In this episode, Hannah and Tara sit down with Heather Morrison, public speaking coach and founder of Deliver Your Best, who also happens to be a theatre grad, CBC broadcaster, and national sideline reporter. Heather shares how she went from dreading community events and replaying every mistake in her head… to coaching professionals all over the world to use their voices without abandoning who they are.

Together we dig into the real reasons public speaking feels so awful (spoiler: it’s not because you’re “bad at it”), why traditional public speaking advice is wildly outdated, and how women in male-dominated workplaces can start small, build skills, and stop turning every awkward moment into a character flaw.

If you’ve ever walked out of a meeting thinking, “I regret not saying what I wanted to say”, this one’s for you.

In This Episode, We Talk About:

• Why traditional public speaking training doesn’t work for many women
• Internal vs external cues
• Fear, regret, and that awful post-meeting spiral
• Being a woman in a male-dominated room
• The “coin jar” of skill building
• Laddering your fear
• Judgment, reality checks, and more generous assumptions
• Executive presence (aka: the diet culture of corporate)
• The moment it ‘suddenly’ works

About Our Guest – Heather Morrison

Heather Morrison is the founder of Deliver Your Best, where she helps professionals who are terrified of public speaking build the skills and self-trust they need to actually use their voices. With a degree in theatre and a career spanning CBC radio, broadcasting, and national sideline reporting for basketball and lacrosse, Heather has lived both the performance world and the corporate world—and she knows firsthand what it feels like to dread a microphone.

After realizing that most public speaking advice didn’t work for her (or for a lot of women), she developed her own approach focused on internal cues, nervous system regulation, and self-talk that doesn’t destroy you after you leave the room. Now, she coaches clients around the world to stop chasing perfection and start aiming for connection.

Find Heather here:

• Instagram: @deliver.your.best