Permission to Speak: How to Change What Power Sounds Like, Starting With You

Description

Reclaim your voice and ignite your confidence with this practical guide from one of Hollywood's top speech coaches What does power sound like? Loud? Brash? Masculine? Well, it's time to change that. In this warm and witty manual, Hollywood voice coach Samara Bay offers a compelling approach to asserting your power in all arenas of life. Packed with expert tips and easy-to-follow exercises, Permission to Speak is designed to liberate and inspire even the most tentative of public speakers. Using in-depth analysis of powerful public figures, from Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez and Michelle Obama to Brene Brown and Lizzo, Bay explodes what we think we know about our voices and how they should sound, and digs deep to the very heart of what they can be. Permission To Speak shows that women don't have to borrow markers of male leadership to be taken seriously - rather, they can and should be fearlessly, unashamedly themselves.

Samara Bay is a voice and dialect coach based in Los Angeles, California. She has coached a number of high-profile film, television and theatre actors, and prepared clients for UN speeches, awards shows, academic talks, tech pitches, and political campaigns. Her clientele include Michelle Obama, Penelope Cruz, Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez and Brene Brown. She also hosts a regular podcast, Permission to Speak.

No-one knows more about voice than Samara Bay. This is a brilliant user-friendly guide to speaking up. I love it. -- Viv Groskop, author of How to Own the Room This is a warm-hearted and inspiring read for anyone who wants to speak up in a changing world. It's also infinitely practical and full of golden nuggets of insight you can take away and use immediately. It's a gem of a book. -- Caroline Goyder, author of Gravitas Samara's brilliant expertise helps us understand that when we find our permission to speak, we are able to step into our full power as women. She encourages us to abandon our formed habits that are almost always serving someone else, and shows us what it means to use our narratives to be the heroes that change the way we are heard in the world. -- Eve Rodsky, New York Times bestselling author of Fair Play A totally beguiling and richly informative primer for anyone who struggles to say what they think out loud. -- Soraya Chemaly, author of Rage Becomes Her: The Power of Women's Anger