Stutterer Speaks

In this episode, I have the pleasure to talk to Ayo Adesanya, the co-founder of Stop Holding back. Ayo is also a person who stutters, it was great to get some insight into Ayo’s stuttering story. As I said before no 2 peoples stutter and their experience is the same so it was great to learn from Ayo.

Throughout this episode, we have a great discussion on stuttering, our stuttering life and how we can get rid of the stuttering stigma.

I have a great guest for this week’s episode. I have the pleasure in talking to Peter McCormack of the What Bitcoin Did Podcast, he is also the host of the Deviance Podcast.

Peter is an expert around the area of Bitcoin, and he has been investing in Bitcoin for a number of years. Throughout this episode we have an incredible discussion about Bitcoin, its rise and what the future holds.

For anyone that is interested in Bitcoin or is looking to invest in it, I would highly recommend to listen to this episode because Peter gives some valuable insight around the phenom of Bitcoin.

Welcome to the 19th episode of Stutterer Speaks. In this episode I have a great talk with fitness coach Ryan Erkal of Level Up. It was great to get some insight from Ryan from how we went from studying computer science in college to becoming a successful fitness coach.

Throughout this episode we talk about the gym and how train correctly and efficiently. The topics that Ryan talks about throughout this episode are extremely beneficial to both people starting in the gym and people that may be experienced or training for a good few years.

In this episode I have the pleasure to talk to Jacob Cass who comes all the way from Sydney Australia. Jacob is a branding expert, he helps companies with branding and design with his own company Just Creative, he also has his own podcast Just Branding. His is knowledge around branding is unbelievable and his resume shows it. Jacob has done branding and design work for companies such as Nike, Disney, Nintendo and Jerry Seinfeld’s comedians in cars getting coffee.

In this episode we talked about branding and how companies can have a successful brand. It was great to learn from Jacob’s expertise around this area.

In this episode, I talk to American Mycologist & Author Paul Stamets.

We have a great talk about Paul's experience as a stutter and how we found a way of treatment from mushrooms. It was very interesting to get some insights into his life and his way of treatment for his own stutter.

In this episode, I talk to Cody Packer who is from the other side of the world in New Zealand. Cody is a film maker who has made many movies and ads, some of which are based around stuttering. He is also an avid traveller, and has travelled across the world. Cody is also a person who stutters.

In this episode, Myself and Cody have a great talk on his career as a film maker, his experience traveling and his story of being a person who stutters.

It was great to get some insight into Cody's really interesting life.

In this weeks episode, I talk to Chris Jackson who is a business owner of a luxury recruitment in which he owns with his sister, he is a co-founder of the charity Stop Holding Back as well as a fellow stutterer.

We have a great discussion on stuttering, our stuttering experiences. Throughout our discussion on stuttering we talk about how stuttering has affected us in our life's, how get over the tough times, etc. We also have a cool talk about basketball & Chris agave great insight into his time playing basketball in Greece.

What an unbelievable guest I am talking to on this episode. I have the privilege to talk to the number 6 ranked welterweight in the world and UFC fighter Stephen "Wonderboy" Thompson.

It is was an absolute honour in talking to one of the best fighters in the world.

And one thing I should say, the person Wonderboy is on TV or in fights is 100% genuine, which results in him being regarded as the NMF of the UFC. He is such a nice and down to earth guy and that was seen throughout this episode.

In this episode, I have unbelievable talk with Wonderboy about his life, career as a fighter in the UFC and how he became the fighter he is today.

This would be the 3rd time I got to talk to him, as I got to meet him twice before once in Vegas in 2016 and most recently this August in Cork. And you wouldn't believe, when I was looking for him to come on to the podcast he actually remembered me from the past two experiences meeting him. Which was mad really, it is crazy how life goes around full circle.

It was actually, a fellow Irishman that helped organise our talk. Mark Rooney who is head of partnerships with Paradigm Sports, helped me get in contact with Wonderboy which I was very much appreciative of.

So on this episode, I have to honour in talking to Bas Rutten who is a MMA legend as well as UFC Hall of Famer. Bas was a UFC Heavyweight Champion, 3 time King of Pancrase World Champion and finished his career with 22 fight unbeaten streak which brought his professional record to 28-4-1, which is truly incredible.

Bas kept busy after retiring from fighting professionally, we went on to coach many fighters and has a successful acting career where he has appeared in many TV Series and Movies, in such movies he appeared alongside actors such as Kevin James, Henry Winkler among many others.

It was unbelievable to talk to Bas and have a great discussion about his MMA & acting career.

Being the massive MMA fan that I am, it was insane to talk to such a legend of the sport. He gave great insight into MMA, his career, the changes in the sport, and the whole area of MMA.

We then went on to talk about his transition into acting after retiring, which was great.

MMA and Acting were not the only things that we talked about, we talked about conquering adversities and getting rid of bad habits. In which Bas gave really insight into.

In this episode, I talk to Ivan Perry is also a person who stutters as well as a college professor and Head of School of Public Health at University College Cork. Ivan has over 20 years experience in his field and his research interests are chronic disease epidemiology with a specific focus on cardiovascular disease (CVD), Type 2 Diabetes, self harm and suicide.

In this episode, myself and Ivan have a very informative talk on stuttering, our stuttering experiences and the whole area of stuttering. In the second have of the episode, Ivan gives great insight into Mental Health and I feel this talk can help a lot of people and provide some very valuable information about mental health.

It was great to talk to Ivan about these topics and everything that we talked about was very well researched by Ivan throughout his career.

I hope you all enjoy the episode.