Laura Post

🧵for VAs: Let’s talk about “making it.” I get a lot of VO students who think that once you land a role in Genshin or Apex, you never have to audition again. We wish! 😂 Success is waves on the beach; they come in, they go back out. There’s no voice actor who doesn’t audition sometimes, & no one-time achievement that guarantees anything forever. Every famous person I’ve talked to has had dry years. Not weeks or months. Years. Success is a habit you build, not some lottery ticket. People ask me all the time how I get to do vo full time, and my answer is that I learned how to be successful in other areas first. I had an entire successful Opera career, a successful IT career. So I know what excellence is because I create it - it comes with me wherever I go. And it's purposeful for many, not just me. Sometimes you have to rebuild your whole career when what you’re doing stops working. That takes humility and commitment, not the luck of a flash-in-the-pan trend that dies in a few months. I talk to famous legacy actors jealous of not being in the trendy new thing, & new trendy VAs wanting to be legacy actors, not realizing they're only looking at each other's green grass. But no matter how invested some actors are in their brand fantasy, there's no real "making it" in an industry where you're only as good as the last thing you booked, turnover is high, & memories are short on purpose. It's just riding waves or making your own waves and riding those. Until you can’t anymore. It’s terrifying and amazing, so enjoy the ride. You're already on it. This is it. 🖤✨