My first introduction to audiobooks was at around 10 or 11 years old, when my Godfather gave me the first half of Harry Potter and The Goblet of Fire on cassette tape. In German. (I'm from Germany!)

Having listened to it on repeat, I finally grabbed the Jim Dale audiobook version of the series after I'd moved to the States and relished in the nostalgia. 

I've also always been interested in the "behind the scenes" of movies, and then audiobooks, which led me down this path! 

The final trigger to pursue voice acting came when I was reading The Thief Lord by (one of my favorite childhood books!) to my children, and kept getting "do that voice again" or "wait - I thought he had an accent" from them (they definitely keep me on my toes)!