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Stuttering in front of your graduation ceremony

Sunday, January 24th, 2010

Link #44
While reading Never let the fear of striking out keep you from playing the game, you can absolutely feel the author’s positive energy coming from her experience stuttering her very important speech at her graduation ceremony. IN FRONT OF EVERYONE. It’s not so scary after all :)
“All of you deserve to feel a sense [...]


Stuttering acceptance by others

Saturday, October 3rd, 2009

#65

 
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Today I talk about a few positive experiences when I stutter with confidence even though I may feel awkward about it inside. Particularly, how we can tell when the people we’re talking to accept our stuttering. We also hear from @stutterrockstar’s thoughts on her stuttering increase right after I receive a timely phone call [...]


Stuttering with confidence in school and business

Saturday, September 26th, 2009
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#64

 
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Stuttering, music, and MySpace. That’S what we’re talking about today with @dima7b, @stutteringme and his lovely wife, @courtneydare. Dmitriy (@dima7b) is a star. He doesn’t let his stuttering get in the way of him in school and businsess. He shares with us his techniques in stuttering with confidence in all of life’s situations; talking in [...]


Don’t question my stuttering. It just is.

Saturday, September 19th, 2009

#63

 
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Ever wondered why we go through phases of differing stuttering volumes? Today, my conversation with @ridwa326 continues from last week’s episode with @stutterrockstar joining in (along with special guest Gene). We ponder our increase in our stuttering the past few weeks and that of our fellow stuttering friends. Is it the summer holidays? Mercury in [...]


McGuire Programme and job interviews

Saturday, September 12th, 2009

#62

 
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We take a Skype trip around the UK and with our first stop in London for a fun chat with @barrymcgee talking about his experiences with a 4-day intensive McGuire Program. I never took it but from the sounds of it, it seems very effective and liberating. We’re joined later in the show by [...]


Ti-gers, conferences and bad science

Monday, September 7th, 2009
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#61

 
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On today’s show— I mean, on tonight’s show, I play fantastic audio from two fantastic ladies. The first is from a new listener in Germany sharing her ti-ger story with us (and photos) and the second audio comes from Pam Mertz, the @stutterrockstar. Pam shares with us her voice on stuttering conventions. I also do [...]


Stuttering and Storytelling

Sunday, August 16th, 2009

#60 or The Tim Coyne Episode

 
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Today I chat with Tim Coyne who is an actor living in Los Angeles and produces The Hollywood Podcast. Tim is a fantastic story teller so I invited him on my show to share his thoughts on how to tell a good story. I know all too well how [...]


Stuttering with confidence

Monday, August 10th, 2009

#59

 
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On today’s show, I share a recent epiphany-like event at a Korean grill restaurant. Yes, epiphanies can occur anywhere ;) Namely, stuttering with confidence. Stuttering without recoiling from social punishment despite the weird looks we get. Then the following night, I had a mind-blowing conversation about this with fellow stutterers on Twitter. Together, we shared [...]


Is there a time and place for stuttering?

Sunday, July 12th, 2009

#57

 
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I chat with horror author, Robert R Best, today about his writing, his podcast and of course, his recent journey into his stuttering acceptance. In contrast to everything I talked about on episode 56 about letting your stuttering out and just do it, we ponder a dilemma Robert is facing for an upcoming convention where [...]


Editing out stuttering

Friday, June 19th, 2009

#34
I was a guest on episode 145 of the Canadian Podcast Buffet last week and coincidentally, the topic of the talk of the week was ethics in eiditing. When you have to edit a long interview down to a shorter time, you have to be really careful in your editing that you’re not changing context. [...]