Doing What No One Has Done

I often wonder how many websites out there have tried the tactic that Voice123 has in actually hiring one of its own users to work on the staff. Judging by what I see on other websites, I can assume not many, and there is probably a very good reason. As much as I love being a voice over talent, the truth is...The entertainment business as a whole is one that lacks transparency, and is filled with people who are 'all about me, myself, and I.' I view that as the main reason why the business is what it is today. The common lesson I was taught when coming up through the entertainment field is, 'Let dog eat dog...and the strong will survive.' So how can you have transparency in a business based on aggressive emotions, more so than logic?

Easy...do what no one else has done.

• Yes, it is a tough industry that requires a level of selfish behavior many times, but what if that changed?
• What if a talent actually said, 'You can have this job, and I will look for my own'?
• What if a talent actually said, 'I think I can serve this industry better by getting other people work, and take no commission'?
• What if a talent woke up everyday, not worried about him or herself, but worried that he was not doing enough to help other people and it drove that person to help more, regardless of his financial outcome?
• What if that very talent used all online casting sites, and had a sense that something had to change for the better, and it would not start with just 'expecting it to happen'?
  
• When finding out more info than he expected, instead of holding those cards to himself, he instead showed what he knew?
• Do people in this industry expect such philanthropy, and if not, doesn't this business just become a monopoly?
• What if someone actually told the truth for once, from a point of view without prejudice, even knowing some people would not believe it?
  

Well, before I started at Voice123, I saw a great need for change and I chose a very special role model in the VO industry. I said, 'I want to be like that, and carry on what he did because he put VO artists and the industry on the map.', and now I have that chance. Probably the toughest part of this journey is accepting that I will lose something in the process, people may hate me, but the gains, be it financial, physical, or mental...will be much more rewarding than saying, 'I make a lotta money doing voice overs.'

I found people at Voice123, who care like I do, about just doing what is best for everyone, and being dedicated to the goal of helping people work in a career they love, internationally. Imagine that! No colonial attitude either, and embracing human beings for the common good!

Today, sadly, it seems like good, powerful people still put financial gain ahead of the common good...And that is exactly why, pass or fail, what I do at Voice123 needs to be done.

People always come first, and in serving them, I reward myself, and their failures are mine. This belief makes for a stronger industry foundation. I have found that the strongest possible foundation a company can have is to be strong enough to accept that responsibility.

Call the belief crazy, and I will say it has never been done before, so let's do it...