Have you ever gone quiet in a meeting when you knew you had the right answer? Or softened your tone to avoid being "too much"? You were muted — and it wasn't your fault.

This week we're joined by Heather Hansen, global communication specialist, TEDx speaker, author of Unmuted, and PhD candidate in Linguistics. Her viral TEDx talk "2 Billion Voices: How to Speak Bad English Perfectly" has sparked a global conversation about how we judge, silence, and underestimate voices.

We unpack:

• Why women learn to mute themselves from childhood — and how "being a good girl" costs us our career
• The truth about accent bias: how your voice triggers instant judgments about your competence and warmth
• Why "executive presence" is often just code for performing whiteness and maleness
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