Samara chats with the expert voice coach about how to find your real and true voice under the layers of socialization that’s gotten in its way, and what stress does to all of us... which includes, among other things, literally making it harder to speak. This is the episode about feeling our feelings and saying what we really want to say, especially during pandemic times.  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 the article about women’s voices in groups, by Brittany Karford Rogers: magazine.byu.edu/article/when-women-dont-speak/ For more on Adele Cabot: adelecabot.com/la-voice-joy/welcome/ To download Adele’s voice warmups: adelecabot.com/la-voice-joy/actors/buy-voice-warm-up/ For more on Kristin Linklater: linklatervoice.com/linklater-voice/about-linklater-voice  For more on the chakras: blog.mindvalley.com/7-chakras/  For Oprah’s Golden Globes speech: youtube.com/watch?v=TTyiq-JpM-0  For more on honoring native lands: usdac.us/nativeland   ****How are you feeling about your voice? Send Samara a question for our next mailbag episode at PermissiontoSpeakPod.com or on Instagram @permissiontospeakpod**** Please share this pod with a friend who needs a boost, 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