Alright – so today we’ve got the honor of introducing you to Jordan Drayer. We think you’ll enjoy our conversation, we’ve shared it below.

Alright, Jordan thanks for taking the time to share your stories and insights with us today. Did you always know you wanted to pursue a creative or artistic career? When did you first know?

It goes back to a Mothers’ Day event where my fourth grade class all had to memorize some self-chosen poem. Most kids did things two or three stanzas long, often Shel Silverstein stuff. I chose this really long thing someone had sent the winter before about “spending Christmas with Jesus Christ this year,” as it was the first Christmas since my grandma had died. So I memorized that, which was like six or eight stanzas, and I had the moms of the audience tearing up. I learned I could move people. Of course, my siblings and I had always loved singing or playing instruments for visiting family and friends of our parents, but this was a chance to see I could move people to cry with a performance.

As always, we appreciate you sharing your insights and we’ve got a few more questions for you, but before we get to all of that can you take a minute to introduce yourself and give our readers some of your back background and context?

I’ll answer the questions from top to bottom. I got into the industry after graduating college in 2013. I had given up on a career of symphony musician, but I’d also not been awarded two English teaching abroad programs for which I’d applied. I floundered around for a summer, considering the army, when I thought, why not voiceover now? I’d always been interested. So I started researching online, finding books and classes and more.

Services I provide include voiceover for video game, animation, and anime characters; corporate and industrial narration, telephony (on-hold phone prompts), commercials, audiobooks (including erotica), political voiceover, and motion capture performance. Problems solved for my clients include a directable, nice, on-time, responsive, detail-oriented actor; files delivered quickly, introductions to other actors when needed, bringing scripts/characters to life no matter the genre…

I’m proud of my versatility not only in services offered (some voice actors will for instance only do audiobooks or only commercials), but also in my range of accents, ages, and vocal placements. This is reflected in my real life as well, with interests ranging from hiking to muay thai to Dungeons and Dragons to sewing. I want people to know that I will always be on time (or I say I will need time or even won’t do the job), I will label files and cut them as you need… basically I’m super flexible and can follow directions thanks to years of being an orchestra/band musician and a natural need to please. I am “leather and lace,” a badass savvy millennial voice actress both refined and sort of 1800’s-ish but also technological and practical.

We’d love to hear your thoughts on NFTs. (Note: this is for education/entertainment purposes only, readers should not construe this as advice)

I still don’t understand them, but I also don’t understand the stock market at large even after years of closed captioning Bloomberg as a job. Why are they popular? Does it help art spread? Does it take money away from the artist? If it does, then I’m against it. If someone could convince me these are a good thing, then I’d go read more and maybe consider it. For now though, I don’t feel like reading anything on them because I’ll never buy them and wouldn’t like my work being one.

Are there any books, videos, essays or other resources that have significantly impacted your management and entrepreneurial thinking and philosophy?

What I will say is The Inner Game of Tennis is a great book for getting out of your own way. There’s apparently a lot of these now in all kinds of sports and music, but I was told to read this one in college as a music major since it was the very first one. It really captures the kind of “don’t speak to yourself negatively” thing that is common today in a lot of other philosophical things. So no, it doesn’t directly give business help, but in a way, it does, because you need to be in the right mindset and ready to be nice to yourself through the hardship you’re taking on.

Contact Info:

• Website: jordandrayervoices.com
• Instagram: drayer.jordan
• Linkedin: https://www.linkedin.com/in/jordan-drayer/
• Youtube: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCaSc79bIvws4jVlGVFIxQnw

Image Credits
The hand-drawn one was by MadeMist (Madeleine de Caires).