Our Own Mistakes, Season 2 Intro

Stacey and Christy are back for another season of "My Own Mistake." Join them on this episode as they relive the ups and down - but mostly ups - all ups, really - of attending the One Voice Conference as sponsors.

We reminisce about season one, talk about our plans for season two, and share a few mishaps from the past few months.

Visit their websites at www.StaceyKimble.com and www.SpadaforeVoice.com

Intro and outro by Vince Eury - https://www.vinceeury.com/

The song "My Own Mistake," © 2023, written by Christy Spadafore,  performed by Christy Spadafore and Stacey Kimble.

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Transcript

One Voice Conference and Season 1 Reflections

Stacey 0:00

Sometimes you lose , sometimes you win it . We all have days where we step right in it .

Christy 0:08

Here's my own mistake .

Vince 0:14

Welcome to my Own Mistake , a podcast about mistakes people make , shared by the people who made them . Here you host Stacey Kimball and Christy Spadafore .

Stacey 0:22

Hey Christy , how are you today ? It's been a week now since we've been back from the fabulous One Voice Conference .

Christy 0:33

Has it ? Wow ? So Stacey and I both went to the One Voice Conference in Dallas , where we were not only people participating , but we were sponsors , which was exciting Very exciting Bronze sponsors .

Stacey 0:47

We had a little commercial we made which I think we'll throw up on the pod site so people can see it , because it was very funny . Yes , we had featured our season one guests not all , but most of our season one guests , and they were all fabulous and funny All of our guests were wonderful . They are hilarious , hilarious people . But we had , did we make mistakes ? At One Voice , did we make any mistakes ? We must have , oh we did .

Christy 1:13

We must have because it's part of being alive , but I don't know if there's so much mistakes . It was just things we learned that you know to plan for differently . Should we do this again ? I think so .

Stacey 1:27

But I mean little things . There were little things like the banner we didn't really have .

Christy 1:32

We had this great banner that Stacey

Stacey 1:34

We had a wonderful banner but we didn't have any way to . . . I kind of assumed when I ordered it that it would , was it two foot by four foot banner . And I assumed when I ordered it that we'd probably be against a wall because usually they had the you know , the sponsors on the walls and so we could just . Because in the past it's always been . . that's how it's been staged .

Stacey 1:54

And so we got there and they had this beautiful new setup . I adored the new setup , but there was really no way to hang our banner , so we ended up putting it on a post next to us , which was awkward , but we just had to point to it . A lot .

Christy 2:10

It kind of looked like , from one angle , that I was just staring at you , I know , and from another angle , like you were just staring at people , rather than two people , you know , smiling at each other . It was an optical illusion .

Stacey 2:24

So , but other than that , we had so much fun meeting all the people that came by . Oh , we did , and you know , scanned our QR code to subscribe to our podcast . We had several people even tell us about their mistakes and a couple people tell us they couldn't be on the show because they make no mistakes .

Christy 2:50

But more people actually said , oh yeah , this one time I did this thing . It was really fun .

Stacey 2:55

Yeah , and you know anybody can do that , because on our website, myownmistake . com , there is a little button down in the lower right corner and if you push that , it's a microphone and you can leave a message with your mistake . So we ask you to do that and subscribe . Oh , there's another button too .

Vince 3:15 Stacey 3:15

What is that other button .

Christy 3:17

It's my favorite button .

Stacey 3:20

Oh , it has a cup of coffee on it .

Christy 3:25

Yes if you feel like you know throwing a few dollars our way to help us support the podcast , we would gladly take your help .

Stacey 3:34

We had a great time , and we also have to thank Amory Hokulani and her husband .

Stacey 3:42

Steward who were . I mean they manned the table more than they were there . Mike was there all the time . He was there like the whole time and he was calls himself spousal support .

Christy 3:57

We called him the emotional support spouse for all three of us , and he was .

Stacey 4:04

He was so wonderful . I just I can't think that it wouldn't have been as great as it was without them .

Christy 4:14

So thank you , Amory .

Stacey 4:14

Thank Amory and Mike , we love you so much so , but we had a wonderful time , and OVC was fabulous , as always . It's where I met Christy and several of our people from last season .

Christy 4:28

From season one . Yeah , almost all of them .

Stacey 4:32

Almost , I think George and Rochelle maybe were the only ones , and well , no , we knew Torian from there too , and we hope you'll go back and listen to season one .

Stacey 4:40

If you haven't , yeah , because it's because we had some really great guests and we have some great people coming up this season too . This is our first episode of season two , our second episode is going to feature a filmmaker who is kind of a little bit of a diversion for us , but I think his his mistakes transferred to anything very easily . I don't know . I think a lot of what we do is just focusing on mistakes you make trying to be creative artists .

Christy 5:17

Well , and I think a lot of I think a lot of them are applicable to almost anything . I mean letting fear stop you from doing what you want to do . I think that's something just about everybody can relate to at some point in their life . Well , you know , were there any mistakes that we made in season one or things we learned , because this was a new project ?

Christy 5:38

I'd never podcasted .

Stacey 5:41

Christy says well , let's do a podcast . I'm like , okay , let's ! not either one of us ever having done this before . And man , did we get a lesson in podcasting ! We started in March . I think we've come up to speed pretty pretty quickly . It was a big learning curve . I'm very , very happy that we did this . It's so much fun now . We really do have a great time and it's wonderful to meet all the people . But we learned a lot about technical things , yeah .

Stacey 6:13

Web pages Things that I never ever thought about , like how do you get your podcast out to all those different sources ? And Christy was kind of in charge of all the web activity .

Christy 6:24

Yeah , we were lucky in that we found some very good resources . And Stacy has been at the helm of the editing and all of the fun detailed stuff that drives me nuts .

Stacey 6:36

So that's me coughing .

Vince 6:40

don't mind doing that . Actually , I kind of like that stuff .

Stacey 6:44

I get into a if once I get into editing I'm gone and I like it . I don't mind it at all . It's like therapy .

Christy 6:52

Yeah .

Vince 6:53

I know you

Reflections on Voiceover Business Mistakes

Vince 6:56

are .

Christy 6:56

I , of course , made my mistake of you know moving all over . I was so relaxed talking to you that I just felt free to move all over . Yeah , the chair I realized that wasn't maybe optimal thing thing .

Stacey 7:12

I was like Christy , the first season , that first you kept coming in and out Adhere .

Christy 7:21

Like a car driving by . And the reason why is I have the stool that I sit on in my booth and I was spinning , or not fully spinning around , like my kids do , but you know , swiveling as I spoke . Apparently doing a full body swivel so that my mouth kept , you know passing by the microphone . Yeah , it was something . I'm sure that it was , and I'm sorry .

Stacey 7:50

Better than a clicky pen , although I think next conference week we're sponsors or something we're going to have clicky pins to give away .

Christy 8:01

I'm so glad that that's my legacy . All the ridiculous mistakes that I've made .

Stacey 8:05

It seems like now , maybe , maybe is it us , are we trend setters , or what ? But now I see everybody's owning up to their mistakes all over social media . Which is great , which is awesome . I think it's great , and we well , we makes us feel like we're trend setters .

Christy 8:22

Right , yeah , I was thinking about that because I was like I don't know if maybe a lot of other people were doing this and I just didn't see it before . I don't know , but I think it's . I think people being honest about their mistakes and ways they know they can improve is always a good thing .

Stacey 8:39

It is . I think one of the things that was best taught in season one was that we've all made the same mistakes at some level or another , especially in the voiceover business , because really , this is the way it's done . Now is so new . Having your own studio booth in your home and being able to roll out of bed and go to work yeah , it's pretty darn nice . But there is a learning curve , and it's still a big learning curve , and people are afraid of AI , and I know there's a lot of large studios that aren't doing as well as they did because of the move to home booths , and those are things that we all have to look at and adjust to . So it's been an interesting ride . I've been doing it online since oh , I hate to tell you . since like 2011 . Wow , I mean , I didn't get real serious about it until five years ago . It's taking a long time for everybody to adjust . It's an adjustment .

Christy 9:40

Yeah , and I still think even if you hear about someone else making a mistake , it doesn't necessarily keep you from doing the same thing or a similar thing . There are some things you only know because you yourself did it .

Stacey 9:55

Exactly right , exactly right . Demo's were a big thing for me .

Christy 10:00

I think that's been a big thing for a lot of people .

Stacey 10:02

I'm not sure I would have done it any differently than I did , but I think it serves its purpose . Doing it right or wrong serves its purpose . Yes .

Christy 10:10

That's a really good point , I mean you can make any experience work in your favor,

Stacey 10:17

Maybe not , you just have that exact moment , but I think , looking at hindsight , of course , 2020 , like they always say .

Christy 10:24

I'm trying to think of just small voiceover mistakes I've made . I remember I had a job where I I said six separate files to the client , you know . I labeled them all how they're supposed to be labeled and sent them all off and I made the mistake of not listening back to them all one more time before I sent them and I don't know what happened . Five of them were fine , but one of them was just noise . I mean , it was like I don't know what happened . I was able to actually find the file and restore it and it was fine and I set it off . But things like that , just like you know , maybe give it another listen before you hit send , before you attach it and send it off to the client , right ?

Christy 11:04

Things like that that I would not have learned other than doing that myself .

Stacey 11:09

Well , and I'm sure they were fine with that .

Christy 11:11

They were . I mean , they were just like , hey , something's wrong with that last file .

Stacey 11:17

Did you have to redo it ? No , I didn't have to redo it .

Christy 11:20

No it was just . It was something in the exporting process somewhere went haywire , so I had saved the original .

Stacey 11:29

And always saved the original . And it worked out fine . But that's paid off a few times for me when I've done auditions and they've come back and said we just want the audition , we'll just buy your audition , but do you have it in the waveform ? I love when that happens .

Christy 11:47

Yes , I do . It's only happened to me once , but I did a huge happy dance . What else ? What other mistakes ? None , I guess we're . We've told them all .

Stacey 11:56

I guess we're good . I guess us and those people who said they didn't . I don't know , I don't think there's , I think we didn't plan . Here's my thing about what I think we didn't see coming , and that was summer . Yes , yes absolutely , and we also had a really funny little thing about that . We were on a hiatus .

Christy 12:20

It was just a longer hiatus

Stacey 12:24

We'll put that little commercial on the website too , maybe as a bonus for subscribers or something . But yeah , I think we . I had a wedding , my daughter got married and Christy has three children that were all out of school . We just didn't anticipate how truly busy we would be this summer , and I think that , so our hiatus has been a little longer than we had originally anticipated , but we're getting up to speed now . We have two guests already recorded Brian Cutter and Andrew Morrison .

Christy 12:57

Yay , we've got many more coming . We've got many more coming . So thank you , but yeah , absolutely I wish we hadn't taken , maybe we could have made season one longer , or maybe we , if we just planned for a longer hiatus . I don't know .

Stacey 13:11

Yeah , I think we'll know more next year when we can maybe record ahead a little bit in May , and I know a lot of people don't even bother with seasons .

Christy 13:18

And I know a lot of people don't even bother with seasons . But I think we did a season initially just to say , ok , well , if it turns out we hate doing this and it's just not working , then we can say , well , look , we did 10 episodes , we did a season , we put a bow on it , we're done, that was good .

Stacey 13:32

Yeah , yeah , those are all the mistakes that are made . We're done .

Christy 13:35

We covered everything . No more mistakes to be shared . I don't click my pen , I don't swivel on my stool , my demos are all perfect . Yeah , I send out my direct marketing at just the right time . I say exactly the right words . I'm never awkward , ever , never , never , ever awkward .

Stacey 13:55

Keep going , I'm waiting , I'm

Christy 14:00

I remember to drink enough water every day . I don't .

Stacey 14:06

That may be my mistake .

Christy 14:08

Oh , you had the one with your can of .

Stacey 14:11

Oh my gosh , I know I kept hearing this echo in my auditions and it was driving me crazy . I couldn't figure out what it was . It was weird and I was like looking around in here , going , did something change ? What's changed ? It turns out it was an empty can of seltzer water and it was echoing into the can . I couldn't believe it . I couldn't believe it . Anyway , that was . I guess that was my mistake .

Christy 14:39

Yeah , so I've got my plastic water bottle in here now . Sometimes I bring my big metallic one because I actually like it better , because it keeps the water cooler , but I can't have it in here when I'm recording for it . Just , you know , it's a small enough space that the sound bounces off of it .

Stacey 14:54

My ceramic cup's okay , but , boy , no more metal cup bottle cans in here for me ? Who knew ? You know, there goes my six pack, there goes my sis back of beer, right .

Christy 15:04

I'm sure creative people can find a way around that if they want to Sippy cups . Well , I do hope people will share their mistakes with us , whether people come on in our guests or send us the little voicemail and maybe we'll feature them on one of our shows .

Stacey 15:25

That's a tempting thought , isn't it ? So yeah , that would be great . I would think that would be fun . I hope people do that and subscribe .

Christy 15:33

Yes , tell your friends . Sing our theme song .

Stacey 15:37

Oh , we have a great theme song . You know I did want to touch on that . Christy is an excellent jingle writer . She wrote a jingle for our little hiatus commercial that she sang in front of a lake . So if anybody needs a jingle , we got the jingler right here .

Christy 15:56

Write me up . Write to me . Write me up . Sounds like when you get a suspension notice in school .

Stacey 16:02

I had to write you up , write up the jingler Jingler . Sounds like a Marvel cartoon . Sounds like a superhero . A jingler , la , la , la and Barry .

Christy 16:16

Oh Barry Manilow is the head jingler . He is the master jingler . I bow down in admiration .

Stacey 16:24

Nobody's better Scrub from bottom to top . There is nothing so clean as my burger machine . I'm stuck on Band-Aids . Band-aids are stuck on me .

Christy 16:35

Didn't he do that ? Yeah , I think so . He did the .

Stacey 16:37

Band-Aids too . I don't know , Somebody will tell us . I'm sure Leave a message on our thing . Yes , tell us if we're right ,

Christy 16:45

The lake one . The first take I did of it, I was not right in front of the lake , I was closer to the place we were staying . You can see all these passerby looking very confused in the background .

Stacey 16:56

Oh I wish .

Christy 16:58

Why is she singing ? What's going on here ? I wish she'd be quiet , so I went out to the dock and did it there .

Stacey 17:07

We'll have to have you record a version of it in your booth with your ukulele , so we have a really good version of it . It's adorable .

Stacey 17:19

It's a real . What do you call them Earworm ? I never liked that term . You want earworm to be a jingle Jingles , as earworms are good .

Christy 17:27

Oh yes , you absolutely do . It's just the term itself . I've never been crazy about the thought of a worm , it's just the term that crosses me out a little bit .

Stacey 17:39

Wow Too literal .

Christy 17:39

Yeah , I'll say so .

Stacey 17:42

All right , and I'm not at all .

Christy 17:43

Anyway , I'm anti-literal and that's why we're perfect together . I can't wait for this season .

Stacey 17:50

Yep , I can't either . We've got more fun to be coming up in season two , so subscribe myownmistakecom or wherever you find your podcasts . Take care everybody , kristi , see you next time . We'll see you next time , all right , bye .

Vince 18:06

Thanks for listening to my Own Mistake with Kristi Spadafore and Stacy Kimball . I'm Vince Urie and I hope that you'll join us next time to hear more stories about more mistakes .