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