Each day, people miss opportunities to positively advocate for themselves. As speech instructors, you watch student’s struggle. For over a decade, J.R. Steele has worked tirelessly to “rethink” the public speaking textbook to create an interactive experience that provides a support system for both students and instructors through her text, A Student’s Guide to Your Best Speech Ever. Simple tools like the Practice Right Plan, Speech Signs, and the Speech Formula (a speech writing web application) provide processes never seen in the classroom.