🎧 Audiobook Narrator & VO Actor 🎧 💜Brain Injury Survivor 💜 📖 Author 📖 www.andygarciaruse.com 📍Kansas City, Missouri, USA📍 🎙 YA, Middle-Grade, Sweet Romance, Cozy Mystery, LitFic, Sci-Fi/Fantasy & Non-Fiction (I have a real affinity for self-help, inspirational, psychological & medical works) I’ve narrated a almost 50 books, working with Penguin Random House, Simon & Schuster, Dreamscape, Findaway & more! I've coached with: Sean Pratt, Shannon Parks, PJ Ochlan, Elise Arsenault, Karen White (APA Mentor), Andi Arndt, Tanya Eby & more I’m a retired licensed mental health therapist now living the dream in audiobooks & vo. Prior to this, I’ve worked in a variety of roles such as a: Paralegal, Asst. Cruise Ship Director, and in Business Development and branding. Hispano by blood, Midwestern by upbringing, I have a unique mixed culture experience. "Ni de aqui, ni de alla" 𝔽𝕦𝕟 𝔽𝔸ℚ𝕤 𝔸𝕓𝕠𝕦𝕥 𝕄𝕖 ✍️ Author of YA Dystopian book 2022 🧁 Gluten-free amateur baker 🆕️🇲🇽 Garcia/Tafoya/Martinez family 🎭 Improv 💊 Married to a Pharmacist 🐶 Dog mom ☀️ Eternal optimist 📚 Trivia queen ♊️ Gemini, Enneagram 7, ESFP-A 🪴 Plant mom 🤝 People person 📢 Panelist, Public Speaker ♿️ Disability Inclusion Advocate 🧠 Neurodivergent 💚 Mental Health Advocate 🩺 Organic lifestyle 🏥 Living with TBI, Epilepsy, Hemiplegic Migraines, Hashimoto’s, Ehlers-Danlos, Endometriosis, Asthma, ADHD, etc. 🎗PTSD warrior ✝️Believer (Matthew 5:16) (Phil. 2:3) 🕹Gamer 🎓 𝔼𝕕𝕦𝕔𝕒𝕥𝕚𝕠𝕟 🎓 🔸A.A. Paralegal 🔸B.A. Political Science 🔸Master’s of Liberal Arts: Sociology 🔸Master’s of Arts: Counseling 🎧 𝕊𝕥𝕦𝕕𝕚𝕠 & 𝔼𝕢𝕦𝕚𝕡𝕞𝕖𝕟𝕥 🎧 ▫️StudioBricks OnePlus VO Edition Professional Home Studio​ ​▫️Microphone: Telefunken TF47 Lg-diaphragm Tube Condenser ​​▫️Audio Interface: PreSonus Studio 26c ​​▫️Headphone: Sony MDR7506 ​​▫️Cables: Mogami Gold STUDIO-25 XLR Microphone Cable, ​​▫️Software and DAW: Studio One & iZotope RX8 Standard ​​▫️Computer: HP Pavilion ​​▫️SourceConnect ✨️TikTok ➡️ @andygarciaruse ✨️Facebook ➡️ @otherandygarcia ✨️LinkedIn ➡️ @theotherandygarcia 17401