Your voice can shake and still say the right thing. Shaky and brave aren’t opposites.

A shaking voice is the body doing its job, not a report on whether you are right. People treat the tremor as evidence they should stop, when it usually shows up precisely because something matters. Courage is not the absence of the shake. It is the sentence finishing anyway.

If your voice goes this week, keep going and let it be heard. Slow down instead of speeding up to get it over with, and take a breath in the middle if you need one. Afterward, notice that nobody in the room thought less of you for it.