PRO VOICE

Turn What You Know Into What You Earn

What if the most valuable asset in your career isn’t your resume—it's your voice?

In today’s fast-changing professional world, visibility is power—and authenticity is currency. PRO VOICE is your step-by-step guide to turning what you know into what you earn by building a trusted personal brand, creating powerful digital content, and earning a “Knowledge Paycheck” in the new creator economy.

Written by national career expert and Work It DAILY founder J.T. O’Donnell, this revolutionary playbook empowers white-collar professionals to reclaim their influence and future-proof their careers—without feeling like a narcissist or self-promoter.

Inside, you’ll learn how to:
✔ Gain clarity on your Unique Value Add (UVA)
✔ Build digital proof of your expertise using the G.L.O.W. Method™
✔ Create content that attracts recruiters, clients, and collaborators
✔ Monetize your insights with coaching, speaking, and consulting
✔ Ditch the resume and showcase your impact through your Results Reel
✔ Structure your personal brand like a business-of-one

This isn’t about going viral. It’s about getting visible—to the people who matter most.

Whether you're advancing in your current role, pivoting careers, or building new income streams, PRO VOICE gives you the tools to:

• Build credibility and trust online
• Grow a professional following on platforms like LinkedIn
• Create a sustainable content strategy that works for you
• Start earning what you're really worth—in money, meaning, and momentum

The future of work belongs to professionals who know how to use their voice.

Your knowledge is valuable. Your voice is powerful. It’s time to turn both into your greatest advantage.

Are you ready to find your PRO VOICE—and get paid for what you know?

AI Voice reader ruins the Pro Voice

The irony isn't lost that the AI-generated voice caused the author's "Pro Voice" to be destroyed. This book is about you creating your Pro Voice. To gain credibility. To create a following. To gain new income streams based on your knowledge and expertise. The AI reader could never seem to pick the correct context of the word it was reading. It could not figure out when to use resume [ri-zoom] or resume [rez-oo-mey, rez-oo-mey]. It could not figure out when to use content [kon-tent] or content [kuhn-tent]. It could not figure out when to use lead [leed] or lead [led].

It makes you wonder if the author ever listened to his book, and if so, did he even care if Pro Voice was being diminished in such a way?

The book has some good points. I wish I could give it more stars.

Good info, but annoying AI narrator

She keeps talking about how your work reflects your value. The AI narrator keeps failing to pronounce words correctly and does not put correct emphasis on words in a sentence. Is this author just “phoning it in”? Did AI write this book?

Maybe just write a prompt in AI and get better advice.

It's Rough to Hear but the Concepts Have Value

J.T. O’Donnell’s message is timely and, in many places, genuinely useful. The core idea, that your career is strengthened when you can clearly articulate your value, create proof of your expertise, and build trust in public, is hard to argue with.

The problem is the format.

This audiobook’s “Virtual Voice” narration is, bluntly, one of the worst listening experiences I have had.

I do not dislike AI.

I dislike this execution.

Mispronunciations happen constantly and they are distracting enough that they pull you out of the content over and over again.

The biggest issue: the Virtual Voice is a reputation risk

What makes this feel especially insulting is that J.T. is not someone hiding behind a keyboard. She publishes content daily. She has an actual voice people recognize and trust. Because of that, using a low-quality synthetic narrator creates an unnecessary credibility gap. When the narrator repeatedly mispronounces words, it signals “rushed” and “lowest bidder,” even if the written material is strong. For a book centered on building authority and trust, the delivery undermines the thesis.

If you want the ideas but not the audio pain, I strongly recommend consuming this as a print or ebook instead of the audiobook.

What works: the content is mostly strong

About 90 percent of the concepts are solid and consistent with what has made J.T. valuable to many professionals for a long time. The guidance around clarifying your Unique Value Add, building “digital proof,” and treating your personal brand like a business-of-one is practical. The book encourages professionals to stop being invisible, stop relying only on job titles, and start showing evidence of impact. In a world where hiring managers do scan LinkedIn and where referrals increasingly start online, that part is real.

Where it goes too far: “resumes are dead”

This is where the book, in my view, crosses from bold marketing into irresponsible repetition.

Resumes are not dead.

They are evolving, but they remain a core requirement in most hiring processes, especially for unemployed job seekers navigating ATS systems and formal recruiting workflows.

There is a reasonable point hiding underneath the headline:

A resume alone is often not enough.

Visibility, networking, and proof of work can create opportunities.

A strong LinkedIn presence can increase inbound conversations.

All of that can be true while the resume is still necessary. For someone positioning herself as a trusted career authority, the blanket “resumes are dead” claim is risky because many listeners are unemployed and need reliable, actionable guidance, not a slogan.

The logic gap: “companies will find you from a video”

The idea that real companies will randomly discover you because you posted a video, instead of you presenting a well-written resume and applying strategically, does not match how most recruiting functions work. Yes, content can create surface area and yes, recruiters sometimes source candidates through LinkedIn activity. But “post a video and they will find you” is not a plan, it is a hope with a ring light.

A more responsible, realistic framing would be:

Use content to expand your network and credibility.

Use a Results Reel or portfolio to prove impact.

Use that visibility to get conversations.

Still maintain a strong resume because most systems and companies require it.

That is “and,” not “or.”

Who should read it (and how)

Best for: employed professionals, consultants, coaches, leaders, and career pivoters who want to build long-term career leverage and credibility.

Not ideal for: someone unemployed who needs immediate, step-by-step job search execution without hype, unless they can separate the useful brand strategy from the “resume is dead” messaging.

Format recommendation: read the book, skip this audiobook edition unless you have the patience of a monk and the pain tolerance of a warehouse dock in peak season.

Final verdict:

This is a valuable book trapped inside a poorly produced audiobook. The ideas around clarity, visibility, and proof-of-work are worth your time. The virtual narration is a major miss, and the repeated “resumes are dead” angle is overstated to the point of being unhelpful and even hurtful for many job seekers.

If J.T. re-released this with her own narration, or a professional human narrator, it would immediately elevate the product and better match the credibility she has earned. Until then, take the strategy, leave the slogan, and please do not let a robot mispronouncing half the book be the thing that convinces you to stop using a resume that still opens doors.