Episode 307: Permission to Speak with Samara Bay
The Divorce Survival Guide Podcast
Kate Anthony
4.4 • 574 Ratings
🗓️ 23 January 2025
⏱️ 51 minutes
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Summary
Samara Bay, author of Permission to Speak, is here to reframe how we think about our voices—and the power they carry. Her work is for anyone who's ever been told to sound different, speak softer, or conform to fit in. In this conversation, we explore how the way we speak shapes not just how others perceive us but how we see ourselves.
Samara's insights are grounded in her own journey, from Shakespeare festivals to coaching Hollywood actors to helping leaders and changemakers show up authentically. Her audiobook is as compelling as the conversation you're about to hear—a true reflection of her mission to help us all own our voices unapologetically.
Samara's book, Permission to Speak, is available everywhere books are sold. If you love this conversation, grab the audiobook for an even deeper experience.
You'll also hear:
- How societal norms shape the way we speak—and how to challenge them (2:25)
- The connection between breath, voice, and emotions (23:47)
- Practical exercises for finding and owning your voice (28:37)
- Why physical movement and warm-ups matter for confidence (29:14)
Learn more about Samara Bay: Samara Bay coaches rising business leaders, political hopefuls, and public figures who need to speak in a voice they recognize as their own to truly make waves. She runs workshops and speaks at organizations around the world to support a new, diverse sound of power. In Hollywood, she helps movie stars integrate good acting with good accents, and has coached clients including Gal Gadot, Pierce Brosnan, Penélope Cruz, Ricky Martin, Terry Crews, Rachel McAdams, Ruth Negga, and Anjelica Huston. She has a BA from Princeton University and an MFA from Brown University. She lives in Los Angeles with her husband, son, and dog, Moxie.
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| 0:00.0 | In those moments where we are faced with, do I pick love or do I pick myself? |
| 0:06.3 | We have a lot of history of picking love for safety, for protection, for not rocking the boat, for peace. |
| 0:14.0 | And so much of your work and in a way so much of my work is not to be like, here's what you do in that moment, but to be like, here's some tools |
| 0:23.2 | and here's some courage, and here's how you find your allies, and here's how you do what you |
| 0:29.5 | can so that when those moments arise, you have a shot at picking you. |
| 0:39.3 | Welcome to the Divorce Survival Guide podcast, where we have open and honest conversations about |
| 0:45.3 | co-parenting, separation, divorce, and the hardest question of all, should you stay or |
| 0:51.3 | should you go. I'm Kate Anthony, your divorce survival guide, |
| 0:56.0 | and I'm here to help you navigate some of the roughest waters you've ever swum in |
| 1:00.2 | and answer some of your toughest questions. |
| 1:03.4 | I've been to hell and back, |
| 1:05.2 | and now it's my mission in life to help you get to the other side of this process |
| 1:10.1 | with your sanity and your heart intact. |
| 1:17.7 | Hey everyone, welcome back. All right, before we get into today's amazing episode, I want to just |
| 1:24.7 | remind you all that Phoenix Rising is continuing to enroll new members. |
| 1:31.9 | We've had a bunch of new people come in at the beginning of the year. |
| 1:35.8 | This is sort of the time when people are like, okay, here we go. |
| 1:40.3 | I'm done with this marriage. |
| 1:41.7 | The holidays are over. |
| 1:43.1 | Now what? |
| 1:46.3 | And so if that's you right now, |
| 1:53.0 | I want to invite you to join Phoenix Rising. This is my group coaching program for women going through divorce. And it is an amazing, beautiful place where women gather and discuss strategy |
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