A shaky “that’s not okay” still counts. Courage never needed a steady voice.

Courage is usually pictured as steadiness, which leaves people thinking they are not brave because their voice went. The shake is just the body doing its thing while you speak anyway, and the words still arrive in the room. Everyone present heard them. What it cost you is invisible and the effect is not.

If something goes wrong in front of you this week, say the short version even badly. Four words in an unsteady voice have stopped more than a confident silence ever has.