Did you know there is a vibrant stuttering community on Reddit?

Cynthia Chin, Season 1 co-host, is back on the pod doing a second round of going through stuttering subreddit posts. Our first Stuttering Subreddit episode is our most listened-to episode, so let's dive in.

What kinds of posts do we talk about on the Stuttering Subreddit?

We dig into college presentations, being labeled the quiet-type, clinging onto relationships, and funny stuttering moments.

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Steff Lebsack, a speech language pathologist, grew up with a brother who stutters. When she developed a neurogenic stutter later in life, she accepted it right away. In this new episode, we talk about Steff and her journey in juggling multiple disabilities, including lung disease, the power of language in gaining self-acceptance, and the importance of owning your story.

Our guest co-host is Tiffany Yu, CEO & Founder of Diversability, and host of Tiffany & Yu Podcast.

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Johnnie Pina does not let his stutter get in the way of being a successful lobbyist where public speaking is a main part of his job. Joining us is Alexandra Leal, host of Democracy Is, a podcast from California Common Cause. We discuss the importance of community in building confidence and overcoming public speaking fears. We also talk about the local resolution process and how it can be used to generate public awareness. 

Stuttering visibility and acceptance in local communities can have a huge impact. For example, passing a local resolution can have a ripple effect and can even help people realize and accept their own identity.

The guide for this episode, with resources, transcript, show notes, and more, can be found here: www.proudstutter.com/proud-stutter-season-2-episode-13

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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.

The guide for this episode, with resources, transcript, show notes, and more, can be found here:

www.proudstutter.com/proud-stutter-season-2-episode-11

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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Dustin Wells drives the 5 Fulton bus route in San Francisco. He didn’t identify with being a stutterer until he heard about Proud Stutter on his local NPR station. The first part of the episode is Maya interviewing Dustin while riding on his bus route. The second part is a sit-down interview with Dustin. Our rotating co-host is Christin Evans, an advocate for San Francisco’s unhoused residents and the owner of Booksmith, an independent bookstore in San Francisco. 

This episode celebrates SF Transit Month and is releasing ahead of an in-person event Proud Stutter is putting on with Booksmith SF called “Stuttering Stories Across San Francisco.”

I want to thank Quinn Greenhaus for helping edit this episode.

Stuttering Awareness Month Campaign To Launch!

Proud Stutter is partnering with Facetronomy on a Stuttering Awareness Month campaign. It includes raffle prizes and pre-released exclusive episodes! Another thing we are doing to kick things off in October is a live stream with women who stutter Nina G and Lara Gabrielle. Catch us on Instagram at 10am pacific!

Episode Overview

[0:25-7:40] Bus ride with Dustin

[7:40-11:55] Dustin’s stuttering origin story

[11:55-13:43] Selective stuttering memories

[13:43-15:10] Bonding with co-workers around speech differences

[15:49-20:55] Psychic stories

[21:41-27:38] Stuttering in family and social settings

[27:45-29:39] Overcompensating 

[30:14- 33:07] From Guilt & Shame To Acceptance

[33:07-35:40] October Stuttering Awareness Campaign

[35:40-38:47] Bonding with people who speak limited English

[39:32-42:50] Having a regular job and being happy

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Desiree Tracie Cole wanted to act ever since she first saw Annie. When she saw a post on Facebook looking for a young woman who stutters to play the lead character in an animated series, she jumped on the opportunity and landed the job. Joining me to talk to Desiree about her acting career and the animated series is Nicki Woodard, host of history podcast As The Money Burns. 

Episode Overview

[4:23 - 5:12] Breaking Into Acting 

[5:12 - 10:55] Disability + Entertainment Industry + Stuttering Nuances

[10:55 - 24:46] New Animated Series With Lead Character Who Stutters

[24:46 - 26:45] Advice for People Who Stutter Who Want to Pursue Acting

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Proud Stutter’s 1-year anniversary is right around the corner. I wanted to take this bonus episode to reflect on the first year, what’s ahead for the show, and share a couple of short stories from people who stutter.

Show Notes

Reflecting on almost 1 year of Proud Stutter

• National Stuttering Awareness Week Local Resolution Passes in San Francisco
• Youth Today OpEd
• San Diego Union-Tribune OpEd
• San Francisco Local Media Coverage (48 Hills, SF Examiner, Local News Matters, KQED)
• Proud Stutter Live Podcast @ NSA Conference 

Proud Stutter, Looking Forward

• Event: Stuttering Stories Across San Francisco 
• Proud Stutter Season 2

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Maya speaks with Kyeli Eastland, an elementary school teacher who stutters. The co-host for this week is Melissa Herrera, host and producer of Mimosa Sisterhood, a history podcast that celebrates women’s stories, past and present.

Episode Overview

• [3:37- 4:55] Being the new kid at school
• [5:10 - 6:40] Teaching virtually during the pandemic
• [6:40 - 8:41] How Did Kyeli become a teacher?
• [9:25 - 10:36] Bringing Up Stuttering With Students
• [10:37 - 11:52] Ableism: Kids vs. Adults
• [12:28 - 14:05] Representation & meeting others who stutter
• [14:12 - 15:31] Connecting and educating through podcasting
• [15:31 - 17:01] Talking about disability and stuttering in an educational setting
• [17:58 - 20:09] Building community and sisterhood through podcasting
• [12:16 - 23:13] From anxiety & overcompensating to teaching and stuttering confidently 
• [23:30 - 25:30] Opening up to family about stuttering
• [25:45 - 29:09] Identifying stuttering as a disability and neurodiversity in the classroom
• [29:10 - 30:45] Stuttering and the fear of speaking up and making a joke
• [30:50 - 36:00] Speech therapy: Fixing vs. Supporting 

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Amanda Mammana’s America’s Got Talent audition put a national spotlight on stuttering. At first, I couldn’t understand why it made me feel so uncomfortable watching it. Shouldn’t I be happy for a fellow woman who stutters getting this opportunity? And then I read Courtney Margulis’ post. She put words into what I had been feeling while watching the video of the audition.

In Season 2’s first bonus episode, I speak with Courtney and TikTok star Marc Winski about the audition, how it perpetuates stigma around stuttering, and what we can do about it. 

Courtney’s post can be read here: An open letter to America’s Got Talent

You can follow Marc Winski @marcwinski

TIKTOK: https://www.tiktok.com/@marcwinski?_t=8UVRwcjQ83G&_r=1

INSTAGRAM: https://www.instagram.com/marcwinski/?hl=en

Reach out and donate to Marc at https://linktr.ee/Marcwinski

Episode Overview

• [6:45 - 13:00] Inspiration Porn and Perpetuating Stigma
• [13:10 - 15:30] Educating via social media comments
• [15:30 - 16:48] Singing and stuttering
• [16:50 - 18:50] Pointing out the stigma
• [19:04 - 20:37] The varying responses to the audition
• [27:20 - 34:00] Calls to action to spread awareness to end the stigma

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In our debut episode of Season 2, Maya speaks with the show's first Australian who stutters, Cameron Raynes, a lecturer at the University of South Australia. The co-host for this week is Dana Amihere, executive director of Afro LA, a community focused news outlet centering the black experience in and around greater LA. Also listen if you want to hear Maya try a British accent.

Topics Covered

• Stuttering in an open plan office
• Practicing stuttering in front of strangers 
• Finding wellbeing and strength in stuttering 
• Saying yes to public speaking
• Connections between writing, reading, and stuttering
• Arts-based therapy for stuttering
• Accents & Fluency
• Authenticity & Finding Your Voice 
• Code switching to be taken seriously
• Intersecting invisible disabilities, power, and control 

Also Mentioned 

• Writing Program at SAY NY
• Out With It by Katherine Preston
• Brain imaging with actors
• First Person Shooter by Cameron Raynes
• Once Upon A Time In Hollywood 

Episode Overview

[3:05 - 6:28: Redefining A Good Day]

[6:30 - 9:12: Public Speaking]

[9:57 - 11:13: Stuttering & Writing & Telling Jokes/Stories]

[11:13 - 12:29: Reading and Stuttering]

[12:52 - 18:54: Arts-based therapy, Acting, Accents]

[18:56 - 20:30: Code Switching]

[20:31 - 21:31: Invisible Disabilities + Internalized Racism]

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