Keeping Up With Chaos - From the Booth & Beyond

Bring on the milk & cookies...because Santa has arrived! Brad Hyland, who is not only the voice of Santa for the Elf on the Shelf series, he is also a coach, mentor, voice actor, husband, father, grandfather and friend. He says he didn't really start living until 2016, which is when he returned to voice over, a career that Brad says was 40 years in the making! Before voice over came back into his life, he enjoyed being involved with stand up comedy, extra work for on-camera projects, was a frontman for a rock & blues band & had a long career in the sales & corporate world. As a voice actor Brad has had the pleasure to work on many amazing projects, like Elf on the Shelf, but also is the voice of Charlie the Tuna for Starkist, has narrated films for National Parks, multiple characters on video games, and currently can be heard on the Titanic Experience tour.
We chat about trusting yourself, how to be natural in your reads, being trained, having confidence, get good at auditioning, using an audition tracker...Plus all the usually creative chaos, like what is the strangest thing any of us bought online & what are a few things Brad collects ???

Brad's website - https://www.americanvoicepower.com/

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This is a shareable podcast, with a group of creatives, documenting their creative voice over & on-camera journeys to inspire all of us as we navigate our own paths! This pod may bring golden nuggets of wisdom, yet is not an education based show.
Follow all the Chaos -
Website - https://www.keepingupwithchaos.net/
FB - https://www.facebook.com/keepingupwithchaospodcast
IG - https://www.instagram.com/keeping_up_with_chaos/

Back to the Booths! An episode with the whole gang chatting and sharing about where they are at with their current booth situation, what updates/upgrades they've made and why. And of course, little bits of chaos sprinkled into the conversation! How do you personalize your booth?

Support the show

This is a shareable podcast, with a group of creatives, documenting their creative voice over & on-camera journeys to inspire all of us as we navigate our own paths! This pod may bring golden nuggets of wisdom, yet is not an education based show.
Follow all the Chaos -
Website - https://www.keepingupwithchaos.net/
FB - https://www.facebook.com/keepingupwithchaospodcast
IG - https://www.instagram.com/keeping_up_with_chaos/

We are so happy to have Brent Mukai join us for this episode!

Brent is a Japanese American Voice Actor who grew up in Hawaii with a decade of experience in film and theater acting, improv comedy, and stand up comedy!

He is LA based and works primarily in video games, anime, animation, and commercials! And with over a decade of comedy experience (Acting, Improv, Stand Up, you get the idea).

In the world of video games you might recognize him from Ratchet and Clank: Rift Apart, Genshin Impact, Lost Judgement or Fire Emblem Three Hopes. In Anime he voices Scratchmen Apoo in One Piece, Drake's Dream in Jojo's Bizarre Adventure and Gyokko in Demon Slayer. In addition, he won the Society of Voice Arts Award for Outstanding Anime Character – Best Male Voiceover for his role as Ginji in the Funimation anime Full Dive. And be sure to check out the Nickelodeon series: The Casagrandes where he plays the bandit Woo!

And as if all that wasn't enough, he is a regular remote instructor at the fabulous Voice Actor's Studio in Las Vegas.

Needless to say, this episode is a MUST listen. It is full of laughter, VO info, and, of course, Chaos!

Brent Mukai website - https://www.brentmukai.com/
IMBd - https://www.imdb.com/name/nm4273372/

This is a shareable podcast with a group of creatives documenting their creative voice over & on-camera journeys to inspire not educate! This pod is not meant to be an educational podcast, even if their are golden nuggets of wisdom from guests or shared chaos by us along the way!
Follow all the Chaos -
Website - https://www.keepingupwithchaos.net/
FB - https://www.facebook.com/keepingupwithchaospodcast
IG - https://www.instagram.com/keeping_up_with_chaos/

S5, EP 161

The whole gang finally dive into and share about their individual P2P choices since launching and building their voice over & on-camera careers. They discuss P2P platforms they're still going strong on since launching. Which ones they decided to let go of for different reasons. Then other P2P platforms they added into the mix to create more auditions to discover. Also they touch on adding Agents and Production rosters to help boost their access to auditions and increase their chances to book.

Here we share real parts of our creative journeys, as we navigate our own individual voice over and on-camera careers. None of us are coaches but we do love that in sharing our creative chaos, we will all learn, grow and expand to become the best versions of ourselves in the creative realm with the intention that in sharing our stories we can inspire others along the way too.

This is a shareable podcast with a group of creatives documenting their creative voice over & on-camera journeys to inspire not educate! This pod is not meant to be an educational podcast, even if their are golden nuggets of wisdom from guests or shared chaos by us along the way!
Follow all the Chaos -
Website - https://www.keepingupwithchaos.net/
FB - https://www.facebook.com/keepingupwithchaospodcast
IG - https://www.instagram.com/keeping_up_with_chaos/

We start our conversation with some fun Chaos! Jozlyn is definitely directionally challenged, Angela has door issues, Dan is early & shares his recent chaos with us while dropping off his son at Grad School in NYC. Jozlyn shares how she met Dan at VOA 2023 and a fun story about how they connected in the midst of a competition! We learn more about how Dan dived into audio & sound engineering, becoming a producer, a voice over actor, a voice over coach and an author of two books! He shares how finding your creative spark can propel your voice over and creative journey and career. How communication and learning how to convey emotion is key.

Dan's Website - https://sound4vo.com/
Book Links -
https://store.bookbaby.com/book/zen-and-the-art-of-voiceover
https://www.authorhouse.com/BookStore/BookDetails/292116-sound-advice

This is a shareable podcast with a group of creatives documenting their creative voice over & on-camera journeys to inspire not educate! This pod is not meant to be an educational podcast, even if their are golden nuggets of wisdom from guests or shared chaos by us along the way!
Follow all the Chaos -
Website - https://www.keepingupwithchaos.net/
FB - https://www.facebook.com/keepingupwithchaospodcast
IG - https://www.instagram.com/keeping_up_with_chaos/

This is a From the Vault episode from before our Pod merger! Here we touch on different choices about our booths as we were all closer to the beginning of launching and getting our individual VO careers off the ground. This is definitely a throwback episode, short and sweet, about us chatting and sharing, our booth goals and a tiny bit of internet chaos…
Of course we get interrupted due to technical issues...Jozlyn froze while intently listening to Angela's booth drama & moving plans. It's Chaos! So we’ll pick back up on where we are at now, with our current booth drama and goals soon...Stay tuned!

*Booth details at the time we recorded this episode -

*Jozlyn's referring to her Audiomute blanket, T-Pins, & the fact that she had her booth in multiple closets throughout her house, in order to find the perfect space and accommodate her families needs as well!

*Angela was getting ready for a BIG move from Las Vegas back to Colorado.

*Gaby was getting her home booth up and running, while adjusting her space.

*Lloyd was still training and hadn't built his booth space yet.

This is a shareable podcast with a group of creatives documenting their creative voice over & on-camera journeys to inspire not educate! This pod is not meant to be an educational podcast, even if their are golden nuggets of wisdom from guests or shared chaos by us along the way!
Follow all the Chaos -
Website - https://www.keepingupwithchaos.net/
FB - https://www.facebook.com/keepingupwithchaospodcast
IG - https://www.instagram.com/keeping_up_with_chaos/

This week we take a dive into the origin story of Jack de Golia, as we ride the wave of audiobooks! An award-winning audiobook narrator, e-learning voice, video game actor, and storyteller with a PR & stage-acting career spanning four decades. Jack brings a seasoned and always fresh approach to voiceover work. It’s been said he has the voice of “every man’s man.”

Strap in as we navigate through an interesting, winding road as Jack shares with us the small, seemingly insignificant life moments, that actually all add up to and leads you up to the moment you are in now.

Follow all the Chaos -
Website - https://www.keepingupwithchaos.net/
FB - https://www.facebook.com/keepingupwithchaospodcast
IG - https://www.instagram.com/keeping_up_with_chaos/

S 5, EP 157

Where is everybody at?!? This is a "from the vault" episode...where we recorded this episode awhile ago and relaunching it again. Angela and Joz chat about the choices they each made, when it comes to Pay 2 Play platforms, after they first launched their voice over businesses a few years back. Now, they both have added more Pay 2 Play platforms to their workflow.

Follow all the Chaos -
Website - https://www.keepingupwithchaos.net/
FB - https://www.facebook.com/keepingupwithchaospodcast
IG - https://www.instagram.com/keeping_up_with_chaos/

Tonight, Gaby and Jozlyn "drive" into a fun conversation with Jenna Birmingham!
Jenna is an award winning voice over actor, producer, coach, mentor...The Automotive Queen! Tonight she shares how at a young age, she always knew being a creative was going to be her path and was always in her soul. From traveling the world with her family as a child and then as an young adult, wife & mom, to accidentally learning Production by trial and fire, then randomly falling into radio, going to college to educate herself in the world of Production, relocating to Texas and finding her Person... All her hard work, struggles, accomplishments and awards lead her to this moment in time and her success. Plus in this episode, you'll find quite a few golden nuggets of wisdom shared by Jenna, from her learned experiences, sprinkled into the conversation like - "Always say yes!" or "Know how to find and make the magic for others!" & "Practice, practice, practice"

Jenna's website - https://www.jennabirmingham.com/
Automotive Accountability Group - https://www.facebook.com/groups/941164673812170/

Follow all the Chaos -
Website - https://www.keepingupwithchaos.net/
FB - https://www.facebook.com/keepingupwithchaospodcast
IG - https://www.instagram.com/keeping_up_with_chaos/

This is a relaunch episode, where we get nitty gritty with our tech & equipment choices when we first started our voice over and on-camera careers. Now we have definitely expanded, added and grown with our booth and on-camera audition set-ups thus far...BUT wanted to revisit this episode again after we blended our two podcasts together! In this episode we share how we came to the choices we made for our own home set ups, with the budgets we had available, the struggles we came across during set up and some things we found super helpful or not helpful. Of course connecting with an Audio Engineer to find the best tech & equipment for your voice and space is key.

Follow all the Chaos -
Website - https://www.keepingupwithchaos.net/
FB - https://www.facebook.com/keepingupwithchaospodcast
IG - https://www.instagram.com/keeping_up_with_chaos/