These terms are the rules for using VO Journey Academy. That means this website, the membership, the courses, the live classes, the Discord community, coaching, demo production, webinars and anything else we offer. We call all of that "VO Journey" below.
We've kept them in plain English. Please read them. If anything is unclear, email us at apica@avosjourney.com.
This summary is here to help. The full terms below are what count.
VO Journey Academy is a brand of Anthony Pica Productions, LLC, a Virginia limited liability company ("we", "us"). Our address is 7861 Indian Road, Gloucester, VA 23061. You can reach us at apica@avosjourney.com.
Academy Voices is our audiobook company. Members get access to it, but your audiobook work there (auditions, narration, royalties) is covered by the separate Academy Voices terms and narrator agreement, not by these terms.
You agree to these terms, and to our Privacy Policy, when you do any of these:
If you don't agree, please don't use VO Journey.
You must be at least 18 to create an account, buy anything, join a live class or join the Discord.
Our membership plans are Launch Pad, CORE and Premium. Each has a monthly and a yearly option. Each plan includes what its checkout page lists on the day you join. The current plans and prices are on avosjourney.com/join.
Class times, coaches and the course library change over time. We may move a class, swap a coach, retire an old course or replace a class with a better one. If a change takes away a big part of what your plan includes, we'll tell you first, and you can cancel. If you're on a yearly plan, we'll refund the unused months.
Class times are in US Eastern time.
Extras that come with a plan (for example Academy Voices access, the Discord, or webinar seats) last only while your plan is active.
Your membership renews automatically. A monthly plan charges your card or PayPal account every month, on the same date you joined, until you cancel. A yearly plan charges once a year, on the date you joined, until you cancel.
Intro prices. Some plans start lower. For example, CORE is $39 for your first month, then $78 a month from your second month. The checkout always shows the first price, the price after that, and how often you'll be charged.
Price changes. We may change our prices. If the price you pay is going to change, we'll email you at least 30 days before the new price applies to you, and you can cancel before it does. A price change never affects a payment you've already made.
Yearly reminders. If you're on a yearly plan, we'll email you 30 days before each renewal with the renewal date, the price and how to cancel.
Payments. All prices are in US dollars. Payments are taken through Kajabi, by Stripe (cards) or PayPal. We never see or store your full card number. Your bank may add currency or foreign transaction fees.
Failed payments. If a payment fails, it will be retried and you'll get an email. If it still can't be collected, your access may pause until it's paid.
You can cancel any time from your account, in the billing portal. No phone call, no form, and you don't have to give a reason. If you pay by PayPal, you can also cancel inside PayPal.
Once you cancel, you won't be charged again. You keep access until the end of the period you've already paid for.
Cancelling doesn't refund the current month or year, except as set out in section 9.
If you're on a monthly plan, you can pause your membership from your account instead of cancelling. Yearly plans can't be paused.
Your access pauses on the day you press pause. To get full value from days you've paid for, pause close to your next payment date.
Memberships: 30-day money-back guarantee. If VO Journey isn't for you, email apica@avosjourney.com within 30 days of the first payment on your membership, and we'll refund that payment in full. This applies to every membership plan, monthly or yearly.
Once per person, ever. You can use the guarantee one time. If you've had a refund under it before, you can't use it again by leaving and rejoining, or by joining a different plan.
After the first 30 days, there are no refunds, including on yearly plans. You can cancel any time, you won't be charged again, and you keep access to the end of the period you've paid for. The only exceptions are the ones in section 5 (a change that takes away a big part of a yearly plan) and section 23 (if we close a program).
Coaching sessions. A paid session that hasn't happened yet, and hasn't expired, can be refunded on request. A session that has taken place, was missed without notice, or has expired can't be refunded (see section 10).
Demo production packages. You can get a full refund if you ask within 14 days of buying and before your strategy call has taken place. After that, the package can't be refunded, except under the "if you're not ready" promise. The full rules are in our Demo Production Terms.
Paid webinars and workshops. Refund on request before the start time. No refund after it starts.
Refunds go back to the card or PayPal account you paid with. Your bank may take a few days to show it.
Nothing in these terms takes away refund or cancellation rights you have under the law where you live (for example, UK or EU consumer law).
You can buy one-on-one coaching separately. Premium includes one 30-minute session a month with a coach you choose. Sessions are booked through our booking page and held on Zoom.
Book it and hold it within 1 month. A one-on-one session you buy must be booked and held within 1 month of the day you buy it. After that it expires. An expired session can't be booked late and isn't refunded.
Premium's included session must be used in the month it comes with. It doesn't roll over to the next month.
Rescheduling. To reschedule, give at least 24 hours' notice. If you miss a session without that notice, it counts as used.
Recording. A one-on-one session is only recorded if you and your coach both agree.
Our coaches are independent contractors. They aren't employees of VO Journey.
We produce voice over demos in three packages (currently $350, $500 and $900). When you buy a demo, our Demo Production Terms apply too. They set out what's included, what you provide, the timeline, revisions, refunds and who can use the finished demo.
Your finished demo is yours to use to promote yourself. We only use your demo as a sample of our work if you opt in through our Marketing Release.
Some webinars and workshops are paid and sold separately. The price, whether there's a replay and how long it stays up are shown on the sign-up page. Some plans include a free or discounted seat.
Some live classes are recorded, including your video, voice, name and chat. Right now, Monday, Tuesday and Thursday classes are recorded. Wednesday Script Workout is never recorded.
Recordings are shared with members in the class archive, inside the membership, so they can learn from them. We tell you at the start of each recorded class.
You don't have to be on camera. If you don't want to appear, turn off your camera, change your display name, or use the chat instead. You can ask us to cut or blur you from an archive recording by emailing apica@avosjourney.com, and we'll do it within 14 days of your request.
Class recordings are never used in public marketing unless you've said yes on our optional Marketing Release (see section 14).
Paid webinars and workshops may be recorded too, and the replay shared with the people who signed up. The sign-up page says so.
YouTube lives are public. If you comment in the live chat, or join us on screen as a guest, what you share is part of a public broadcast and its replay.
Don't record other people. You may not record, screenshot, download or share any class (live or replay), or other members' reads, outside VO Journey.
Class recordings stay inside the membership. We will not use your face, voice, name or reads in public marketing (social posts, ads, our website, emails or the podcast) unless you give us separate written permission.
That permission is a short, optional Marketing Release. It is not part of these terms, and joining doesn't depend on it. You choose exactly where we can use you, and you can change your mind at any time for anything new we post.
These rules apply in live classes, the Discord, our Facebook group, live chats and any other VO Journey space.
If someone breaks these rules, we may remove their posts, remove them from a class or the Discord, or suspend or close their account. We'll usually warn you first, unless it's serious.
Your content means anything you record, upload or post with us: reads, auditions, audio files, demos, messages, photos and headshots.
You keep ownership of it.
So we can run VO Journey, you give us a limited permission to host, store, play and show your content to coaches and members, to give you feedback in class and in the community, and to keep it in the members' class archive. This permission doesn't let us use your content in public marketing. That needs the separate Marketing Release (see section 14).
We don't sell your voice recordings. We will never use your voice to train AI or to make a synthetic copy of your voice.
You promise that you have the right to share what you post, and that it doesn't break the law or anyone else's rights. We may remove content that breaks these terms.
If you send us ideas or suggestions, we're free to use them.
Our Privacy Policy explains what personal information we collect, how we use it and how to ask us to see or delete it. We don't sell your personal information.
Your face, voice and name are yours too. We only use them in public marketing if you sign our optional Marketing Release, and only in the places you tick on it. You can withdraw at any time.
Our courses, class replays, the script library, slides, worksheets, the rate guide and the VO Journey name and logo belong to us (or to the people we license them from).
While your membership is active, you may use member materials for your own personal learning. You may not copy, download (unless we give you a download button), share, resell, publish, or upload them to other sites or to AI tools. You may not use them to run your own course.
Scripts. You may record our scripts to practise, share those recordings in VO Journey spaces for feedback, and use your own recordings of them on your demo reel and your own website. You may not republish or sell the scripts themselves, or claim them as your own writing.
When your membership ends, your access to member-only materials ends too.
Voice acting is a real business, and results depend on your talent, practice, gear, time, marketing and the market. We teach the craft and the business. We don't promise you'll book work, publish an audiobook, get an agent, or earn any particular amount, or any money at all.
Member stories and wins on our site are real, but they aren't typical, and they aren't a promise that you'll get the same results.
Rates and pay figures in our rate guide, classes and posts are examples of published industry rates. They are not what you will earn, and they are not a promise.
Our coaches share their professional opinion and experience. Feedback on a read is one person's view. Nothing we teach is legal, tax, financial or medical advice. Speak to a qualified professional about contracts, taxes or your voice health. You decide what to do with any advice you get.
Some of our pages, posts and videos link to products on Amazon, Sweetwater, StreamYard and other stores. Some of these are affiliate links: we may earn a commission if you buy, at no extra cost to you. As an Amazon Associate I earn from qualifying purchases. We say so next to those links.
We also run a partner program. Partners earn a commission when people join through their link, under separate partner terms. Partners must tell you when they earn a commission.
The full details are on our Affiliate Disclosure page.
We use other companies to run VO Journey, including Kajabi (website, membership, checkout and email), Stripe and PayPal (payments), Zoom (classes), Discord (community), YouTube and StreamYard (lives), and our booking tool. They have their own terms and privacy policies. We aren't responsible for their outages or their websites, and a link to another site isn't an endorsement.
You can cancel any time (section 7). To delete your account and your data, email us.
We can suspend or end your access if you seriously or repeatedly break these terms, don't pay, or if the law requires it. Where it's fair, we'll warn you first. If we close a program through no fault of yours, we'll refund any unused part of what you paid.
We work hard to keep classes running and the site working, but we can't promise it will always be available or free of errors. Now and then a class is cancelled or moved (illness, tech problems, holidays). When that happens we'll reschedule, or share a recording or a replacement class. As far as the law allows, we don't give any promises beyond the ones in these terms.
As far as the law allows:
Nothing in these terms limits liability that the law doesn't allow us to limit, or takes away your rights under consumer law where you live.
Nothing in these terms stops you from posting an honest review of VO Journey, good or bad. We'd love to hear from you first if something's wrong, but you never have to.
If something's wrong, please email apica@avosjourney.com first. Most problems are fixed quickly.
These terms are governed by the laws of the Commonwealth of Virginia, USA, where our company is based.
If you live somewhere whose consumer law lets you bring a claim in your local courts, you keep that right.
We may update these terms as VO Journey changes. We'll post the new version here with a new "Last updated" date. If a change matters (especially about billing, cancelling or refunds), we'll email members at least 30 days before it applies to them. If you don't agree, you can cancel before then. Changes never apply to payments already made.
These terms, our Privacy Policy, the checkout page you bought from and, for demos, our Demo Production Terms are the whole agreement between us. If the checkout page and these terms disagree about price or what's included, the checkout page wins. If part of these terms can't be enforced, the rest still applies. You can't transfer your account to someone else. If another company takes over VO Journey, we may transfer these terms to it and we'll tell you.
VO Journey Academy, a brand of Anthony Pica Productions, LLC
7861 Indian Road, Gloucester, VA 23061
Email: apica@avosjourney.com
