Voice Overs / Voice Acting

Have you ever dreamed of making money with your voice? Voice overs / voice acting can provide you with a highly lucrative career, and most of the work being done from home! 

Voiceover is one of the most rapidly expanding industries of the last decade with no signs of slowing down. You can make money voicing / recording… audiobooks, corporate narrations, radio, tv and web commercials, real estate walk throughs and language dubbing. Voice for … explainer videos, promotional videos, exercise videos. Even characters for animation, cartoons and video games.

I can help you….

* Develop your vocal skills and master microphone techniques

* Discover your signature voice and the best niches and markets for you to pursue

* Learn the basics of voice over including recording techniques and audio software

* Set up your home recording studio, finding the best space and equipment for where you are at right now

* Create your first voice over demos – from planning to practice and recording, so you can start booking work

I have been a professional voice over artist for almost 20 years and have recorded literally thousands of voice overs! I have also taught hundreds of sold out workshops to help others get started in the biz. You can find out more about my personal VoiceOver work here: VoiceOversByHunter.com 

Accents & Speech

Are you tired of having people ask you to repeat yourself? Do you have specific goals for how you’d like to sound? Maybe to speak from a lower register and have a more resonant and grounded quality to your voice, or to sound more engaging and less monotone. Or to prevent your voice from becoming high and strained, and have greater access to breath ease when speaking

Whatever your goals are, I can assess  why your vocal challenges are coming up, and give you tools for speaking with greater clarity and ease.

I teach you how to…

* Find more freedom and ease in your body and breath so that you are able to speak with confidence and clarity, making an emotional connection with your listener

* Create more variety in the expression of your voice, in pitch, volume, emphasis and rhythm, without stress or strain

* Develop “support” for your voice so that you can speak for long periods of time without losing your voice or losing volume being asked to “speak up.”

* Learn to find more ease and presence in performance, so that you feel in-flow and connected emotionally to what you are saying so that people don’t just hear you, they believe you

Accent Reduction

Did you know that accents or dialects change about every 50 miles? Not just in America but worldwide? Years ago I became fascinated with accents because dialects reflect our culture. They are formed entirely by tongue placement, lip movement, jaw tension and the shape of the mouth as we use it. And this is reflective of our environment, social norms and attitudes. 

Changing your accent isn’t so much about “losing” your accent, as modifying  your mouth movements to influence the way you sound. Having said that, the most common goal with accent reduction is to adopt a more “General American Dialect”.  This can be extremely useful in business to be more clearly and easily understood. The majority of my clients work in tech or medical professions where they are called on to make presentations and experience difficulties being understood by colleagues.

I have a streamlined method and specific set of tools that can help you quickly transform the way you sound.

We always start by assessing where you are at right now, what your most immediate objective is and how you can best achieve this. 

I help you….

* Learn Standard American pronunciations to be easily understood

* Develop an awareness and use of stress syllables and sounds to create a rhythmic flow to your speech

* Utilize specific mouth movements and tongue placements to create sounds that may not appear in your native language

On-Camera / Video Presence

Do you wish you were more comfortable and magnetic in front of a camera or in videos? When you watch or listen to recordings of yourself, do your feel like you’re coming across flat, disconnected or even forced or fake? Or maybe when you’re recording you start out strong but lose focus and end up rambling and struggling to find words in the end?

It’s not natural to share our most magnetic selves through a cold, hard, and seemingly non-responsive lens. But I PROMISE you, it’s a skill and you can learn to transform your connection with it to create an energetic connection with your audience.

If you ever feel like…

* You cringe when you have to record a video and procrastinate until the last possible minute

* You finally record it but you do way too many takes, can’t decide which one to use and then never actually post it

* You’re a perfectionist. You watch yourself on-camera, obsess about every little “flaw” and it just never turns out good enough

* You freeze up on camera, forget what to say, and your delivery comes out sounding awkward or robotic

* You’re excited for the opportunity of an on-camera interview but secretly scared to death and dread it

I can help you…

Stop listening to yourself speak, judging how you sound and look in the moment and trying to force it to come out in a particular way

* Learn where and how you can re-direct your attention so that you can feel present and at ease

* Master the technical aspects of recording such as camera placement and distance, lighting, eye-line for camera, microphones and sound, and even basic video editing and posting

* Authentically connecting to your audience, even when that audience isn’t in the room with you

* Develop tools for dealing with anxiety, overwhelm, and other forms of stress that affect your ability to be focused and present

* Create a method for being the best interviewer or interviewee you can be

Whether you are recording presentations for work, building your brand or preparing for televised  appearances, together we translate your brilliance to camera so you learn to LOVE video as a way of connecting to a broader audience

Public Speaking

Do you have amazing content to share but have a hard time getting your point across?

Do you dread workplace presentations?

Maybe you have a solid structure for your presentation but you feel like you “lose” your audience—they become distracted and you don’t know how to get them back.

Whether you struggle with speaking in meetings and presentations, or you’re preparing to speak in front of a large audience I can help you…

* Minimize nervousness (forgetting, dry mouth, sweaty palms) and learn tools so that you can feel at ease (and maybe even enjoy!) speaking in front of an audience

* Transform bad speaking habits – umms, ahhhs, you knows…. and find an enjoyable, conversational quality to your speaking and voice

* Clarify your content  and your speech so that you’re effortlessly heard and understood and what you’re saying is as clear and impactful as possible

* Develop a system for using notes / memorizing, so you’re not glued to your screen or your notecards

* Learn tools to genuinely connect with your audience, so that they don’t just hear your words, they feel your message and are inspired to take action

About Me

I am a Los Angeles based voice and public speaking coach. I have trained in Linklater Voice,  Fitzmaurice Vocal Technique, Alexander Technique and Somato Respiratory Integration (breathwork). 

My training started out through acting with Meisner Technique, Method Acting + other methodologies of voice and movement, but I quickly moved into the lucrative corporate speaking arena  (press releases and new product launches) for major corporations including Chrysler, Glaxo Smith Kline and The American Beauty Association. I have also trained and sold from stage for my own coaching business.

I can help you master not only your vocal skills but presentation skills and audience engagement.

I have worked with a wide variety of professionals including specialty physicians, university professors, legal professionals, entrepreneurs and entertainers. I have coached and trained clients on voice, accents, live presentations and on-camera /video presence. You get the benefit of my years of training + extensive work in the entertainment industry. We cover everything you need to connect with your audience, even the tech. The learning experience is holistic and fun! And you’ll see measurable results from the very first session.

You can find out more about my on-camera work and voiceovers here: HunterPhoenix.tv + VoiceOverByHunter.com