How to Check Your Bias: Accents with Dr. Katherine Kinzler
Samara chats with the groundbreaking psychologist and author of the new book How You Say It: Why You Talk The Way You Do—and What It Says About You, about what Ruth Bader Ginsberg’s changing accent te...
2 Sep 202055min
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 ...
19 Aug 20201h 4min
Mailbag: Part 2
Samara and her pod producer Cat take listener questions on everything from vocal fry’s benefits – yes, benefits – to what we do if we think we’re too nasal, what we do if we can’t breathe because of a...
12 Aug 202047min
Mailbag: Part 1
Samara and her pod producer Cat take listener questions and talk big ideas—about how to stop people pleasing in a pandemic, how tiny choices we’ve made throughout our lives got us the voices we have n...
5 Aug 202050min
How to Inspire Hope with Ilyse Hogue
Samara chats with the president of NARAL Pro Choice America about what public speaking and leadership even mean (hello, AOC), how to find hope in a dystopia, and what it is to know our history—her new...
29 Juli 202049min
How to Be Yourself with Ashley Nicole Black
Samara chats with the writer, comedian, and actress known for “Full Frontal with Samantha Bee” and “A Black Lady Sketch Show,” about how to play and trust our instincts like we did when we were kids, ...
22 Juli 20201h
How to Check Your Bias: Women’s Voices with Amanda Montell
Samara chats with the author of “Wordslut: A Feminist Guide to Taking Back the English Language” about the subtle ways our speech differs from men’s, and why. This is a conversation about how we talk,...
15 Juli 202058min
