Navigating the ups and downs of being a teenager is hard enough. Adding living with a stutter to the already existing anxieties and insecurities we go through can make things even more difficult. 

Priya is a 17-year old living in Sydney, Australia. She is filling a much needed gap in the stuttering community: creating and sharing content around stuttering for her fellow teenagers who stutter from all over the world. We talk about her new podcast, Stutter Conversations, and how she got to being so open about her stutter at an early age. 

Kyle Smeallie, Maya's fiancée, is our co-host. He’s a legislative aide for a local elected official in San Francisco, working on policies related to affordable housing, tenants rights, and supporting small businesses.

The guide for this episode, with resources, transcript, show notes, and more, can be found here: www.proudstutter.com/proud-stutter-season-2-episode-12

Mentioned in this episode

• Priya on My Stuttering Life Podcast
• Scene in Billy Madison movie

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As a young child, Stevie Soul used his stutter to his strength when he started arranging repetitive sounds into beats and patterns. We talk to Stevie about his journey to becoming an Award-winning beatboxer and an independent, multimedia producer.

I am joined by Andrew Menegat, a former teacher who is now working in EdTech.

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Mentioned in this episode

• Stevie’s website and Instagram
• History of Woodward Streets in Detroit and San Francisco

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Journalist John Hendrickson spent most of his life ignoring the elephant in the room, his stutter. We talk about what it was like going back in time, dating, and ask questions from Proud Stutter listeners. His upcoming memoir is Life On Delay: Making Peace With A Stutter.

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Enjoy this sneak preview of my interview with John Hendrickson, author of Life on Delay: Making Peace With a Stutter, coming January 2023 from Knopf.

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We can’t create sustainable change for the stuttering community without disrupting cultural norms around speech. The first step towards breaking down ableist systems is to identify them. 

In this episode, we talk about disrupting ableism by discussing the many systems for which it appears. We also dissect a new term in the ever expanding stuttering vernacular: the non-standard voice. 

Host: Maya Chupkov, www.proudstutter.com

Guest: Kaitlyn Borysiewicz (she/hers), www.themelanincollective.org 

Co-Host: Benjamin Lundberg Torres Sánchez (they/them/elle), https://linktr.ee/b_lts_ 

Mentioned in the episode

Ruth Wilson Gilmore

For further reading:

Using Disability Justice to Reimagine Family Regulation

Lived Experience and Disability Justice in the Family Regulation System

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Having a stutter can be extremely frustrating and stressful, especially while at work. Stuttering as a Marine though might take the cake for the most stressful work environment. What was it like being a person who stutters in the military? 

Brady Wilson, a Marine Veteran, is our guest and opens up about his experiences and how he coped with his stutter in stressful situations. Our guest co-host is Gustavo Serafini, host and producer of Enabled Disabled Podcast.

Episode Resources

Listen:

• Stuttering on Enabled Disabled Podcast

Read:

• Steven explains what its like to be a Marine who stutters (AIS Blog)
• Noncommissioned Officer Won't Let Words Stop Him (US Army Blog)

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Replacing words is common experience among people who stutter. What we find out in this episode is people in recovery may have similar experiences.

Lupita Dorado just recently opened up about her stutter with her sister. We talk about what that experience has been like for their relationship. Other topics include filler words, stuttering as a woman in the professional setting, and interactions with her daughter who also stutters.

Joining me as this week’s co-host is Jay Shifman, host of Choose Your Struggle.

Episode Overview

[2:26 - 4:36] Discovering The Stuttering Community

[4:49 - 5:29] Opening Up About Stuttering

[5:53 - 9:49] Similarities Between Stuttering & Being In Recovery After Substance Misuse

[9:49 - 10:39] Lupita & Her Daughter

[10:39 - 14:16] Struggling To Say What You Want to Say

[14:16 - 16:59] The Importance of Community & Talking About Stigma

[16:59 - 19:35] Working As A Woman In The Professional Setting

[19:35 - 20:32] End Of Year Proud Stutter Campaign

[20:32 - 24:22] Struggling To Say What You Want To Say Continued

[24:22 - 25:20] Baby Steps When Opening Up

[25:20 - 27:03] Stuttering In Another Language

[27:03 - 29:54] Choosing Your Struggle

[29:54 - 34:05] What We’re Hopeful For

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Josh Compton is a Professor of Speech at Dartmouth College. Joining me as this week’s co-host is Josel Gaston, host of Find Your Daily Calm Podcast. How did Josh end up teaching speech for a living? This is one of the many topics we get into about the intersections between stuttering and public speaking.

Episode Overview

[3:55- 6:52] Early Memories of Stuttering

[6:52- 10:45] Covert stuttering

[10:45 - 13:33] Connection Between Mindfulness & Stuttering

[13:33- 24:00] Becoming A Speech Professor

[24:00-30:48] Inoculation Theory Research

Resources

Josh’s faculty page

Josh’s personal research page

Josh’s Dysfluent Essay

Re-Thinking Anxiety: Using Inoculation Messages to Reduce and Reinterpret Public Speaking Fears

Find Your Calm Daily Podcast

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DJ Portugal is a creative Chicano soul from South Central Los Angeles. His current job is a community organizer in Phoenix, AZ where he works towards environmental justice within the Latinx community. Joining me as this week’s co-host is Brenda Hernández Jaimes, founder of Ellas Media. 

How does the Latino community approach stuttering? This is one of the central themes of our conversation. We also talk about imposter syndrome, how stuttering can impact learning a new language, and parenting with a stutter. 

Episode Overview

[2:15 - 7:05] First Time Being Seen As a Stutterer 

[7:05 - 9:40] Opening Doors For Latinas 

[9:40 - 10:45] Power In Finding Yourself

[10:45 - 12:45] Overcompensating  

[12:48 - 15:55] Balancing Your Passion & Self Care

[16:45 - 28:10] Addressing Disability In The Latinx Community & Learning Spanish with a Stutter

[28:10 - 19:16] Tattoos & Stuttering

[19:16 - 33:35] Raising Kids To Speak Spanish & How Stuttering Impacts Parents

[35:00 - 36:00] Lifting Up Speech Therapy 

Also mentioned in the episode: Proud Stutter’s Stuttering Awareness Month campaign with Facetronomy. Click here for more details.

 

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Gina Chin-Davis is a writer and filmmaker. Growing up with a stutter and being a bi-racial woman has influenced the kind of stories she wants to tell visually and on the page. Her first feature film, I Can’t Sleep, won several awards.

Joining me as this week’s co-host is Stuart Schuffman (aka Broke-Ass Stuart), a writer, performer, TV host, and newspaper columnist.

Episode Overview

[2:54 - 4:04] Pivotal moments of stuttering

[4:17 - 6:55] Fluency shaping tools (not always foolproof)

[7:00 - 7:40] Using secondaries to mask

[8:00 - 9:30] Teen years and blaming yourself

[9:30 - 11:00] Maya’s coming out journey

[11:05 - 12:13] Drinking and stuttering

[12:13 - 17:04] Gina’s filmmaking journey

[17:22 - 20:30] Intersectionality, representation, being bi-racial and storytelling

[20:30 - 21:41] Normalizing stuttering in film and TV

[21:51 - 28:17] The making of her first feature film

Events & Resources

Broke-Ass Stuart is celebrating its 20th anniversary on 10/13 in the Bay Area

Gina’s Feature Film: I Can’t Sleep.

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