Speaker 1: Hi, I'm Samarave. I'm a dialect coach for TV and film,
Speaker 1: and that means I help actors take on new accents.
Speaker 1: But when I'm coaching my actors, it's always about more
Speaker 1: than the technical stuff. It's about how humans expressed themselves,
Speaker 1: the whole messy, beautiful business of turning thoughts into the
Speaker 1: sort of communication that gets us what we want. And
Speaker 1: over time, maybe it was inevitable. I ended up coaching
Speaker 1: non actors, entrepreneurs who are pitching big ideas to big companies,
Speaker 1: whether it's in Hollywood or in the corporate sector, and
Speaker 1: regular people running for office for the first time, and
Speaker 1: my actors who are doing more charity work and suddenly
Speaker 1: interacting with the public in a completely new way, Foreigners
Speaker 1: and outsiders and women trying to be heard in the
Speaker 1: moments that matter, trying to cut through, get taken seriously,
Speaker 1: grab power. And I realized all the things we've been
Speaker 1: hearing for years about Hillary Clinton's voice, and about the
Speaker 1: double bind, how it seems impossible for women in leadership
Speaker 1: to come across as both likable and also authoritative, strong
Speaker 1: and warm. There's a lot of research, there's a lot
Speaker 1: of people who specialize in this and there's a lot
Speaker 1: of people living it. So I pitched this podcast to
Speaker 1: I Heart Radio so we could have a space to
Speaker 1: throw all the best ideas from social scientists to linguists,
Speaker 1: to yogis, to activists, to comedians, to the bosses of bosses,
Speaker 1: wisdom on how to use our voice better, what we
Speaker 1: think power sounds like in America, and what it can
Speaker 1: sound like, namely you. New episodes drop every Wednesday all
Speaker 1: year long. Listen to Permission to Speak on the I
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