Episodes

Today’s featured guest is Rick Scuotto.  In 2018, Rick combined the passion of design and a lifelong stutter together and created #StutteringDesigner. Since then he started to create videos for his YouTube channel and other social media...

Happy 2nd Anniversary to the My Stuttering Life podcast!  This has been an amazing season with amazing guests.  I would like to thank all my guests for sharing their stories of adversity and triumphs, you are a true inspiration for...

This episode, Stuttering Is My Superpower, is a powerful episode for me because after decades of feeling shame and guilt because of my stutter, I’m realizing now that it is actually my superpower.   Thank you to Noah Swiderski (owner and...

I have always wondered if sleep has a direct correlation to my stutter.  Recently I have been hearing about the benefits of sleep and the deficits from a lack of sleep.  I decided to conduct my own personal experiment to see if sleep had an...

Today’s featured guest is Juan Pablo Garcia.   Juan Pablo is from Paraguay and is 22 years old.  He is studying to become a computer scientist while also working a full-time job as a software developer.  Juan Pablo states,...

Today’s featured guest is Saif Mihyar. Saif is a 22-year-old Business Administration student who currently lives in Jordan.  Saif has a strong passion towards sports and a desire to help individuals who face hardship that may come along with...

Today’s featured guest is John McIntosh. John is 60 years old and is from Glasgow, Scotland, and has stammered for as long as he can remember.  After graduating with an honors degree in English Literature, John worked in social care for many...

Today’s featured guest is Xavier Thibodeaux.  Xavier is from Houston, Texas, and is a graduate from the University of Houston with a Bachelor of Science degree in Health and Human Performance with a specialization in human nutrition and...

Stuttering and Finishing Your Sentences is a topic with extremely high opinions, and I would like to start the conversation.  When I ask PWS (people who stutter) if they allow others to finish their sentences, the responses are split right down...

Today’s featured guest is Courtland Crain.  Courtland is 22 years old and an upcoming first-year Speech-Language Pathology Master's student at the University of South Florida in Tampa. He’s been a person who stutters his whole life, and just...

Over the years I learned many tools and techniques to help me manage my stutter.  I know the reality that there is no cure for stuttering but these four things that I do on a daily basis has truly helped me in my journey.  I would like to...

Today’s featured guest is Mike Wilson. Mike Wilson is originally from Atlanta, GA.    He is married with four kids between the ages of 3 and 10, and currently lives in Syracuse, NY.  He is a dentist and is the founder and owner of 5...

Today’s episode is about the importance of having a thick skin and moving forward.  For decades I let the opinions of others be my reality and I allowed that negativity into my life which caused me great pain and anguish.  Over the years,...

I am so thankful to belong to a community of creators that are showing the world that if you have a stutter, know that you are not alone and that you have a community to support, inform and inspire you.  In this podcast, I am highlighting four...

Today’s featured guest is Will McClurg. Will is 36 years old and a medical sonographer specializing in pediatrics.  Currently, Will is involved in medical sales and clinical training.  Will has been stuttering since the age of 5 and states...

Today’s featured guest is Sherrikka Myers. Every 1 Voice Matters is a nonprofit designed to help kids break down communicative and social barriers such as stuttering, self-esteem, self-confidence and bullying to improve their quality of life....

Today’s featured guest is Benjamin Schussheim. Benji Schussheim is a senior at Staples High School in Westport, Connecticut.  He enjoys jazz saxophone, piano, coding, and stuttering advocacy.  Benji began to stutter severely at 10 years of...

This interview was recorded before Covid-19. Today’s featured guest is Hakim Erwin. Mr. Erwin was born and raised in West Philadelphia, PA and graduated from Edward Bok High School in 1991.  An avid hip hop music lover in his teenage years...

Today’s featured guest is Sandeep Krishnakumar. Sandeep is a first year PhD student studying Human Factors and Ergonomics at Penn State University. His research is in the realm of engineering design, and he is particularly interested in design...

Today’s featured guest is Michaela Misskee Maia.  Michaela is German-Brazilian and is currently working as a Marketing Manager at a Software Company in Florida, where she lives with her husband. Growing up, Michaela and her family lived in...

Today’s world is changing due to the Covid-19 virus.  What we enjoyed in the past has now gone away; restaurants are closed, concerts cancelled, conferences cancelled, festivals cancelled, grocery store shelves are almost bare, and we must...

Today’s featured guest is Jack Dinsley.  Jack states that he’s had a stammer ever since he can remember.  Over the years, Jack has turned the negativity of having a stammer into something positive.  He’s been involved with the...

This episode was recorded in Orlando, Florida, at the Podfest Expo 2020 (). I was honored to have spoken at the Pecha Kucha portion of the expo and my title was “The Stuttering Podcaster”.  I spent months and months preparing for this...

Today’s featured guest is Matt Herdman.  Matt Herdman, a creator who lives in Oklahoma, is striving to make positive impacts on the world.  He recently had the opportunity to be a speaker at Oklahoma’s first ever Next Gen Talks where he...