Gailforce Productions Mission Statement
Thursday, October 30th, 2008Or…what do I really want to accomplish with this site.
I have to say thanks to my cousin Ken Gary. Ken is the one who built this site for me. It was a gift and a complete surprise. He sent me the link and when I opened it up and found this page I was pretty stunned. He told me to have fun with it and use it however I wanted. He is pretty sharp and has a great background in computer programming and has a ton of his own sites. So thank you Ken. I can’t tell you how much I appreciate this. So the past few days have been discovery days. I have been trying to discover how to use this site and trying to discover what I want to do with my life. For those of you who don’t know, on October 24th of this year, after working in radio for 30 years, 15 of them at WDEN in Macon, Georgia, I was released from my job due to Budget Cuts. It wasn’t just me. There were cuts in Cumulus markets all over the country. Along with me others cut in Macon were longtime WPEZ morning personality Paul McClelland, B95 night-time personality Zander and DJ Whiz from our Urban station Blazin’. So instead of sitting at home feeling sorry for myself I have been talking to others about what I want to do with my life and my career. This is when Ken decided to build me this website and that brings me to my “Mission Statement”.
My main goal is communication. I have always loved writing. It was a passion of mine when I was much younger. My mother encouraged me to write and to this day is still hoping that I will write a book. Instead of a book maybe it will be a blog. I am on a journey. I want to log the steps I am taking. I want to talk about the loss of not only a job, a career and a passion but also the loss of a bit of identity. Gail Daniels, mid-day personality on WDEN. That is who I have been for 15 years. 30 if you count all the stations before that. I have always believed that it wasn’t wise to get too caught up in the fact that you were on the radio. It could not become the most important thing. I knew that it could all end one day and if radio was the only thing that identified who I was, was the only way I felt validation in this world then I would not be able to carry on if it all ended. I think I did a pretty good job of remembering the important things in my life were what formed the nucleus of who am, my family, my faith, my belief that what I do as far as work is not what makes my life worth while.
So here I am. The day has finally come that I feared would come and it is time to see if I can walk the walk and talk the talk that I have been telling myself all these years. I am Gail Daniels but I am not “Gail Daniels”. Maybe by doing a daily blog I am just substituting one public persona for another. Possibly. But I have always shared my life on the air. I guess this is my way of still sharing. I may only have one reader, well two (thanks Tina and Dad!) but it will be my release and a way to chart the path I am on.
So. Communication is one element. Work is another. I have other selfish reasons for doing this blog. I want people to know I am available for voice work, voice talent, commercial voices, radio voices, on hold messaging, book narration, corporate narration, website narration, website training narration. Whatever need there may be for voice work I am available. I have my own home studio and equipment to do it. I can write and produce complete ads and if I can’t do what you need when first asked I will figure out how to do it. So work is pretty important.
I am also thinking about doing a daily entertainment report like I did on WDEN. I have the ability to write and record a short show and post it on this site. Maybe it won’t be daily but it might be something that will do a few times a week or once a week.
For now these are the things I will be concentrating on. Communicating my personal journey, finding work and comments about life in general. I hope you will join me and if you like what you are seeing please encourage others to check the site out.
Here’s to new beginnings.