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Permission to Speak
Permission to Speak is a fun and fiery romp through how we talk and what our voice says about us with Samara Bay, speech coach to the stars and public speaking adviser back when there was a public to speak in. Each week she interviews people who specialize in how we use our voice and people in the public eye who are USING it—what it took to find their voice, when it still wavers, the crap comments they’ve gotten for being too loud or too soft or too millennial or too anything because PEOPLE HAVE OPINIONS, and how to give ourselves permission to speak like we belong in rooms of power just as...
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4.6 stars from 137 ratings
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I really wanted to like this podcast. When I listen to Samara’s voice, I feel emotionally dysregulated. Her voice sounds too high strung and she speaks too fast for my taste.
murdoch14 via Apple Podcasts · Canada · 04/09/22
The joy of speaking
This show is equal parts entertaining, educational, and therapeutic.
HBONowLiars via Apple Podcasts · United States of America · 01/10/22
Intelligent and interesting
Samara is an amazing person all around. Smart, capable and interesting presentation and episodes about a topic I have often wondered about. Love, love, love that she put this in a podcast format.
Kdiddlz via Apple Podcasts · United States of America · 12/08/20
Recent Episodes
Published 09/02/20
 Samara chats with the groundbreaking psychologist and author of the new book How You Say It: Why You Talk The Way You Do—and What It Says About You, about what Ruth Bader Ginsberg’s changing accent tells us about human nature, how Hugh Laurie betrayed us, and the accent YOU have. As Katherine...
Published 09/02/20
Samara chats with the California congresswoman who resigned in November—about how to actually run for office, the politics of politics on Capitol Hill, and what it was like to weather a very public shaming—and how to write and deliver a speech in the midst of it. With lots of swearing and...
Published 08/26/20
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