99 episodes
No Title Pamela Mertz
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- Health & Fitness
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5.0 • 4 Ratings
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A woman who stutters invites other women who stutter to share their stories on living with stuttering, including the fears, shame, challenges, and triumphs.
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Showing Up – Episode 266
Episode 266 features Jolie Keenan, who is an infectious disease physician who hails from Washington State. She grew up in the Philippines and moved to the USA after completing her medical training. She has two young daughters. Jolie shares how listening to this podcast helped her get through a lot of dark moments about her […]
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A Full Heart – Episode 265
Episode 265 Features Stacey Dedering, who hails from San Jose, California. Stacey is the proud mom to 17 year old twins and works as a HR Generalist in the education industry. She also volunteers with her local Food Bank, takes leadership roles and will soon celebrate 4 years of volunteerism. Listen in to a wonderful […]
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Talk More – Episode 264
Episode 264 features Elizabeth Edwards, who hails from Baltimore, Maryland. Elizabeth works in Public Health as an Adult Immunization Coordinator. Elizabeth shares that she attended an Older Adults workshop at the annual NSA conference in 2022 and found that she really wanted to develop and sustain intergenerational relationships. She is now part of the NSA […]
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Life Is A Cabaret – Episode 263
Episode 263 features Michelle Polinsky, who hails from New York, NY. Michelle works as an ENT surgery coordinator, where she works with a lot of anxious parents. This job sort of fell into her lap, and has actually helped with her speech, as it’s helped her deal with her fear of phone calls. Michelle studied […]
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Take That Leap – Episode 262
Episode 262 features Devin, who hails from Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. Devin is a nanny/house manager for a family with two kids, ages 11 and 12. She has worked in the child care field for about 12 years. Devin attended her first National Stuttering Association conference this past summer, after learning about it from a SLP who […]
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Listen To That Whisper – Episode 261
Episode 261 features Mandy Rodstrum, who hails from Columbus, Ohio. Mandy is a wife, mother, and school based Speech Language Pathologist. She has worked as a SLP for 19 years. Mandy originally thought she was going to be a music teacher. She considers music “her first language.” After taking an elective course in speech and […]
Customer Reviews
A Great Self-Help Resource for People Who Stutter
I love this podcast. I can tune in and listen to women who stutter tell their own stories themselves. Pam let’s them do it with her great interview style and personal understanding and empathy of stuttering and stutterers.
SLP’s working with people who stutter should listen and learn that stuttering is more than blocks, repetitions and prolongations. That their techniques are not infallible and that they often do more harm then good. Stuttering therapy must involve feelings and attitudes, listening to your clients, advocating for their human rights at school and work.
The great theme of Pam’s podcast is acceptance and management of stuttering so as to be a speaker who is understood and assertive in what she says and her right to say it. Speaking freely and not according to some arbitrary standard which stutterers had no part in constructing, but only grinds them down.
Pam isn’t throwing in the towel on Fluency. The answer to the social penalty of stuttering is not simply speech tools which often don’t work and leave many feeling like failures. Neither does Pam claim to have the answer. But, my goodness, with this podcast she has brought people who stutter together in a beautiful community to talk about it and encourage others to talk about it. Pam didn’t throw in the towel on Fluency, she’s getting into the ring and making peace with stuttering.
What a pleasure it is to hear women stutter!
Guess what? There are women who stutter!
… and Pamela Mertz, the producer, has found them! It is estimated that about 1% of the adult population stutters, and that of that 1%, only about one out of five are women. The minority within a minority. With these figures, there is clearly a need for a podcast dedicated to women who stutter. Growing up as a man who stutters, I thought they didn't exist. This podcast revisits common denominators, as well as gender differences in stuttering, from the women's perspective. Pamela Mertz brings in great guests who share parts of their stories in a casual conversation format. Informative and inspiring!
Inspiring
Lots of great stories from women who stutter from all over the world!