Episode 56: Nic Redman

I hope you're all having a wonderful start to 2024 and that you have some things that you’re feeling excited about.  If not, perhaps my next guest will inspire you as she is the founder, host and Chief Inspiration Officer of the Women in the Arena Podcast…a celebration of everyday women living extraordinary lives in plain sight. Now in its 4th year, the Women in the Arena podcast seeks to inspire, encourage and challenge women to reach for the greatness they were made for.  And I invite the men to stick around as I imagine we all could use that kind of encouragement!

As a corporate veteran, and an award winning sales professional, Audra A-gin has 25 years’ experience of being one of the few women in the room, and in many cases, the only one. While the women she worked with may have been outnumbered, she recognized that they were all uniquely exceptional and became fascinated in learning more about them and their experiences. 

It became increasingly clear that these women were contributing significant value to their organizations, families and careers and that their contributions were either being taken for granted or overlooked, sometimes even by themselves. 

Audra had aspirations to change that and as a result Women in the Arena was created. As the creator, producer and host, Audra says it’s a platform unlike any other, it’s a celebration! 

Her motto is to celebrate women doing extraordinary things in plain sight. She believes that if we start to recognize the value within ourselves, then we can start to acknowledge the value within each other and see that we have more similarities than what appears on the surface. 

It is that knowledge that begins to change the narrative from “you are my competition” to “you are my best asset”. This is life changing and as a result, world changing. This is Audra’s goal, to change the world one interview at a time.

Let’s meet this world changer by welcoming Audra Agen to 19 Stories.

You may contact Audra Agen via the following:

Business email Address: audra@womeninthearena.net 

Business website: womeninthearena.net 

LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/company/women-in-the-arena-podcast/?viewAsMember=true

Facebook Handle: Women in the Arena Podcast

Instagram Handle: @womeninthearenapodcast

Thanks for listening to this episode of 19 Stories: from fear to Hope.

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To contact me via VO work, or to host your podcast, I can be reached at: cheryl@cherylholling.com

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Theme Song Credit:  'Together' by For King & Country

Outro Music Sample: 'Old Soul', by The Highwomen from the album: The Highwomen

Until next time, stay Healthy and Hopeful!

Wishing a very Happy New Year to you and yours.  I certainly hope your holidays afforded you time to enjoy some rest and rejuvenation, and that 2024 is the year that you’re able to actualize some of your dreams and aspirations.

And speaking of actualizing one’s dreams, I think we can all take a page from my next guest as the term renaissance woman truly applies to Maria Pendolino.  She’s a multi-award-winning voice artist working in national television and radio commercials, and numerous other genres of voice work.  

Maria is also the President of the Board of Directors for Alleyway Theatre Inc., a professional theater company offering education & development programs to foster the talents of emergent artists from Western New York and beyond.

She also identifies as disabled actor, due to psoriatic arthritis which she was diagnosed with during her rise as a stage and screen actor. She’s proud to use her voice to advocate for disabled performers across the entertainment and media spectrum via The Disabled Voice Actors Database; an online directory of names and contact information of working voice actors who also happen to be people with disabilities.

Adding to her talents are that of a freelance Television and Feature Film Writer with a goal of developing and writing stories about women and disabled people who are at the center of their own stories. 

This past October 2023, Maria garnered high praise when she joined USA Today’s Top 10 list of Emerging Entrepreneurs for 2023.  I’d say a huge congratulations are in order, and yet the recognition is a bit ironic given Maria has been a working actor going on 20 years.

Maria will soon be adding Podcaster to her hugely impressive list of credits as she’ll soon be launching the podcast ‘We Talk for a Living’ where she’ll be talking about the power of using one’s voice, with guests from all different professions and backgrounds.

Maria can be reached via the following:

Thanks for listening to this episode of 19 Stories: from fear to Hope.

If you enjoyed what you heard in this episode, make sure to follow 19 Stories wherever you listen to your favorite podcasts. It would be greatly appreciated if you gave a nice review and shared this episode as well.

To give feedback or a story idea: 19stories@soundsatchelstudios.com

To listen to my demos: https://www.cherylholling.com/

To contact me via VO work, or to host your podcast, I can be reached at: cheryl@cherylholling.com

Follow me on Instagram: @cherylhollingvo

Theme Song Credit:  'Together' by For King & Country

Outro Music Sample: 'Dreams' Accoustic version, The Cranberries album: Something Else 

Until next time, stay Healthy and Hopeful!

Hello and a very Happy Thanksgiving week to you and yours.  I hope that you’re able to take some down time to enjoy the beginning of this holiday season, eat some good food, and do that which makes you feel rested and rejuvenated.

It’s been about a month since I’ve released a new episode and part of that is due to another project I’ve been working on.  So, with that in mind, I am going to be taking a hiatus from releasing any new episodes of 19 Stories: from fear to Hope, until the beginning of 2024.  I already have some wonderful guests who’ll be joining me to share more remarkable and encouraging stories. 

Before I tell you about my new venture, I want to take this time to give a huge, heartfelt Thank You to all the guests who’ve joined me this past year, and to all of my listeners; whether you’ve been listening from day one or recently joined me.  For the third year in a row, this podcast has been nominated for a SOVAS Award by the Society of Voice Arts & Sciences of which I am incredibly honored and grateful for this recognition. The award ceremony will be in Los Angeles in December, and although I will not be attending, I want to give a shoutout to my fellow nominees and voice actors who will be there.  Perhaps I’ll have news to share in the new year as to whether or not I was awarded a golden statue.  Please know that either way, that I’m grateful for this continued recognition.

Now, for some very exciting news!  Much like I mulled around the idea of launching this podcast for several years, I’ve been doing the same with another podcast idea as well.  My regular listeners are familiar with the numerous voice actors that I’ve interviewed, who have shared their stories of how they moved through fear to Hope, and having personally heard from many of you, that their messages have been inspirational at a time when you really needed to hear them, I’m hoping this new podcast will inspire you in other ways as well.

The pilot episode of my new podcast, ‘The Voice Kitchen: where recipes and voice talent blend!’ will be launching tomorrow, Wednesday, November 22.

Each week, I’ll be chatting with a talented voice actor who’ll be sharing one of their favorite recipes, while delving into its origin and the meaning it holds for them and their families. 

From savory soups to sweet desserts, this podcast has something for everyone. Whether you're a seasoned chef or just starting out in the kitchen, The Voice Kitchen will hopefully leave you feeling encouraged to try some of these recipes for yourself and to experiment with some of your own creations.

I realize the holidays can be a hard time for folks.  Whether it’s health or financial issues, family and friends who are no longer with us, or a feeling of melancholy that can set in during the winter months and should you be alone during this season, I encourage you to reach out to the numerous churches, temples and community organizations that prepare holiday meals as I know they’d be delighted to welcome you to their table and love on you with a welcoming heart and a warm meal.

In closing, I’d like to wish you and yours a very Happy Thanksgiving, Hanukkah, Christmas and holiday season.

Until next time, stay Healthy and Hopeful!

Thanks for listening to this episode of 19 Stories: from fear to Hope.

If you enjoyed what you heard in this episode, make sure to follow 19 Stories wherever you listen to your favorite podcasts. It would be greatly appreciated if you gave a nice review and shared this episode as well.

To give feedback or a story idea: 19stories@soundsatchelstudios.com

To contact me via VO work, I can be reached at: cheryl@cherylholling.com

To listen to my demos: https://www.cherylholling.com/

Follow me on Instagram: @cherylhollingvo

Theme Song Credit:  'Together' by For King & Country

If you’ve spent any amount of time on popular social media channels, you’re bound to have come across post after post with the anthem cry imploring you to be authentic, use your authentic voice, and for goodness sake, live your truth!

But what exactly does that mean in a time when truths are manipulated and shaped to suit personal and political agendas?  Leaving one to wonder whether or not authenticity, and dare I say, integrity, matter anymore?

The guest joining me today, Dave Walsh, knows a thing or two about what it  means to live into our authentic self and has been sharing his method for almost 17 years, as the Founder and Chief Visionary Officer of the True Tell Method…a unique and powerful coaching platform designed to help actors, executives and leaders of all kinds, find and use their authentic voice.  

Prior to coaching actors and executives in his True Tell Method, Dave has worn numerous hats in the creative arts with a career that spans over 34 years.  

From publicity and public relations, to Director of Television research for Paramount; to Chairman, Executive Producer and Talent for ‘Get A Laddah Entertainment’, to his very lucrative career as a top voice talent, Dave, by any measure, was a huge success.

He was at the height of a magnificent voiceover career with an incredible manager, two agents and 22 years of voiceover success…when his entire world spiraled, and he lost the use of his voice.

After being diagnosed with Spasmodic Dysphonia;  aka, strangled voice syndrome, Dave began searching for answers for his own healing and thus his powerful formula was birthed and branded as ‘The TruTell’.  Naturally, Dave expanded his focus and adapted The TrueTells ® transformational process specifically for leaders and innovators and is on a mission to help them communicate more authentically to and with their teams and customers for greater success.

Dave can be reached via the following:

Classes:  They are posted on his website under "Privates/Workshops"

Thanks for listening to this episode of 19 Stories: from fear to Hope.

If you enjoyed what you heard in this episode, make sure to follow 19 Stories wherever you listen to your favorite podcasts. It would be greatly appreciated if you gave a nice review and shared this episode as well.

To give feedback or a story idea: 19stories@soundsatchelstudios.com

To contact me via VO work, I can be reached at: cheryl@cherylholling.com

To listen to my demos: https://www.cherylholling.com/

Follow me on Instagram: @cherylhollingvo

Theme Song Credit:  'Together' by For King & Country

Outro Music Sample: 'Boogie Wonderland' by Earth, Wind & Fire and The Emotions

Until next time, stay Healthy and Hopeful!

For this episode, I’m turning the table by interviewing the interviewer!

I first met my next guest when the editor and publisher of the Women Who Podcast magazine, Kathy Baron, asked if I’d like to be interviewed for the 2023 Fall issue.   And given I love all things podcasting, I of course said yes.

Thus began a new friendship and relationship with writer, copywriter, editor, content creator, and fellow podcaster Chelsea Pegues (Pig-geese).

Chelsea has a Professional Writing degree in Communications from Southern New Hampshire University, graduated Summa Cum Laude and is a member of the Sigma Tau Delta English Honor Society.

For 14 years, she served as a Senior Administrative Professional at Albert Einstein College of Medicine and continues to have a passion for learning, communication, media and creating content across multiple mediums.

Her desire is to apply her creativity and skills to projects that make a positive impact in the world.  We’ll be chatting about how her original podcast ‘The Sticky Eddie Podcast’, with her co-host Suzanne Michele, and their current one, ‘Let’s Try This Again…Random Chats About the Chaos of Life’, is doing just that!

So let’s meet Ms. “smarty-pants”  by welcoming Chelsea Pegues to 19 Stories…

Chelsea can be reached via the following:

Business email: chelsea.pegues@gmail.com

A new business website is under construction:  chelseaelizabethwrites.com in the near future.

Follow her on Instagram: @lets_try_this_again_pod, and @chelsrunsaround

Thanks for listening to this episode of 19 Stories: from fear to Hope.

If you enjoyed what you heard in this episode, make sure to follow 19 Stories wherever you listen to your favorite podcasts. It would be greatly appreciated if you gave a nice review and shared this episode as well.

To give feedback or a story idea: 19stories@soundsatchelstudios.com

To contact me via VO work, I can be reached at: cheryl@cherylholling.com

To listen to my demos: https://www.cherylholling.com/

Follow me on Instagram: @cherylhollingvo

Theme Song Credit:  'Together' by For King & Country

Outro Music Sample: 'Pride and Joy' by Stevie Ray Vaughan

Until next time, stay Healthy and Hopeful!

I am so excited for you to meet my next guest, and yet I have to say out of all the guests that I’ve welcomed to this podcast, crafting an intro for this one has certainly presented a challenge in summarizing her vast credits and expertise.  

This multi-preneur’s career spans almost 2 decades in several high-profile, very successful businesses.  First, as an award winning voice talent with an incredibly impressive list of world-renowned clients,  as the President and Founder of her own voice and business coaching community, VO Peeps, where she specializes in Commercial and Narration Voiceover training, along with Strategic Target Market Demo Consultation and Production, to help her students in developing a broad range of current, real world skills applicable to their careers.

For the past six years she’s also produced and hosted her award winning VO BOSS Podcast; one of the first podcasts to offer budding and thriving voice actors a winning business mindset and plan to choose the best marketing strategies & tools. The VO BOSS Podcast guides voiceover talent toward success by helping talent navigate today’s VO industry and to have fun along the way!  VO BOSS was recently recognized by her industry peers with a 2023 One Voice Awards Nomination Best Voiceover Services Provider of the Year and has also received numerous SOVAS nominations and wins.

Add to that, the time she takes each Thursday morning to join me and our other co-moderator, Jodi Krangle, in our Voices in Podcasting room on Clubhouse.

Let’s meet this powerhouse of talent and success, by welcoming the one and only VO Boss, Ms. Anne Ganguzza…

To contact Anne Ganguzza:

Thanks for listening to this episode of 19 Stories: from fear to Hope.

If you enjoyed what you heard in this episode, make sure to follow 19 Stories wherever you listen to your favorite podcasts. It would be greatly appreciated if you gave a nice review and shared this episode as well.

To give feedback or a story idea: 19stories@soundsatchelstudios.com

To contact me via VO work, I can be reached at: cheryl@cherylholling.com

To listen to my demos: https://www.cherylholling.com/

Follow me on Instagram: @cherylhollingvo

Until next time, stay Healthy and Hopeful!

Theme Song Credit:  'Together' by For King & Country

Outro Music Sample: 'Accencuate the Positive' by Aretha Franklin

Hello and welcome to this very special Encore Presentation of my 27th episode that I released back in August of 2021.  Back then, I had a great conversation with my guest Jim Cooper, where among other topics, we chatted about the book he was penning, now known as ‘The Not So Little Book About Cancer Caregiving: Be a Caregiver Warrior and Keep Your Sanity!’, which is part memoir and caregiving advice that was birthed from his time as a caregiver to his wife during her battle with brain cancer.  

Jim’s book was just released in paperback and is now available on amazon.  I think it’s important to note that I have no affiliate relationship with Amazon, rather I’m supporting the tremendous act of service that Jim is providing via the release of his book.  

As someone who was a caregiver myself, to several family members with cancer, I know this will be an extremely welcomed resource to those folks who suddenly find themselves in a caregiving position.  

I hope you are having a wonderful summer and enjoy this encore presentation with my guest Jim Cooper.

My next guest is a veteran radio personality, voice actor, author, book publisher and drummer. 

He cut his on-air personality at KILT in Houston (1980).  Was on air talent, production & music manager at WMLP & WOEZ-FM in Pennsylvania.

In Central New Jersey, he hosted, wrote and produced a syndicated film review radio program called ‘All That Glitters’ that aired on WCTC and WMGQ. 

These days his voiceover credentials run the gamut from audiobooks, E-Learning Modules, Corporate Explainer videos, radio promos and phone messaging systems.

He’s also the creator, producer & host of ‘The Hydrant’, an Inside The Actor’s Studio-ish video chat with the movers and shakers of the Voiceover industry. 

I’d like to welcome the “VO Big Dog” aka Jim Cooper to 19Stories.

As always, if you liked this or any other episode of 19Stories, please like, share or leave me a recorded message on the podcast page of my website: www.soundsatchelstudios.com

You may contact Jim via: 

Business email Address: BigDog@jimcoopervo.com

Business website: https://jimcoopervo.com

Host of the hydrant : https://jimcoopervo.com/the-hydrant

Thanks for listening to this episode of 19 Stories: from fear to Hope.

If you enjoyed what you heard in this episode, make sure to follow 19 Stories wherever you listen to your favorite podcasts. It would be greatly appreciated if you gave a nice review and shared this episode as well.

To give feedback or a story idea: 19stories@soundsatchelstudios.com

To contact me via VO work, I can be reached at: cheryl@cherylholling.com

To listen to my demos: https://www.cherylholling.com/

Follow me on Instagram: @cherylhollingvo

Until next time :-)

The guest joining me today, Kathy Barron, is a fellow Bay Area resident and the Founder & Editor-in-Chief of the Women Who Podcast Magazine, a publication that celebrates independent women podcasters from all over the world.  I’m delighted to have recently discovered this online publication, especially since Kathy and her team just celebrated their second year in publication!

Women Who Podcast magazine is a fantastic place to discover new podcasts, and podcasters and Kathy strives for it to be a forum for fans and hosts to reach out to one another for support, collaboration, and inspiration.

Her hope is that together they can fulfill the vision she has for a shared future, including scholarships, mentorships, annual conferences and an expanded learning community.  As Kathy’s mission is to lift up independent women podcast voices and give them the accolades they deserve. 

She may know a thing or two about what that would mean to women podcaster’s, given she has been the host and producer of the Women Who Sarcast podcast since its launch in April of 2018. The Women Who Sarcast podcast aims to "change the misconception of sarcasm.”  Something we definitely be chatt about in this episode.

To contact Kathy Barron:

Business email Address: info@womenwhopodcastmag.com

Business website(s): www.womenwhopodcastmag.com

IG: @womenwhopodcastmagazine

Find 'Women Who Sarcast'  IG: @womenwhosarcast 

To contact Cori Asuncion:

IG: @coachwithcori

Thanks for listening to this episode of 19 Stories: from fear to Hope.

If you enjoyed what you heard in this episode, make sure to follow 19 Stories wherever you listen to your favorite podcasts. It would be greatly appreciated if you gave a nice review and shared this episode as well.

To give feedback or a story idea: 19stories@soundsatchelstudios.com

To contact me via VO work, I can be reached at: cheryl@cherylholling.com

To listen to my demos: https://www.cherylholling.com/

Follow me on Instagram: @cherylhollingvo

Until next time :-)

Theme Song Credit:  'Together' by For King & Country

Outro Music Sample: 'Brave' by Sara Bareilles

Cheryl’s sitting in front of a microphone, in a home-based audio studio with red padded walls, a loosely crafted script and staring at the monitor on a desk which has the recording software where she’ll be recording a podcast episode with her guest Roy Samuelson. She breathes, presses the record button and begins their conversation…

And so ends a very rudimentary example of what “audio description” is.  Whereas for over two decades my guest Roy Samuelson has gained critical praise working extensively in the ever-growing area of Audio Description, to which he’s received two SOVAS Award nominations; in 2019 and 2021 in the narration and audio description categories.  

Audio description, or AD, is an invaluable tool that allows access to television programs, movies and other visual media to blind and low vision audiences. 

As the Founder of the Audio Description Network Alliance, ADNA, Roy is a catalyst for quality and excellence in audio description, through the inclusion of blind professionals in every aspect of audio description. He advocates for all aspects of AD to be in parity to sighted. He’s the host and producer of the ADNA podcast where he interviews and highlights the many talents and roles that are essential in making AD possible.

Roy’s deep, soulful and commanding vocal skills have garnered him incredible success behind the microphone, contributing to literally thousands of vocal promos on NPR’s radio station, KCRW, in Santa Monica, CA .  In other television and film projects, he often provides voice matches for top Hollywood stars.

Commercially, Roy has voiced Intel tags for the Super Bowl, the Academy Awards, major brands such as Quaker, State Farm, DirecTV, Ford, and Target, to name a few,and for the past 13 years has been the owner of the Good Loop Group which provides casting services for TV and feature film ADR and Loop Groups.

To contact Roy Samuelson

Biz email: roy@roysamuelson.com 

Thanks for listening to this episode of 19 Stories: from fear to Hope.

If you enjoyed what you heard in this episode, make sure to follow 19 Stories wherever you listen to your favorite podcasts. It would be greatly appreciated if you gave a nice review and shared this episode as well.

To give feedback or a story idea: 19stories@soundsatchelstudios.com

To contact me via VO work, I can be reached at: cheryl@cherylholling.com

To listen to my demos: https://www.cherylholling.com/

Follow me on Instagram: @cherylhollingvo

See you next time :-)

Theme Song Credit:  'Together' by For King & Country

Outro Music Sample: 'Breathe' by Chad Lawson