Catapult Your Career in 3 Days

The V.O. Dojo's Nth Degree Intensive

As a voice over Working (or emerging) Pro, gain everything you need to anchor your business and launch your voiceover career to the next level.


What is the Nth Degree Intensive?

Get Your Questions Answered and Take Action!

Our Nth Degree Intensive weekend is for working VO pros who want to focus on their voiceover career as a business and learn from experts in the industry how to set themselves up for success.

We have gathered a select group of guest speakers to help you pull together the pieces for your own action plan -- anchoring and activating where you need to focus to achieve the results you have been looking for in your career.

Whether you are starting, re-inventing, or evolving your career, this weekend intensive is for you!

WORKING PROS: PLANS & PRICING

Available to Working Pros and alumni of the Dojo's Mystery to Mastery or Nth Degree programs


Alumni and Working Pros


$997


Full Nth Degree Intensive Weekend

90-day access to recordings

Alumni and Working Pros + Nth Degree

$1,297


Full Nth Degree Intensive Weekend

90-day access to recordings

50% off your first 3 months of the Nth Degree Program

The Nth Degree Intensive Curriculum


We have combined structure, collaboration, and passion in this unique
virtual weekend event, Saturday, January 16th thru Monday, January 18th, 2021 (over the Martin Luther King, Jr. Weekend)

Curriculum Subject To Change


Day 1: Saturday

January 16, 2021

10:00 am - 6:00 pm PT

1:00 pm - 9:00 pm ET

Day 2: Sunday

January 17, 2021

11:00 am - 6:00 pm PT

2:00 pm - 9:00 pm ET

Day 3: Monday

January 18, 2021

10:00 am - 5:00 pm PT

1:00 pm - 8:00 pm ET


Day 1:  Saturday

"WHERE ARE YOU NOW, AND WHERE WOULD YOU LIKE TO BE?"

Vision and Intentions:  Your Sustained Successful VO Career

With Tish Hicks

Our goal over this weekend intensive is to create a map including: 

  • Creating Your Vision - what’s your picture on the box
  • Overview - understanding the parts
  • Checklist - what is needed
  • Assessment - where are you at
  • Blueprint - Plan for vision
  • Action Plan - What do you do next, in what order


The Creative Entrepreneurial Mindset

With Melissa McFarlane

  • What it takes to be an entrepreneur.
  • Transforming Employee/Gig Worker Mentality to Entrepreneurial Mindset.
  • Keeping all aspects of your business running smoothly, both front and
    back-of-house.
  • How to get comfortable with selling yourself/your services.


Building Your Business
Zone of Genius: What are you good at?
Finding your GAPS

With Tish Hicks

Day 2:  Sunday

"WHO ARE YOU AND HOW CAN YOU SERVE?" 

Branding:  From Beginning to End

With Jonathan Tilley

  • Having your website look good AND feel 100% like you.
  • Gaining the most from your brand.
  • How to approach optimizing your VO website.


Start Where you are - Get to the top 

With Carin Gilfry

Build a highly successful career over the long haul... to slowly but surely rise to the top of the game.   

  • Ensuring a diversified portfolio of VO income 
  • Making the P2P work for you
  • Staying organized and maximizing workflow 
  • Working easy and having fun!


Working as a Global VO 

With Catherine Campion and Sean Gray  

VO partners, Catherine and Sean share their insights on:

  • How to get work from all corners of the world, no matter where you live. 
  • Where to secure work without auditing.
  • How to maximize your impact working as a VO team.


Managing Your Clientele with Direct Marketing

With Tom Aglio

  • Learn the best practices when it comes to cold email and phone marketing. 
  • Leave with the tools and resources you need to market, while developing a customized process that works for you.
  • Train your brain to find opportunities and clients everywhere to build
    your own business organically.

Day 3:  Monday

"MINDING YOUR BUSINESS"

Tools to Manage Your Business 

With Dani States

  • How VoiceOverview can be your complete, all-in-one control center. 
  • Keep track of your clients to keep your business moving forward.
  • Track jobs from auditions to payment completion. 
  • See your trends and compare with other VOV users.


Getting Business Up and Running 

With Russell Edge

Establishing sound financial foundations and best practices are crucial for the success of your VO business. Russell Edge, V.O. Dojo Black Belt and owner of The Library Inc., a bookkeeping company he formed to help small businesses take care of their tedious paperwork while demystifying the financial responsibilities of running a company, will go over the different possible entities available, how they are different, and when they are most beneficial.

  • W-2 Employee
  • Sole Proprietor
  • Single Member LLC
  • S Corp 
  • C Corp
  • Tax implications of each
  • And thinking ahead with retirement planning


Representation: Agent/Manager Panel & Showcase

James Murray, VO Agent at A3 LA 
Brandie Ilsen, VO Agent at Aperture Talent LA
Melanie Thomas, VO Manager at ACM Talent

Meet three of the top agents and managers in the country as they share how to find and create a powerful relationship with your representation team!

  • In Depth Panel Discussion
  • Individual Commercial Demo Review
  • Sample Interview Process


Action Plan

With Tish Hicks

  • Take home actionable steps to focus on in the next month, quarter, year, and beyond.
  • Identify specific resources you will need to achieve your plans.
  • Determine what you are willing to invest at each stage -- in time, money,
    and effort.

Plus Bonus Recordings:

Know Your Worth - Negotiation and Rates

With Maria Pendalino

  • Viewing yourself as a premium service / product.
  • Setting your “Pick Up Your Mic Fee”.
  • Understanding the GVAA rate guide and coming up with your own personalized rate card.
  • How to craft emails to properly and professionally negotiate with clients.


Mastering the Conversion from Union Work

With Tim Friedlander and Bethanie Monroe, soundBOX: Studio Group

  • Understanding Non-Union, FiCore and Union work. 
  • Best practices for converting Non-Union work to Union.
  • What is a paymaster and how you can use one.
  • How soundBOX: Studio Group can provide signatory services. 


Tech Check

With Dan Lenard

  • Checklist of what you need to set up an optimized working pro home studio.
  • Individual Sound Analysis of your recording set up.

Our Guest VO Experts


Melissa McFarlane

Melissa McFarlane

Founder and CEO 

Creative Successful Entrepreneurs

Facebook: @CSECoaching

Instagram: @csecoaching

Jonathan Tilly

Jonathan Tilley

Personal Brand Strategist

JonathanTilley.com

Instagram: @jonathantilleydotcom

Melissa is an internationally-recognized coach and world renowned speaker with over 28 years of experience in executive, business, and personal coaching. Her work focuses on assisting clients in taking responsibility and realizing their personal and group potential. She helps RIGHT-BRAIN creatives make a LEFT-BRAIN living and get their big ideas out into the world.

Whether working privately or in group trainings, she helps clients create personal and professional visions, define timelines, create action plans, learn skills, assemble support, maintain accountability and ultimately make good on the promise of their lives. Some of her clients include Fortune 500 companies & CEO’s as well as many creatives, producers, directors, writers, lawyers, salespersons, small business owners, and even other coaches.

Jonathan helps creative people and independent businesses shine online and share their talent with the world. He develops and delivers online courses that teach creatives about branding and marketing in an entertaining way - perfect for how the creative mind works.

Originally a dancer and performer and then a voiceover artist; Jonathan has voiced thousands of business narrations, e-learning modules, and commercials for clients like Red Bull, Coca-Cola, Facebook, Google, Mercedes-Benz, Porsche, Bosch, Philips, WWF, and Unicef.

Now his company creates the online presence his creative clients deserve. With his marketing mantra, "It’s not about you, it’s all about them", Jonathan and his team serve hundreds of personal brands, working with creative people and independent companies all over the world. 


Carin Gilfy

Carin Gilfy

Voice Actor, Singer, Producer, Creator

Founder of Voice Actors of NYC

caringilfry.com

Catherine Campion

Catherine Campion

Voiceover Artist, Improviser

catherinecampion.com

Carin Gilfry has voiced thousands of commercials, instructional videos, IVR systems, eLearning programs, documentaries, and video games, and narrated and produced over 100 audiobooks. 

Her clients include FedEx, Citibank, Revlon, GrubHub, Sysco, Little Tikes, Play Doh, Audible.com, Duncan Hines, and many more. She is currently the national brand voice of CVS Health. 

In addition to her voice acting work, Carin is the founder of Voice Actors of NYC, a community group for the VO community in New York City. She is also the co-creator and co-chair of the VOcation Conference, a conference dedicated to the business side of voiceover. 

Carin holds degrees in singing from USC and Juilliard, and has sung on stages all over the world. She is also the creator and co-host of Rosie's Place, a show which brings the original stories of children to life. 

Catherine has been an improviser since she was 11, which has helped her build a rewarding international voiceover career the past 13 years. 

Highlights include TV campaigns for Subaru, United Health and H&R Block; narration for the United Nations; voicing Scarlett Johansson's Black Widow for the Iron Man video game; and Siri, in Ellen's iPhone, on the Ellen DeGeneres Show. 

She now loves teaching about voiceover, especially the business of it, as much as voice acting itself. Catherine teamed up with her male voice counterpart, Sean Gray, to form a duo. Together, they are headed towards VO World Domination.


Sean Gray

Sean Gray

Voice Over Artist

voiceofgray.com

Tom Aglio

Tom Aglio

Direct Marketing and Career Coach

tomaglio.com

Instagram: @TomAglioVO

Twitter:   @TomAglioVO

Facebook:  @tomaglioVO

LinkedIn:  @tomagliovo

Sean Gray, born in the UK, raised in the Netherlands by Irish / Italian parents, identifies as a European Smoothie. 

He started his voice-over career in 2014, after his Bachelor of Music Production. Since then, he has steadily grown his business remotely, while traveling the globe indefinitely. 

His unique neutral English voice has been used by Hewlett-Packard, Pepsi, Heineken, the United Nations, and Booking.com among others. He currently lives in Bali, Indonesia. 

Sean teamed up with his female voice counterpart, Catherine Campion, to form a duo. Together, they are headed towards VO World Domination.

Tom is a New York-based voice actor who is currently represented by Stewart Talent and has worked with clients such as TD Bank, Heineken, Nickelodeon, IBM, and McDonald's to name a few. 

He loves VO because no two gigs are ever alike! What job allows you to be a dinosaur in a kid's show and then talk about the Nintendo Switch in a commercial? All in the same day?! 

In addition to voice acting, Tom is also a direct marketing and career coach. Marketing is something he truly believes in, as it allows actors to really take control of their businesses and discover a whole world of opportunities and gigs one may not see anywhere else. 

Tom brands himself as "Your Millennial Guy Next Door" and brings that millennial point of view to his coaching by teaching you tactics and best practices to make your marketing efforts modern and fresh.


Dani States

Dani States

Voice Actor

VOICEOVERVIEW

Twitter:  @DaniStatesVO

Facebook:  @DaniStatesVO

Facebook:  @voiceoverview

LinkedIn:  @danistates

YouTube

Russell Edge

Russell Edge

V.O. Dojo Black Belt

Owner of The Library Inc.

Dani States has been a full time voice actor, and with nearly 20 years of corporate marketing experience, Dani dove into voice over with little training or knowledge of the voiceover industry. But, she did know “business” and quickly began to apply her business acumen (along with LOTS of training) to her budding voice over career. 

Fast forward to 2020, Dani is a highly successful voice actor regularly voicing campaigns for Pandora and Spotify, as well as projects for clients like Frigidaire, WebMD, National Safety Council, Intel, AbbVie, Publix, and many others.

In addition to her voiceover career, Dani is the founder of VOICEOVERVIEW, a business tracking and management system built specifically for voice actors. She applied her business experience to create a site that helps voice actors set goals, track to those goals and build their business.

Russell owns a full-service Accounting firm licensed in CA, offering a broad range of services for business owners, executives, and independent professionals. They pride themselves on being affordable, experienced, and friendly.

The Library Inc. was formed to help small businesses take care of their tedious paperwork while demystifying the financial responsibilities of running a company. 

Recognizing that you have products to manufacture, art to create, items to sell, clients to attend to and projects to manage; the bill paying, expense categorization and tax requirements should be the least of your concerns, yet to run a business successfully they need to be handled correctly and on time. 

Located in Downtown Los Angeles in the historic Spring Arts Tower, The Library Inc. has over 15 years of experience working with clients ranging from artists to designers to production companies and law firms. 



Dan Lenard

Dan Lenard

Master Tech Sensei

Home Voiceover Studio

Maria Pendolino

Maria Pendolino

Voice By Maria 

Instagram: @mariapendo

Twitter: @mariapendo 

Facebook: @mariapendolino

LinkedIn: @mariapendolino

Dan is our resident Tech Sensei, who has mastered the nuances of unique "personal" or "home" voiceover studios.

Working with voice actors with “personal” voice over studios all over the world, Dan provides the personal guidance and expert troubleshooting that comes from over 30 years behind the mic and in commercial studios.

Maria Pendolino is a full-time professional voice actor from Buffalo, NY and the founder of MillennialVoiceover.com and BlueWaveVoiceover.com

A genre chameleon, Maria works across commercials, narration, promo, animation, corporate, e-learning, telephony, video games, radio imaging and live announce. She's voiced for clients like Google, Dannon, Hoover, Robert Mondavi Wines, Monistat, Amazon, Whole Foods Market, AWS and more. 

Known in the voiceover community as a master negotiator, Maria often offers advice about quoting for projects. Some of her financial acumen was acquired during the 10 years she worked in finance for an international bank and she's not sure why, but she's always been comfortable talking about money.


Tim Friedlander

Tim Friedlander

Founder / Owner

soundBOX: Studio Group

Instagram: @soundbox.la

Facebook:  @tfreevo

Facebook:  @soundboxla

Bethany Monroe

Bethany Monroe

Signatory Manager

soundBOX: Studio Group

Voiceover Actor


Instagram:
@themonroevo

Facebook:  @soundboxla

Tim is an award winning, Los Angeles-based voice actor, musician, and educator specializing in voice work for TV Promo, Political Promo, Commercial, Narration, and Animation.

Located in the Hollywood area, Tim is the founder and owner of soundBOX:StudioGroup, a 6-studio collective of talent-owned and operated voice over studios located in the LA area and, as of January 2020, Southern Colorado.

Best known for his work on Hunter x Hunter, One Punch Man, and as Long Caster in Ace Combat 7; Tim has been the voice of Toymakerz, the hit History Channel show, and Evil Genius, an 8 episode series about the most ingenious crimes of the last 100 years.

In 2015, Tim was the winner of the That's VoiceOver/CBS2 Audition Spotlight and in 2016 and 2018 he was nominated for two SOVAS voice arts awards in the Best Political Voice Over Category. In 2018, he and Carson Beck won for Best Radio Imaging Demo for their production work as "West Coast Demos".

Bethanie has worked in entertainment wearing various hats for over 20 years. She hails from the theatre and live events industry and is an active producer, honored member of the PGA New Media Council, and also an accomplished voice actor specializing in video games, animation and commercial work.

Bethanie is known for her acting work as Mirke in Pillars of Eternity II: Deadfire and Madame LaFeve in Ghost Giant. Born and raised in the Southeast, she studied music, theatre and filmmaking at UNC-Wilmington and received her Masters in Theatre History and Theory from Bowling Green State University in Ohio. 

She has been west side now for 14 years and loves her VO tribe, especially being able to bring her production skillset to soundBOX: Studio Group as their Signatory Manager. 


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“It was one of the best weekends that I have ever had in my voiceover career. It really meant a lot to me and I felt like I grew a lot. Wonderful experience and would highly recommend and actually already have!”

~ D.B.


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"After the intensive I felt empowered and charged! I was inspired and felt like I finally understood what I really needed to do to get my VO career off the ground - and that it really was attainable!


I think the emphasis over and over from all the wonderful speakers that you have to treat your VO career as a business. The different guests on different topics were amazing.  The compact weekend - filling my brain to capacity was exactly what I needed!! I was able to make a plan and follow through with my goals for months after!"

~ H.D


Tish Hicks

About Tish Hicks


Tish Hicks has been a working voice pro in many genres for 20+ years (Subaru, GTA5, Stinky & Dirty). As the founder of The V.O. Dojo, a full voiceover training center in L.A., Tish has helped people from all different backgrounds unleash the power of their voice and build sustainable, successful careers.  

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