March 2025 – February was my busiest month ever in terms of voiceover. Many of my days were structured with multiple, hour-long recording sessions back to back followed by editing, all with balancing other surprise voiceover jobs that would come in during the day. My days usually started around 4am and finished after 10pm, several times later than that. Most of that time in February was spent doing something related to a voiceover job!

Much of the work was related to voiceovers for an artificial intelligence company. However, a sizable chunk was related to audiobooks. Back in 2023, I saw an explosion of interest in my audiobook narration services, and I produced around twenty audiobooks that year. In 2024, for some reason interest was considerably less, seemingly from a dip in market interest in audiobooks that year, but I still produced on average an audiobook a month (which isn’t so bad!). However, 2025 has seen a real boost in interest again, as I have fielded more and more requests for quotes and also bookings. Already through February, I have produced six audiobooks this year.

Four of this year’s six audiobooks were for the same author, Daniel McMahon, who added his fourth audiobook in February for his new book, Raise Children After Divorce: A Step-by-Step Guide to Create Stability and Strengthen Finances for a Healthy Co-Parent Relationship. In addition to that audiobook in February, for author Sophia Taylor I narrated From Clicks to Cash: 100 Ways to Build Wealth Online. Both of those were nonfiction, but I also narrated in February selected chapters of fiction from the chilling book How to Make Your Neighbors Disappear by Samara Cove. All this good fortune and engaging voiceover work meant that I still did not complete work on the audiobook for my 2012 book Long-Form Improv, which has been a side project on which I have put no time pressure to complete. I suppose I can start calling its audiobook “long-awaited”!

The list of all my audiobooks narrated to date is compiled here on my voiceover website, Voiceoverpro.co.  That business is my related to my other voiceover businesses with my wife: Voiced By Us and PoliticalVoiceovers.com.

My work as a stand-in on Last Week Tonight with John Oliver has begun, with Season 12 starting mid-February. I am very excited for the new season on the show, which is my 11th season aside from a few episodes in the first season.

Back on February 20, the Netflix television series Zero Day came out. I worked on the series for around a month in January 2024. Although I haven’t seen it as of the start of March (see above schedule!), I hear I am seen in it. Vanity Fair in November ran a long piece on the upcoming series, and I was prominently featured in one of the photos, right next to DeNiro. That photo was used on The Today Show in a piece about Zero Day, so I was on the February 20th episode of The Today Show, too! So cool!

Upcoming, I am likely to have a few days of work on at least a couple other television series and possibly a Steven Spielberg movie, adding to the facets of my life these days.

My fitness is way down but relatively stable because of all this work — I say this because here and there I find an opportunity to go out for a run or to jump rope. I have put down weights for the time being to reset my body — I will probably pick them up again because I do enjoy them. With that said, with all this work and very early rises to fit in said work, I’m fighting to figure out how to balance fitness and work, which is never something I will figure out firmly. Life is a bit like balancing on a teeter-totter — with changing weights at both ends!

-Ben