CBS Tony Awards!
Awards Shows are the best! Especially when you book a network gig straight off of your audition!! WOO HOO!! This calls for celebration! It is so competitive to book a network gig as of late. So many people have access to creating VO now remotely. When something like this happens, it truly is like hitting the lottery. I can imagine the hundreds of submissions of auditions for this. It was two lines…and I booked it! My favorite words from my agents! I will be doing all of the promos leading up to the show, which airs in June! So if you are watching CBS and you hear a promo for the Tony Awards! Yep…that’s me!! It’s also my Birthday month, so I can definitely say this was one of the best birthday gifts I could have been given!
Hope you are all doing well!
xoxo
Betheny
April showers bring May Flowers and the CMT Music Awards!
I love that saying. Probably because I love both the rain and the flowers. Spring is in effect and the seasons are changing. I always love aligning with the weather. Mother Earth is super amazing and it’s so important to stay grounded in my hectic ever evolving world. April is the Earth month, and the month of the birth of my little girl. So yeah…it holds a lot of significance for me. I will never forget that day in 2016, when I birthed my baby girl. She was two months early and boy what a scare. She spent 26 long days in the NICU, but she was absolutely perfect. Small…but perfect. We were so lucky to have her be as healthy as she is. Thankful for western medicine because without the NICU, my little one would not be with us today. She is my little flower and I am super grateful to be her mom.
What I also love about this year in April, is that the CMT Music Awards has moved from June to April! That show is always a blast to work on. I get to LIVE announce majority of the show. So yeah…it’s a little nerve racking because you can’t mess up! I will be heading to Nashville with my little girl (she loves going to Nashville) and taking my girlfriend with me who loves country music! Please stay tuned and listen for me this Monday, April 11th on CBS!!
Thanks, y’all!
Betheny
March Madness…times 2!
So it seems like springtime is a booking season for me. The air is fresh, the feeling of warmth is around us and new bookings are in the air! Woolite reached out to my agency and wants to update their script and run my commercials again! This is HUGE!! I also booked a new commercial for Stelara (yep…I’m the woman that makes the side effects not sound so bad). I love working for these medical companies. When you read the side effects, it always has the opportunity to get used over and over again even in different commercials. So let’s hope this one runs a lot in all markets! I also got to play an avocado in a commercial for Aldi! That was super fun. Valley girl like voice to contrast the attitude of the tomato. See…some of my jobs can be very character driven! I mean, I have never played an avocado before so this was definitely a first. And Lo and behold…I was in NY, so I got to record from my travel kit! I also worked a lot for Bally Sports and recorded some internal training video recordings for Mazda. All in all…it was a good month. I will take March Madness in VO, any time!
xoxo
Betheny
February is much more than Groundhog Day!
We can all feel that spring is on the horizon! But until then, we can still enjoy the crisp air of the winter time. Sometimes I forget that it’s still freezing cold in many parts of the world during this time. Being in the bubble of Los Angeles, it seems to we forget all about winter. I took a trip to NY this February to see my NY team of agents and managers, since it had been a WHILE since this little pandemic happened. It was so great to connect with my agents and my manager. Always good catching up and getting to see people in person. With VO it can be hard at times, because you talk and are not seen. So it’s always important to make face to face connections and keep the relationship alive. I’ve been so grateful for my NY team and have booked a lot of work through them. They are fantastic people and I am lucky to work with them hand in hand. Many of you want to know the difference between an agent and a manager. There is some overlap between the two, but mainly agencies are there to negotiate contracts and provide you with the opportunities of auditions. Managers can do the same, but their client roster is much smaller and they pay more attention to how you market yourself. Majority of my managers started as agents and moved to the management side. It’s been wonderful to have both agents and managers at this level in my career. I do get some cross over opportunities, but mainly they all have different relationships so their client roster is varied. This helps in being able to get auditions from many different areas whether commercials, promos. animation. networks, etc.
If you want to learnt more about the VO business and to see if it may be a good fit for you. reach out to me and we can talk!
xoxo
Betheny
It’s a New Year, and a New Day!
Happy New Year, everyone!! Have you all made your resolutions? How many of you actually KEEP those resolutions? It’s hard sometimes as we move through life and forget what we actually said so we can hold ourselves accountable for it. I know I don’t make resolutions all at once at the beginning of the year. I make new ones as they come to me. I feel like if I can make smaller goals (with the larger in site), then I can accomplish it much easier. I do need to get better at goal setting. I have become much better at living in the present, that the future looks so far away. But I do need to learn that the end goal is still as good as the journey. This month, as usual, has been a little light on auditions and bookings. I did book a Casino job which is suppose to be recurring work, so we shall see on that one. So I have taken this time to brush up on my own skills. I’ve been working with my coaches to make sure I am staying focused, connected, and having perspective on my reads. Knowing what the client is trying to say but adding my own style to it. I think that is so important. I also think that every January, I will try to reconnect with my own work and take a few workshops and work with my coaches to prep for the new year. Let’s make that my new year’s resolution and see if I can hold myself accountable for it!
Happy January 2022! Cheers to a fantastic new year!
xoxo
Betheny
End of the Year!
I still can’t believe 2021 is behind us. What a whirlwind of a year. Pandemic still in effect, but with some restrictions in hopes of lifting. I do have to say that for me, 2021 has had some of my career’s greatest moments, while my personal life left me with some serious challenges. My love was tested time and time again. My dedication to family, proved to be one of the strongest bonds. Health became a reminder of how fragile life is. Marriages…births…deaths. It all happened in 2021. For my career, it was one of the best I have ever had. I booked more new work than ever before. My regular clients were utilizing me over and over. I booked for the first time ever straight from my audition. I got to fly to Nashville to live announce once again. My national commercials got picked up and renewed over and over again. I can honestly say my work flowed like never before. Let’s hope life starts to come back to normal in 2022. When we can all be together again. Enjoy the company. Human connection. Cheers to 2021, and to a better 2022 for us all.
Happy Holidays and Happy New Year!
xoxo
Betheny
Time for thanks…
November is always a month I am super grateful for. I happen to LOVE Thanksgiving. Being someone who meditates regularly, and is always in practice of gratefulness and abundance, November represents a time for all of us to really dedicate to being thankful for all we have all around us. This year it really hits home as someone very close to me was given some “not-so good” news regarding his heath. So the thing I am grateful and thankful for is that he has so much love and support all around him, and we are all here to make sure he vibrates at his optimal level while going through what he must in order to beat this. It’s not easy, but miracles can happen.
Besides my family and friends and all of the love and support I have in my life, I am so thankful for my VO career. November has been plentiful with continued bookings with Hallmark, TV Land, Bally Sports and now Summer’s Eve. So grateful and so thankful. Always.
Happy Thanksgiving!!
xoxo
Betheny
Happy Halloween!
One of my favorite times of the year…Halloween! So much fun, especially with a little one. Pumpkin patches, dress up, scary things, carving pumpkins, and candy. You can’t forget about the candy, of course. While October has been a great month with bookings from TV Land, Toyota, Casper, and Hallmark, really it’s been about Halloween planning and executing for my little one’s school and friends. She’s going as a fairy and Carmen San Diego. Super cute!
Have a great time and be safe while you trick or treat!
xoxo
Betheny
Casper Sleep Systems!
Well well well…Casper is back! I am so proud to be the voice for their holiday campaign once again this year! They have the best sleep systems and have been such a loyal client of mine, asking me back to record for them for a third time!! I always feel so lucky to have repeat clients. In the cut throat world of VO, the competition is fierce. So when you get asked to record a campaign again, it does feel like the universe is watching out for you. Check it out below and let me know if you’ve heard me!
xoxo
Betheny
First booking off my audition…Hallmark Channel and Epic!
When certain milestones happen in your career, it gives you a little boost. When you finally get that RFP you’ve been working so hard for. When you win a court case that’s been going on for years. When you win a gold medal at the Olympics. Well…mine does not quite compare to that, but for me. it’s a milestone. For the first time in my entire 15 year career, not one but TWO of my auditions went straight to air and I got paid a season fee for each! I am officially a voice for the Hallmark Channel’s “Countdown to Christmas”, along with the Epic! Books app for kids reading. I am incredibly proud and owe a lot to my amazing promo coach, Jodi Gottlieb. She absolutely coached my entire audition (yes, I still use coaches as well) and helped me book the job. Forever grateful to her for this! For Hallmark, I will be recording a ton of promos promoting all of their family night movies on the channel. And for Epic Books, it was a one time buy out but it lives on their channel/app for now! What a journey and what a milestone to reach for me. It’s always why I preach that the AUDITIONS are the JOBS. The rest is just the icing on the cake. Thanks for the support!
xoxo
Betheny