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 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: 

  • 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.

Day 2:  Saturday

Set Up and Workflow to Reach Your Next Level

With Dan Lenard

  • Checklist of what you need to set up an optimized working pro home studio.
  • How to continually improve your setup over your career.
  • Best practices for streamlining your editing process.


More Than A Product or Package: Branding and Your Website

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.


Viewing Yourself as a Premium Service / Product

With Maria Pendalino

  • Knowing your worth. 
  • 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.


Navigating the Pay-To-Play Game
With Maria Pendalino

  • Pros and cons of different Pay-to-Pay platforms.
  • Proficient Profiles.Best practices to optimize your time, efforts, and ROI.
  • Evolving your Empire: Growing as you go.


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.

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.

Day 3:  Sunday

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.


Money Management and Your Business Financial Structure

With Zanya Wells

  • How to set up your business with financial clarity.
  • Planning for the future with IRA’s, Savings, etc. 
  • Dispelling your financial fears and improving your money mindset.
  • Incorporating your business and best tax practices.


Representation: Agent/Manager Panel

James Murray, A3 LA 

Jeffrey Umberger, ACM Talent 

Marci Polzin, Artistic Talent

  • Demo Review
  • Sample Interview Process


Hot Seats

Moderated by Tish Hicks


Action Plan

With Tish Hicks

  • 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.

Our Guest VO Experts


Melissa McFarlane

Melissa McFarlane

Founder and CEO 

Creative Successful Entrepreneurs

Facebook: @CSECoaching

Instagram: @csecoaching

Dan Lenard

Dan Lenard

Master Tech Sensei

Home Voiceover Studio

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.


Jonathan Tilly

Jonathan Tilley

Personal Brand Strategist

JonathanTilley.com

Instagram: @jonathantilleydotcom 

Maria Pendolino

Voice By Maria 

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.


Melissa McFarlane

Tom Aglio

Direct Marketing and Career Coach

Instagram: @TomAglioVO

Twitter:   @TomAglioVO

Facebook:  @tomaglioVO

LinkedIn:  @tomagliovo

Dan Lenard

Tim Friedlander

Founder / Owner

soundBOX: Studio Group

Instagram: @soundbox.la

Facebook:  @tfreevo

Facebook:  @soundboxla

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".


Jonathan Tilly

Bethany Monroe

Signatory Manager

soundBOX: Studio Group

Voiceover Actor

Instagram: @themonroevo

Facebook:  @soundboxla

Dani States

Voice Actor

VOICEOVERVIEW

Twitter:  @DaniStatesVO

Facebook:  @DaniStatesVO

Facebook:  @voiceoverview

LinkedIn:  @danistates

YouTube

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.


Melissa McFarlane

Zanya Wells

Artist and Business Manager

Website

Instagram:  @zanyalovesyou

Facebook:  @zanyamusic

Spotify

YouTube

Dan Lenard
Dan Lenard
Dan Lenard

James Murray

A3 LA


Jeffrey Umberger

ACM Talent

Marci Polzin

Artistic Talent

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.


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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