Episode 124

How to develop your voice for trust and professional authority | Jodi Krangle

What's your vocal brand? How is your voice best suited to make money for you or anyone else? How can you become an authority with the power of your voice?

If you're interested in the answers, you've landed on the right episode. My guest Jodi Krangle is a voice artist and she has one of the nicest sounding voices, warm, soothing and comforting. She understands her own vocal quality and where her voice fits best for her market, including ASMR.

In this episode:

  • Should you hire a voice coach?
  • How to identify your vocal brand
  • Are you breathing the right way for vocal power?
  • The realities of being a voice artist
  • Why you should care about how you sound (audio branding)
  • What kind of authority can a podcast give you?
  • Who is one of my favourite voices of all time?

and more besides is a very light and fun conversation with one of the nicest people I met at Podfest in 2021.

Jodi is super passionate about audio branding and she wants you to be too as it may be the missing piece to developing the trust factor you need to hit success.

Check out Jodi's podcast Audio Branding and if you want to get serious about how you sound, you can download her Top 5 Tips for Implementing an Intentional Audio Strategy: https://voiceoversandvocals.com/audio-branding-strategy/

Jodi's book recommendations are anything by Seth Godin and EVerything is Figureoutable by Marie Forleo.

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persuasion in business and in life.

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This week, I am joined by a professional voice artist and she is also a

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podcast host and a successful one.

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And I got the connect with her at the Pod Fest online conference last year.

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And wanted to have her on the show after connecting with her too.

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There's a lot we can learn from how she runs her business, that you might

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be able to put into action in yours as well, especially if you would

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like to do some kind of voice work.

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Johnny:

Welcome to Speaking Influence my name's Johnny Ball.

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And I am very excited today to be having a conversation with someone

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who is an expert in the voice as something we all have to use.

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And she is a voice artist.

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We're going to find out exactly what she does.

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I've been looking forward to this conversation for a very long time.

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It's been a long time waiting just because we've had so much scheduled in,

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but we finally managed to make it happen.

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So let me welcome to the show, Jodi Krangle.

Jodi Krangle:

Hello.

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Thanks for having me.

Johnny:

It's great to be speaking with you.

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And so just explain what it is you actually do, because I'm

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probably not doing you justice by saying that you're a voice artist.

Jodi Krangle:

There's a whole bunch of different terms for it.

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Voice actor, voice talent, voiceovers, I, whatever you want to call it.

Johnny:

Yeah.

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I basically help people make money with my voice.

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That's kind of what it does.

Johnny:

That's a good thing to be able to do well.

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Fantastic.

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So it's quite a broad scope to what we do.

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And we're going to talk about some of this as well.

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Now, one of the questions that I've been launching into the conversations with

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recently, which I've been really enjoying is asking people about somebody who

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they respect and look up to admire for their influence and persuasion skills.

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And.

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Who would that be for you?

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Or is it maybe more than one?

Jodi Krangle:

Well, it's, I, we were chatting about this a little before

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we started recording this and I kind of feel like That's asking me

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to choose which child I love most.

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And I don't know that I can necessarily, cause there's a whole bunch of people who

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have been a huge influence on my life.

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And I just, I admire people who have persistence, who are

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doing things from the heart and

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not stepping on people along the way to get where they need to go.

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That people are raising people that are raising other people up and also

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happen to get success by doing that.

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And that is sort of what I try to do every day.

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But if there's one person in the media that I had to to mention, then it's a mix

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of two people and that would be Marie Forleo and Brené Brown.

Johnny:

That's a good mix.

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Those.

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Yeah.

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Those two women are huge personalities.

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Tell it like it is, are very upfront about what they want and

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need and what their goals are.

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They encourage other people to ask for and go out and get what they want and need.

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And I think that, especially for women, that can be hard for us to get our head

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around sometimes, ask for what you need.

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No one is going to know exactly what's going on in your

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brain, unless you tell them.

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So, and you don't have to sit back and just let life happen.

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You can go out and get what you want.

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That's possible for everyone or should be possible for everyone.

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That's kind of the key, right?

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Like it should be let's make that happen.

Johnny:

But those are, those are both two, two awesome people to look up to.

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And I know for me, with Brene Brown is her stuff on shame and

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overcoming that with it was huge.

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And I, that was really important.

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And so if you feel better talk about, so that's a huge

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level of influence to be able.

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A very transformative level of influence as well.

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She's definitely her and Marie definitely using their voices for good things.

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And I love her voice.

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I do.

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I love the way she speaks.

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I love the way she phrases things.

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I love how she puts things.

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It's just so it's simple and it's straightforward and it

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gets right into your heart.

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And I love that about her.

Johnny:

Well, let's talk about voices them, because this is what you do.

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How did you suddenly decide or did you grow up wanting to do voice work?

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And you, did you recognize that you had a great voice?

Jodi Krangle:

Well, my, my voice journey began when I was very, very

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young and my grandfather had a really gorgeous, deep chocolatey voice.

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And I think he did really early radio, like way back in the day,

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but like he was just fantastic.

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He was a, he was a pilot, which is pretty awesome.

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Yeah.

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And.

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And my mom is a singer and my dad plays guitar and piano by ear and our family,

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our whole family is very musical.

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My sister is a singer songwriter, guitarist and we, when we were

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growing up, had sing along time, not story time, that was our family get

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together thing before we went to bed.

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It was pretty awesome.

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I got to say and it always just strikes me as how different that really was

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from most of the people that I speak to about this kind of thing, because.

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Obviously not every family is musical and that's fine, you know, but it always

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impressed upon me the importance of sound and why that has always had a big

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influence in my life, right from day one.

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I was singing before I could speak almost.

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So it's always been a part of my life and actually approaching voiceover,

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I was a singer first, so.

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Had very little exposure to actual voiceover work.

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I volunteered my time at the CNI B, which is the Canadian national Institute for

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the blind back in 95 and 96, just for a year and learned what that was all about.

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Cause I never really understood what it was.

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I knew what a radio DJ was.

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I didn't really understand what voiceover was and.

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At the CNIB, we were reading magazines onto tape and it actually

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was reel to reel tape at the time.

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So it was quite the interesting process.

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First of all.

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And I liked the tech as much as I liked the voiceover.

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me know that this was even possible.

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I didn't even recognize that it was a profession that you could do it.

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And that was the first time that I came across that and I

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really enjoyed it, but it didn't actually take for quite some time.

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It percolated in the back of my brain for a while.

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And I was in internet marketing and SEO from 95 until 2007.

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And in 2007, Google took over.

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Like pretty much, there was no other search engine left and I got bored.

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I don't know if you've ever had those moments in your life where you are so

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tired of something that you just want to lean against the wall and slide

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down it and just say not again no more.

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like you're tired and you're bored and you just want to do something different.

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I had that moment in 2007.

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Internet marketing and SEO.

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And I was like, this is not what I want to be doing for

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the rest of my life it's time.

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So basically I just switched my focus.

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I was already self-employed.

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So I just switched my focus from one thing full-time to another thing

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full-time, and I devoted everything that I had into learning and coaching

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and getting demos and understanding what the business was all about.

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Made my mistakes in the early days by, you know, getting a demo done

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by what they call a demo mill.

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Basically it's a company that will take anyone with a credit card.

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They don't give you any training.

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They just put you in front of a mic and say here, say this and

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we'll make you a nice, shiny new demo and it'll sound beautiful.

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And it did sound beautiful.

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It was very professionally done, but I sounded like crap.

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I mean I wasn't at all connected to the copy.

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I didn't know what I was doing.

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There was nothing in that demo that would have showcased me as a talent.

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It showcased them as a production facility.

Johnny:

Not so helpful.

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Well, good for them, but not

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not so helpful.

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Exactly.

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Yeah, So something to be careful

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yeah, for sure.

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I mean, I guess that kind of stuff is still around for

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Oh, totally.

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It totally is.

Johnny:

Is this still a professionally, is this still a profession that

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people are able to come into?

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I know from a guest I've had previously on the show, she said it's become

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very challenging to get what there's been a lot of changes in the industry.

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I'm wondering what you've seen.

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I think that it would be really challenging to

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come into this as an artist.

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And I'm not by any means lessening the importance of that because artists are

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definitely needed in just about every profession, as far as I'm concerned.

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What I will say is that if you are not treating this as a business, if you're

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treating it as a side hustle, or if you're treating it as an afterthought, or if

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you are assuming that an agent is going to get you all your work, and all you

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have to do is sit back and let it come,

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you're going to be out of.

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Because this is a profession where you need to wear a lot of hats.

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You need to be going out there and getting the work yourself before

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an agent will even look at you.

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You need to make money before they're going to want to have you on their roster

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because otherwise, they're hurting just as much as everyone in this business.

Johnny:

Yeah.

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you know, they want to be able to make money and they're only

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making 10 to 20% on what you're making.

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So they have to look out for themselves too.

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It's a, it's supposed to be a win-win partnership but if you are going to

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have a partnership with somebody, you need to know that your business can

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be a strong part of that partnership and it should be a business.

Johnny:

Yeah.

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If somebody feels that they have a very strong voice, Is that the best

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track for them to go down if they feel that they have a great speaking voice,

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people could give them a lot of good feedback on that and with a bit where

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they could probably make it even better.

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But is that good track?

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What do you think maybe there are other paths other avenues

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available now that might be more, more beneficial for them to.

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I think it all depends on what they want, what they really want.

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has very little to do with your voice.

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Your voice is a helpful thing.

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Definitely having a nice voice can be super helpful, but if you

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don't know what to do with it, then you're never going to make a living.

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So really it all comes down to coaching before you spend

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probably a large amount of money on a demo.

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That's going to be your calling card and then going out, or even like trying

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to get work while you're doing that.

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I'm not saying you can't get work while you're doing that.

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It's just, it's a lot easier if you have a calling card and it's a lot

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easier if you've gotten training and the training, doesn't all only happen

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with what to do with your voice.

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It's all about mindset and being in the right space when you're doing a spot or.

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Understanding who you are before you get in front of that mic, because

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everything you've done before in your life is going to influence

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how you sound on a mic, everything.

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And it doesn't, I'm not saying like you could be a janitor.

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That's great.

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That's fantastic.

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You've seen life.

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So you know what, you know what you can bring to a mic.

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It doesn't matter to me what your background was.

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All of that is going to inform how you sound while you're

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connecting with copy and you should use it, put it in your head.

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You should use it, use it all because we are attracted to

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human connection, to relating to other humans that we understand.

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And if you are not being human on the mic, you're not going

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to be able to get much work.

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So really the coaching helps you get there.

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And the demo demonstrates that you can get there on a regular basis.

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This is what you sound like getting there and having a website and keeping

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up with coaching because styles change.

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And ultimately it's about knowing yourself.

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Because if I didn't know who I was, I wouldn't know what copy I should

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audition with and what I shouldn't.

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I wouldn't know what jobs are best suited for me or which I

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should leave to someone else.

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Who's probably better at that sort of thing than I am.

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I wouldn't be able to bring my authentic self to anything

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that I'm putting out there.

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And that really is key because being authentic is so important these days.

Johnny:

Yeah.

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I would say you have a very warm and reassuring voice.

Johnny:

Is that how

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I do a lot of health care.

Johnny:

Yeah,

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so, so is that the kind of thing you mean by leading towards the,

Johnny:

like the qualities that are inherent in your voice and your style?

Jodi Krangle:

Oh, sure.

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Yeah.

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It definitely helps.

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And knowing what those Are in the beginning can be hard to figure out.

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So that's why a coach is really helpful.

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That person can help you narrow down who you are on.

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And get you into the type of reads that will get you work.

Johnny:

Are there, do you think there are a fairly specific vocal qualities

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that, that people just tend to prefer when they're listening to people?

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You know, I think it depends on the industry and it

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depends on the genre of voiceover.

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I know that there are all sorts of different things that

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people can do in voiceover.

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And there is pretty much a place for just about any voice out there.

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So I really think it depends on the genre and who you're trying to

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reach out to.

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It's like companies, there are so many companies out in the world because

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they appeal to different people.

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Voices are the same way.

Johnny:

Do you think there are so many of us for so many of us, our voices,

Johnny:

uh, our moneymakers, whether we're professional voice artists or no I

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professionals speaking work, are they professional coaching and training work

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and podcasting something we both do.

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And so my voice is to a great degree,

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along with other aspects of me is my moneymaker.

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I can't do a lot without it.

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And so do you think that anybody like even someone like me who's been

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doing a lot of speakers on for a long time would still benefit from

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some coaching and some guidance.

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I think being a lifelong learner is always a good thing.

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I don't think that there's any coaching you could take that wouldn't be

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beneficial and I, voice or non voice.

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I mean, I, business coaching is something that I do.

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I've gotten suggestions from how to run my business from coaching.

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I've taken voice coaching.

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Definitely.

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Singing lessons every once in a while.

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Yeah.

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Breathing, anything that you think will get you where you need to go,

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anything that will teach you something that you didn't know, you didn't know,

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because I think that's important.

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I think, like I said, being a lifelong learner is a really

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important thing and yeah.

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Vocal training for anyone is a good thing.

Johnny:

I've had a few, a couple of episodes with vocal coaches and

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the two ladies have had on both have very different styles of vocal

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coaching and both fascinating.

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And I've got a lot of value from both of those episodes.

Johnny:

What is there, is there something that you like as a vocal exercise for your

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soul or something that you learned from your own coaching experience that made a

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big difference to your vocal performance?

Jodi Krangle:

Oh, I'm bad.

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When it comes to vocal exercises, I'm not, I don't tend to do them a

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lot, which is probably not a good thing, but breathing is definitely

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something to pay attention to.

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So when you're breathing.

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A lot of us have learned to breathe air in and suck our stomach in, instead of

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letting it expand because we're tense.

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And Cynthia Jai, who I've had on my podcast is a vocal

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coach for speakers and helping people overcome anxiety.

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You know, CEO's who should sound like CEO's, you know, this kind of thing.

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Right.

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So, and she's fantastic.

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And she actually learned it alerted me to this because I hadn't really

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realized it was a thing, but people when they're tense, they suck in.

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So, and they push their belly in as opposed to letting it expand with air.

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So when you're taking in breath, you should be taking in breath

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and expanding like a balloon.

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Your stomach should be going out.

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And when you're letting the breath out, when you're expelling it, it

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should, your stomach should go in.

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It shouldn't be the other way around.

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And in some cases we've learned to do it the other way around,

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but it's making us tense.

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So that can be really detrimental to public speaking.

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It can definitely be harmful to voiceovers or anything you do on a regular basis.

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If you're breathing improperly, you're not getting all the resonance

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out of all of the cavities of your body that you should be.

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And also a sigh.

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This was one thing that she mentioned when we were talking just the benefits

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of letting out a soft breath, just letting it go relaxing just for a moment.

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And it just makes everything better.

Johnny:

Yeah, I get that.

Johnny:

I felt better even just from your side area team or more what's up.

Johnny:

Yeah.

Johnny:

It's one of those.

Johnny:

Oh, really?

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I've been told I should get into ASMR

Johnny:

Yeah.

Johnny:

It's I I've listened to that.

Johnny:

I find that I find I don't listen to a lot of it, but I do find some bit

Johnny:

very soothing and some people who do have these deeply soothing voices.

Jodi Krangle:

Yeah.

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Yeah.

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I went in, I went down the rabbit hole.

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I totally listened.

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I watched ASMR all the time and I have favorites.

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So Yeah I do it all the time.

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I, I took I did a podcast on it a blog slash podcast back in

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I think almost to a year and a half ago or something like that.

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And I took a deep dive because IKEA had done

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an advertisement that was a half hour long that was an ASMR.

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And I was like what is this thing?

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ASM R first of all.

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And second of all, what the heck are they doing with a half hour commercial?

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Like, how does that even work?

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Right.

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Cause I'm talking about audio branding.

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So I'm talking about advertising in a lot of cases.

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And I was like, well, they're using sound in advertising, but

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I don't get this what's going on.

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And I definitely took a deep dive and went looking to find out what ASM R was.

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And it was really a fascinating study.

Johnny:

Yeah I D I did find it interesting.

Johnny:

And so I kind of see things, some of it, maybe not so much, but I did tend to find

Johnny:

that there are certain voices that do.

Johnny:

Different emotions, I guess that's probably everyone's voices evoke different

Johnny:

emotions, but you know, it's also my listen to, as a man I'm thinking, well,

Johnny:

I would probably put on a Karen Carpenter song because, because for me, that's

Johnny:

like receiving a, a warm hug voice is like a big warm hug to me, you know?

Jodi Krangle:

that's actually kind of the music that I do sort of yeah.

Jodi Krangle:

When I sing, it's kind of it's that, yeah.

Jodi Krangle:

That, that low register.

Jodi Krangle:

Deep, rich.

Jodi Krangle:

Yeah.

Jodi Krangle:

I like that.

Johnny:

But those are the sort of

Jodi Krangle:

an influence.

Johnny:

Oh, yeah.

Johnny:

Yeah, definitely.

Johnny:

I've been, you know, someone who I know if I went in times of the possible.

Johnny:

Blue or low, or just needed a bit of a pickup that her voice

Johnny:

has just felt like that lift, lift that I needed to put me out.

Johnny:

And she's saying I'm not the only person, but she's just one of the,

Johnny:

probably the first breath we got by his voice suits me the most.

Johnny:

It would have been hers and still, it still does still has that effect

Johnny:

years after she's no longer with us, but but your voice has to have, have a

Johnny:

big influence and I will, the show is all about influence and about is why

Johnny:

it's great to be speaking with you.

Johnny:

Our voices have a lot of potential for a lot of potential

Johnny:

for influence and persuasion.

Johnny:

And so what are the things in your perception that are the, that make

Johnny:

our voices more influential that make us perhaps more, even more

Johnny:

persuasive with our styles of speaking?

Jodi Krangle:

I think active listening actually is really, really important.

Jodi Krangle:

Because if you're paying attention to what the other person is saying,

Jodi Krangle:

then you know how to respond and you know how to make that person feel

Jodi Krangle:

heard and feeling heard is how we relate to one another as human beings.

Jodi Krangle:

So I think that's really important.

Jodi Krangle:

And another reason why coaching is important for voiceovers is

Jodi Krangle:

because you are, it's kind of an almost inactive listening.

Jodi Krangle:

This is going to sound very strange, but because you're taking these

Jodi Krangle:

lessons and you're understanding what might be happening before

Jodi Krangle:

you started speaking that spot.

Jodi Krangle:

You're imagining a whole world in your head.

Jodi Krangle:

You're imagining that you're answering someone's question.

Jodi Krangle:

And so that makes it more of a human interaction, as opposed to just speaking

Jodi Krangle:

words on a page, that's part of what helps with the coaching, but it is all a

Jodi Krangle:

part of being a human being and relating to other human beings, which is part

Jodi Krangle:

of what active listening helps you do.

Johnny:

Yeah.

Johnny:

Yeah.

Johnny:

I think one of the biggest challenges that I think to come across with

Johnny:

people, and I think I experienced it.

Johnny:

To some degree.

Johnny:

And probably if you listen to some of my earlier podcast, you'd probably hear

Johnny:

it, is sounding natural when you're, when you're in conversation with people

Johnny:

standing conversational and it's something in my experience has just taken a while to

Johnny:

get to a level of comfort of doing this where I feel like we just

Johnny:

hanging out and having a chat.

Johnny:

It's interesting.

Johnny:

But to me, that's also, that's very much what I want.

Johnny:

That's the atmosphere that I want to create for, with my show.

Johnny:

And we just hanging out, we're talking about some interesting things.

Johnny:

We would probably talk about this.

Johnny:

If we went to a bar, you know, it's a.

Jodi Krangle:

or met at Pod Fest.

Johnny:

Yeah, exactly.

Johnny:

We met at pod Fest there and that's how we got that's how we got talking.

Johnny:

But you know, this is.

Johnny:

Th that's the style.

Johnny:

There is like a vocal signature almost of the show, which is, which is that, yeah,

Johnny:

this is a lighthearted for the most part, fun, conversational, but also diving into

Johnny:

some of the mindset and practicalities and experience elements as well, which

Johnny:

hopefully is is what makes it exciting.

Johnny:

What keeps me coming back hopefully is what keeps the audience coming back as

Jodi Krangle:

Yeah, definitely.

Jodi Krangle:

One of the other issues that you have when you're doing voiceover

Jodi Krangle:

work is that you're not really speaking to anyone at that moment.

Jodi Krangle:

I like, I love having conversations like this because I can actually see a face

Jodi Krangle:

and have a reaction and respond, you know?

Jodi Krangle:

So that's really cool.

Jodi Krangle:

Yeah.

Jodi Krangle:

But, but the vocal, the voice training.

Jodi Krangle:

The coaching that you'll get as a voice actor is so that you are able to

Jodi Krangle:

build these in your own head so that you can have these conversations in a

Jodi Krangle:

padded booth when no one else is there.

Jodi Krangle:

So how do you sound real And as if you're talking to a real person, when you're in

Jodi Krangle:

a padded room talking to a microphone, Possibly with headphones on your head.

Jodi Krangle:

It's as unnatural a setting, as you could possibly have, and

Jodi Krangle:

yet you have to sound natural.

Jodi Krangle:

So that's where the acting comes in.

Johnny:

Well, it is.

Johnny:

And many of us doing that now, not just with podcasts, but with YouTube

Johnny:

and other social media content that we're putting out, we're doing

Johnny:

videos within audios or, or both.

Johnny:

And we don't always sound natural with that.

Johnny:

Again, I'm thinking back to my, the very first YouTube video ever loaded

Johnny:

up, which got so badly pulled apart.

Johnny:

I took it down a few days later, but, uh, yeah, it was, it was, it was bad.

Johnny:

It was, I wish now I wish I'd left it out.

Johnny:

Just so I could see how go back and see how bad it was.

Johnny:

But yeah, at the time, my, my ego couldn't take it.

Jodi Krangle:

Yeah.

Johnny:

Um, fortunately, but I know even I know that I didn't sound natural.

Johnny:

I didn't look natural.

Johnny:

It didn't sound natural.

Johnny:

And I guess the issue that I ended up taking with the criticism I got was,

Johnny:

but I think I believed it because I thought, because I could actually look

Johnny:

at it and say, yeah, they're right.

Johnny:

Actually, it didn't seem very authentic.

Johnny:

It didn't feel very natural.

Johnny:

And that's a big thing.

Jodi Krangle:

time.

Johnny:

It does a bit, I mean, are there some other, some things that

Johnny:

we can do to help speed up that.

Jodi Krangle:

Maybe reading to someone out loud that.

Jodi Krangle:

might actually help.

Jodi Krangle:

I'm thinking that if you are actually imagining that you are reading to someone

Jodi Krangle:

that that can take you out of being inauthentic right there, because if

Jodi Krangle:

you're actually imagining someone else in front of you that you're speaking

Jodi Krangle:

to, then that makes you more human.

Jodi Krangle:

Someone to relate to.

Johnny:

thus the acting part where we have to imagine.

Johnny:

But the, that there's somebody else there much as actors do..

Johnny:

Yeah, I think that's, that's a good way to think about it.

Johnny:

You know, a lot of people saying that what I'm doing when I'm doing video

Johnny:

work, now, I kind of imagine that I'm on a, I'm on a call like this with

Johnny:

you or a zoom call with somebody.

Johnny:

And on the other side of the camera, so to speak is somebody else.

Johnny:

And that's who I'm talking to.

Johnny:

So I don't see it anymore as I'm talking to a camera.

Johnny:

I see it.

Johnny:

I do see it as I'm talking to.

Johnny:

To a person.

Johnny:

I think both, I don't feel that I have to imagine somebody specific now.

Johnny:

Whereas I think early on I did start off by thinking about somebody who I talked

Johnny:

to very naturally and very comfortably,

Jodi Krangle:

That's a good point, actually for a while, I used to put up

Jodi Krangle:

photographs of people in my booth and talk to them like that's, you know,

Johnny:

that could be a good tip.

Johnny:

Yeah.

Johnny:

It could be a good tip for people.

Johnny:

If you're doing this

Jodi Krangle:

I mean, it helped for a while.

Jodi Krangle:

Yeah,

Johnny:

I, I'm quite lucky.

Johnny:

I have one of those.

Johnny:

Um, I have a camera on my it's called a center cam and it

Johnny:

comes halfway down my screen.

Johnny:

Have

Jodi Krangle:

I'm looking at one right

Johnny:

you have one as well.

Johnny:

They're pretty cool.

Jodi Krangle:

I have one as well.

Jodi Krangle:

I kickstarted them.

Johnny:

Oh, yeah, me too.

Johnny:

Me too.

Johnny:

I and S and for, probably for the same reason that you, you can feel more like

Johnny:

you're naturally looking at people rather than looking up above your computer

Johnny:

screen, and you can also see stuff on your screen whilst you're having a

Johnny:

conversation with them, which for the kind of work we do is, is quite important.

Jodi Krangle:

Very much so.

Johnny:

Yeah.

Johnny:

Okay.

Johnny:

So we're not affiliates for center cam, but maybe we, maybe we, should be.

Jodi Krangle:

maybe we should be.

Jodi Krangle:

Yeah, it is a great camera though.

Jodi Krangle:

I got to say like, it's actually pretty, that's the one I'm using right now.

Johnny:

Yeah, I have to, I really love it.

Johnny:

It's a great, it was a great Kickstarter.

Johnny:

I was very happy when it, when it finally arrived, somebody nearly

Johnny:

something nearly so often that he got delivered to another office in my block.

Johnny:

And I very nearly didn't get it.

Johnny:

So, but I was persistent.

Johnny:

I was persistent.

Jodi Krangle:

Okay.

Johnny:

So, so let me see you, you do podcasting as well.

Johnny:

What took you down the path of getting into.

Jodi Krangle:

You know, I resisted it for a really long time.

Jodi Krangle:

I really did.

Jodi Krangle:

I joined a business mastermind group and in that business mastermind,

Jodi Krangle:

a lot of the people that were a part of it were starting podcasts

Jodi Krangle:

for various different reasons.

Jodi Krangle:

I was the only voice actor in the entire thing.

Jodi Krangle:

And When they did that, they definitely noticed an increase in their engagement

Jodi Krangle:

with the people that they wanted to bring their products and services

Jodi Krangle:

to, but also just, I think it fired them up and I liked seeing that fire.

Jodi Krangle:

So I was like, oh, Okay.

Jodi Krangle:

Maybe it's my turn then.

Jodi Krangle:

And my.

Jodi Krangle:

My first podcast only lasted 30 episodes started in July of 2019.

Jodi Krangle:

And I stopped it because I Was kind of doing one of those

Jodi Krangle:

general wisdom type of podcasts.

Jodi Krangle:

And I, Just talking about how you didn't have to be on all the time, how you could

Jodi Krangle:

actually rest and have peace and not have to hustle every second of the day.

Jodi Krangle:

Or if you're going out and experiencing things with friends, you do not have to

Jodi Krangle:

spend your entire time taking pictures.

Jodi Krangle:

Maybe you should just experience the moment.

Johnny:

I was having conversation last nightnight at

Jodi Krangle:

Oh really?

Jodi Krangle:

Okay.

Jodi Krangle:

Yeah.

Jodi Krangle:

It is not an unusual conversation, but, but I think that it tends to happen with

Jodi Krangle:

people who are perhaps a little older.

Johnny:

Right.

Johnny:

I

Jodi Krangle:

So I waI agree.

Jodi Krangle:

Finding that I was just saying these kinds of things, and people

Jodi Krangle:

were asking me to be a life coach.

Jodi Krangle:

I was not, that was not what I was heading to and not at all what I had in mind,

Jodi Krangle:

but definitely gave me the idea that if you have a podcast, you are automatically

Jodi Krangle:

assumed to have a voice of authority.

Jodi Krangle:

And that was not the authority I was after, so I rethought the podcast and

Jodi Krangle:

was thinking about what do I care about?

Jodi Krangle:

What's my passion.

Jodi Krangle:

And my passion is sound.

Jodi Krangle:

It really is.

Jodi Krangle:

So the voice acting is a part of that.

Jodi Krangle:

Podcasting itself and music and the science of what goes on in

Jodi Krangle:

our brains when we hear things and how it influences our buying

Jodi Krangle:

decisions, but also our daily lives.

Jodi Krangle:

Everything we do.

Jodi Krangle:

So I brainstormed with them.

Jodi Krangle:

We came up with the name of Audio Branding and the subtitle

Jodi Krangle:

is the hidden gem of marketing.

Jodi Krangle:

And I.

Jodi Krangle:

Do you talk about advertising a lot and audio branding specifically, but I

Jodi Krangle:

also talk about the whole life aspect.

Jodi Krangle:

Of how it influences everything.

Jodi Krangle:

And I've talked about ASMR and binaural beats and sound healing and

Jodi Krangle:

spaces that are made specifically to sound good and how we can't

Jodi Krangle:

block our ears the same way that we block our eyes when we're sleeping.

Jodi Krangle:

So noise can be a problem.

Jodi Krangle:

And.

Jodi Krangle:

The fact that planets make noise out in space and voice AI and all

Jodi Krangle:

of this really interesting stuff and how you can influence what you taste

Jodi Krangle:

with, what you're hearing and how our brain, our senses work altogether.

Jodi Krangle:

It's just a really fascinating study.

Jodi Krangle:

So.

Jodi Krangle:

I'm much happier doing what I'm doing now.

Jodi Krangle:

I started that in November, 2019, and I just released the hundred

Jodi Krangle:

and third episode, the a hundred and fourth comes out on Wednesday.

Johnny:

you start the month after me.

Johnny:

I, and I, I know I I'm 110 episodes out.

Jodi Krangle:

Yeah.

Jodi Krangle:

Yeah.

Jodi Krangle:

So It's just become a passion and like you, I'm sure it's just something

Jodi Krangle:

that I think about all the time.

Johnny:

It's something for me.

Johnny:

It's something that.

Johnny:

I thought it would be a good thing to do.

Johnny:

I did start a podcast back in 2012 and maybe did about eight episodes

Johnny:

and maybe a similar experience to you, but with a much bigger gap in between.

Johnny:

And this is not me talking about myself.

Johnny:

Wasn't very interesting for me.

Johnny:

And at that time as well, most people.

Johnny:

I had never heard of podcasts as well.

Johnny:

So I wasn't really picking on another thing began like five or six downloads

Johnny:

for, for an episode, as you think some of them have more, I think go back and check.

Johnny:

They're still online.

Johnny:

And not that I want to encourage anyone to go and find them, but,

Johnny:

but they're still onine and they have picked up more downloads.

Johnny:

But again not stuff that ties in with what I wanted to do.

Johnny:

And similarly to you in my show has been a bit more of an evolution

Johnny:

in terms of defining what I want to talk about and making it more

Johnny:

about what I'm passionate about.

Johnny:

There we started off being primarily public speaking and then developed in

Johnny:

with the influence and persuasion stuff.

Johnny:

And now it's much more influence and persuasion focused with things like public

Johnny:

speaking and everything else that comes around that because podcasting itself is

Johnny:

a hugely influential industry right now.

Jodi Krangle:

definitely.

Jodi Krangle:

I will say actually I had a song writing resource on the web back

Jodi Krangle:

in 1995, that ended in 2016.

Jodi Krangle:

It was called the muses muse.

Jodi Krangle:

And I had a radio show off of that website, probably it

Jodi Krangle:

started in like 2002, 2003.

Jodi Krangle:

We were doing it in real audio.

Jodi Krangle:

So we were playing independent musician songs, about 12, and then

Jodi Krangle:

making a little commentary in between.

Jodi Krangle:

With this radio show right around the time when live 365 was around.

Jodi Krangle:

I don't know if you remember those days, but way, way, way back when they did

Jodi Krangle:

not have such a thing as podcasting.

Jodi Krangle:

And you had to just put it out on the web and see if people listened.

Jodi Krangle:

So I sort of had an inkling of what might become podcasts, but I never

Jodi Krangle:

really ended up doing them until 2019.

Johnny:

So you, but you, you have that taste that almost an induction in

Johnny:

the podcasting early on before that.

Jodi Krangle:

I did.

Jodi Krangle:

I kind of knew the structure of how it, it should go, you know, that kind of

Johnny:

W what ha what do you feel that it has done for you professionally?

Jodi Krangle:

Well, I think it's allowed me to make a deeper connection with

Jodi Krangle:

the people who might hire voice actors.

Jodi Krangle:

Also the whole point of this was really to sort of let people know that

Jodi Krangle:

sound should not be an afterthought.

Jodi Krangle:

And that was really the point of all of this, because anyone who works in

Jodi Krangle:

sound knows that what ends up happening is that you end up being the bow on

Jodi Krangle:

the present or the icing on the cake.

Jodi Krangle:

You don't end up being a consideration when things start and because

Jodi Krangle:

of where sound is going, right.

Jodi Krangle:

It's super important to get it right.

Jodi Krangle:

Cause if you don't get it right, it's going to ruin the whole production.

Jodi Krangle:

And I don't see why in that context, you wouldn't want to think

Jodi Krangle:

about it at the beginning of the project instead of the end of it.

Jodi Krangle:

So just trying to raise all boats for all of the people who work in sound and

Jodi Krangle:

need to be a part of that discussion from day one, as opposed to day 53.

Johnny:

Yeah, I think it's a very powerful, medium, and I hope more people.

Johnny:

What we see more people are coming.

Johnny:

Certainly more people did over the pandemic period.

Johnny:

And I know some of them will have come and gone already, but it seems that

Johnny:

more, at least more people are aware the podcasts are there now, and more

Johnny:

celebrities have been coming through it.

Johnny:

And that's been increasing awareness of the whole podcast industry as well.

Johnny:

Which initially had initially I didn't see it as a good thing.

Johnny:

And then I had Pat Flynn talking and saying, oh yeah, That's the right

Johnny:

perspective to have on it, because more people are finding out about podcasts

Johnny:

and, you know, they're more likely to find you and search for other kind of areas.

Johnny:

And it's not not that they're only going to ever listen to one show.

Johnny:

It's a very, very powerful, yeah, very, a very, very powerful medium.

Johnny:

I wonder.

Johnny:

I In terms in terms of your own show then, you probably have quite

Johnny:

a significant focus on the on the audio quality of your show.

Johnny:

How do you make sure that your show sounds

Johnny:

great.

Johnny:

And has those sorts of branding things that you talk about?

Jodi Krangle:

I hire an editor because I know that that is not my area of strength

Jodi Krangle:

and it is someone else's area of strength.

Jodi Krangle:

My colleague Umberto Franco, who is a voice actor in Portugal, actually.

Jodi Krangle:

He's the one who produces and audio edits the show and.

Jodi Krangle:

He does a fantastic job with it and has been involved pretty much since day one.

Jodi Krangle:

So he was even helping me with the previous podcast.

Jodi Krangle:

And thankfully, because I don't think I could do it on my own,

Jodi Krangle:

but yeah, it takes a village.

Johnny:

Sent some behind the, behind the scenes magic, but that's a good thing

Johnny:

to be selected that sometimes we don't all have, we can't have all the skills.

Johnny:

Be the Jack of all trades to be able to do everything.

Johnny:

I know some of the technology is advancing.

Johnny:

There's making us all sound a bit better and things are improving, especially as

Johnny:

the industry keeps growing and developing.

Johnny:

But still they're the people who have the magic who really

Johnny:

know what they're dealing with.

Johnny:

They're probably always going to make you sound a lot better than, than

Johnny:

automations and magic things like algorithms and things of that kind of.

Jodi Krangle:

It helps to use things like Riverside, which we're on right

Jodi Krangle:

now, or Squad Cast is the one that I use and I'm turning echo cancellation off.

Jodi Krangle:

And everyone having headphones makes the audio way better

Jodi Krangle:

quality, just so everyone's aware.

Johnny:

Yeah.

Jodi Krangle:

Yeah.

Jodi Krangle:

it just, it makes it easier because I think when you have the echo

Jodi Krangle:

cancellation on, it makes it impossible for people to talk at the same time.

Jodi Krangle:

And so what happens is you'll have the internet or whatever is

Jodi Krangle:

working on the audio, lowering the volume of someone else, and then

Jodi Krangle:

you just won't hear them at all.

Jodi Krangle:

And then it gets all, it gets all wonky and

Johnny:

Yeah.

Johnny:

It's not, not quite, not quite perfected that.

Jodi Krangle:

Yeah.

Jodi Krangle:

that's kind of what zoom does unfortunately.

Jodi Krangle:

So when I was using zoom, before I started using squad cast, I actually would ask

Jodi Krangle:

my guests to record locally on their own machine and then send me the audio

Johnny:

That's what I would do with zoom as well.

Johnny:

Yeah.

Johnny:

It, it, it, because it just ended up, sometimes I would be heard very clearly

Johnny:

and they would be emptied, whisper in the background and it just wasn't.

Jodi Krangle:

Or It would be interrupted.

Johnny:

Yeah.

Jodi Krangle:

Yeah.

Jodi Krangle:

Or, or the internet, you know,

Johnny:

Oh, yeah, that that

Jodi Krangle:

That's what happens.

Jodi Krangle:

right?

Johnny:

what happens plenty of times.

Johnny:

And I've had that with other, with other platforms as well.

Johnny:

But you know, now with, I use Buzzsprout as well, and they

Johnny:

have magic mastering that helps.

Johnny:

I know you use a descript and they have studio sound.

Johnny:

So all those, those are automations that do help me sound better.

Johnny:

But I know that working with somebody who understands all your engineering would

Johnny:

probably make you sound even better.

Johnny:

And at some point, I'm sure I will do that with my show.

Jodi Krangle:

You know, I've, I've had this discussion with people where

Jodi Krangle:

they are always waiting to outsource.

Jodi Krangle:

And I will say that I think you can do it a lot sooner than you think you can.

Jodi Krangle:

And The reason I say that is because when you outsource things

Jodi Krangle:

that you really don't enjoy doing, or that take you forever to do.

Jodi Krangle:

You are freeing up your own time to do more of what you love to do

Jodi Krangle:

by paying someone else to do that.

Jodi Krangle:

And it's worth it.

Jodi Krangle:

I have to say it's totally worth it.

Johnny:

Yeah.

Jodi Krangle:

So for my own sanity, it's worth it.

Johnny:

one thing that, I mean, I, I do help people get started with their podcast

Johnny:

or their journey into podcasting sometimes just as guests, as well as hosts.

Johnny:

But one thing I definitely will say to them is that they don't

Johnny:

need all of this to get started.

Johnny:

Like I started with zoom, I guess you did as well.

Johnny:

That was, that was, it was.

Johnny:

It is adequate to get started and you can make the improvements as you go

Johnny:

along and having a tip, like yeah.

Johnny:

Get your guests to record as well and send you the file.

Johnny:

That's that stuff that's really good to know is like, yeah, you can make

Johnny:

it work pretty well with some basic or even free tools before you start

Johnny:

investing money into your podcasting.

Johnny:

My philosophy is now podcasting has to be making me money before.

Johnny:

I'm investing more money into it.

Johnny:

Which doesn't, isn't strictly true, but I try and keep that philosophy.

Jodi Krangle:

I guess I'm using my podcast as an outreach to

Jodi Krangle:

potential clients as well.

Jodi Krangle:

So for me, it's a long tail marketing plan, as opposed to something

Jodi Krangle:

that I'm specifically thinking I'm going to make money from.

Johnny:

Yeah, I think this is very much how I think of it.

Johnny:

Now my me, the podcast is more part of my own positioning is also part

Johnny:

of the content that I get to put out and, and to have those conversations

Johnny:

where my, or my potential future clients get a sense of that.

Johnny:

All right.

Johnny:

He, you know, he does know what he's talking about and he knows

Johnny:

all these amazing people as well.

Johnny:

It's probably a good person to come and find out more stuff.

Johnny:

That's my hope.

Johnny:

Anyway.

Jodi Krangle:

it gives your voice authority,

Johnny:

It does all of those things.

Johnny:

Yeah, I definitely think it's for, I'm primarily working with coaches, speakers,

Johnny:

and trainers to, to get down this path.

Johnny:

But you know, there, there's so many different avenues into podcasting

Johnny:

and they're not all educational or developmental in some of the.

Johnny:

And it's fun and they're just as valid and just as good to get into.

Johnny:

In fact, some of them are, uh, doing very, very well from that.

Johnny:

And you it's, like you said, you have to know what you want from it.

Johnny:

You have to know what you want to get from it.

Johnny:

And that's very much the case with this.

Johnny:

So for those people who want to have it as part of their professional ecosystem,

Johnny:

I think is very valuable right now.

Johnny:

and I do also think it's a great time to be getting on board with it.

Johnny:

W do you think that.

Jodi Krangle:

Oh, yeah.

Jodi Krangle:

Yeah.

Jodi Krangle:

We are only just starting to see the beginning of this really.

Jodi Krangle:

I mean, when you talk with people and they have a podcast, it kind of makes

Jodi Krangle:

you feel like everyone has a podcast, but really, I mean, like, this is if you

Jodi Krangle:

relate this to website, Back in the day.

Jodi Krangle:

and I remember those days,

Johnny:

Me too.

Jodi Krangle:

There were a lot of websites at a certain time, but it's only exploded.

Jodi Krangle:

It has only become the default of everything that you need

Jodi Krangle:

to be online at this point.

Jodi Krangle:

And I think podcasts will get there, but they're not there now.

Johnny:

no, where near right.

Johnny:

And.

Jodi Krangle:

I mean, it's still, it's big because we're in it, you know, like

Jodi Krangle:

we feel like it's big because we're a part of it, but it still has a long way to go.

Johnny:

But I think being in it now, and both of us kind of being very active

Johnny:

for a similar amount of time in it.

Johnny:

I've noticed development.

Johnny:

I've noticed growth and even sort of significant increases in it.

Johnny:

I've also noticed people knowing, realizing and understanding that there

Johnny:

are other ways than sponsorship to to monetize a podcast or a, as you say, to

Johnny:

really make it sort of like a similar value to having a book of getting that

Johnny:

exposure and being known as an expert in your industry and being out there, you

Johnny:

want to be that top of mind presence and podcasting is a really powerful way to

Johnny:

do that, not just with your own show, but with that within going on other

Johnny:

people's shows, is there a very powerful

Jodi Krangle:

Oh, yeah.

Jodi Krangle:

As evidenced.

Johnny:

As, as evidence.

Johnny:

Yeah.

Johnny:

Encourage, encourage everybody to do that.

Johnny:

And so I want to ask you, I mean, this may be a vocal thing for you or maybe

Johnny:

not, but I feel that everybody has their own particular strength in their

Johnny:

own influence and persuasion in life.

Johnny:

And I wonder if there's a skill or a tool of influence and persuasion that you have,

Johnny:

like, so your go to your strength, your forte in trying to persuade or influence.

Jodi Krangle:

Oh I'm not sure what that would be really.

Jodi Krangle:

I mean, other than the fact that I go on to other podcasts and talk a

Jodi Krangle:

lot about the importance of sound I mean, cause it is super important and

Jodi Krangle:

I have only gotten more passionate about that as my podcast goes on.

Jodi Krangle:

You know, I think I don't, I don't know.

Jodi Krangle:

As far as my own voice is concerned, you

Johnny:

Maybe I feel like it's not, some people are very good

Johnny:

at telling stories to persuade.

Johnny:

Some people are very good at saying things.

Johnny:

And I guess saying things in a certain way.

Johnny:

I can imagine it's very much a situational thing as to what, what

Johnny:

sort of thing you look at it there, but just sort of thinking, well, what's

Johnny:

something that you're strong at in terms of being able to influence them.

Johnny:

So is there a vocal things, like, do you feel that there's a voice that

Johnny:

you have, that's more persuasive than some of your other ways of speaking?

Jodi Krangle:

You know, I think that in some ways the warmth can help a lot.

Jodi Krangle:

You know, that whole a spoonful of sugar makes the medicine go down.

Johnny:

Yeah.

Jodi Krangle:

I think in that sense, personality is that

Jodi Krangle:

I don't like to be harsh.

Jodi Krangle:

I would rather give with one hand and then take with the other, you know what I mean?

Jodi Krangle:

Like kind of like I'd like it to be even so that's always my perspective on things.

Jodi Krangle:

And I don't know, maybe that comes through in the voice.

Johnny:

Possibly.

Johnny:

So, you know, it's not always an easy question to answer, but it's always

Johnny:

a interesting thing to think about.

Johnny:

I wonder you mentioned about your podcast and you've been around

Johnny:

for a while with your show.

Johnny:

You have over a hundred episodes now.

Johnny:

And so tell us about some of your most recent episodes and or what people

Johnny:

could come and listen to with you.

Jodi Krangle:

Well, the hundredth episode actually is one to listen to if you

Jodi Krangle:

want to sort of get an overview, because a lot of the snippets that I use in that

Jodi Krangle:

hundredth episode are demonstrations of what the full episodes were.

Jodi Krangle:

Over the years or over the years, over the months, I guess, of the podcast.

Jodi Krangle:

And and sort of demonstrate where some of the ones that I felt were most influential

Jodi Krangle:

were, and I let people know which episode number they are so that they can go

Jodi Krangle:

back and listen, if they really want to.

Jodi Krangle:

Recently I did a solo episode all on podcasting, actually.

Jodi Krangle:

So some of the tools that I use and how I put together my podcast and linking to

Jodi Krangle:

some helpful tools and such that people can use And then the person that I spoke

Jodi Krangle:

to most recently was a guy named Shas Mira, who has an audio branding company

Jodi Krangle:

here in Toronto, and has just done some really groundbreaking, groundbreaking

Jodi Krangle:

work for destination Toronto.

Jodi Krangle:

So some tourism stuff that really needs help right now and all sorts

Jodi Krangle:

of other things that they've done.

Jodi Krangle:

But his information was really interesting and what his company

Jodi Krangle:

does is also really interesting.

Jodi Krangle:

That was a two-parter and coming out on Wednesday, this Wednesday is another

Jodi Krangle:

fellow by the name of Austin Frankie.

Jodi Krangle:

And he has a company called Woo Punch.

Johnny:

Nice

Jodi Krangle:

Uh, w O punch.

Jodi Krangle:

Yeah, it's, it's really interesting.

Jodi Krangle:

And he talks about behavioral advertising.

Jodi Krangle:

So why advertising works because of how our human brains work and how we

Jodi Krangle:

should be thinking of advertising.

Jodi Krangle:

And that may be the whole mad men thing is more of a myth than actually

Johnny:

very entertaining to watch, but yeah.

Jodi Krangle:

Yeah, exactly.

Jodi Krangle:

It's it?

Jodi Krangle:

This is kind of an interesting way that he described it.

Jodi Krangle:

He described us as polyamorous loyalty.

Johnny:

Okay.

Jodi Krangle:

Like you can be loyal to more than one brand in a sector,

Jodi Krangle:

you just you'll go back and forth or you'll use one for a while or one

Jodi Krangle:

will have a sale and you'll go there.

Jodi Krangle:

Or, you know, it's just, we have certain amounts of loyalty, but

Jodi Krangle:

they're not like the huge, oh my God, I love this company I'm only

Jodi Krangle:

ever going to buy from this company.

Jodi Krangle:

Like, that's not how we work.

Johnny:

That sounds very, this is really interesting and it's definitely

Johnny:

going onto my download list.

Johnny:

I want to, I want to have a listen to that hope I'd be about, so you chose

Johnny:

Audio Branding and there'll be a link to that in the show notes for anyone

Johnny:

who wants to go and check that out.

Johnny:

If anyone's wanting to get in touch with you and maybe talk to you about

Johnny:

the way you do a pan up more, what's the best way for them to find out more.

Jodi Krangle:

Well, you can reach me on my website, which is voiceovers and

Jodi Krangle:

vocals.com a and D not the, an sign.

Jodi Krangle:

And if you want more information on the podcast itself and the there's

Jodi Krangle:

a trailer for the hundredth episode, actually right on the page you can

Jodi Krangle:

go to audio branding podcast.com.

Johnny:

Perfect.

Johnny:

That's good.

Johnny:

So now I always like to ask my guests for a book recommendation or resource

Johnny:

recommendation, and I do allow more than one, but it is a book that you would

Johnny:

recommend either a related to things we've been talking about or just something

Johnny:

that's been very impactful for you.

Johnny:

What.

Jodi Krangle:

There Are actually a couple, but the first I would

Jodi Krangle:

mention anything by Seth Goden.

Jodi Krangle:

You can't go wrong by just reading anything of his yeah.

Jodi Krangle:

And Marie Forleo, actually her, everything is figureoutable book is actually really

Johnny:

I listened to the audio book about this year and I really enjoyed it.

Johnny:

Yeah,

Jodi Krangle:

Yeah.

Jodi Krangle:

Yeah,

Jodi Krangle:

she's just a personality.

Jodi Krangle:

I love her to death.

Johnny:

She has, she has a great show as well.

Johnny:

Right.

Johnny:

She has a great

Jodi Krangle:

Yes, she does.

Jodi Krangle:

Yeah.

Jodi Krangle:

Marie TV actually.

Jodi Krangle:

And I'm definitely subscribed and watch

Johnny:

Yeah, I've

Jodi Krangle:

And actually I learned of Brene Brown through her.

Johnny:

okay.

Johnny:

So it all connects in.

Jodi Krangle:

Yep.

Johnny:

Fantastic.

Johnny:

We're great.

Johnny:

People lead to other great people.

Johnny:

That's very often.

Johnny:

That's how the magic works.

Jodi Krangle:

Definitely.

Johnny:

I want to ask you as we sort of start to draw things to a close, really,

Johnny:

if there's one thing you have people most remember, or take away from the

Johnny:

conversation, or maybe even put into practice, what do you think that would be?

Johnny:

What you hope?

Jodi Krangle:

I think pay attention to the sound around you.

Jodi Krangle:

It's very important to to actually hear what's going on and.

Jodi Krangle:

No, not if you are a content marketer, if you're a filmmaker, if you're an ad

Jodi Krangle:

person, if you are involved in any of this, get your sound involved early on.

Jodi Krangle:

Because I will say that one of the things Shez pointed out in his

Jodi Krangle:

episodes is that there are a lot of well-known brands that are using the

Jodi Krangle:

same directory music licensed song.

Jodi Krangle:

On all of their advertising there and like such different brands

Jodi Krangle:

using the same piece of music.

Jodi Krangle:

And it just makes them look like they don't know who they are.

Jodi Krangle:

So if you're going to pay attention to that kind of thing, maybe

Jodi Krangle:

using a music directory isn't the best idea because anyone can use

Jodi Krangle:

that sound, that song as well.

Jodi Krangle:

And if you want to be unique, Maybe think about it a little earlier, you know,

Jodi Krangle:

don't just tack it on as an afterthought because you can run into that problem.

Johnny:

Yeah, I thought I just maybe sit down on the keyboard and create

Johnny:

some original music for my own show.

Jodi Krangle:

Well, I it's, it's something that I was guilty of in the first hundred,

Jodi Krangle:

almost 99 episodes of my own podcast.

Jodi Krangle:

And then for the hundredth episode, I actually did commission someone to

Jodi Krangle:

make some music specifically for my podcast, and I'm really happy with it.

Jodi Krangle:

And I'm glad that I did that.

Jodi Krangle:

But it takes some time.

Jodi Krangle:

I understand maybe it isn't always workable, but if you have an actual

Jodi Krangle:

audio brand and you can go to those music libraries that you've created

Jodi Krangle:

that are specific to your company, then first of all, you're not spending a

Jodi Krangle:

ton of money on these music directories because you already have your own stuff.

Jodi Krangle:

And second of all, no one else can use your music.

Jodi Krangle:

It's you.

Johnny:

absolutely.

Johnny:

You could license it even.

Jodi Krangle:

You could license it.

Jodi Krangle:

Exactly.

Jodi Krangle:

You totally could.

Jodi Krangle:

I would really suggest that you go to Shez's second episode.

Jodi Krangle:

I think it is there's a two-parter and the second episode, he links to a

Jodi Krangle:

video on Vimeo that he had his company put together to show you all of those

Jodi Krangle:

brands using exactly the same music.

Jodi Krangle:

And it's ridiculous.

Johnny:

am definitely going to kind of have to check the app.

Johnny:

I want to listen to both of those episodes, for sure.

Johnny:

Jodie, it has been a lot of fun.

Johnny:

I've learned some things from today.

Johnny:

I've been inspired by some of the things you talk about as well.

Johnny:

I definitely want to try and make my voice a bit warmer and friendlier

Johnny:

and a reassuring like yours is that at the moment, it's kind of like a

Johnny:

sandpaper on metal filings right now.

Johnny:

But

Jodi Krangle:

Oh, I would definitely not say that.

Jodi Krangle:

Okay.

Jodi Krangle:

but yeah, no.

Johnny:

it's okay.

Johnny:

See, he's maybe just a bit dry after a weekend of speaking,

Johnny:

perhaps, but but thank you.

Johnny:

It's been a

Jodi Krangle:

You've been working

Johnny:

I've been working.

Johnny:

Is this true and flying, which drives you out as well.

Jodi Krangle:

and flying.

Jodi Krangle:

Yes.

Johnny:

does, does all of those things, I'm still rehydrating, but it's been

Johnny:

a real pleasure speaking to you.

Johnny:

It's been a treat to have you on the show.

Johnny:

Finally, I thank you for bearing with me coming and being on the show.

Johnny:

Jodi Krangle, thank you so much.

Jodi Krangle:

Thanks.

Johnny:

Thanks for tuning in.

Johnny:

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Johnny:

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Johnny:

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Johnny:

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Johnny:

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Johnny:

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Johnny:

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Johnny:

I have some amazing guests lined up for you coming very soon as recent

Johnny:

interview with the amazing Grant Baldwin, who is the host of one of my

Johnny:

favorite podcasts called Speaker Lab and also the author of an incredible

Johnny:

book called The Successful Speaker.

Johnny:

If you are into speaking anyway, Maybe you're a fan of Speaker Lab then do you

Johnny:

make sure you tune into that show is coming up very soon, as well as some other

Johnny:

amazing guests, some high profile, some you may not have heard of, but all of them

Johnny:

having great information to share around the world of influence and persuasion.

Johnny:

I'm happy to announce as well, that I have my book almost ready

Johnny:

for publication and it's all about building influence through podcasts.

Johnny:

So no big surprise there as to the subject matter, but it's

Johnny:

all ready for publication.

Johnny:

The book is finished writing.

Johnny:

It's being edited right now and I'm getting it ready to go.

Johnny:

So look out for that very exciting times here at speaking influence headquarters.

Johnny:

I'll look forward to seeing you on another show very soon whatever

Johnny:

you're doing wherever you're going have an amazing rest of your day.

About the Podcast

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The podcast that helps business coaches build influence and income with podcasts

About your host

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John Ball

From international flight attendant to international coach and trainer. Then on to podcaster and persuasion expert, it's been quite the journey for John. Now the author of the book Podfluence: how to build professional authority with podcasts, and host of the Podfluence podcast (formerly Speaking Influence) with over 150 episodes and over 10,000 downloads John is now focused on helping business coaches and speakers to build a following and grow your lead flow and charisma. You can now also listen to John on The Coaching Clinic podcast with his good friend and colleague Angie Besignano and the Try To Stand Up podcast where John is on a journey to become funnier on the stage and in his communication.