Your week with samara

It’s Permission time

Finally, a partner to reflect your brilliance and help you bring it out on purpose and on time.

Together, we'll transform your speaking from a slog you grudgingly accept into magnificent impact and meaningful connection.

  • A powerful private session

  • Real-time guidance in your pocket for a full week

This introductory offer is ideal for the person who wants to shake up their whole approach to public speaking and fall in love with that pitch or presentation they’ve got coming up. Together we tackle BOTH the what and the how.

A lot can happen in a week.

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#1 Bestseller

in women & business, public speaking

You’ve seen the book.
Now you get the author.

Permission to Speak was my way of putting twenty years of coaching — from Hollywood to the Hill, from boardrooms to classrooms — into one love letter to your voice. One how-to guide to transform your public speaking.

But the real transformation happens off the page.

That’s what Permission Week is for: bringing the big ideas from Permission to Speak into your actual life and your next big moments.

You get me in your corner, in real time helping you do what the book promised:
change what power sounds like, starting with you.

Your PERMISSION WEEK $1500

What clients are saying…

  • “Extraordinary. The most fun I’ve ever had prepping for anything, but also the easiest. I felt so relaxed, Samara—you sprinkled some dust on me!”

    Oscar-nominated actress Rachel McAdams

  • "Working with Samara was like going to public speaking church."

    Spade Robinson, Hollywood writer

  • “Wow wow. I’ve hired copywriters and coaches but no one’s been able to listen to the random plot of my life and turn it into a STORY I can tell—about my values and my why. And Samara did it LIKE THAT. It was utterly mind-blowing and left me feeling not just better equipped to go into pitch meetings and podcast interviews, but also better seen.”

    C.K., founder and business leader

  • "What an incredible atmosphere you create to wrestle with questions deep in our soul that impact how and when we speak. Our time together left me emboldened to speak up about the things I care about so that the care can spread. Thank you, Samara!"

    Trina McCarroll, CPF, CPHR

  • "You stretched me in the most productive ways. When the work felt a little too difficult, you'd hold up a mirror for me to be able to see myself - reminding me of things I had said, as a way to stoke the little fire burning inside my belly. How do you do it, what is this wizardry?? I love you, I love the work you are doing. And I love that I get to continue to float around in this shared, sacred, solar system with you."

    Alina Caceres, Healthcare Leader

  • “I walked away from Samara with clarity: when we stand before investors we bring more than ideas; we bring a revolution. Our pitches are not serenades of conformity but roars of defiance. We are the mischievous minds presenting solutions to big problems. We are humanizing.”

    I. S., psychotherapist and entrepreneur

  • “Working with Samara was a total gamechanger as I began pitching my product to high profile retailers. I went to one of the best business schools in the country. But you know what they don’t teach? How to show up in a pitch meeting with a story that reveals your heart. Or how to own your voice. Or how to speak so investors lean in. Samara’s coaching was an essential piece of my company’s success story.”

    Hannah Diop, Co-Founder, with Issa Rae, Sienna Naturals

  • "Samara's energy and singular approach unlocked a hidden part of me that was aching to be exposed and seen. Her fresh perspective to voice coaching, filled with empathy, wit and wisdom, offered me a trusting hand, or more of an extension to it: a bungee cord safe enough for me to go out, challenge myself, and jump."

    J.L., entrepreneur

  • "THAT WAS PERFECT."

    Ricky Martin, Global Superstar

  • "I won a session with Samara in an auction and I can honestly say, it was more valuable than the guitar I once won signed by Dolly Parton."

    D.K., CEO

Clients USE THEIR permission WEEK on…

THE WHAT: hone your presentation content & structure including clear and potent messaging, unique positioning, and exploring the stories from your life that will have the greatest impact—Plus the surest way to tell them to move your audience and move the needle.

THE HOW: Practice expressing the heart of your message, Dynamically & with your spirit intact—inviting yourself to level up your power and step into your legacy. Language & Cultural barriers, nerves, inner stories that need to shift: it’s all on the table and all on the move.

what’s included…

  • Kick off your week with an 90 minute coaching session one-on-one with Samara, scheduled at your convenience.

    During the session, you’ll dive deep on exploring the project you’ve got coming up and/or your larger speaking and leadership goals, in partnership with Samara. Clients inevitably end up with big bold answers, a clear next step, and a new sense of permission and power. These sessions tend to be holistic, intense, full of revelations, instantly applicable, and surprisingly fun.

    You get the transcript and recording right after, to keep and refer back to.

  • Unlimited communication with Samara throughout the rest of the week, using the simple app called Voxer (think: texting meets a walkie talkie).

    This weeklong conversation via text, voice, and images, allows spaciousness for the session with Samara to integrate—as well as for new A-HA’s, fresh questions to surface, and back-and-forth exchanges in real time as life lifes. This is your chance for rich, emotional support from a champion and guide in your back pocket for a whole week.

  • You’ll also receive exclusive access to Samara’s powerful masterclasses—HOW TO TELL STORIES and HOW TO PITCH.

    Both are popular workshops Samara previously recorded that take on these universal topics from a fresh perspective—with mischief and love—leading viewers to shake up their old habits and the “shoulds” in the way of telling their stories and pitching their ideas for impact.

    Some clients find watching them a perfect way to prepare for their Permission Week; some prefer to watch them after the week ends, as a chance to dip back into the work and continue to grow.

your permission WEEK

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