Benedict Sheehan is a Grammy-nominated conductor and composer who stutters. His wife, Talia Sheehan, is a professional vocalist and musical educator. In this episode, we talk about the psychology behind people’s responses to stuttering and how people who don’t stutter can be stronger allies for people who stutter. This episode is part one of a two-part conversation with the Sheehans.

Additionally, host Maya talks about California's resolution to recognize Stuttering Awareness Week and plans for a community rally/press conference at the state capitol in Sacramento.

Episode Breakdown

[00:02:24] Being an ally to stutterers.

[00:06:18] Fear is First.

[00:09:18] Stuttering and facial expressions.

[00:13:53] Body language for public speaking.

[00:19:04] Stuttering and acceptance.

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For this special bonus episode of Proud Stutter, Maya is rebroadcasting an episode from the TheeClutterQueen podcast.

Host Simone Robinson interviews Maya and they talk about the intersections between cluttering and stuttering, their very different experiences with speech therapy, public speaking during class, problematic headlines in the media, thinking you can’t do certain things because of speech dysfluency, and more!

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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:

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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

directory.dartmouth.edu/josh-compton">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

manage.com/track/click?e=a5b1c3be04&id=9aec4ddcea&u=8c4d15cffee4bd3785d738db4">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, 1b15-5cc2-8209-1a7b09f5f1fd.html">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 

Connect with Melissa: Instagram | Twitter | Website

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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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Intersectional identities overlap, connect, disconnect and can even attempt to cancel each other out. During a live interview at the National Stuttering Association's 39th Annual Conference in Newport Beach California, I talked with multiple people who stutter about their intersectional identities and how these different identities show up in their lives. 

Interviewees include Christian, an Asian American man who stutters and a film and TV producer, Sam, a multi-racial queer woman who stutters in the mental health field, Alicia, a Latino also in the healthcare field, and Eugene, an African American, Irish and Native American man who stutters. 

Mentioned in the episode:

• Maya and the Three (Netflix show)
• Once Upon A Time In Hollywood
• The King’s Speech
• Behind Porky Pig’s Voice

Today’s Episode:

[3:56] What is Intersectionality?

[8:12] TV & Film & Shifting The Stuttering Narrative

[8:27] Characters Who Stutter & Examples of Representing Stuttering Right 

[13:46] Covert Stuttering

[17:04] Creating A World Where We Stutter Freely

[19:50] Mini Interview with Alicia

[21:24] Mini Interview with Sam

[24:12] Mini Interview with Eugene

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Maya’s dad is one of her biggest fans. He’s listened to every episode and now it’s time for his podcast debut. In this bonus episode, Maya talks to her dad, also known as “Aba,” about his experience moving to a country where he didn’t speak the language, what he’s learned from listening to Proud Stutter, and more!

Mentions: 

• Proud Stutter S1, Ep12: A Teenager’s Journey to Finding Pride In HIs Stutter
• Creating a Safe Spaces for Students Who Stutter (Proud Stutter Bonus Episode)
• Proud Stutter S1, Ep3: Real Talk With Mom
• The Bachelor’s Abigail Heringer
• Netflix Shows That Center on Disabilities

Today’s Episode:

[1:58 - 5:26] Living and communicating in a country while not speaking the language

[8:49 - 10:17] Advice for parents and fathers who have a child who stutters

[10:45 - 11:45] What stuttering topics does Maya’s Dad want to hear more of?

[11:45 - 15:20] Israeli Reality TV Show Features Person Who Stutters

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It’s always National Stuttering Awareness Week with Proud Stutter. Maya highlights the festivities from NSAW for this bonus episode, including an edited version of the Creating Safe Spaces For People Who Stutter panel, featuring Mariam Elba, Mike Meaney, and Dr. Rick Herder. 

Be sure to listen to the entire episode to find out about Season 2 - launch date and theme! 

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Mentions: 

• National Stuttering Awareness Week Press Coverage
• Creating Safe Spaces For People Who Stutter [full recording on YouTube]

Today’s Episode:

[1:50-3:05] Season 2 announcement

[3:10- 5:40] National Stuttering Awareness Week Recap

[6:11 - 17:32] Creating Safe Spaces - Connection To Stuttering

[17:32 - 20:44] ] Creating Safe Spaces - Speaking at the SF Stuttering Rally

[20:44 - 27:17] Creating Safe Spaces - Being a Public Speaker Who Stutters

[27:17- 29: 48] Creating Safe Spaces - Speech Therapy Transformations

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Is there an activity where you feel 'at one' or ‘in the zone’? There's a term in psychology for this state of being called 'flow'. 

For this bonus episode, Maya talks to Jayne Devlin, a Community Dance Artist and Co-Artistic Director of Inner Ground Dance Company.

Her research interests include exploring how participation in arts, creativity and culture may promote an enhanced sense of wellbeing and connection for individuals.

Her works focus on the intersections between dance, health, and wellbeing, specifically relating to aging and neurodegenerative health conditions (Parkinson’s disease, Alzheimer’s disease, and other dementias) and Stroke.  

Jayne is currently in her final year of an MSc Psychology course at Plymouth University (UK).

[4:00 - 7:53] Dancing and ‘Flow State”

[7:53 - 9:38] ] Releasing tension and psychology

[12:31 - 24:17] Acceptance and Transient moments 

Mentions:

• Talk Live A River by Jordan Scott
• Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi (1934 – 2021), a Hungarian American psychologist
• Jayne’s call for interviews for her research: transient wholeness for people who stammer
• Stamma, the British Stammering Association

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This year, National Stuttering Awareness Week is May 9 - May 15. Let’s talk about its history, why it matters, and how you can help spread the word.

IN THIS EPISODE

• [1:24 - 2:59] History behind National Stuttering Awareness Week 
• [3:07 - 3:48] How you can be part of National Stuttering Awareness Week 2022 
• [4:22 - 8:00] A Story from a Proud Stutter Listener 

LINKS:

• National Stuttering Awareness Week
• Proud Stutter Local Resolution Toolkit 
• Proud Stutter NSAW May 2022 Events
• Buy Proud Stutter Merch
• Proud Stutter, Season 1

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Popular culture and the media has a huge power to shift the hearts and minds of our society. Unfortunately, TV, film, and the media have not done the best job in representing people who stutter and have largely left out the voices and experiences of women stutterers.

This week we talk to Nina G, a stuttering comedian, about where popular culture misses the mark on the stuttering experience and how we can do better.

Also mentioned:

• Come-backs in response to stuttering jokes
• Protesting against stuttering discrimination
• Women and stuttering
• Stuttering Interrupted: The Comedian Who Almost Didn’t Happen 
• Dating someone who also stutters
• Stuttering guilt
• The problem of the inspiration story
• Bay Area Stand-Up Comedy: A Humorous History
• Proud Stutter’s Launch Party

Films and TV representations mentioned:

• “Today, Junior,” in Billy Madison
• “Did I Stutter,” in The Office
• Change of Habit
• Porky Pig 
• The King’s Speech
• My Cousin Vinny
• Moses Play

Nina’s Upcoming Live Shows:

• April 15: 501 Mendocino Ave, Santa Rosa, CA 95401
• April 16: 4920 Telegraph Ave, Oakland, CA 94609
• April 22: 1344 Park St, Alameda, CA 94501

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Eli Taulman is a teenager who has had a stutter since he first started talking. While he is proud of his stutter today, he didn’t always feel that way. He hid from the world by self-isolating and was deeply ashamed of his stutter growing up. A key turning point was attending his first National Stuttering Association conference where he met other stutterers for the first time.

Maya and Cynthia chat with Eli, Proud Stutter’s youngest guest, about how he became proud of his stutter and offers advice for teens who may be struggling with their stutter.

Mentioned in the episode:

• National Stuttering Association
• Registration for NSA Conference
• National Stuttering Association Teen Advisory Council

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There is no definitive answer to why a person stutters. However, thanks to Frank Guenther and his research lab at Boston University, the mystery of stuttering has become a little clearer. With advances in brain activity monitoring technology, neuroscientists like Frank are able to explore stuttering in exciting new ways. 

Frank joins Maya and Cynthia for a conversation about his research on the underlying causes of stuttering and how it may be related to speech production. 

Other topics mentioned in the episode:

• History of stuttering research and early misconceptions
• Correlations between behavior development in childhood and fluency
• Similarities between stutterers, neurotypical children, and adults with Parkinson’s
• Is there a connection between being bilingual and having a stutter?
• Stuttering differences in males and females
• Opportunities for future stuttering research 

Quotes from the episode: 

“There are probably subtypes of stuttering that we will eventually need to separate out if we truly want to understand the behavior because otherwise we will just keep seeing variability from study to study.”

“Relatively little research has been done in females who stutter so one of the things that we hope to learn from our collaboration with Dr. Chang’s lab is whether there are different developmental trajectories for males and females that might give us more insight into what's happening and why it's more likely that a males will continue to stutter, compared to a female who stuttered as a child.”

Mentioned in the episode:

• Guenther Lab at Boston University
• Speech Neurology Lab at the University of Michigan
• NIH Policy and Guidelines on The Inclusion of Women and Minorities as Subjects in Clinical Research

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People who stutter are starting to create support groups at their workplaces as a way to create a safe space to discuss stuttering and sharing tips and strategies. Mike Meaney is one of these people. He recently started a stuttering support group at one of the biggest technology companies in the world.

Maya and Cynthia talk with Mike about how he started a support group at Meta (formerly known as Facebook), and how it has transformed his workplace environment for the better.

Topics covered include:

• Coming out as a person who stutters at work
• Managing a team as a person who stutters
• Advocating for speech therapy accommodations at Meta
• Opening up about the toughest moments growing up with a stutter
• Advice for managing stress at work
• Stuttering and its connection to having a high vocabulary

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The movement to expand diversity and inclusivity in newsrooms is growing. Yet stuttering, a speech disability affecting nearly 1% of the population, is seldom talked about in the newsroom.

This week, Mariam Elba speaks with Maya and Cynthia about what it’s like to have a stutter in the newsroom. Mariam, a woman who stutters, is a research reporter at Pro Publica and an adjunct professor at CUNY’s Craig Newmark Journalism School. Mariam talks about her journey to becoming a reporter and how she didn’t let her stutter get in the way of pursuing journalism as a career and teaching.

“Don't be afraid to kind of go after what you feel really passionate about. Like if there are stories that you like, that you're seeing, and that you want to write about and report on that you're not seeing elsewhere, you should be the person to do that reporting. And that like, you know, your stutter doesn't like make you any less qualified to be someone speaking in like a public-facing setting.”

Other topics mentioned:

• Power of mentorship
• Having a stutter and teaching
• Meeting other people who stutter in the newsroom
• Being around other people who stutter for the first time
• Advice for aspiring teachers who stutter
• Tips for introducing yourself as a person who stutters in a group
• Asking about a person’s stutter: a positive real-life example
• The challenges of following up with sources
• Maya’s experience working in PR with a stutter 
• Dealing with stress at the workplace

Mentioned in the episode:

• CUNY’s Craig Newmark’s School of Journalism
• Pro Pubilca
• The Nation

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Blackness, stuttering, music, and religion are all complex topics in their own right. Yet, Jerome Ellis combines them beautifully in his work, like when he uses academic and theoretical language to parse out the relationship between blackness and music.

In the second part of our interview with Ellis, we talk more about his album, The Clearing, and how he draws out the beauty of stuttering through various mediums – history to show the connection between music and blackness, and comparing waiting birds and trees to the unknowingness of stuttering.

“If I were...if I were repeating the first syllable of a book title than they…then [people] would be less likely to hang up because they would hear like, and they might be like – Oh, he's stuttering right now – but, because [my] glottal block so often sounds silent…people don't know what's happening, and…it's been so painful for so many years, but I gradually I’ve been able [to see there is something important there] in the not knowing.”

Other topics include:

• How Blackness and stuttering play next to each other
• Historical knot of blackness and music 
• Mosaics of difference
• Voluntary and involuntary stuttering
• Herons and stuttering
• Honoring the mystery and beauty of the stutter
• Stuttering and the state of unknowing 
• Tress and stuttering
• Glottal block stuttering vs. repeating syllables in TV and film
• “Stuttering is an occasion to be present in complex thought”

Mentioned in the episode:

• “We do not live single-issue lives” - Audrey Lorde
• Historian Saidiya Hartman
• Track 1, 2, 4, 6, and 8 of The Clearing
• History of the word grallatorial
• This American Life episode featuring Jerome
• “cloud-of-unknowing-15115.html">The Cloud of Unknowing”
• Jerome’s forthcoming projects

Upcoming Live Performances:

• April 10, 2022: Rewire Festival in The Hague, Netherlands
• May 7, 2022: XJAZZ! Festival in Berlin, Germany
• July 2022: Performances at Haus Der Kunst in Munich, Germany

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JJJJJerome Ellis talks with Maya and Cynthia about the intersections of being a black person who stutters and a musician, how his views of his disability evolved since childhood, and why it was so important for him to connect his stutter to his ancestral history of slavery in his work. He also highlights how the stage is a safe space for stuttering and music is a source of healing the pain he experienced as a child.

“Growing up I felt so much of the pain and also the beauty of the stutter. Over time I’ve come to feel the stutter alters time, and music is another way that we can alter time. Part of what I was trying to do with The Clearing is to try to undo some of the things that have been told to me about stuttering and to transform the stuttering narrative through poetry, music, history, and philosophy.”

Other topics include:

• Stuttering easily with animals
• Intersectionality
• Pain in not being able to connect with people
• The stage as a safe space 
• Comparing stuttering to being frozen in time
• Music as a source of healing
• Being at odds with language
• Poetry allows for so much freedom to explore language
• Getting through interviews with a stutter

LINKS FROM THE EPISODE:

Jerome’s album The Clearing

Jerome’s accompanying book to The Clearing

The Guardian article, Artist and stutterer JJJJJerome Ellis: ‘So much pain comes from not feeling fully human’

More about the collaboration between James Harrison Monaco and Jerome Ellis

Performance at the Metropolitan Museum of Modern Art

Brittany Cooper’s Racial Politics of Time TED Talk

Joshua St. Pierre, Canada Research Chair in Critical Disability Studies

Jerome's upcoming live performances:

April 10, 2022: Rewire Festival in The Hague, Netherlands

May 7, 2022: XJAZZ! Festival in Berlin, Germany

July 2022: Performances at Haus Der Kunst in Munich, Germany

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Not everyone who stutters shows it all the time. There are people who become very good at hiding it by substituting words, avoiding high-octane situations, and choosing to remain quiet to avoid stuttering. People like this are often identified as having a "covert" stutter.

Both Maya and guest Sarah Nelson identify as covert stutters. In this episode, they talk about passing as fluent, disclosing to their families and friends, and analogies that describe their experiences. Other topics include:

• “Do I Stutter Enough?”
• Harmful phrases that perpetuate ableism
• A good example of someone reacting to your stutter
• Getting through interviews with a stutter
• “Am I Disabled Enough?” - Embracing a disability identity 

Mentioned in the episode:

Untamed by Glennon Doyle

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Did you know there is a community of Speech-Language Pathologists who stutter? Bailey Levis, a speech therapist and proud person who stutters, is the founder of the San Francisco Speech and Fluency Center. Bailey’s approach to stuttering treatment is unique in that he centers his practice around acceptance, confidence-building, and goal setting.

Maya and Cynthia speak with Bailey about his stuttering treatment philosophy and what led him to become a speech therapist. Other topics covered include:

• The positives of having a speech therapist who also stutters
• An incident that stopped Maya’s dream of becoming a speech therapist
• Avoiding certain classes
• Neurodiversity
• What advice would Bailey give his 8-year-old self?

Addendum for Episode 6 of Proud Stutter: When Bailey mentions the term "neurotypical" in the episode, he meant to use the term "neurodiverse."

(A full transcript of the episode is available here)

Quotes

At 5:45 - “As adults, we-we-we're gonna have to, you know, face our stuttering and manage it for our entire lives. But we don't have to let it stop us from living our lives to our fullest.”

At 10: 37 - “[Stuttering Therapy] is about identifying uncomfortable situations and helping people to be comfortable in those uncomfortable situations…it's all the things that we avoid doing in our lives or the things that we avoid saying, that's the disability.”

Mentioned in the episode:

Tik Tok clip - This Woman With A Stutter Is Going Viral After Filming Herself Ordering At A Drive-Thru, And Her Videos Are Raising Awareness About The Disorder

San Francisco Speech and Fluency Center - www.sfstutteringhelp.com

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Maya and Cynthia talk to James Hayden, a person who stutters, a Tedx speaker, and the author of “Dear World, I Stutter.”

Many stutterers like James and Maya have been discriminated against because of their stutter, whether it be in a job, during an interview, or at school.

So often, we pass judgments on people by our first impressions of them, often without giving it a second thought. But how often do we take the time to look beyond our first impressions of someone?

In this episode, Maya and Cynthia talk to James about first impressions and how to let go of self-judgment when stuttering in front of new people.

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Maya and Cynthia explore the Stuttering Subreddit, a supportive online community for people who stutter. Topics include parenting choices, stuttering through the pandemic, and the serious consequences of misunderstanding people who stutter.

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Stuttering Subreddit

2021 NSA Keynote: Dream. Speak. Live: How To Navigate Fluency Conformity And Reduce Stuttering Stigma

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Maya and her mom have a raw and emotional conversation about her stutter. 

Before this interview, Maya had never shared with her mom how she really felt about growing up with a stutter, how exhausting speech therapy was after school, and how hiding her stutter took so much out of her mentally.

“Having all these tools to practice was just another kind of thing I had t-to think about when I never really wanted to do it in the first p-place. But at th-the same time, I really appreciate you going above and beyond t-to help me especially b-because at that time I really did hate my stutter...I felt so alone in it.”

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Cynthia asks Maya about what it was like to date with a stutter. Maya’s perspective may surprise you. Hint: Filtering system.

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After hiding a part of herself for most of her life, Maya reveals things about her stutter she has never told anyone, not even her family. She became an expert at avoiding certain words and passing as fluent, all in the effort to assimilate, fit into societal norms, and succumb to ableist expectations. How did Maya get from doing everything she could to hide her stutter to now embracing it? What happened when Maya started disclosing her stutter for the first time? Find out in the first episode of Proud Stutter with hosts Maya Chupkov and Cynthia Chin. Maya is a proud person who stutters and Cynthia does not have a stutter. Join the journey to changing the conversation about stuttering so it is better understood by society and lifts more stuttering voices. LINKS: For resources on stuttering, visit National Stuttering Association at www.westutter.org. Email: info@proudsutter.com If you would like to support this podcast, then I would love a cup of coffee: https://www.buymeacoffee.com/proudstutter Website: www.proudstutter.com Support this podcast at — https://redcircle.com/proud-stutter/exclusive-content

Proud Stutter is a podcast series about shifting the narrative around stuttering. Host Maya Chupkov, a woman who stutters, discusses her experience with Cynthia who does not have a stutter. The goal of the podcast is to bring justice to those who stutter and are constantly misunderstood by society, to raise awareness that stuttering is just a different way of speaking, where the very idea of “normal” speech is undone. This podcast is for everyone because whether you know it or not, you’re connected to someone who has a stutter. Support this podcast at — https://redcircle.com/proud-stutter/exclusive-content