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UNSPOKEN is a Narrative-Led Instructional (NLI) fictional series published twice weekly under OraeSpeak and Dear Shaper.
It follows Ọrọoluwa Adekunle. A twenty-four-year-old brilliant, contained and chronically silent woman in Lagos Nigeria.
You come into her story from the day she is handed a promotion she did not ask for to her twenty-fifth birthday and more by which time she has become, through healing, faith, community and the hardest kind of work, a woman who uses her voice.
The series teaches strategic communication and public speaking. Not through listicles or lectures but through the lived texture of one woman's transformation across every context of her life: the boardroom, the church, the family table, the friendship, the therapy session, the neighbourhood, the slow burn.
Every episode is a story. The lesson lives inside the story. The reader excavates it themselves.
This is the NLI model in practice.
P.S: If you would love to dig deeper into the lessons on public speaking and communication excellence entrenched in each chapter, check them out on my SUBSTACK channel. dearshaper.substack.com