Samara chats with the groundbreaking psychologist and author of the new book How You Say It: Why You Talk The Way You Do—and What It Says About You, about what Ruth Bader Ginsberg’s changing accent tells us about human nature, how Hugh Laurie betrayed us, and the accent YOU have. As Katherine says, the language you use and the sounds you make are “so critical to feelings of identity, when you speak, you let a little bit of yourself out, for the world to interpret.” And sometimes, all hell breaks loose. From what went down at the trial of Trayvon Martin’s killer to how you yourself may very well judge a foreign accent, this conversation is about what the studies reveal about ourselves, and about what we can do about it. Enjoy this final episode for a while!

Host: Samara Bay

Executive producers: Catherine Burt Cantin & Mark Cantin, Double Vision doublevisionprojects.com

Producers: Samara Bay, Sophie Lichterman and the iHeart team

Theme music: Mark Cantin

Samara on IG: @samarabay

Cat on IG: @catburt & @doublevisionprojects

To sign up your kids for a study or learn more about Katherine’s work, visit: dsclab.uchicago.edu

 For Katherine’s book: indiebound.org/book/9780544986558

 For Adrienne Maree Brown’s book: indiebound.org/book/9781849353267

 For the full clip with Rachel Maddow: youtube.com/watch?v=yjP2k3dyq48

 How RBG found her voice: time.com/ruth-bader-ginsburg-supreme-court/

 The linguistics of Rachel Jeantel: ideas.time.com/2013/06/28/rachel-jeantel-explained-linguistically/

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Samara chats with the California congresswoman who resigned in November—about how to actually run for office, the politics of politics on Capitol Hill, and what it was like to weather a very public shaming—and how to write and deliver a speech in the midst of it. With lots of swearing and free-flowing rosé, this is a bit of a departure from the rest of Katie’s press tour for her new book, She Will Rise: Becoming a Warrior in the Battle for True Equality, but permission to speak, amirite??

Host: Samara Bay

Executive producers: Catherine Burt Cantin & Mark Cantin, Double Vision doublevisionprojects.com

Producers: Samara Bay, Sophie Lichterman and the iHeart team

Theme music: Mark Cantin

Samara on IG: @samarabay

Cat on IG: @catburt & @doublevisionprojects

Katie on Twitter: @katiehill4CA

Katie’s book: indiebound.org/book/9781538737002

AOC quote: twitter.com/AOC/status/1133383123503321090

Kamala & Sarah Cooper **MUST WATCH**: youtube.com/watch?v=QfU7O2ghg3k

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Samara chats with the award-winning reporter and producer of Dolly Parton’s America about ALL the delicious behind-the-scenes on the hit pod series with Jad Abumrad, plus finding her own voice on the mic, the superpower of being okay with being hated, and how to land a kickass money ask.

Host: Samara Bay

Executive producers: Catherine Burt Cantin & Mark Cantin, Double Vision doublevisionprojects.com

Producers: Samara Bay, Sophie Lichterman and the iHeart team

Theme music: Mark Cantin

Samara on IG: @samarabay

Cat on IG: @catburt & @doublevisionprojects

Shima’s latest projects: wnycstudios.org/people/shima-oliaee

Quote from: diannahardy.com/

Michaela Coel’s speech: youtube.com/watch?v=odusP8gmqsg&app=desktop

Virgina Woolf’s A Room of One’s Own: indiebound.org/search/book?keys=a+room+of+one%27s+own

Anna Deavere Smith’s Talk to Me: indiebound.org/book/9780385721745

Alain de Botton quote from this gorgeous pod episode: howtofail.podbean.com/e/alain-de-botton-c19/

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Samara and her pod producer Cat take listener questions on everything from vocal fry’s benefits – yes, benefits – to what we do if we think we’re too nasal, what we do if we can’t breathe because of anxiety (WHY WOULD WE HAVE ANXIETY), and how to stop apologizing for taking up time and space.

Host: Samara Bay

Executive producers: Catherine Burt Cantin & Mark Cantin, Double Vision doublevisionprojects.com

Producers: Samara Bay, Sophie Lichterman and the iHeart team

Theme music: Mark Cantin

Samara on IG: @samarabay

Cat on IG: @catburt & @doublevisionprojects

Quote from: aeon.co/essays/if-language-began-in-the-hands-why-did-it-ever-leave

Samara’s book recs IGTV at: instagram.com/p/CC_iy03pyIm/

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Samara and her pod producer Cat take listener questions and talk big ideas—about how to stop people pleasing in a pandemic, how tiny choices we’ve made throughout our lives got us the voices we have now, what’s up with trying to convince others that we have authority, and a whole lot of Samara’s own juicy backstory.

Host: Samara Bay

Executive producers: Catherine Burt Cantin & Mark Cantin, Double Vision doublevisionprojects.com

Producers: Samara Bay, Sophie Lichterman and the iHeart team

Theme music: Mark Cantin

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Quote: Esther 4:14

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Samara chats with the president of NARAL Pro Choice America about what public speaking and leadership even mean (hello, AOC), how to find hope in a dystopia, and what it is to know our history—her new book tells the story of the politicization of abortion, and how WE can change the narrative. 

Host: Samara Bay

Executive producers: Catherine Burt Cantin & Mark Cantin, Double Vision doublevisionprojects.com

Producers: Samara Bay, Sophie Lichterman and the iHeart team

Theme music: Mark Cantin

Ilyse on IG: @ilyseh

NARAL on IG: @prochoiceamerica

Buy The Lie That Binds: barnesandnoble.com/w/the-lie-that-binds-ilyse-hogue/1137333853?ean=9781947492509

More of Ayanna Pressley’s video: theglowup.theroot.com/exclusive-rep-ayanna-pressley-reveals-beautiful-bald-1841039847

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Samara chats with the writer, comedian, and actress known for “Full Frontal with Samantha Bee” and “A Black Lady Sketch Show,” about how to play and trust our instincts like we did when we were kids, who the gatekeepers of funny are, and why ideas are like toilet paper.

Host: Samara Bay

Executive producers: Catherine Burt Cantin & Mark Cantin, Double Vision doublevisionprojects.com

Producers: Samara Bay, Sophie Lichterman and the iHeart team

Theme music: Mark Cantin

Follow Ashley: @ashnb1 on IG and @ashleyn1cole on Twitter

Ashley’s segment with Stacey Abrams: youtube.com/watch?v=zQ_newQ5exo

Ashley as Trinity: youtube.com/watch?v=pULIUqK8Bt4

Ashley as The Most Annoying Girl: youtube.com/watch?v=GYsRMi92jX4&t=26s

Email us at [email protected] with any questions or thoughts about speaking up and using your voice. We're here for you.

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Samara chats with the author of “Wordslut: A Feminist Guide to Taking Back the English Language” about the subtle ways our speech differs from men’s, and why. This is a conversation about how we talk, how we get judged, how we judge others, and what needs to change (and doesn’t!) so we can show up in the world as ourselves.   

Host: Samara Bay

Executive producers: Catherine Burt Cantin & Mark Cantin, Double Vision doublevisionprojects.com

Producers: Samara Bay, Sophie Lichterman and the iHeart team

Theme music: Mark Cantin

“Wordslut” by Amanda Montell (new in paperback): indiebound.org/book/9780062868886

Amanda on IG: @amanda_montell

“Joining the Resistance” by Carol Gilligan: indiebound.org/book/9780745651705

“Boys & Sex” by Peggy Orenstein: indiebound.org/book/9780062666970

Email [email protected] with any questions about your voice and Samara will answer 'em in our next mailbag episode! 

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For this first pod in a special Permission to Speak series on “non-standard” English (ie. how you probably speak... ehem), Samara chats with the linguist and scholar about African American English: why Black kids internalize shame about how they sound from an early age, what “standard English” even is and who the heck decided, and how all of our assumptions around speaking "correctly" play out on the grand scale (hiring practices, college admissions, policy) and on the small scale (within our friend circles, who we choose to read and admire and trust). This is the pod on antiracism you didn't know you needed.

More on Dr. Charity-Hudley: @acharityhudley on IG, annecharityhudley.com

Her Slate piece: slate.com/human-interest/2014/10/english-variation-not-related-to-intelligence-code-switching-and-other-ways-to-fight-linguistic-insecurity.html

Antiracist action if you're in CA -- learn more about ACA5, on the ballot this November, and consider a YES vote: latimes.com/california/story/2020-06-11/skelton-aca5-affirmative-action-proposition-209-california

Nell Painter: nellpainter.com

Kristin Linklater: linklatervoice.com

Killer Mike’s speech: youtube.com/watch?v=kSWasOhArfM

MLK’s final speech: youtube.com/watch?v=FmkwI5ItCFk

Bessie Smith: npr.org/2018/01/05/575422226/forebears-bessie-smith-the-empress-of-the-blues

David Crystal: thriftbooks.com/a/david-crystal/237279/

More on honoring native lands: usdac.us/nativeland

Send Samara any questions about your voice for our next mailbag episode at PermissiontoSpeakPod.com or on IG @permissiontospeakpod

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Samara chats with the UK author, comedian, and pod icon who says “be your own version of what you think an adult should look like and sound like, and only you get to decide what that is.”

They talk the Buddhism of speaking in public, surprising lessons everyone can take from standup and improv, and tips for owning all the rooms, which, spoiler: is about the sizzle, not the composition of the sausage. 

Follow Viv: @vivgroskop, vivgroskop.com/

Her latest books:

penguin.co.uk/books/111/1117056/how-to-own-the-room/9781787631120.html

penguin.co.uk/books/1118966/lift-as-you-climb/9781787633049.html

abramsandchronicle.co.uk/book/9781419742989-au-revoir-tristesse/

Her masterclass on How to Cope with Uncertainty at Work:

youtube.com/watch?v=Og7ZAdenTaI

Follow Jameela Jamil: @jameelajamilofficial

Mary Portas’ book, Work like a Woman: penguin.co.uk/books/111/1115457/work-like-a-woman/9781784163624.html

Mary Beard’s book, Women & Power: wwnorton.com/books/9781631494758

Tig Notaro’s standup: 

youtube.com/watch?v=LSo380S8Dng

youtube.com/watch?v=V97lvUKYisA&t=102s

More on honoring native lands: usdac.us/nativeland

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Samara chats with one of the all-time greatest speechwriters (she wrote for Barack and then Michelle all eight years they were in the White House, and before that Hillary!) and gets loads of delicious tips on world-changing speechwriting and room-changing delivery: what it really means to show not tell, how to start and how to structure the damn thing, and Sarah’s best advice for sounding like a real person up there and not “disembodied authority voice.” Plus they discuss her latest book on Judaism and how to be a good human.

Anne Deavere Smith’s book Talk to Me: penguinrandomhouse.com/books/168772/talk-to-me-by-anna-deavere-smith/

Sarah Hurwitz’s book Here All Along: penguinrandomhouse.com/books/572627/here-all-along-by-sarah-hurwitz/

More on Martin Buber: brainpickings.org/2018/03/18/i-and-thou-martin-buber/

More info on honoring native lands: usdac.us/nativeland

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