Did you ever wonder why you can be in the most professional atmosphere speaking in your most "professional voice" but when I family member calls you, you immediately begin speaking in a southern drawl, a New England accent or the home town vernacular of wherever you grew up?

Wonder no more!! In this episode, I speak with Samara Bay who knows first hand the importance of the tongue, accents, and dialect. Samara Bay is a speech coach for top actors in Hollywood and leading professionals in politics, business, tech, and creative fields. She’s run workshops on using your voice at organizations and universities around the U.S. and abroad, including her alma mater, Princeton. Her work on rethinking the sound of power has been featured in The New York Times Magazine, Forbes, CBS Sunday Morning, Slate, Create & Cultivate, and Jezebel, and her first book will be available in early 2023: Permission to Speak, published by Crown, a division of Penguin Random House.

Join Samara Bay and I as we discuss:

• Dialect

• Accent

• Speech

• Linguists

• Public Speaking

• Gratitude

• Modeling Behavior

• Language

• Communication

• Women's voices

• Brené Brown

• "Good Speech"

Honorable Mentions

The “reality” of accent change

The functions of behavioral synchrony and speech rhythm in conversation

The Accent Whisperers of Hollywood

Your Voice Is Your Superpower: A Reading List

How to Speak Up When It Matters

Seven reasons for teachers to welcome home languages in education

Follow on Samara on these platforms: Website: https://www.samarabay.com/

Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/samarabay/

Twitter: https://twitter.com/samarabay

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This podcast is hosted by Jade Connelly-Duggan. Jade provides strategic counsel, the art of inquiry, sensory skills and OD guidance for leaders upending their industry. Her mission is to help people be kick ass leaders for the world we actually want. Are you ready to embody human wellness? Learn more here!

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