Binding: Hardcover
Description: Use your voice to lead us to a better future with this game - changing guide to redefining what power and authority sound like from a speech expert who's worked with Hollywood's biggest stars political powerhouses and businesspeople shaking up the status quo. I love this book funny surprising stirring and so important! What a beautiful accomplishment and gift to put into the world. Rachel Mc Adams Getting heard is a tricky business: It's what you say and how you show up filtered through your audience's assumptions and biases and maybe even your own. For women people of color immigrants and queer folks there's often a dissonance between how you speak and how we collectively think powerful people should speak: like the wealthy white men who ve historically been in charge. But fortunately the sound of power is changing. Permission to Speak is your tool kit for making that change. In this revolutionary take on how to use your voice to get what you want sought - after speech coach Samara Bay offers a fresh perspective on public speaking and a new definition of what power sounds like: namely you. Blending anecdotes with eye - opening research in leadership linguistics and social science Permission to Speak shows you how to strike the right balance of strength and warmth to land your message; exactly what to do before a high - stakes scenario so that your voice your mind and your spirit are ready; and how to turn habits like vocal fry and upspeak into tools. Most important you ll discover your voice story: why you talk the way you do what's wonderful about it and what you ve outgrown. Fiery fun and truly profound Permission to Speak is a personal and cultural reckoning with what speaking in public is and what it can be. This book meets the moment and offers this provocation: When we change what power sounds like we change who has it.
Title: Permission To Speak
Author(s): Bay Samara
Publisher: Crown
Barcode: 9780593238684
Language: English
Publication Date: 2/7/2023