162: How to Earn up to $3000 an Hour With Your Voice
The Side Hustle Show
Nick Loper
4.7 • 1.6K Ratings
🗓️ 3 March 2016
⏱️ 30 minutes
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Voiceover acting may be -- at least in my mind -- one of the most universal side hustles. I mean, almost all of us can speak, right? My guest this week, Carrie Olsen, assures me there's a little more to it than that, but also says it's a business with low startup costs and low barriers to entry. Carrie went from her first audition to quitting her job in a span of just 4 months.
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| 0:00.0 | Side Hustle Show 162, how to earn up to $3,000 an hour with your voice. |
| 0:06.0 | Welcome to the Side Hustle Show. |
| 0:08.0 | Where aspiring part-time entrepreneurs learn how to turn their side hustle dreams into reality because your |
| 0:14.8 | 9 to 5 may make you a living but your 5 to 9 makes you alive and now your host |
| 0:20.4 | Nick Loper. |
| 0:27.0 | What's up, Nick Loper here? Welcome to the Side Hustle show. |
| 0:28.0 | It's all about ideas, action, and results. |
| 0:31.0 | Some really fun results for you today on a side hustle that just about anybody has the |
| 0:35.4 | potential to get started with and that's voice over acting. In fact you probably already have the two key ingredients. |
| 0:41.1 | Number one, your voice and number two, the ability to read. My guest is |
| 0:44.9 | Carrie Olson who went from her first voiceover audition to quitting her job in four months and she's worked |
| 0:51.3 | with some big name brands like REI, Disney World, and AT&T. |
| 0:55.0 | I'm going to play one of her REI commercials for you at the end of this episode. |
| 0:58.4 | It sounds really cool. |
| 1:00.0 | Now you'll also hear her tell me about how her best job ever paid $3,000 for less than an |
| 1:05.9 | hours worth of work. |
| 1:07.1 | So of course I had to use that for the hook for this episode even though she made sure |
| 1:11.2 | to say that's definitely not typical. |
| 1:13.3 | Not typical, I say, but possible. |
| 1:16.0 | So stick around to hear how Carrie landed her first gigs, |
| 1:18.4 | the equipment and startup expenses |
| 1:20.0 | she spent money on, and how she's marketed herself to turn her voice over work into a full-time |
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