The InFluency Podcast

About The InFluency Podcast

The InFluency podcast is your go-to resource for learning, speaking and teaching English. Hadar Shemesh is a pronunciation expert and fluency coach with thousands of students around the world, though she herself was an intermediate speaker of English once. In this podcast she will share her best strategies for learning English, speaking English with confidence and mastering the American accent. Discover how becoming fluent has everything to do with acquiring the right mindset, setting goals and learning how to overcome challenges. Hadar will also share her teaching philosophy and techniques to support English teachers looking to help their students become fluent.

Publisher

Hadar Shemesh

Category

education · education

Language

en

Explicit

No

First episode

28 Dec 2019

Latest episode

6 Oct 2026

Latest episodes

156 of 700 episodes have a transcript.

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   6 Oct 2026TRANSCRIPT

   538. Read Out Loud with me! Dare to Lead by Brené Brown | Pronunciation & Vocabulary practice

   Host [Host Name] guides listeners through pronunciation and vocabulary practice using an excerpt from Brené Brown's 'Dare to Lead' to enhance English fluency.

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   2 Oct 2026TRANSCRIPT

   537. Being introverted, sounding robotic, my story, and the Flap T | Answering your questions

   Host Christina and guest explore pronunciation, fluency, and confidence in a second language, sharing personal stories and answering audience questions.

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   29 Sept 2026TRANSCRIPT

   536. The 3 Ways to Pronounce -ED in English

   Host [Host Name] teaches listeners the three distinct ways to pronounce the English -ED ending and when to use each one.

Inside a recent episode

538. Read Out Loud with me! Dare to Lead by Brené Brown | Pronunciation & Vocabulary practice

Published 6 Oct 2026 · Transcript excerpt

[…] So let's read it again. This time I won't be explaining. You just repeat after me. Shadow me. Second, speaking is vulnerable. I don't memorize my lines or have a set shtick that I do verbatim. Effective speaking is about the unpredictable and uncontrollable art of connection. And again, I'm going to take a minute and explain again why this is so relevant, because non-native speakers they want to get it right they want to say the words exactly how it's planned out in their head or how they've memorized them not to make grammar mistakes not to use the wrong words not to go off on a tangent and the thing is that when you try to control it you lose the art of connection because something that happens when you're just in your head prevents you from being present and connecting with others Even though it's just me on stage and possibly 10,000 people sitting in folding chairs in convention centers, I try to look into as many pairs of eyes as I can. […]

Who has been a guest on The InFluency Podcast

Names identified in recent episode analyses. Showing up to five guests.

• Christina
• Danielle McKechnie
• Gilbert
• Glenda

Reach and audience

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YouTube views

60,503,276

Score snapshot 15 Sept 2025

Apple Podcasts (US)

4.9 / 5

366 ratings

Spotify

4.9 / 5

1,011 ratings

Podcast Authority Score: 84 / 100

A composite of feed quality, social presence, YouTube performance and engagement. Read the methodology.

Quality

93

Social presence

0

YouTube

93

Engagement

98

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