The Confidence Gap: Why Women Struggle to Speak Up

What if the thing standing between you and your most powerful, authoritative self is simply that no one ever taught you how to use your voice?

In this episode of Supergene Unleashed, Stacy sits down with Josh McCartney, Dubai's leading public speaking coach, two-time TEDx speaker, and founder of School of Life, a training community that has helped over a thousand professionals find their voice on stage, in the boardroom, and online. Josh was once so shy he would lock himself in his room to avoid family reunions. Today he has coached everyone from Fortune 500 teams to first-time speakers, and he has sat across from both men and women long enough to know exactly what holds each of them back.

This is not a conversation about breathing exercises or practicing in front of a mirror. Stacy and Josh go deep and direct on the real patterns Josh has witnessed in years of coaching women, what women are doing that they do not even realize is costing them, and the honest truth about how men and women approach public speaking differently. They get into why women shrink their voices and what that signals to a room before they even finish a sentence, the critical difference between sounding loud and sounding authoritative, why speaking before you feel ready may be the single most important thing you can do, and how the assumptions people form the moment you walk in the door are either confirmed or shattered the second you open your mouth.

They also explore why right now, in the age of AI, is the most important moment in history to become a powerful communicator, and how improving the way you speak does not just change how others see you. It changes how you see yourself.

This is the conversation your career, your confidence, and your voice have been waiting for.

This week, we are unleashing your voice supergene. Because good speakers know how to speak. Great speakers know when to speak. And you are ready to become both.