AEE 2457: Can You Relate? How to Speak Up with Confidence in a Meeting

All Ears English Podcast

Lindsay McMahon

Education, Language Learning, Business

4.6 • 1.9K Ratings

🗓️ 7 August 2025

⏱️ 19 minutes

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0:00.0	This is an all ears English podcast episode 2457. Can you relate how to speak up with confidence in a meeting?
0:10.4	Welcome to the all ears English podcast downloaded more than 200 million times. Are you feeling stuck with your English?
0:19.9	We'll show you how to become fearless and fluent by
0:24.0	focusing on connection, not perfection, with your American hosts Lindsay McMahon, the English
0:31.7	adventurer, and Michelle Kaplan, the New York Radio Girl, coming to you from Colorado and New York City, USA.
0:42.0	To get real-time transcripts right on your phone and create your personalized vocabulary list,
0:48.2	try the All-Ears English app for iOS and Android.
0:52.3	Start your seven-day free trial at all-yearsEnglish.com forward slash app.
1:01.2	Today, got a smart piggybacking strategy when you want to speak up in a group, but you feel hesitant.
1:08.7	Learn how to give credibility to prior speakers and give yourself a confidence
1:13.6	edge in English. You've come so far with your English. Books in English, movies, TV shows,
1:24.9	no problem. But there's still that pause before you respond. That moment gives it
1:30.3	away. You're not a beginner, but you're not quite fluent yet either. The Connected Communicator
1:35.9	online course was built for this final gap. You'll take a virtual road trip with us across the
1:42.3	United States to meet dozens of Americans with different accents,
1:46.5	professions, and worldviews. You'll train with real unscripted pre-recorded conversations
1:52.5	on challenging topics like politics, culture, gun rights, and more. Plus, we have new AI partners to practice with any time and live
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2:11.7	only. Go to all-earsenglish.com slash connection. Join by August 10th to save. One more time, go to all-earsenglish.com slash C-O-N-N-E-C-T-I-O-N. Hey, Michelle. How you doing today? Good, Lindsay. How are you? Really good. Michelle, did you, you were in graduate school, right? You did
2:35.2	your graduate degree. Yes. Yes. In teaching English as a second language. And yeah, there's,
2:41.5	there's a lot of group discussions that happen on graduate school. A lot of talking, right,
2:47.3	Lindsay? You, I mean, you also went to graduate school. Yep. And my program was in Boston.
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