Episodes

Today’s featured guest is Saif Mihyar. Saif is a 22-year-old Business Administration student who currently lives in Jordan.  Saif has a strong passion towards sports and a desire to help individuals who face hardship that may come along with...

Today’s featured guest is John McIntosh. John is 60 years old and is from Glasgow, Scotland, and has stammered for as long as he can remember.  After graduating with an honors degree in English Literature, John worked in social care for many...

Today’s featured guest is Xavier Thibodeaux.  Xavier is from Houston, Texas, and is a graduate from the University of Houston with a Bachelor of Science degree in Health and Human Performance with a specialization in human nutrition and...

Stuttering and Finishing Your Sentences is a topic with extremely high opinions, and I would like to start the conversation.  When I ask PWS (people who stutter) if they allow others to finish their sentences, the responses are split right down...

Today’s featured guest is Courtland Crain.  Courtland is 22 years old and an upcoming first-year Speech-Language Pathology Master's student at the University of South Florida in Tampa. He’s been a person who stutters his whole life, and just...

Over the years I learned many tools and techniques to help me manage my stutter.  I know the reality that there is no cure for stuttering but these four things that I do on a daily basis has truly helped me in my journey.  I would like to...

Today’s featured guest is Mike Wilson. Mike Wilson is originally from Atlanta, GA.    He is married with four kids between the ages of 3 and 10, and currently lives in Syracuse, NY.  He is a dentist and is the founder and owner of 5...

Today’s episode is about the importance of having a thick skin and moving forward.  For decades I let the opinions of others be my reality and I allowed that negativity into my life which caused me great pain and anguish.  Over the years,...

I am so thankful to belong to a community of creators that are showing the world that if you have a stutter, know that you are not alone and that you have a community to support, inform and inspire you.  In this podcast, I am highlighting four...

Today’s featured guest is Will McClurg. Will is 36 years old and a medical sonographer specializing in pediatrics.  Currently, Will is involved in medical sales and clinical training.  Will has been stuttering since the age of 5 and states...

Today’s featured guest is Sherrikka Myers. Every 1 Voice Matters is a nonprofit designed to help kids break down communicative and social barriers such as stuttering, self-esteem, self-confidence and bullying to improve their quality of life....

Today’s featured guest is Benjamin Schussheim. Benji Schussheim is a senior at Staples High School in Westport, Connecticut.  He enjoys jazz saxophone, piano, coding, and stuttering advocacy.  Benji began to stutter severely at 10 years of...

This interview was recorded before Covid-19. Today’s featured guest is Hakim Erwin. Mr. Erwin was born and raised in West Philadelphia, PA and graduated from Edward Bok High School in 1991.  An avid hip hop music lover in his teenage years...

Today’s featured guest is Sandeep Krishnakumar. Sandeep is a first year PhD student studying Human Factors and Ergonomics at Penn State University. His research is in the realm of engineering design, and he is particularly interested in design...

Today’s featured guest is Michaela Misskee Maia.  Michaela is German-Brazilian and is currently working as a Marketing Manager at a Software Company in Florida, where she lives with her husband. Growing up, Michaela and her family lived in...

Today’s world is changing due to the Covid-19 virus.  What we enjoyed in the past has now gone away; restaurants are closed, concerts cancelled, conferences cancelled, festivals cancelled, grocery store shelves are almost bare, and we must...

Today’s featured guest is Jack Dinsley.  Jack states that he’s had a stammer ever since he can remember.  Over the years, Jack has turned the negativity of having a stammer into something positive.  He’s been involved with the...

This episode was recorded in Orlando, Florida, at the Podfest Expo 2020 (). I was honored to have spoken at the Pecha Kucha portion of the expo and my title was “The Stuttering Podcaster”.  I spent months and months preparing for this...

Today’s featured guest is Matt Herdman.  Matt Herdman, a creator who lives in Oklahoma, is striving to make positive impacts on the world.  He recently had the opportunity to be a speaker at Oklahoma’s first ever Next Gen Talks where he...

Jurjen de Jong

Today’s featured guest is Cynthia Zmroczek.  Cynthia Zmroczek received her Masters of Science degree from West Virginia University and has been a speech language pathologist with the Department of Defense for the past 11 ½ years providing...

Today’s episode features some amazing, courageous and phenomenal contributors to the Stuttering Community.  My call to action was to create an episode of #1 Tips for PWS and these tips will no doubt help those who are struggling with their...

Today’s featured guest is Jason Nunez.  Mr. Nunez is 39 years old, Catholic, Husband and father of two.  He was born and raised in El Paso, Texas and now lives in San Antonio, Texas.  Jason and his family are active parishioners at...

Today’s featured guest is Gal Zussman.  Mr. Zussman is from Israel and is currently a 12th grader in high school and he states that his stutter came back after two years of fluency. He shares his speech journey with us and his future goals in...