How to Make Dolly Parton Cry with Shima Oliaee

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/   Email us at permissiontospeakpod@gmail.com – where do you need more permission?   And of course, please pass this along to anyone who could use it. Leave us a review, rate us on Apple Podcasts or the iHeartRadio app, and SUBSCRIBE to hear Permission to Speak weekly. We’re grateful for your support. Learn more about your ad-choices at https://news.iheart.com/podcast-advertisers

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Permission to Speak is a fun and fiery romp through how we talk and what our voice says about us with Samara Bay, speech coach to the stars and public speaking adviser back when there was a public to speak in. Each week she interviews people who specialize in how we use our voice and people in the public eye who are USING it—what it took to find their voice, when it still wavers, the crap comments they’ve gotten for being too loud or too soft or too millennial or too anything because PEOPLE HAVE OPINIONS, and how to give ourselves permission to speak like we belong in rooms of power just as we are. Let’s destabilize the patriarchy together! Let’s talk about deep AF societal dysfunction and how it plays out on our bodies and voices, but, like, have fun doing it! Hi. This is for you.