Talking about my mental stress with Reba Buhr

Welcome to Coffee with the Creators Podcast! Today, our guest is Reba Buhr. She is a voice actress who has worked on English dubbed anime series, Western animated TV series, and video games. She is a classically trained vocalist and began her career in musical theater before moving to film/television and voiceover work.

Migrating an Audience to a different Platform

[09:04]

Reba runs three separate social media accounts. One of the accounts is about mental health for a book she is publishing about panic and anxiety. She also creates comedic content for Instagram and shares the ins and outs of the voice acting industry on TikTok.

Constant Growth

[17:41]

Reba says that it's never going to be your job to talk yourself out of a room. Nobody wants that from you and, nobody will believe in you unless you first believe in yourself. Tell people that you believe in yourself even when you don't and people will believe in you. Maybe you are better at what you do than you're willing to admit to yourself.

Dress for Success

[19:54]

If you want to be successful, start dressing like you're successful. Dress for the job you want and not the job you have. Dressing for success is convincing yourself that you have the capability of being something better than you are today. Convince yourself that you are the person you envision yourself to be. It is a manifestation of who you are.

How Reba got into Voice Acting

[23:17]

When Reba was in college, she took a Tai Chi class for one credit. The teacher was also an improviser and director for dubbing. The teacher-directed a dub and offered Reba $75 an hour to do little voices. Reba then had to learn all the technicalities and process of dubbing but eventually got the hang of it.

Slow Down and Listen to your Body

[34:40]

Listen to your body when it whispers so you don't have to hear it scream. Sometimes, the things that we overdo are exciting.

Reba’s Mental Health Journey

[36:29]

Reba’s mental health journey started with panic attacks that wouldn't go away right off the bat. The only option was to stop everything she was doing and listen because she was non-functional.

Panic Attack vs. Mental Breakdown

[40:09]

A panic attack is a brief period of discomfort that comes on suddenly. Some symptoms are heart palpitations, shallow breathing, hot and cold flushes, abdominal distress, dissociation, depersonalization, tingling, and numbness

Building Legitimacy

[59:35]

You may find yourself making the content you think the people want rather than the content that you want. But you need growth, which is why you need to have legitimacy on various platforms to be noticed and taken seriously by people.

Know more about Reba at:

https://www.imdb.com/name/nm4035204/

https://www.rebabuhr.com/

Follow her on:

https://www.instagram.com/reba.buhr/

https://mobile.twitter.com/rebabuhr

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