The Story She Needed as a Kid: Jennifer Dickinson on Writing a Young Girl Who Stutters
Maya 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 growing up with a stutter sh...
11 Mar 31min
Anjali Hid Her Covert Stutter for Years. Then Acceptance Became a Spiritual Practice.
Maya 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 aware of her stutter th...
7 Feb 48min
From Delhi to Data and Back to the Stutter That Shaped Him
In 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 gave him the chance t...
26 Des 202533min
From The Vault: The Psychology Behind Our Responses To Stuttering
Maya 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 three practical tips f...
7 Nov 202526min
This Playwright Who Stutters Found His Voice on the Page, and the Stage
Maya 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 out to Proud Stutter ...
18 Okt 202539min
Ina Found Her Voice Across Three Languages. And Learned to Lean Into the Good Pain of Stuttering
Maya 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 growing up between Se...
26 Sep 202531min
Giving Stuttering the Mic in New Orleans: 20 Years After Katrina
Filmmaker 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. Andy shares how a frien...
12 Sep 202525min
Inside the Largest Genetic Study of Stuttering
Dr. 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 published in Nature Genet...
1 Sep 202533min
