April 2024 – This is not an April Fools joke: March was wild! There were so many things popping up last month.

In addition to working on Last Week Tonight with John Oliver continuing my work as the host’s stand-in (since the second season), I received another certificate from the Television Academy for my contributions to the Emmy Award-winning series — my fourth recognition!

At that, I stood in for another famous talkshow host on a commercial, plus worked on a different commercial.

Furthermore, I booked my biggest voiceover job to date, after a relatively slower start to the year. That was a thrill! This adds to the growth of my voiceover business Voiceoverpro.co which added as a new property the website PoliticalVoiceovers.com, from which my wife and I market our political voiceover services for 2024 political ad campaigns (in addition to Voiced By Us, our general voiceover website). It was exciting to be able to scoop up that important domain name!

I finished out March by completing another audiobook: Raymond Friedman’s The Art of an Organizational Leader, which should be out on Audible later this month. This, pretty much right after completing production on the audiobook for Anton Dabbs’s memoir, From Turmoil to Triumph, and also hearing word I had no pickups needed for my narration part of the audiobook for My Invisible Father: Turn on the Light to See the Unseen by Jaer Armstead-Jones (through Pro Audio Voices). So far this year, these are the audiobooks I’ve produced:

• The Art of an Organizational Leader by Raymond Friedman
• From Turmoil to Triumph by Anton Dabbs
• My Invisible Father: Turn on the Light to See the Unseen by Jaer Armstead-Jones
• Princess Max Conquers the World by Kevin Cripe

On that topic, here are the audiobooks I completed in 2023:

• Burned Out by Dean Mafako, M.D.
• The Beginner’s Guide to Wholesaling Properties: From Finding Deals to Closing Sales by Erick M. Medina
• A Book for Someone by Jim Heaney (co-narrated with my wife Rachel)
• Reality According to the Scriptures: Initial Reflections by José Soto
• Volume 1 and Volume 2 of Invisible but Seen by Alan Seabell
• The Path to Senior Product Designer: An Actionable Growth Plan for a UX Design Career by Artiom Dashinsky (actually, an online course)
• The Impact of 2 Second Lean by Paul A. Akers
• The UnChristian Christ: Modern Christianity & Jesus of Nazareth by Kerry Morris
• The Balance Equation: Find Your Formula for Living Your Best Life by Rob Fiance and Stuart Rosenblum
• David Is a Vampire and It Sucks by Nicholas Mahr
• From 0 to 500 Properties in 5 Years: A Playbook on How to Grow Your Short-Term Vacation Rental Inventory by D. Brooke Pfautz
• TWiNKLE: The Light Within by Grace Leader
• Grace Life: The Authentic Path to Activate Your Superpowers by Grace Leader
• Olly & The Spores of Oak Hill by Glenn Somodi
• ChatGPT – Is the Future Already Here? by Rodrigo Serzedello
• Galaxy’s First Super Heroes by Herman Bray II
• The male narration of Living in Endless Love by Samuel J. Boucher, edited by ShaNee N. Boucher
• The short story “Occam’s Kitchen Knife” by Bridger Cummings for an anthology audiobook
• 30 Days to Your First Real Estate Wholesaling Deal by Steve Kiernan II
• A chapter of Trial by Fire (The Inner Realms Book One) by Eric Patrick Shriey

Despite all that, I was finally able to sneak off for a weekend to see my family in North Carolina.

As for fitness, maintaining my fitness through the end of March was challenging given work on an audiobook and several scheduling bumps with early-morning wakeups. I haven’t been able to prioritize fitness as much as I would like given squeezes on my time, but I continue to work at it — and I think I’m experience much improvement in my jumping rope. I can’t wait for the warmer temperatures and the possibility of getting back out into the park to run more. I’m comfortable getting up at 4am — the trouble is, I like working out in the morning, but some my work starts soon after then!

-Ben