Melissa Del Toro Schaffner is an American Voice Actor, international best selling author, and highly sought after Accountability Coach. In addition to being in the Mom after 40 club, she wears multiple hats including Podcaster, Electrical Engineer, and Project Manager. Yes, you will find she is a strong-minded, interesting woman of many talents and accomplishments. She is both the creator and illustrator of the Minority Girl Empowerment Coloring Book “Careers for Little Sisters” and was a contestant on the nationally televised game show “Who Wants to Be a Millionaire”. An engaging storyteller, your listeners will be thrilled to hear her life-affirming story, and how she manages such a busy and accomplished life, yet continues to affirm that she is living a life s!he truly loves!
Blazing through her bucket list, her “one woman on a mission” adventures include Dogsledding in Nome, Alaska, trekking the pyramids of Mexico, and a particularly magical Christmas tour of the Kremlin. But while these adventures were amazing, it was her powerful memory of watching the 1998 cartoon A Bug’s Life which radically changed her course, leading to a Jerry McGuire-style moment in which she quit her lucrative 20-year corporate career to pursue (and accomplish!) the unlikely dream of working as a full-time Voice actor. Now the mom of a preschooler, she uses her many experiences as a mother and corporate professional to perform caring and morally centered voiceover scripts.
Her current endeavor is as the narrator of The Untold Tales Podcast – a high quality, short story sci-fi audio drama. This is just one more outlet to further her mission to inspire one million women to summon up the courage to live the life of their dreams. Your listeners will love how she has become the example she was always seeking in the world but never found…
FEMALE AND YOUTH EMPOWERMENT
VALUE ADD FOR AUDIENCE: Listeners will be inspired by Melissa’s experience holding her ground in many male-dominated careers, and her published coloring book creation that inspires young minority girls to do the same. As a woman in S.T.E.A.M., Melissa is a true beacon of hope, motivation, inspiration, and encouragement.
CAREER REINVENTION: Electrical Engineering to Voice Acting
VALUE ADD FOR AUDIENCE: Listeners will be thrilled to learn how
She used Hypnotherapy, Law of Attraction/Manifestation/Meditation and a powerful work ethic to seamlessly transition from a successful project management and engineering career into life as a thriving Voiceover Professional.
STANDING OUT IN A PACK: Creating unique positioning
VALUE ADD FOR AUDIENCE: Melissa’s motto is, “If you can dream it, you can achieve it”, and hearing how she has differentiated herself in a very crowded profession (Voiceover) as the Untold Tales Audio Anthologies: Audio Drama Narrator and accomplished Voice over actor will quickly hook and inspire your many listeners.
Some other topics:
Empowering materials such as the Careers For LIttle Sisters Coloring Book
Being HUMAN on social media
Feeling LONELY as an entrepreneur, as an employee, as a mom – even while having tons of “friends”
Creating RELATIONSHIPS with people you’ve never even met (like Brooke and me!)
Wanting to give up, being frustrated, and feeling like you are wasting your time when you are ACTUALLY growing, moving forward and making a difference
PODCAST: Being Inspired Podcast with Amanda Johnson
https://www.stitcher.com/podcast/being-inspired-radio-show/e/63416378
VLOG/PODCAST: Social Media Traffic School – Sally Hendricks Interview
https://www.socialmediatrafficschool.com/blog/featured-fan-melissa-del-toro
BLOG: LeadUp for Women 5/28/20 Colleen Biggs
https://www.leadupforwomen.com/blog/thrive-thursday-meet-melissa-del-toro-voiceover-artist-accountability-coach-and-a-mom
VLOG: Creative Coffee with Brooke Spagrud
https://www.melissadeltoro.com/blog/creative-coffee-cafe-with-brooke-spagrud
BLOG: Offbeat Bride
Melissa & Jason know all the tricks for hosting an elegant Phoenix bash on a budget
I am a voice actor working out of my professional home recording studio, which has:
360° studio coverage professional-grade sound absorption
NT1-A Rode Mic with pop filter
Focusrite Scarlett 2i2 Interface
Audio-Technica ATH-M50x Professional Studio Monitor Headphones
Source Connect, Zoom, Skype ready
Thunderbolt Internet Connection
