Samara chats with the internationally renowned voice doc about how to speak in our natural pitch (and all the drama that comes with that), what vocal fry is really doing to us, and our biases against women’s voice--and what we can all do to listen with more generous ears. ****To send Samara a question for our upcoming ASK ME ANYTHING episode visit PermissiontoSpeakPod.com or drop a DM or voice message to @permissiontospeakpod on IG**** Host: Samara Bay Executive producers: Catherine Burt Cantin & Mark Cantin, Double Vision doublevisionprojects.com Producers: Samara Bay, Sophie Lichterman and the iHeart team Theme music: Mark Cantin  For Dr. Gupta on social: @reenagupta & @centerforvocalhealth For more of Julia Gillard's interview on The Guilty Feminist podcast: youtube.com/watch?v=F4LikYajJOE For the AOC link: youtube.com/watch?v=TJlpS4vhKP0 For more info on honoring native lands: usdac.us/nativeland And of course, please leave us a review and rate us on Apple Podcasts or the iHeartRadio app! Learn more about your ad-choices at https://news.iheart.com/podcast-advertisers