You're listening to Voice Acting Mastery, episode number 205.

Welcome to the Voice Acting Mastery podcast with Crispin Freeman.

Voiceactingmastery.com is your place to learn both the skills and the mindset you need to become a professional voice actor, even if you're just getting started.

In each episode of this podcast, you'll discover valuable tips, tricks, and insider information

to help you portray characters in animation, video games, and beyond.

And now here's your host, Voice Actor Crispin Freeman.

Hi there. My name is Crispin Freeman, and I'll be your guide through the world of voice acting.

If you'd like to know more about me, feel free to check out my personal website at www.crispinfreeman.com.

Welcome to the first part of my interview with an accomplished voice actress, who just happens

to be a former student of mine and one of my class assistants, Lauren Mayfield.

One of the things that I love most as an acting teacher is when a student of mine is able to achieve

a level of success in their career, where the two of us can graduate from being teacher and student to being

fellow colleagues in the voiceover industry.

Lauren has definitely achieved that.

I first met her when she started taking some of my acting classes back in 2016.

I admired her talent, her commitment to the craft of acting, and her generous spirit.

So I eventually asked if she

would be willing to assist me with my classes, and she graciously agreed. Since then, Lauren has been

a consistent source of encouragement, advice, and inspiration for many of my students, and I'm so

grateful to have had her on the voice-acting mastery team for so long.

Over the years, Lauren has also been diligently building her own voice-acting career,

and I was delighted to hear from her recently that she and I were both playing characters in the video game Starfield by Bethesda.

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