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?
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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 who are NOT current or alumni Mystery to Mastery nor Nth Degree program members
Working Pro
$997
Full Nth Degree Intensive Weekend
90-day access to recordings
Working Pro + Nth Degree
$1,447
Full Nth Degree Intensive Weekend
90-day access to recordings
50% off your first 3 months of the Nth Degree Program
VIP Working Pro + Nth Degree
$1,747
Full Nth Degree Intensive Weekend
90-day access to recordings
50% off your first 3 months of the Nth Degree Program
Hot Seat to address your unique challenge during event
Separate 60-minute Private Coaching session with Tish Hicks
The Nth Degree Intensive Curriculum
We have combined structure, collaboration, and passion in this unique
virtual weekend event, Friday, August 28 thru Sunday August 30, 2020.
Day 1: Friday
August 28, 2020
2:00 pm - 6:00 pm PT
5:00 pm - 9:00 pm ET
Day 2: Saturday
August 29, 2020
9:00 am - 6:00 pm PT
12:00 pm - 9:00 pm ET
Day 3: Sunday
August 30, 2020
10:00 am - 5:00 pm PT
1:00 pm - 8:00 pm ET
Day 1: Friday
Vision and Intentions: Your Sustained Successful VO Career
With Tish Hicks
Our goal over this weekend intensive is to create a map including:
The Creative Entrepreneurial Mindset
With Melissa McFarlane
Day 2: Saturday
Set Up and Workflow to Reach Your Next Level
With Dan Lenard
More Than A Product or Package: Branding and Your Website
With Jonathan Tilley
Viewing Yourself as a Premium Service / Product
With Maria Pendalino
Navigating the Pay-To-Play GameWith Maria Pendalino
Managing Your Clientele with Direct Marketing
With Tom Aglio
Mastering the Conversion from Union Work
With Tim Friedlander and Bethanie Monroe, soundBOX: Studio Group
Day 3: Sunday
Tools to Manage Your Business
With Dani States
Money Management and Your Business Financial Structure
With Zanya Wells
Representation: Agent/Manager Panel
James Murray, A3 LA
Jeffrey Umberger, ACM Talent
Marci Polzin, Artistic Talent
Hot Seats
Moderated by Tish Hicks
Action Plan
With Tish Hicks
Our Guest VO Experts
Melissa McFarlane
Founder and CEO
Creative Successful Entrepreneurs
Facebook: @CSECoaching
Instagram: @csecoaching
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.
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
Instagram: @mariapendo
Twitter: @mariapendo
Facebook: @mariapendolino
LinkedIn: @mariapendolino
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.
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.
Tom Aglio
Direct Marketing and Career Coach
Instagram: @TomAglioVO
Twitter: @TomAglioVO
Facebook: @tomaglioVO
LinkedIn: @tomagliovo
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.
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".
Dani States
Twitter: @DaniStatesVO
Facebook: @DaniStatesVO
Facebook: @voiceoverview
LinkedIn: @danistates
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.
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.
Zanya has been working in the Entertainment Industry in addition to running her own Business Management firm that services all aspects of the entertainment world, she tours with her band ZANYA.
As both an artist and business owner, she understands the complexity we all face when tasked with spearheading your own career! She is new to Voice Over but has been able to successfully apply both her business savvy and her artistic talent to her VO career.
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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