Proud Stutter
by Maya Chupkov
Latest episode
Alan Spent Years Outsmarting His Stutter. Now He’s a Speech Therapist
Alan Spent Years Outsmarting His Stutter. Now He’s a Speech Therapist
About this podcast
A podcast about changing how we understand and talk about stuttering, one conversation at a time.
Episodes
The newest 20 of 120 episodes
- Alan Spent Years Outsmarting His Stutter. Now He’s a Speech Therapist · 39 min · Season 2In fifth grade, Alan Mendoza’s teacher quietly pulled him aside right before recess and told him there was a woman in the library who wanted to talk to him. He walked in, sat…
- This Model and Stuttering Advocate Auditioned for Victoria's Secret · 41 min · Season 2When Lisbeth Peguero was a little girl, her mom took her to speech therapy once. Inside the office, she did not stutter at all. The therapist told her mom she was fine and did…
- Growing Up, Stuttering, and Finding Your Place · 39 min · Season 2Isaiah was in third grade when his teacher called on someone else while he was still in the middle of answering a question. He had the answer. He just stuttered getting it out…
- The Story Behind The Stuttering Journal · 41 min · Season 2Bryan Matthews still remembers the moment everything changed — he was in ninth grade, giving an oral report in American history class, when classmates began mocking his stutter…
- Breaking the Walls of a Stutter with Mutalaathem Founder Saad Al-Munajem · 47 minAs a child growing up in Saudi Arabia, Saad Al-Munajem learned how to build a wall around himself. After being laughed at while trying to read aloud in class, he spent years…
- Healing, Advocacy, and Reclaiming Your Stutter · 47 min · Season 2In this episode of Proud Stutter, Maya talks with Elizabeth Escobar, a person who stutters, substitute teacher, and advocate, about trauma, healing, and learning to reconnect…
- Stuttering, Comedy, and Embracing Uncomfortable Situations · 38 min · Season 2In this episode of Proud Stutter, Maya talks with Joze Piranian, a comedian, speaker, and author, about growing up with a stutter and how early experiences shaped his…
- Episode Swap: Down To The Struts · 35 minThis week, we’re doing something a little different on Proud Stutter. We’ve partnered with the podcast Down to the Struts for an episode swap, sharing each other’s work as a way…
- The Story She Needed as a Kid: Jennifer Dickinson on Writing a Young Girl Who Stutters · 31 min · Season 2Maya talks with fiction writer and teacher Jennifer Dickinson about her new middle grade novel featuring a young girl who stutters. Jennifer shares how her own experiences…
- Anjali Hid Her Covert Stutter for Years. Then Acceptance Became a Spiritual Practice. · 48 min · Season 2Maya talks with Dr. Anjali Alimchandani about growing up as a covert stutterer and why stuttering was the hardest identity for her to accept. Anjali shares how she first became…
- From Delhi to Data and Back to the Stutter That Shaped Him · 33 min · Season 2In this episode of Proud Stutter, Maya talks with tech entrepreneur Kanav Hasija about growing up with a severe stutter in India, being bullied in school, and how changing cities…
- From The Vault: The Psychology Behind Our Responses To Stuttering · 27 minMaya revisits a listener favorite featuring choir clinicians Benedict and Talia, a husband-and-wife team who share powerful lessons about communication and empathy. Talia offers…
- This Playwright Who Stutters Found His Voice on the Page, and the Stage · 40 min · Season 2Maya sits down with Jerry Slaff, a playwright and and a writer who stutters, for a conversation about voice, craft, and the lifelong arc from fear to freedom. Jerry first reached…
- Ina Found Her Voice Across Three Languages. And Learned to Lean Into the Good Pain of Stuttering · 31 min · Season 2Maya sits down with Ina Lalich, a San Francisco–raised, multilingual woman who stutters, for a conversation about language, identity, and learning to take up space. Ina describes…
- Giving Stuttering the Mic in New Orleans: 20 Years After Katrina · 25 min · Season 2Filmmaker and stuttering ally Andy Phillips joins Maya to mark the 10-year anniversary of his short film WORDS, a story born from two loves: New Orleans and spoken-word poetry…
- Inside the Largest Genetic Study of Stuttering · 34 min · Season 2Dr. Dillon Pruett has lived both sides of stuttering: the anxious kid rehearsing every word and the scientist searching DNA for answers. His groundbreaking research, recently…
- Sam Once Feared Her Stutter. Now She’s a Talk Therapist Helping Others Unmask. · 37 minMaya sits down with Sam Gennuso, a Bay Area-based licensed psychotherapist and person who stutters, for a conversation about vulnerability, self-acceptance, and what it means to…
- For Years, Justin Thought His Voice Was a Liability. Now It’s the Heart of His Mental Health Mission. · 37 min · Season 2This week on Proud Stutter, we’re joined by Justin McCullough, a longtime stutterer, technologist, and founder of the upcoming mental health platform, Eight Minute Chat. Justin…
- Shamez Spent Years Trying to Slay His Stutter. Instead, He Befriended the Dragon. · 28 min · Season 2This week on Proud Stutter, we’re joined by Shamez Kasam, a lifelong stutterer based in Alberta, Canada, who shares his powerful journey from shame to self-acceptance—and what he…
- Louise Hid Her Covert Stutter for Years. Now Her Podcast Is Taking On Stuttering Representation in the Media. · 36 min · Season 2This week on Proud Stutter, we’re joined by Louise Escher, a language teacher and person who stutters. In addition to loving to play the violin, she is the host of Did They…
