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A running list of podcasts, books, and articles we’ve found genuinely worth your time — on language, communication, and the way we show up at work.

Most of what’s below is something you can listen to, not just read — and that’s not an accident. Podcasts and audiobooks let you slow the speed down when a speaker talks too fast, replay a section you didn’t quite catch, and — the real trick — read along with a transcript or the book itself while you listen, so your eyes and ears reinforce each other. It’s one of the most effective ways to make new vocabulary and pronunciation actually stick.

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Podcast

Lera Boroditsky: How Language Secretly Changes Your Personality

What Now? with Trevor Noah — a funny, mind-expanding conversation about how the words we use shape how we see the world.

 TED Talk

How Language Shapes the Way We Think

Lera Boroditsky’s TED Talk on how the languages we speak shape how we think and see the world.

 Book

Brain Rules

John Medina on what neuroscience actually tells us about how we learn, focus, and remember.

 Textbook

Business Communication: Polishing Your Professional Presence

Co-authored by our own Liz Clarke — the textbook behind two decades of teaching workplace communication.

Earning Executive Credibility

On Trust, Listening, and Being Heard

Podcast

Yael Schonbrun: It’s Not What You Say…

Clear+Vivid with Alan Alda — on how our understanding of others is shaped by far more than the words we choose.

Power Poise and Presence

On Navigating the Room

Book

Women’s Reality

Anne Wilson Schaef’s classic on navigating a system that wasn’t built with women in mind.

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