International Women's Month Q&A with voice actor Angely Baez
Channel: Voice123
Date: 2021-03-15

This month, in celebration of International Women's Day, we bring a weekly series featuring career-focused women in the voice-over industry. Hear their thoughts on the changes they'd like to see in the industry, and how other voice actors can help make that change happen:

"Let's work together as one, and respect each other enough to elevate the standards of the voice-over community. We can do it. We can make it happen."

-Angely Baez
https://voice123.com/angelybaez

Transcript:

[00:00:00] It's to have better rates for our community and to respect those rates. To have clients respecting our job and to have each other respecting the job of our colleagues.
I think that's one of the most positive changes I would love to see. And there is something that I call a blessing behind the pandemic, it's the fact that there is a lot of new opportunities for us voice over talents that are maybe overseas, because a lot of clients and agencies that were kind of reluctant to work with talents that were in another country, or maybe we're not physically there in the booth to be directed, are now giving those opportunities to amazing colleagues and talents that are ready and willing to make that job. So there are new opportunities for us and I think this year will be a great year for the voice over community, definitely.
[00:01:00] I think other colleagues can make this happen, working together as one. Working together as one strong community, seeing each other as a companion, as a dear colleague, instead of seeing each other as a competition, respecting the work of our colleagues, respecting ourselves enough to actually elevate the standards of what we do. Dignifying the rates and respecting each other and recommending a colleague, cause let's be honest there is no way we can do all the jobs that land into our hands. So, yes, why don't we recognize the great things our colleagues can do and give them that job, maybe they need that, too. So, I think we can do that by working together as one and respecting each other enough to elevate the standards of the voice over community. We can do it. We [00:02:00] can make it happen. I'm sure we can.

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