Cara Hale Alter's talk on posture and voice moves a hundred times faster than a usual TEDx debut
Among the talks posted on the same day, from robots to bone marrow transplants, the TEDxUofW talk on nonverbal credibility is the one people found.
TEDx TalksStory of Why this story? The video opened at a pace of 56,332 views a day, 112 times a normal first day on this channel (502).
Your nonverbal cues shape your credibility—here’s how | Cara Hale Alter | TEDxUofW
Eleven hours after it went up, Cara Hale Alter's TEDxUofW talk had nearly 38,000 views. On TEDx Talks, a new upload usually gathers a few hundred views across its whole first day. This one is on pace for more than a hundred times that.
The channel puts out talks from independently organized events around the world, often several a day. The same day brought a robotics engineer from TEDxPenn asking whether robots can teach us how to live, Zack Kass of the same event on where automation should stop, a hematologist from TEDxSukhna Lake on what bone marrow transplants taught her, and two Spanish-language talks from TEDxTecDeMty. Each was still counting views in the hundreds or low thousands.
Hale Alter's subject is closer to everyday life: the gap between what you can do and what other people see. The description calls it "Visible Credibility" and presents her as a former Stanford instructor with 25 years spent studying nonverbal communication. She founded SpeechSkills, wrote The Credibility Code, and, by her own account, has trained teams at companies including Google and Pixar. The talk covers posture and voice, small deliberate adjustments meant to show confidence and competence before you say much at all.
The comment section has turned practical. One viewer points others to the demonstrations around the ten-minute mark. Another asks how to handle a face that looks stern at rest, when even smiling more draws puzzled looks at work. A third remembers a classmate who kept saying she looked tired, and later realized the classmate was the tired one.
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What viewers say
Amazing! The modeling starting at the 10:20 mark is phenomenal.🙌
@askcesarSee it on YouTubeThe best 15 minutes I’ve seen on YouTube in a very long time and i am a YouTube junkie!
@courtneykappel370See it on YouTubeBrilliant talk with great takeaways
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- Channel
- TEDx Talks
- Subscribers
- 44,700,000
- Channel views, pace per day
- 2,130,483
- Video published
- October 1, 2026
- Video views so far
- 37,598 (less than a day online)
- Video views, pace per day
- 56,332
The numbers
The figures show a first day far beyond the channel's usual start, on a channel that posts new talks almost every day.
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