Like I always joke, right?

If I'm working with, you know, a man and we put him on videotape and we play back the videotape, what do you think that he says about himself?

I did such a great job.

Exactly.

Is that true?

In your experience?

Yes, without sale.

Wow.

Chris Yankee is a speech coach based in Washington, D.C.

She specializes in women, women running companies, women running nonprofits, and women running for office.

You know, if the scenario is with a woman, what does the woman say about herself?

Just pointing out everything she did wrong?

Yep.

And the top three are, you know, what's wrong with my hair?

Number two, I sound and look like my mother.

You know, I don't know that's good or bad.

And then number three, what happened to my neck or my lips? All of Chris's clients have their own strengths and their own foibles when it comes to public speaking. but a lot of the gender-based obstacles they're confronting,

the sexist questions they're asked,

the way their audiences perceive them,

they're the same.

Yeah, so women are much more self-critical.

The mother thing is really interesting to me because one of the responses that I have heard from men, you know, on Twitter or on cable news when women candidates speak is no one wants to hear

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