3 Jul 2014
“I Am Always a Stutterer” from the National Stuttering Association’s 2014 Annual Conference (Ep. 456)
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Jacquelyn Revere joins Joel Korte, Caryn Herring and Roisin McManus of the StutterTalk B Team at the 2014 annual conference of the National Stuttering Association in Washington, DC. This year’s NSA’s conference has more than 950 attendees including 300 first timers!
JACQUELYN REVERE is a person who stutters, an actress in New York City and recently launched this video blog about stuttering. During this episode, Jacquelyn is asked about her video what it feels like to stutter. Jacquelyn discusses acting, confronting the fears of being on stage and the challenges she has faced as an actor. Ms. Revere also discusses the joys of starting her own video blog and hearing from people who stutter from around the world. Joel, Caryn, Roisin and Jacquelyn end the episode by discussing their excitement about the NSA’s annual conference and Caryn shares the importance of leaving her comfort zone and meeting new people.
This StutterTalk episode was recorded and published Thursday July 3rd on the second day of the NSA’s annual conference.
4 Jul 2014
Daring to Be Yourself with Parker Mantell from the National Stuttering Association’s 2014 Annual Conference (Ep. 457)
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Parker Mantell joins Joel Korte, Caryn Herring and Roisin McManus of the StutterTalk B Team at the 2014 annual conference of the National Stuttering Association in Washington, DC. Mr. Mantell recently gave the commencement address at Indiana University; within days a video of his speech had gone viral (see below).
During today’s episode Mr. Mantell discusses stuttering openly, advertising or telling others that he stutters and so much more. The B Team point out that Mr. Mantell has a very “calm” and “unrattled” style of stuttering. Caryn points out Mr. Mantell’s courageous accomplishment of speaking to 17,000 people during his recent commencement address. Roisin notes with pride that all four speakers on today’s episode received speech therapy at the American Institute for Stuttering in Manhattan.
“You have a choice. You can let it [stuttering] define you and be very closed about it and keep it to yourself. Or, you could take the opposite approach and attempt to define it…You could dare to be yourself.” -Parker Mantell
PARKER MANTELL recently graduated from Indiana University with a degree in political science. Mr. Mantell has interned with US House Majority Leader Eric Cantor (R-VA) and Florida Senator Marco Rubio (R-FL) and has twice served New Jersey Governor Chris Christie (R-NJ). Mr. Mantell has also interned for Fox News Sunday and the US House Committee on Homeland Security.
This StutterTalk episode was recorded and published Friday, July 4th on the third day of the NSA’s annual conference.