating profile advice. Tawny thinks something is wrong with her because the same evening her husband George died, Tawny was—horny. You’ll hear what each therapist said when Tawny asked “what’s wrong with me?” And so much more in Tawny's hope and laughter-filled journey. Here are the Bullets! Once-Upon-A-Time Heart Palpitations Death Is Hilarious Sleeping With The Hottest Guy Twenty-Eight And Widowed Why The EMTs Laughed Laughter Is Heroin To Me Why I Need to Make People Laugh I Planned My Suicide Is Babs (our dog) Going to Die Too? Pennslyvania Serah My Husband Just Died. Why Am I So Horny? Dick-Dash and the Revolving Doors Tawny's Dating Profile Advice Nothing Replaces Physical Touch Hope-Filled Tawny Sticking Around to See How The Movie Ends Thanks for listening. Tawny's links are all below. Death Is Hilarious Podcast TikTok  Instagram Twitter https://www.tawnyvoice.com Facebook YouTube Because you shouldn't have to journey alone, join me in the My Spouse Died Too community email list for members-only benefits: Behind-the-scenes commentary gives you deeper insight--helps you heal. Episode alerts so you'll know when a new episode is ready. Updates on past podcast guests because their journeys continue too. Plus more thoughts, resources, and random widowed journey stuff I discover. And it's the best way to contact me. Because you shouldn't have to journey alone. Sign-up now at https://www.myspousediedtoo.com. Hope. Heal. Find love again. ~ Emeric My Spouse Died Too podcast, images, logos, artwork copyright © 2019-2021 by Emeric McCleary. Music and lyrics © 2019-2021 by Emeric McCleary and Elena McCleary

While mainstream society might scoff at your twisted sense of humor, the benefit of using humor in dark moments is a well-studied coping mechanism. In this episode- Prof. Michael Drane sits down with Tawny Platis from The Death is Hilarious Podcast to talk about this misunderstood aspect of the human psyche.                                               * * * Follow us on all platforms at @upcpodcast Unpopular Culture Podcast is a Forensic Psychology podcast created and hosted by Professor & Psychotherapist Michael Drane. Working with a team of professionals, he seeks to shine a light into the broken underbelly of society. Listen as he explores subjects like: True Crime: Serial Killers, Murders, Stalkers, Cults, Forensic Analysis Psychology: Mental Illness, Personality Disorders, Social Phenomenon, Mob Mentality, Psychosis Culture: Sexuality, Satanic Panic, Relationships, TV Analysis, Movie Analysis, Character Analysis We are an independent psychology podcast. Help us keep UPC free of ads and on the air by supporting the show. Additionally, gain access to our "Stalkers Only" archive, and help be a part of the creative process. Support the Show! —> patreon.com/upcpodcast 

About the showIf you love deep, honest, authentic conversations get ready to love Grief is a Sneaky Bitch. Lisa Keefauver, founder of Reimagining Grief, holds an extensive grief resume herself, as a social worker, narrative therapist, grief guide, and widow. She brings her deep curiosity, love of conversation, and knowledge of how language and culture shapes our experiences of ourselves and our world, including our grief, to each unscripted conversation. From CEO’s and social workers to authors, educators, filmmakers and stay-at-home moms, her guests open up about the complexity, confusion, and even confidence they have gained by navigating a grief journey of their own.About the episode Get ready y’all. This is an episode unlike any other I’ve had. My guest, Tawny Platis, is a voice actor, a comedian, host of her own podcast, and well, she uses dark humor as a tool to navigate the traumatic death of her husband George, who was just 29. We explored how Tawny uses her comedic instincts to help her navigate this tremendous loss, even just moments after she found her husband in a messy scene dead on the floor of their home. We talk about the expectations people have about how widows should behave and the discomfort and judgment some people feel when someone is grieving differently than them. We drop some truth-bombs about grief in general and young widowhood in particular. We do it all with humor, profanity AND sincerity and insight because, yes, we used all the tools at our disposal to talk about this difficult topic and you should too. I can’t wait for you to meet her.Episode Resources:Follow Tawny on Instagram, TikTok or check out her podcast Death is Hilarious Jump straight into:(03:25) - Tawny’s first experiences with grief - “I remember being told not to be so emotional because I was being dramatic and I was making other people uncomfortable.”(09:00) - Using comedy as a coping mechanism - “My family didn't really have a lot of love for me, but if I could make them laugh, it felt like they did. And then that extended towards everybody in my life.”(11:30) - George’s terminal illness and finding unconditional love - “He told me right off the bat what was going on with him, that he could die at any moment. I was completely in love with him, it wasn't even a second thought to break up with him or to not pursue a relationship with him.”(20:48) - Finding your own capacity to heal - “There's a black bag right there, and they're going to zip him up and take him away and I just go ‘I'm not really ready for you to take his body, but I guess if you don't, that kind of makes me liable to get into a Norman Bates situation here’. ”(30:08) - Tawny and George’s podcast and how it evolved into Death is Hilarious - “If we hadn't shared so much I wouldn't have all of that recording to go back and visit. It reminds me it was real and it happened. He was real. What we had was real.”(39:08) - Are you past it? Coping with people who don't show up for you - “So often people don't even bring it up now or they don't check on me because I'm making jokes about it, they see me getting jobs, they see me posting these episodes...”(47:08) - Secondary loss and finding the right support system - “My girlfriends were able to do that. When I was in the mood to laugh, they crack jokes right alongside me, and when I was on the ground and I couldn't even make it to the couch they crawled down on the ground and just sat with me.”(52:09) - The gift of sharing our stories and wounds - “I think one of our missions, all of us as humans, but especially when we take on the work of grief, is to figure out how to keep showing up in our integrity and authenticity.”About The HostThanks for listening! If you’re feeling social, don’t forget to follow Lisa on Instagram. Make sure to leave a rating and write a review today on Apple Podcasts so that more people can find us. Our host, Lisa Keefauver, offers a variety of services and products from individual grief sessions, to guided meditations, workshops, company culture consulting and even a line of beautiful and authentic Empathy Cards. To know more visit www.reimagininggrief.com See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

In this week's episode, Professor Michael Drane meets with Tawny Platis, Host of 'Death Is Hilarious' Podcast, to explore the Psychology of Dark Humor. Listen in as they discuss what dark humor is, why it's good for us, how Covid-19 has impacted our sense of humor, and what having a dark sense of humor says about our personality. They also explore the misconceptions and frustrations with Kubler-Ross's model for grief, as well as the kinds of things you should and should not say to a person who has suffered a traumatic loss. This episode is reserved for our beloved Stalkers of the Podcast, but we gave ya'll a sneak peek so you know what you'd be missing out on. ;) Stay safe out there friends, and we hope you enjoy the show.                                                * * *  Follow us on all platforms at @upcpodcast Unpopular Culture Podcast is a Forensic Psychology podcast created and hosted by Professor & Psychotherapist Michael Drane. Working with a team of professionals, he seeks to shine a light into the broken underbelly of society. Listen as he explores subjects like: True Crime: Serial Killers, Murders, Stalkers, Cults, Forensic Analysis Psychology: Mental Illness, Personality Disorders, Social Phenomenon, Mob Mentality, Psychosis Culture: Sexuality, Satanic Panic, Relationships, TV Analysis, Movie Analysis, Character Analysis We are an independent psychology podcast. Help us keep UPC free of ads and on the air by supporting the show. Additionally, gain access to our "Stalkers Only" archive, and help be a part of the creative process. Support the Show! —> patreon.com/upcpodcast 

August 3, 1980. AuSable Township, Michigan. 20-year old Cherita Thomas borrows her friend’s car in order to pick up her daughter from a babysitter, but the vehicle breaks down before she arrives. Witnesses see Cherita climbing into a blue pick-up truck driven by a white male, but she is never heard from again. Jimmie Allen Nelson, the babysitter’s brother-in-law, is suspected of harming Cherita in a racially motivated hate crime, and even though Cherita’s body is not found, Nelson is charged and convicted of her murder three decades later. However, Nelson’s conviction is overturned when newly discovered evidence surfaces which reportedly implicates another suspect, so the murder charge against him is dismissed in 2014. Was Jimmie Allen Nelson actually responsible for Cherita Thomas’ disappearance? If not, then what actually happened to her? This week’s episode of “The Trail Went Cold” chronicles a convoluted missing persons case which has had a number of surprising twists and turns over the past 40 years. Special thanks to Chris Wimmer for providing the opening narration on today’s episode. Be sure to listen to Chris’ podcast, “Infamous America”. “The Trail Went Cold” is on Patreon! Visit www.patreon.com/thetrailwentcold to become a patron and gain access to our exclusive bonus content. "The Trail Went Cold" will be participating in the "Tawny & George Platis Podcast-a-Thon" fundraiser on GetVokl which will take place on Saturday, July 11 from 1:00 PM-1:00 AM ET/10:00 AM-10:00 PM PT. All proceeds will be donated to Tawny Platis' GoFundMe for her medical bills. Our livestream show will be take place at 12:15 AM/9:15 PM PT and the entire Podcast-a-Thon can be viewed here. “The Trail Went Cold” is now doing a weekly livestream show on GetVokl every Thursday from 7:00-8:00 PM ET as part of their “True Crime Thursday” line-up. For more information, please visit their website. Additional Reading: http://charleyproject.org/case/cherita-janice-thomas http://www.iosconews.com/news/article_165d5202-3706-5394-8298-92de7a5a7925.html https://www.macombdaily.com/news/nation-world-news/michigan-court-strikes-murder-conviction-in-case/article_d03714a2-e37b-5665-8ca4-00f7e736789c.html https://abc7news.com/archive/7771114/ http://www.michbar.org/file/opinions/appeals/2012/082312/52533.pdf http://www.michbar.org/file/opinions/appeals/2014/022514/56526.pdf https://law.justia.com/cases/michigan/court-of-appeals-unpublished/2008/20081223-c271768-41-271768-opn.html https://www.law.umich.edu/special/exoneration/Pages/casedetail.aspx?caseid=4394 "True Police Stories of the Strange & Unexplained" by Ingrid P. Dean Click here to subscribe to the podcast on iTunes. Click here to listen to the podcast on Stitcher. Click here to subscribe to the podcast on Google Play Music. The Trail Went Cold is produced and edited by Magill Foote. All music is composed by Vince Nitro.

Welcome to Death Is Hilarious, the show that explores using dark humor to cope with grief, loss, and trauma. I’m your host Tawny Platis and I’m joined here today with my co-host Sam Peterson. In this episode we do the Covid Check-In, Sam talks about their new chickens, their dog having PTSD, dark humor in pest control, Tawny got dumped, the weird things Tawny googles when grieving, Tawny reads her letter to Sam about feeling like George was the Frodo to her Samwise, The Dirty Bits Returns, Sam reads their letter to Tawny about using humor to cope with trauma related to sexual assault, and “The Little Mermaid.”For more information visit deathishilarious.com. To get in touch, email deathishilarious@gmail.com. You can support the podcast by simply sharing the show with your friends and if you’d like, you can become a patron at patreon.com/deathishilarious. Thanks for listening!

In this episode, Sam sits down with Cleo from Topless Topics, a community and creative project aimed at de-stigmatizing and de-sexualizing female toplessness in public and on social media, the same way male toplessness was in the 1950s - through repeat exposure and peaceful acts of civil disobedience. Though you can’t see her, true to form, Cleo is topless for this interview, which was held over a video conferencing service. In this episode, Sam and Cleo chat about socializing during coronavirus, bonding over online content creation, Cleo's mom, her dear friend Angel, bisexuality and how to cope with corona.You can find Cleo by by searching Topless Topics on Youtube and go ahead and give her a thumbs up and a follow to help more people find her, and then you can find her uncensored videos on ToplessTopics.org. You can connect with Sam and me, Tawny Platis, at DeathIsHilarious.com or on Twitter @thatdeathpod.

Join me, Tawny Platis, my co-host Sam Peterson, and our guests as we talk about using stories, friendship, and lots of really dark jokes to cope with grief, loss, and trauma. For more information visit deathishilarious.com. To get in touch, email deathishilarious@gmail.com. You can support the podcast by simply sharing the show with your friends and if you’d like, you can become a patron at patreon.com/deathishilarious. Thanks for listening!

Welcome to Death is Hilarious, the podcast where I chat with other survivors about how they’re using comedy to cope with loss and grief. I’m your host, Tawny Platis, and in part two of this two part episode, I sat down to chat with Charity Pimentel-Hyams, author of The Widow’s Survival Guide, a book that gives practical and honest advice about living with children after the death of your spouse. We talked about making other people uncomfortable, dating after death, and our shared love of using dark humor to cope with the loss of our husbands. Find Charity and her book at livingafterdeath.com and you can follow her on instagram @thewidowssurvivalguideFor more information visit death is hilarious dot com. To get in touch, email deathishilarious@gmail.com. You can support the podcast by simply sharing the show with your friends and if you’d like, you can become a patron at patreon.com/deathishilarious. Thanks for listening!

CW: Death of a spouse, holidays without a spouse, angry tweeting, St. Patrick's Day, and peeps.I wasn’t able to take the time to plan out the transition of this podcast from the Dirty Bits to Death is Hilarious like I wanted to. It’s been largely experimental and my listeners have been witness to what seems like a behind the scenes creative process, as I navigate my grief using various art forms like writing, comedy, podcasting, and performing. It’s taken a few months and a few different formats to find my footing. I’ve had many different creative partners on this journey with me, but one of the most consistent partners has been my dear friend, Sam. The loss of George has been really hard for Sam too and we began coping by channeling our grief into comedy… specifically by writing each other funny letters about how we’re dealing with not only death and loss but other traumas in our lives. Those letters are something I’d like to share with you on this show, Death is Hilarious, the podcast that documents one voice actor’s journey coping with the death of her husband using humor and dark comedy. As covid-19 ushers you into a world I’m all too familiar with, I hope you too can find some healing and relief in our version of radical acceptance - with stories, friendship, and lots of jokes.In This Episode: My creative partner, Sam and I write each other letters in which we make jokes about grief, death, loss, and trauma. Neither Sam or I have seen the other’s letter before the episode.Follow the show on Instagram @Tawnyplatis_voicetalent Find me on Twitter @tawnysvoiceSupport Death Is Hilarious and get exclusive behind the scenes updates and commercial-free episodes for just $1 a month on Patreon.com/WittyWidow.Your Patreon, PayPal (paypal.me/tawnyvoice), and Venmo (@Tawny-Platis) support cover the production costs related to the show and website. Thank you for being a producer!Credits:Created by Tawny Platis and Sam PetersonChillin Hard Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com), Licensed under Creative Commons: By Attribution 3.0 License http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/Editing: Matthew Ramirez - mjrinfl@gmail.com

NOTE from Masha: As these episode are being released, the world is dealing with the coronavirus crisis. Because all episodes in the season were recorded well in advance, this is not discussed on the show. I hope that you will apply the same themes that we discuss throughout the Bold Adulting podcast to coping and supporting both yourself and others in your community (including the global community) -- reaching out to people (virtually) figuring out what you want to make progress on and making a plan being open about what you're going through with the people who you feel comfortable sharing with looking for evidence-based resources remembering that you are not alone If you want to connect with me to discuss what you're going through (about this or anything else), please feel free to email me or find me on Facebook (send me a message letting me know you found me through the podcast). I also strongly suggest connecting with other caring and compassionate people through the Facebook group Distance Resistance (which I don't run but I participate in) which is about staying connected even while we have to stay apart. You can also find a lot of information there about getting help or giving help -- this is a is moment to come together. --------------------------------------- [content warning: eating disorders & body shame] In episode 2 of a two-part episode, Voice Actor and Coach, Podcaster, and Marketing Specialist Tawny Platis discusses fighting bi invisibility by coming out in the context of being in an other-gender relationship, setting boundaries with family members for self-care, and finding help for recovering from eating disorders and body dysmorphia.    Listen to part 1 first.   Email Tawny    Find Tawny on her:  personal  website,  Facebook Instagram Death is Hilarious (previously known as The Dirty Bits) podcast Patreon page - support the podcast & get extra content! website Instagram of the former Dirty Bits podcast Tawny Voice Facebook page  Instagram Twitter And Facebook group The Lovebug Brigade Mentioned in this episode: Bi invisibility In the context of a same-gender/heterosexual relationship Using gender neutral language  Coming out Note that the “coming out” language is useful for not only sexual orientation and gender identity but also other destigmatized experiences & identities. Not everyone in the queer community feels that it’s appropriate to use this language more broadly, but many do  Pansexuality and Bisexuality Note: Masha identifies as pansexual (attracted to people regardless of gender) but uses the word “bisexual” in contexts where she feels that’ll be better understood. This may be considered a form of code switching. The obituary of George Platis - Tawny’s late husband Rich’s Nightclub Baja Betty’s Food Psych Podcast - about intuitive eating and Health At Every Size Asking before hugging Masha’s 3rd ever stand up comedy set was about this.  In the spirit of antiperfectionism, she recognizes the ways to improve this for next time, without judging herself for this drafty draft This performance was during a stand up comedy class taught by DJ Demers at MaxFunCon, an amazing convention of the Maximum Fun podcasting network    Nose picking article on wikipedia Binge show about bulimia Podience podcast In this 2-part interview, we talk about how Diet Culture shapes our relationships with food and movement. In case you or someone you know needs it, here is some possibly helpful information:  Eating Disorder Hotline Listings International Eating Disorder Resources  Body Dysmorphic Disorder Body Liberation    Tawny’s dog Babbs says hi: Courage the Confidence Cat says hi too: Here he is hard at work while Masha works from home ———————————————————————— Discuss this episode or learn about hiring Masha for workshop (about making progress on goals that matter to you using antiperfectionism and authenticity) at BoldAdulting.com! Follow BoldAdulting on Twitter or Instagram. Email: masha@boldadulting.com Masha’s personal social media: Twitter & Instagram   All coaching sessions and interviews are included by permission and with the level of privacy requested by each guest.    Bold Adulting season 3 episodes were recorded over a year ago. To hear updates or to learn what podcast guests have been up to since then, reach out using the contact information if provided.  Host: Masha Evpak Sound Editor: Bart Cameron and Masha Evpak

[content warning: eating disorders & body shame] In episode 1 of a two-part episode, Voice Actor and Coach, Podcaster, and Marketing Specialist Tawny Platis shares about what makes her confidence waver, how teaching helps remind her how far she’s come, and and how she keeps picking up the phone even knowing rejections are common in voice acting. We also discuss how being a generalist makes her a stronger communicator.    Email Tawny    Find Tawny on her:  personal  website,  Facebook Instagram Death is Hilarious (previously known as The Dirty Bits) podcast Patreon page - support the podcast & get extra content! website Instagram of the former Dirty Bits podcast Tawny Voice Facebook page  Instagram Twitter And Facebook group The Lovebug Brigade Mentioned in this episode: Tip: To improve your confidence, teach others what you know Dialectical behavioral therapy (finding healthier coping mechanisms) Masha’s list of ways to feel better includes blowing bubbles, taking a walk, swimming, or petting Courage the Confidence Cat What’s on your list? Share by emailing masha@boldadulting.com or via Twitter or Instagram  Voice actor Tara Strong - PowerPuff Girls, Rugrats, and many more Confidence Cat Zine - coloring worksheets for confidence, career success, and problem-solving   Thug Notes Drunk History Adam Ruins Everything 7 Celebrities You Wouldn’t Believe Have Imposter Syndrome This was a video Masha made in 2016, the first project she made in iMovie. In the spirit of antiperfectionism, she recognizes the ways it could be better lit & more engaging, without judging herself for this drafty draft Tina Fey: "The beauty of the impostor syndrome is you vacillate between extreme egomania, and a complete feeling of: ‘I’m a fraud! Oh god, they’re on to me! I’m a fraud!’"  Ira Glass’s insightful quote about The Gap that creatives experience in their early years between their taste/ambitions/ideas and their skills  Nick Howell of Orbital Jigsaw podcast network, the network that Dirty Bits used to be on BizChix business podcast Unreal show Hannah of Film Roast Lori of Zencastr for helping me fix some audio issues Note: Zencastr is a great way to record podcasts long distance Generalists: people who learn about a lot of things at less detail than specialists, e.g. many science or history communicators Masha used to be heavily involved in science communication   In this 2-part interview, we talk about how Diet Culture shapes the our relationships with food and movement. In case you or someone you know needs it, here is some possibly helpful information:  Eating Disorder Hotline Listings International Eating Disorder Resources Body Dysmorphic Disorder Body Liberation   Tawny’s dog Babbs says hi: Masha's cat Courage the Confidence Cat also says hi: ———————————————————————— Discuss this episode or learn about hiring Masha for workshop (about making progress on goals that matter to you using antiperfectionism and authenticity) at BoldAdulting.com! Follow BoldAdulting on Twitter or Instagram. Email: masha@boldadulting.com Masha’s personal social media: Twitter & Instagram   All coaching sessions and interviews are included by permission and with the level of privacy requested by each guest.    Bold Adulting season 3 episodes were recorded over a year ago. To hear updates or to learn what podcast guests have been up to since then, reach out using the contact information if provided.  Host: Masha Evpak Sound Editor: Bart Cameron and Masha Evpak

CW: Loss of a grandfather, loss of a pet, being unable to revive a spouse, complications during the birthing and delivery process, alligators, Florida, Floridian Insanity, dad jokes, corny humor. I recently had the pleasure of sitting down to chat with one of my good friends and fellow voice-over actors and podcasters (The Limey and The Yank), Trenton Bennett. In this lighter episode filled with plenty of corny dad jokes and impressions from both of us, Trenton shared how he started using humor to cope with death at the age of 14 when his grandfather passed away. We also chatted about what it’s like to lose a pet, something I very sensitively and graciously brought up, letting go of often literal weights we carry from the deceased, how we use laughter to survive, why bucket lists can be dangerous, and the challenges surrounding what comes with having a very long life. And if you’ve ever wondered what it sounds like when a couple of friends who are both in voice-over get together, stick around after the episode for a little peek into the world of my day job.Edited by Tawny Platis

Today is our most uncomfortable and possibly offensive show ever. If you have kids around or are a kid, skip this episode. It’s our Valentines Special! NEWS - We chat with - Fish Love Thanks to Olukai for sponsoring this episode www.OluKai.com/fishnerds “Tawny Platis is the founder of Tawny Voice, an audio production company. She was one half of The Dirty Bits Podcast with her late husband, George. https://www.tawnyvoice.com/.” Kate Wallinga is a forensic psychologist and crisis clinician turned podcaster. She is the host and producer of Ignorance Was Bliss, a podcast https://iwbpodcast.podbean.com/

This podcast addresses sensitive subjects like death and loss… often graphically and with explicit language and dark humor. Please see the show notes for additional content warnings surrounding this particular episode. Listener discretion is advised. CW: Losing the love of your lifeYou’re listening to the Witty Widow, the podcast where I sit down with fellow entertainers and chat about their experiences with loss and grief. My aim is to give insight into the grieving process and inspire hope with the stories of healing through laughter.I’m Tawny Platis, I work in audio entertainment and have a background in voice acting and comedy. I lost my husband on November 8, 2019 before he was 30 years old due to numerous health problems he had been battling his entire life. We hosted the Dirty Bits together on this podcast feed when it was a show about scandalous stories throughout history. After he passed away, I knew I wanted to continue podcasting, something we loved to do together... and I also wanted to keep his memory alive and help others gain a deeper understanding of using humor to cope with grief and loss. I had really been looking forward to speaking with my friend Diane because I was familiar with her podcast, History Goes Bump. She has an irreverent and sarcastic sense of humor, so she’s always been a kindred spirit to me. The fact that she takes a skeptical and exploratory approach to spirits and ghosts also piqued my interest considering the whole “my husband is dead thing.”Like your stereotypical atheist confronted with death, I suddenly developed quite the interest in spirituality when my husband’s health really started going down hill. I even almost joined a church at one point, which is how all my friends knew I really wasn’t handling my husband’s illness well. Neither George nor I are religious but we both have a deep fascination with philosophy, consciousness, space, time, energy… ya know, all that psychedelic, hippy dippy- California -intellectual -stoner kid- shit, bro. So as opposed to finding comfort in the thought of a traditional afterlife, I find comfort in a more general and scientific study of the possibilities surrounding the concept of the continuation of consciousness. That doesn’t mean I don’t pray, or light candles, or sacrifice the occasional chicken or dance naked in the moonlight in order to communicate with my husband’s spirit because….. hey, who knows.One of the unfortunate consequences of getting sick is being unable to travel. I was a little too ambitious in trying to blaze through the grieving process. So instead of recording in person with Diane in Florida as originally planned, we chatted online. That’s why her audio is a bit distorted in some spots. Show Notes:Diane explains History Goes Bump and what her show is all about. Spiritual exploration. How she investigates. Diane tries to take a scientific approach and explains how she measures energy with an electromagnetic thingy (look this up). What are spirits? Energy? A rip in the space-time continuum? A different dimension? Diane considers herself an,“Open-minded skeptic.” How Diane got interested in ghosts - her own personal experiences, including the first shared experience with her sister. Diane “I’m one of the weird kids' ' Mom loved to go through the cemeteries, causing Diane to have a love for cemeteries. Her first time seeing a body in a casket. How believing that something about you is going to continue on, it gives you more accountability. On Twin Flames - Diane has a unique perspective on the loss that I’m experiencing. Soulmate and Twin Flame aren’t the same. I didn’t have the vocabulary to express what losing George meant. I felt like I couldn’t make people understand why it was so painful. A soulmate can be anyone- a best friend but someone you can get sick of. A Twin Flame is YOU. A Twin Flame - your spirit or soul is in two pieces....they’re the other piece. When you find your twin flame, you KNOW. You can know that in a minute. Because Diane understands Twin Flames, she could empathize when I lost George. It’s one spirit divided so that’s it. That’s it for me. You only have one twin flame and mine is gone. I’m never going to have a relationship like that ever again. There’s a scene in the finale of season 2 of The Marvelous Mrs. Maisel where Midge says, “I’m going to be alone for the rest of my life.” She says it matter of factly. She says it with certainty. And she doesn’t mean she won’t date or have fun. But Midge knows that she’s not the same person she used to be. She knows that chapter is over. That scene stuck with me when I first saw it just a couple of weeks before George passed away. Just like Midge, I’m very much aware that that chapter in my life has ended. Do I want companionship and affection? Of course. I’m lonely, I don’t want to be, and there’s nothing wrong with that. Do I expect to have anything remotely resembling what I had with my Twin Flame? Not a chance. But I know that it exists. And I’m starting to reach a point where I understand that the pain will someday be tolerable enough so that I’m grateful to have had six years with my Twin Flame. I’ll reach a point where the pain will be tolerable enough so that I can smile at those memories I have instead of cry. God or the universe is a psychopath because why else would it be SO hard to find this person? Or if you did find that person, why would they be taken away so young? How when I was holding George, I felt myself absorbing him. How death changes you. I’ve taken on his traits. He was my mirror image that came into me. His spirit is in me and with me, but he’s not there to hold me. The loss of physicality is excruciating. George’s unique laugh. Everyone loves his laugh. Why I’m using humor to cope - my situation is absurd. It’s ridiculous. Absurdity is funny. The title of this podcast feed is sarcastic. George and I are incredibly irreverent people. And I don’t think his personality changed when he died. How the Big Bang Theory got Diane through her hysterectomy.Why it’s ok to laugh - you can’t just sit in a corner and weep all day long. Follow the Witty Widow on Instagram @Tawnyplatis_voicetalent Find me on Twitter @tawnysvoiceSupport Death Is Hilarious (With The Witty Widow) and get exclusive behind the scenes updates and commercial-free episodes for just $1 a month on Patreon.com/WittyWidow.Your Patreon, PayPal (paypal.me/tawnyvoice), and Venmo (@Tawny-Platis) support cover the production costs related to the show and this website. Thank you for being a producer!Chillin Hard Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com)Licensed under Creative Commons: By Attribution 3.0 Licensehttp://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/

Welcome to The Dirty Bits of History. I’m Tawny Platis, a professional voice actor, who gives a casual, and comedic southern Californian retelling of the sexy, scandalous, salacious, fierce, funny, and freaky bits of history your teacher probably left out. Stay tuned after the episode or take a peek at the show notes for The Dirty Bits After Dark: Catching Up With Tawny and George, our contact info, coming attractions, and a special thank you message to our producers. For commercial-free episodes, visit Patreon.com/DirtyBits. Now, enjoy the show. If you aren’t familiar with Zelda and F. Scott Fitzgerald, they were writers and socialites who became the poster children of what we now call, “The Jazz Age.” Scott seems to be best known for writing, “The Great Gatsby” and less well known for mercilessly plagiarizing his wife, Zelda. They’re both notorious for alcoholism, infidelity, mental illness, and just generally causing a scene in general during the 1920s and 30’s.After nearly a century, why are we still so obsessed with the artists? What is it about Zelda and F. Scott Fitzgerald that has kept them relevant generation after generation? The academic answer would be that we remain fascinated by the duality of narcissistic geniuses and reckless self-destruction. I personally find the answer to be that America has always loved to stop and gawk at a gnarly trainwreck. And the Fitzgeralds were the gnarliest of trainwrecks. Per usge, to better understand what’s going on here and get the full picture, we have to go back to the very beginning. And because she got the shit end of the stick for so long, I’m starting out with Zelda.If anything sounded goofy in this episode, it probably was! Don’t take my word for it - always do your own research and make sure what you’re reading is from a verified, reputable, and academic source.Sources:https://www.dailymail.co.uk/tvshowbiz/article-2322760/The-Great-Gatsbys-heartbreaker-F-Scott-Fitzgeralds-fatal-obsession-love-inspiration.htmlDinitia Smith (September 8, 2003). "Love Notes Drenched in Moonlight; Hints of Future Novels in Letters To Fitzgerald". New York Times.http://boatagainstthecurrent.blogspot.com/2010/07/this-day-in-film-history-lois-moran.htmlMilford, Nancy (1970), Zelda: A Biography, New York: Harper & RowPrigozy, Ruth, ed. (2002), The Cambridge Companion to F. Scott Fitzgerald, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, ISBN 0-521-62447-9Cline, Sally (2003), Zelda Fitzgerald: Her Voice in Paradise, New York: Arcade Publishing, ISBN 1-55970-688-0The Intimate Sex Lives of Famous People -By Irving Wallace, Amy Wallace, David Wallechinsky, Sylvia Wallacehttps://rememberingwwi.villanova.edu/newspapers/https://www.nytimes.com/1996/12/01/magazine/how-crazy-was-zelda.htmlPike, Deborah (2017). The Subversive Art of Zelda Fitzgerald. p. 43. ISBN 978-0-8262-2104-9. Bruccoli, Matthew Joseph (2002), Some Sort of Epic Grandeur: The Life of F. Scott Fitzgerald (2nd rev. ed.), Columbia, SC: University of South Carolina Press, ISBN 1-57003-455-9Lanahan, Dorothy. "Introduction." In Bryer & Barks 2002, p. Xxviihttps://www.salon.com/2001/08/25/fitzgerald_9/The Real F. Scott Fitzgerald: Thirty-Five Years Later - by Sheilah Graham(The Lost Summer: a personal memoir of F. Scott Fitzgerald by Tony Buttitta)Music: “Fig Leaf Times Two,” “Fuzzball Parade,” “Maple Leaf Rag,” Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com) Licensed under Creative Commons: By Attribution 4.0 License http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/Public Domain Recordings Courtesy of MusOpen: Rhapsody in Blue I&II, Bullets and Bayonets

In (late) honor of National Eating Disorder Awareness Week, Rachel does an overview of eating disorders, including interviews with fellow podcaster Tawny Platis and actor/personal trainer Ashley Kelley. Both women are in recovery from an eating disorder and graciously tell their stories. If you or someone you love is suffering from an eating disorder, please […]

Just when I think I’ve escaped the most addictive candy based mobile game in history, my wife just has to pull me back in. But that’s not all. I’ve also got a few words to say about Peeps as well. In the news I have an ironic fire and another repeat offender. It’s the return of Martina Big in the Jackass of the Week. Finally, after what has got to be the longest wait of any planned feature, this week I am talking all about “The Dirty Bits Podcast.”Curse You Candy Crush!You all remember Candy Crush, right? That highly addictive mobile game where you have to match up little candies and other such stuff. Recently I discovered that my wife still plays it. This would be perfectly fine if she hadn’t gotten stuck on a level and asked me to help her through it. Now my dumb ass has gone and downloaded it to my phone because, like I said, highly addictive.And Then There Were The PeepsWhen I was a kid, Peeps came in 2 flavors: yellow and pink. And guess what, they both just tasted like sugar coated marshmallows. That’s because that’s what they are. But this week I was at the grocery store and found not only a wide assortment of colors and shapes of Peeps. They now have flavors. What the actual hell?! Peeps don’t need flavors, especially sour watermelon or (hold on I’m trying not to gag) pancakes and syrup! On top of that, they now have Peeps Oreos and coffee creamer and who knows what else. Leave the Peeps alone!Listen to the Conversation Hearts episode of “The Story Behind” HEREhttp://thestorybehindpodcast.com/conversation-hearts-BS From The News--Company That Specializes In Fire Cleanup Loses Warehouse In Fire https://www.stltoday.com/news/local/crime-and-courts/fire-claims-warehouse-of-st-louis-company-that-specializes-in/article_2aea0e44-8b2f-5ec3-8afb-402700c2360d.htmlA 3 alarm fire in St. Louis destroyed a warehouse that was home to a company specializing in the cleanup and restoration of flood, fire, and smoke damage. Although it’s not funny in the typical sense. You have to laugh at the irony.-“Trans-Racial” German Couple Believe Their Children Will Be Black https://www.ebony.com/news/transracial-couple-believes-baby-black/Martina Big and her husband, both born white Germans, gained attention a few years back for getting melanin injections to darken their skin. They eventually went to Kenya to get baptized as “true Africans.” Now they claim that their children will be born black because, you know, getting hormone shots changes your DNA. -Recommended Listening-The Dirty Bitshttps://www.tawnyvoice.com/dirtybitsThe Dirty Bits Podcast is performed by Tawny Platis, a professional voice actor, who gives a casual -and hopefully comical- southern Californian retelling of the sexy, scandalous, and salacious stories from history your teacher probably left out. Whether it’s Hans Christian Andersen’s masturbation obsession, Jack Parsons bizarre mixture of NASA, the Occult, and Scientology, or Catherine the Great’s chairs embellished with phallic symbols, we’re totes about to dive in on the Dirty Bits and learn how the sexual drives of those who came before us shaped our world.-Promos and Shoutouts-Sunshine Summit 2019http://sunshinesummit.live/Sunshine and Powercutshttp://sunshineandpowercuts.com/The Story Behindhttp://thestorybehindpodcast.com/Subscribe to ODO athttp://odddadoutpodcast.com/subscribeJoin the Twisted World of The Odd Dad Out grouphttps://www.facebook.com/groups/odddadoutFollow Along on Social athttps://www.twitter.com/odddadout/https://www.facebook.com/odddadout/https://www.instagram.com/odddadout/

Just when I think I’ve escaped the most addictive candy based mobile game in history, my wife just has to pull me back in. But that’s not all. I’ve also got a few words to say about Peeps as well. In the news I have an ironic fire and another repeat offender. It’s the return of Martina Big in the Jackass of the Week. Finally, after what has got to be the longest wait of any planned feature, this week I am talking all about “The Dirty Bits Podcast.”Curse You Candy Crush!You all remember Candy Crush, right? That highly addictive mobile game where you have to match up little candies and other such stuff. Recently I discovered that my wife still plays it. This would be perfectly fine if she hadn’t gotten stuck on a level and asked me to help her through it. Now my dumb ass has gone and downloaded it to my phone because, like I said, highly addictive.And Then There Were The PeepsWhen I was a kid, Peeps came in 2 flavors: yellow and pink. And guess what, they both just tasted like sugar coated marshmallows. That’s because that’s what they are. But this week I was at the grocery store and found not only a wide assortment of colors and shapes of Peeps. They now have flavors. What the actual hell?! Peeps don’t need flavors, especially sour watermelon or (hold on I’m trying not to gag) pancakes and syrup! On top of that, they now have Peeps Oreos and coffee creamer and who knows what else. Leave the Peeps alone!Listen to the Conversation Hearts episode of “The Story Behind” HEREhttp://thestorybehindpodcast.com/conversation-hearts-BS From The News--Company That Specializes In Fire Cleanup Loses Warehouse In Fire https://www.stltoday.com/news/local/crime-and-courts/fire-claims-warehouse-of-st-louis-company-that-specializes-in/article_2aea0e44-8b2f-5ec3-8afb-402700c2360d.htmlA 3 alarm fire in St. Louis destroyed a warehouse that was home to a company specializing in the cleanup and restoration of flood, fire, and smoke damage. Although it’s not funny in the typical sense. You have to laugh at the irony.-“Trans-Racial” German Couple Believe Their Children Will Be Black https://www.ebony.com/news/transracial-couple-believes-baby-black/Martina Big and her husband, both born white Germans, gained attention a few years back for getting melanin injections to darken their skin. They eventually went to Kenya to get baptized as “true Africans.” Now they claim that their children will be born black because, you know, getting hormone shots changes your DNA. -Recommended Listening-The Dirty Bitshttps://www.tawnyvoice.com/dirtybitsThe Dirty Bits Podcast is performed by Tawny Platis, a professional voice actor, who gives a casual -and hopefully comical- southern Californian retelling of the sexy, scandalous, and salacious stories from history your teacher probably left out. Whether it’s Hans Christian Andersen’s masturbation obsession, Jack Parsons bizarre mixture of NASA, the Occult, and Scientology, or Catherine the Great’s chairs embellished with phallic symbols, we’re totes about to dive in on the Dirty Bits and learn how the sexual drives of those who came before us shaped our world.-Promos and Shoutouts-Sunshine Summit 2019http://sunshinesummit.live/Sunshine and Powercutshttp://sunshineandpowercuts.com/The Story Behindhttp://thestorybehindpodcast.com/Subscribe to ODO athttp://odddadoutpodcast.com/subscribeJoin the Twisted World of The Odd Dad Out grouphttps://www.facebook.com/groups/odddadoutFollow Along on Social athttps://www.twitter.com/odddadout/https://www.facebook.com/odddadout/https://www.instagram.com/odddadout/

Tawny Platis of The Dirty Bits Podcast joins me to talk about some of her favorite fandoms. We talk about Studio Ghibli and Hayao Miyazaki movies and then switch gears to HBO's Westworld & Game of Thrones. After that, we wrap up with talk about The Dirty Bits Podcast and discover what the podcast is all about. You can find Tawny and The Dirty Bits Podcast at: https://www.tawnyvoice.com/dirtybits https://www.facebook.com/DirtyBitsPodcast https://twitter.com/thedirtybitspod https://www.instagram.com/dirtybitspodcast/

This week’s post is going to be a littler different. Rachele Atreus is an amazing woman, mother, power lifter, #brodettevet and domestic abuse survivor. Her words are below. “Please be advised of a trigger warning for domestic abuse survivors. If that topic is something that causes you distress because of your own experiences in life, and you are not in a place where you can hear about others experiences, this episode is not for you. I struggled with decision of if I wanted to do this interview or tell my story. It kept me up at night. It made me feel anxiety to the point I was shaking and needed to throw up. But the evening Natassia and I met online to record, I poured a glass of wine, hauled my rickety old cozy chair into my kitchen because it just felt right to sit there, I got a giant blanket, I changed into cozy clothes, and I started talking. And when the interview was over, Natassia and I stayed online to talk some more and I told her my fears and insecurities about sharing this on my social media. What if people don’t believe my story?What if they judge me?What if they think I’m pathetic?What if they think my story is ridiculous and “not that bad”?What if they’re disgusted by my years of weakness?What if they look at me differently after they hear it (IF they listen to it at all, it’s kinda lengthy)?What if they treat me different or pity me?What if they’re upset I never told them about this? What if they’re angry with me for staying in my relationship for so long?What if they feel betrayed that I kept on my mask of “everything is fine” and stayed silent to their faces for so many years?What if what if what if what if what if! And Natassia said to me “Your silence only gives him power. When you speak out and expose him, and when you refuse to be silent, that is when you take that power back for yourself.” And she is absolutely right. My abuser counted on me to never tell. Knew I wouldn’t. Convinced himself (and me) that he wasn’t even abusive, and that it was all my fault. He counted on my fear of what others would think to keep me quiet - Which kept him safe from anyone ever knowing who he truly was. And allowed him to continue his abuse unhindered. So here is the recording of the day I took that power of silence back. And I didn’t just kinda take it. I recorded it with an amazing female empowerment podcast and made it available to every person I have contact with on the internet. I didn’t take a little bit of that power of silence back, I took all of it. And it feels. Damn. Good.” Domestic Violence Resource: http://www.thehotline.org/resources/ Follow Rachele:Instagram: @shell_inator#brodetteventure: Battle Tested VeteransBattle Tested Veterans believes in sharing stories not stereotypes. Story telling is proven a method to create compassion, understanding and cooperation in among individuals. Our personal struggles and growth, when told in our own words, imprints our experiences on the brains and hearts of others.This causes more empathy, connection and understanding between people.Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/battletestedveterans/Battle Tested Veterans website: www.battletestedveterans.org (currently down due to being re-built) Battle Tested Veterans Podcast: https://www.stitcher.com/podcast/battle-tested-veterans-2/battle-tested-veterans  Podcast Promo: The Dirty Bits PodcastThe Dirty Bits Podcast is performed by Tawny Platis, a professional voice actor, who gives a casual -and hopefully comical- southern Californian retelling of the sexy, scandalous, and salacious stories from history your teacher probably left out.Website: https://www.tawnyvoice.com/dirtybits Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/DirtyBitsPodcast Instagram: @dirtybitspodcastTwitter: @dirtybitspodFollow Brodette Nation:Instagram:@brodettenationTwitter: @brodettenationFacebook: Brodette NationPodcast available on:Podbean: http://brodettenation.podbean.com/feed/iTunes: https://itunes.apple.com/us/podcast/brodette-nation/id1265275476Stitcher:  http://www.stitcher.com/s?fid=145835&refid=stprTuneIn: https://tunein.com/radio/Brodette-Nation-p1016192/Google PlayMusic Credit:Song: Locked and LoadedArtist: Mitchell MarlowAlbum: NYB124 Jock RockDisclaimer:Any opinions or comments made by host Natassia Cherne, are her own and not endorsed by the U.S. Air Force or Department of Defense.  Furthermore, any sponsorships, business products, commercials, endorsements, and external links are associated solely with the Brodette Nation podcast and are not endorsed by the U.S. Air Force or Department of Defense.

Tawny Platis is not only a fellow voice actor but also a fellow podcast creator who hosts her very own 'The Dirty Bits' podcast.  Having started her own brick and mortar business right out of high school, Tawny gained a wealth of business knowledge that served her so well as she transitioned into voice-overs, coaching, and podast production.  So much good stuff on this episode!

Chris and Steven are back with this month’s edition of Real Talk. This time, Tawny Platis of The Dirty Bits podcast stops by to chat with the guys about her struggles with an eating disorder. Hear her story, and for some extra conversation head over to Patreon.com/isthisadulting and support the show. Thanks!

Tawny is a full time professional voice over talent/coach (with her editor and husband George), podcaster on The Dirty Bits Podcast on the Orbital Jigsaw Network, and marketing/business consultant in San Diego, California. During her senior year in high school, Tawny began the process of purchasing her first brick and mortar retail store. After selling the store to her management team in 2016, Tawny began her career as a voice over talent, having been a child actor in San Diego. The post Episode 76: Voice Over Mastery with Tawny Platis appeared first on Actor CEO.

Joined this week by Tawny Platis and Paul Csomo!

An episode where we laugh and have some really cool deep conversations about #MeToo.  Host, Erin Whitehead, invites Hammond Chamberlain from Beyond the Playlist, Soundography and Climb Out to Sobriety, for a meaningful conversation about an issue that is affecting many people and has been a big part of the conversation on social this week. We also talk about the subtleties of art and music, why so many podcasters are theatre folks (who are just sitting in a closet with no pants and a microphone), how we both suck at math and how Erin hates long beards. See? All deep thoughts in this episode!  We also fan girl a bit over Tawny Platis from The Dirty Bits Podcast, Erin forgets the name of Blazing Caribou Studios (sorry, Kari) and we need to do a poll in the Podcasts We Listen To group immediately!  To listen to Hammond and his podcasts, visit www.jhammondc.com! For more information on the Climb Out Network visit www.climboutnetwork.com. You can also follow Hammond on social at www.twitter.com/jhammondc! To follow us on social, find us @bralesspodcast on Facebook, Twitter and Instagram! You can interact with our guests, our host and other listeners by joining the closed Facebook group: Braless Podcast Conversations! Don't forget to check out our super soft and comfy t-shirts at www.bralesspodcast.com and for more information on how you can support this podcast visit www.patreon.com/bralesspodcast. To make a one-time donation to the podcast, which helps us to continue to produce more frequent content and improve our sound quality, etc. you can donate through PayPal bralesspodcast@gmail.com. 

Host, Erin Whitehead, invites the lovely host of The Dirty Bits Podcast, Tawny Platis, to the podcast to delve into the history of the bra, thanks to the wonderful suggestion from Rhett Hall of The Braintrust Brothers Network! From Ancient Greece, to Roman Times (where they thought big boobs were ridiculous), all the way to the first patent of the modern bra in America, and through the “burning of the bra” time in the 60’s (um…. did that actually happen?)… we learn all about the COMPRESSIVE history of the brassiere. Bonus, we also learn all about the history of Erin’s boobs. Good times.  Have men always been boob guys, will they always be? Is Erin looking for a delorean so she can go live back in Ancient Greece? How fun would being a wet nurse during the Medieval Times be? “Compress the Breast”, can you say that three times fast? During what time period did women rock the “two doves perched atop my breasts,” look? What role does Sir Mix A Lot have in the history of the bra? Anti-corset activists? Yes. And they were RAD. Did the original Nasty Women pop up in 1911? Who is the bastard that invented the underwire? What do we learn about THE Fredrick of Fredrick’s of Hollywood? Can Tawny sing Coolio? Were 80’s shoulder pads the worst fashion invention ever? (Spoiler: nope) In what era did women decide to weaponize their boobs? Did bra-burning happen, or was that just fake news? Is Brandi Chastain the real hero here? Yes, Yes she is.  To find out more about Tawny’s voice over work, visit her website www.tawnyvoice.com and to find the podcast visit www.tawnyvoice.com/dirtybits or anywhere you listen to podcasts. Follow them on social www.facebook.com/dirtybitspodcast www.instagram.com/dirtybitspodcast and www.twitter.com/thedirtybitspod You can also join The Dirty Bits Podcast Group on Facebook to interact with other listeners of the show.  To follow us on social, find us @bralesspodcast on Facebook, Twitter and Instagram! You can interact with our guests, our host and other listeners by joining the closed Facebook group: Braless Podcast Conversations! Don't forget to check out our super soft and comfy t-shirts at www.bralesspodcast.com and for more information on how you can support this podcast visit www.patreon.com/bralesspodcast. To make a one-time donation to the podcast, which helps us to continue to produce bi-weekly content and improve our sound quality, etc. you can donate through PayPal bralesspodcast@gmail.com Thanks for listening!    

Special episode of the Braless Podcast. Erin and Michelle have a conversation about the recent ban on transgender troops by President Donald Trump on Twitter this week. We discuss the different perspectives in support and against this policy. If you are still reading, please consider at least listening to the first 4 minutes of this podcast. If, after that, you want to skip this episode, we will understand. Please join us for our next episode, dropping Sunday, titled “The Compressing History of the Bra” with Tawny Platis of The Dirty Bits Podcast. If you have comments, questions or concerns, please email Erin at bralesspodcast@gmail.com Thank you for listening.

This Week: The guys are joined by the host of The Dirty Bits Podcast, and puppy destroyer, Tawny Platis. Mental health checks get serious, a new prune juice ad campaign is created, Steven and Tawny bond over tattoos, Chris’s game almost falls apart, and the gang discusses the movies that shaped who they are. Music by The Collection Check out the “Is This Adulting?” Best Friends on Facebook!

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