Samara Bay

Week of February 8, 2025

Samara Bay is the author of PERMISSION TO SPEAK, a love letter to anyone about to open their mouth – available in 15+ countries and 5 languages, and a #1 bestseller in Women & Business and Public Speaking (Penguin Random House 2023). She’s a Los Angeles-based speech coach whose clients range from candidates for US Congress to C-suite executives, changemaking entrepreneurs, movie stars, and high school girls.

Her thought leadership has been featured in TIME, The New York Times Magazine, Forbes, Glamour, Vanity Fair, CBS Sunday Morning, Fast Company, Entrepreneur, Deepak Chopra, and NPR. She’s delivered masterclasses and keynotes across industries including Google, MAC Cosmetics, SXSW, Telemundo, Princeton University, Psychotherapy Symposium, and Emerge America. She’s a professor of practice at USC’s Annenberg School of Communication and Journalism. For more, please visit www.samarabay.com.