In this episode, I talk about the pull of certainty and how reassuring it can feel to believe there are clear answers, fixed structures, and someone who has it all figured out.

We explore how professional cultures reward confidence over curiosity, how uncertainty often gets smoothed over rather than examined, and why so many clinicians sense something doesn’t quite line up but struggle to name it.

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Special thank you to Dr. Angela Louvenbrouk (former President of the American Academy of Audiology, ASHA Fellow, former ASHA board member, and recipient of Honors of the Academy—AAA’s highest award—2019) for being a primary source for this podcast series.

In 2015, a paperwork mistake and a failed jurisprudence exam left me living in a tent in Montana and questioning everything I thought I knew about becoming a speech-language pathologist. This episode tells the story of my first encounter with the profession’s hidden architecture and how that experience opened a decade-long journey of trying to understand the system we all work inside of.

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