075 The Vocal Empowerment Series - Nic Chats to Samara Bay!

<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">My guest Samara Bay is an Author, Coach, Podcast Host and International Speaker. We delve into Samara's passion for studying accents and their origins, how we relate to the sounds we hear, and how we are socially conditioned to think about them. We talk about the social phenomena of judging and being judged by how we sound, and what it really means to sound like our true self.</span></p> <p><span style="font-weight: 400;">Samara also talks about her experience of losing her voice in her 20s, shares her thoughts on vocal empowerment and tips on how to embrace it. </span></p> <p><span style="font-weight: 400;">What You Will Learn In This Episode:</span></p> <p><span style="font-weight: 400;">- Which factors contribute to an accent's existence, acceptance, and judgement</span></p> <p><span style="font-weight: 400;">- The stories that fictional characters tell us just by the way they sound</span></p> <p><span style="font-weight: 400;">- Why some accents make us automatically think of a dumb, intelligent, or tricky person </span></p> <p><span style="font-weight: 400;">- Why it seems easier to create a vocal persona instead of sounding like our true self</span></p> <p><span style="font-weight: 400;">- About the cultural mandate of hiding what we care about</span></p> <p><span style="font-weight: 400;">- What vocal empowerment means to Samara, and what is the best way to embrace it</span></p> <p><span style="font-weight: 400;">Samara worked as a Hollywood dialect coach for over 10 years, with massive stars from blockbuster movies like Wonder Woman and Guardians of the Galaxy. She is passionate about decolonising public speaking, and debunking the invisible voice biases that hold voice workers back. She is the author of "Permission to Speak: How to Change What Power Sounds Like, Starting with You" and host of the Permission to Speak Podcast.</span></p> <p><strong>Resources:</strong></p> <p><span style="font-weight: 400;">- Join The Voice & Accent Hub:</span> <a href= "https://www.facebo