Polished Speaker | Shane McCann on Instagram: "Emotional pacing is the skill of guiding an audience through shifts in feeling so they don’t get overwhelmed or shut down. In a eulogy, this matters even more because people arrive already carrying grief, tension, and raw emotion. When a speaker adds a gentle moment of humor, it isn’t to make light of the loss. It’s to give the room a breath so they can stay present for what comes next. That small release makes the serious parts land with more clari