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This is my life with all its trials and tribulations as a person who stutters. I believe in the power of positivity and I use it in my daily struggles with stuttering. I truly believe that it is OK to stutter and that I can accomplish any goal in my life with a positive mindset. As a husband, a father, a USAF Gulf War Veteran, and as an entrepreneur, I use many tools in my tool belt to become successful in all my endeavors. My goal is to share my journey so that others can see it is possible to be confident, determined, and live a life of positivity. If you are a PWS, you are not alone!

My Stuttering Life Pedro Pena

    • Society & Culture
    • 5.0 • 52 Ratings

This is my life with all its trials and tribulations as a person who stutters. I believe in the power of positivity and I use it in my daily struggles with stuttering. I truly believe that it is OK to stutter and that I can accomplish any goal in my life with a positive mindset. As a husband, a father, a USAF Gulf War Veteran, and as an entrepreneur, I use many tools in my tool belt to become successful in all my endeavors. My goal is to share my journey so that others can see it is possible to be confident, determined, and live a life of positivity. If you are a PWS, you are not alone!

    Knowledge and Hope: Tom Lovett's New Book On Stuttering

    Knowledge and Hope: Tom Lovett's New Book On Stuttering

    In today's episode, we're delighted to welcome back a returning guest, Tom Lovett. Tom is the author of the insightful book, "Words Unspoken: The Science, Experience, and Treatment of Stuttering." In this fascinating discussion, Tom opens up about his journey in writing this book, offering a blend of scientific exploration and personal experiences related to stuttering. Join us as we delve into the complexities of stuttering, the emotional impact it can have, and the various treatment approaches available. Tom's unique perspective sheds light on a topic often shrouded in misunderstanding, offering valuable insights for both those affected by stuttering and those seeking to understand it better. Tune in to gain a deeper understanding of stuttering and the power of words left unspoken. 
    LINKS
    Twitter:  https://twitter.com/tomlovettpod
    Amazon:  https://www.amazon.com/Words-Unspoken-Experience-Treatment-Stuttering-ebook/dp/B0C2FCRN1Q
    Reddit:   https://www.reddit.com/user/AlsoTomLovett
    Email:  hi@tomlovett.com
    Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/tomlovettpodcast/
    Thank you to Noah Swiderski (owner and producer of Briton Beats) for your outro music. For more information on Briton Beats, click this link:  https://www.britonmedia.com/editing
    Thank you to Epidemic Sound for the intro music.  https://www.epidemicsound.com/
    Thank you to Mike Russell for that voice over outro.  https://musicradiocreative.com
    I use SquadCast for all my remote interviews.  If you are interested in SquadCast, check out my affiliate link:  https://squadcast.fm/?ref=pedropena
    If you would like to support this podcast, then I would love a cup of coffee: buymeacoff.ee/mslpodcast   
    Website:  https://mystutteringlife.com
     This interview originally was recorded 10/2023

    • 1 hr 2 min
    Yes I Stutter, I'm Unique, I'm Me

    Yes I Stutter, I'm Unique, I'm Me

    Today’s featured guest is Gabriela Hammoud.  Gabriela Hammoud is 16 years old, and she lives in New Zealand. She has had a stutter since she was 4 years old. As she has a stutter, she wanted to help make a difference for those who stutter. She started a business at her high school through an organization called the Young Enterprise Scheme. Her business is called Stutterfly, selling products that promote stuttering awareness in support of those who stutter. To give them a voice.  I believe that there is healing in sharing, and I want to thank Gabriela for sharing her story with me today.
    LINKS
    Email:  stutterfly.nz@gmail.com
    Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/stutterfly.nz/
    Thank you to Noah Swiderski (owner and producer of Briton Beats) for your outro music. For more information on Briton Beats, click this link:  https://www.britonmedia.com/editing
    Thank you to Epidemic Sound for the intro music.  https://www.epidemicsound.com/
    Thank you to Mike Russell for that voice over outro.  https://musicradiocreative.com
    I use SquadCast for all my remote interviews.  If you are interested in SquadCast, check out my affiliate link:  https://squadcast.fm/?ref=pedropena
     
    If you would like to support this podcast, then I would love a cup of coffee: buymeacoff.ee/mslpodcast   
     
    Website:  https://mystutteringlife.com

    • 1 hr 18 min
    Our Speech is a Kind Act of Rebellion- Finding and Fostering a Community for PWS

    Our Speech is a Kind Act of Rebellion- Finding and Fostering a Community for PWS

    Today’s featured guest is Kelly Garcia-Ramos (pronouns They/Them).  Kelly is a rising fourth year student at the University of Pennsylvania studying Neuroscience and Chinese. Kelly has stuttered ever since they could remember, and going through having a stutter has been one of their most difficult challenges up until recently. They started a support group at UPenn called Speech Fluency @ Penn (though this will be changed to Stuttering Advocacy @ Penn) to raise awareness about this special kind of neurodiversity for students. They have recently been featured on Penn Today, a school-wide publication, for their advocacy and have plans to expand their advocacy into their research and daily life. I believe that there is healing in sharing, and I want to thank Kelly for sharing their story with me today.
    LINKS
    Email:  kellygar@sas.upenn.edu
    LinkedIn:  LinkedIn Profile
    Thank you to Noah Swiderski (owner and producer of Briton Beats) for your outro music. For more information on Briton Beats, click this link:  https://www.britonmedia.com/editing
    Thank you to Epidemic Sound for the intro music.  https://www.epidemicsound.com/
    Thank you to Mike Russell for that voice over outro.  https://musicradiocreative.com
    I use SquadCast for all my remote interviews.  If you are interested in SquadCast, check out my affiliate link:  https://squadcast.fm/?ref=pedropena
     
    If you would like to support this podcast, then I would love a cup of coffee: buymeacoff.ee/mslpodcast   
     
    Website:  https://mystutteringlife.com
     
    For Correspondence/Bookings: Pedro Peña, PO Box 1585, La Porte, Texas USA 77572

    • 2 hr 34 min
    My Journey From PWS To PWSS

    My Journey From PWS To PWSS

    Today’s featured guest is Danny Miguel.  Danny is 34 years old and lives in Connecticut.  He states, “I started stuttering surprisingly at 18 which is kind of odd since most stutterers develop stuttering during their adolescent years. I became a situational stutterer, often long pauses and struggled with it for 15 years until I found a program and book late last year. After 2-3 months of diligently immersing myself in the author’s methods, I overcame my stutter which brings me here to discuss a little bit more about the book and program”.  When asked if speech therapy helped during that time period, he stated, “I only attended speech therapy in 2019 (February-August) Never found it to be helpful, but the book and program helped me a lot in just a month or two. I started earlier this year with the book and found success after 2-3 months where I could no longer be a detectable stutterer. Hear this journey of a PWS (Person Who Stutters) become a PWSS (Person Who Stopped Stuttering) through the use of a book and program that’s changing lives throughout the world”.  I believe that there is healing in sharing, and I want to thank Danny for sharing his story with me today.
    LINKS
    Book:  https://www.amazon.com/HOW-STOP-STUTTERING-LOVE-SPEAKING-ebook/dp/B09FM612RD?ref_=ast_author_mpb
    Thank you to Noah Swiderski (owner and producer of Briton Beats) for your outro music. For more information on Briton Beats, click this link:  https://www.britonmedia.com/editing
    Thank you to Epidemic Sound for the intro music.  https://www.epidemicsound.com/
    Thank you to Mike Russell for that voice over outro.  https://musicradiocreative.com
    I use SquadCast for all my remote interviews.  If you are interested in SquadCast, check out my affiliate link:  https://squadcast.fm/?ref=pedropena
     
    If you would like to support this podcast, then I would love a cup of coffee: buymeacoff.ee/mslpodcast   
     
    Website:  https://mystutteringlife.com
     

    • 34 min
    Standing Up To My Stutter

    Standing Up To My Stutter

    Today’s featured guest is Josef Rodriguez.  Josef is a writer and filmmaker currently living in New York City. He works as a Contributing Writer to We Are Mitú, a Latino-centric, online news and entertainment outlet. Over the last decade, Josef has contributed to outlets like Latina, Desde Hollywood, and Geek Exchange. Josef is also a filmmaker, focusing most of his efforts on documentaries. He is in the process of finishing his first documentary feature, which he directed in 2021. As both a filmmaker and a reporter, Josef's favorite aspect of his job is the opportunity to interview people from all walks of life. Because of that, he plans to launch an outlet of his own devoted entirely to interviews later this year. Besides that, he loves his cats, collecting cassette tapes, and riding the Staten Island Ferry.  I believe that there is healing in sharing, and I want to thank Josef for sharing his story with me today.
    LINKS
    Website:  https://wearemitu.com/
    Email:  josef.henry.rodriguez@gmail.com
    Instagram:  https://instagram.com/josef.mov
    Documentary:  My short documentary, "A Vendor Named Nadir," which played at a handful of festivals and won an award at The Lift-Off Festival in New York: https://vimeo.com/505013283
    Thank you to Noah Swiderski (owner and producer of Briton Beats) for your outro music. For more information on Briton Beats, click this link:  https://www.britonmedia.com/editing
    Thank you to Epidemic Sound for the intro music.  https://www.epidemicsound.com/
    Thank you to Mike Russell for that voice over outro.  https://musicradiocreative.com
    I use SquadCast for all my remote interviews.  If you are interested in SquadCast, check out my affiliate link:  https://squadcast.fm/?ref=pedropena
     
    If you would like to support this podcast, then I would love a cup of coffee: buymeacoff.ee/mslpodcast   
     
    Website:  https://mystutteringlife.com
     
    For Correspondence/Bookings: Pedro Peña, PO Box 1585, La Porte, Texas USA 77572

    • 3 hr 9 min
    Stammering Challenges: Ways To Cope And Recover

    Stammering Challenges: Ways To Cope And Recover

    Today’s featured guest is Dr. Mobbassar Hassan Sk.  Dr. Hassan is a Materials and Physical Scientist by training and profession. He graduated with a PhD in Materials Science from Auburn University, United States.  He is presently working in the Department of Chemistry, at the University of Cambridge as a research associate.  Dr. Hassan is a scientist with life-long stammering, he uses a speech synthesizer to deliver his lectures and conference talks to finish them on time. He shared his techniques of facilitating his conference talks in a recent publication in Nature, and on the website of the British Stammering association, STAMMA.   He recently attended a STARFISH stammering recovery speech course supported by his department and his project sponsor bp-ICAM, and now he thinks himself as a recovering stammerer with the techniques he learned in that course and would like to share that sample techniques with everyone.  I believe that there is healing in sharing, and I want to thank Dr. Hassan for sharing his story with me today.
    LINKS
    Website:  https://www.ch.cam.ac.uk/person/ms2567
    Research Gate:  https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Mobbassar-Sk
    LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/mobbassar-hassan-sk-phd-84472359/
    Thank you to Noah Swiderski (owner and producer of Briton Beats) for your outro music. For more information on Briton Beats, click this link:  https://www.britonmedia.com/editing
    Thank you to Epidemic Sound for the intro music.  https://www.epidemicsound.com/
    Thank you to Mike Russell for that voice over outro.  https://musicradiocreative.com
    I use SquadCast for all my remote interviews.  If you are interested in SquadCast, check out my affiliate link:  https://squadcast.fm/?ref=pedropena
     
    If you would like to support this podcast, then I would love a cup of coffee: buymeacoff.ee/mslpodcast   
     
    Website:  https://mystutteringlife.com
     
    For Correspondence/Bookings: Pedro Peña, PO Box 1585, La Porte, Texas USA 77572

    • 1 hr 39 min

Customer Reviews

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52 Ratings

52 Ratings

Debbenslp ,

Always insightful and entertaining

Every new guest on Pedro’s show gets pretty much the same interview questions, but the diversity of responses and discussions keeps me coming back for more. Or maybe it’s Pedro’s jokes and fun personality! As an Ally, it has been so valuable for me to hear the many different stories, voices, stutters, and opinions about growing up and living life with this thing we call stuttering. It helps inform my work with kids and teens who stutter and their families. Five stars and I’ll never miss an episode. Thank you Pedro!

BrandoBlanco ,

You’ll leave inspired

The stories of Pedro’s guests are inspiring. It’s hard not to think about what courage it takes people to talk about something that can cause such insecurity. Simply a great show!

HailTheCornholio ,

Inspiring and hilarious

I thought the stutter would be obnoxious, but Pedro turns it into a super power that is highly engaging

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