Producers labeled you a bad girl for not speaking like one. You look like a bombshell, but you didn't speak like one. I had another female agent tell me I need to stop speaking as much in meetings because I was intimidating men. It just wasn't something that is expected. If you look a certain way and are intelligent and speak well, then go you.
International Women's Week on Intelligence Squared. On this episode we’re hearing a compilation from our award-winning podcast series How I Found My Voice which explores how some of the world's greatest artists and thinkers became such compelling – and unique – communicators. Our host for the series, BBC journalist Samira Ahmed, revisits conversations with writers Margaret Atwood, Bernardine Evaristo and Elif Shafak, actors Kate Winslet, Rose McGowan and Priyanka Chopra Jonas, singer Paloma Faith, Labour politician and Member of Parliament Jess Phillips, businesswoman Gina Miller, and comedian Katharine Ryan.
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