The Stuttering Springboard Nolan Stuttering Foundation

Stephen Greene has a beautiful stutter. Through avoidance reduction therapy, he has reduced the tension and struggle and given his stutter a green light. He has gone from concealment to proudly identifying as a person who stutters. 
Stephen is a Social Care Worker who is passionate about disability services. He is also the Former Chair of the Irish Stammering Association and currently serves as a Stuttering Peer Support Leader in the ISA.  Stephen is a powerful stuttering advocate that does a lot of awareness and advocacy work on social media, including writing beautiful poems about stuttering. You can follow him on Instagram! @The_Stutterverse

This podcast  with Mark O'Malia ventures deep into the mindset of people who stutter. According to Briqn Nolan, it shook him and moved him up the spectrum of acceptance. Some takeaways to explore: Walk the talk.  Nonone is asking me what it feels like to be a person who stutters.  What happens if it doesn't go away? Get comfortable sitting in discomfort. Engage in your thoughts vs running away from them.  Regarding your stutter: who are you and what are you trying to  tell me? Anything that is human is mentionable.  Anything that is mentionable is manageable!
Mark O’Malia, MS, CCC-SLP is the New York Clinic Director for the American Institute for Stuttering (AIS), working with people who stutter across the lifespan since 2017. In addition to his work with AIS, Mark serves on the Board of Directors of Friends: The National Association of Young People Who Stutter, and is an adjunct instructor, teaching graduate level courses in stuttering, cluttering, and other fluency disorders. Being a stutterer himself, Mark is actively involved in the stuttering support community, regularly presenting at national conferences.
Mark first came to AIS as a client in 2013, where he discovered and eventually developed a professional passion in collaborating with clients to find their most authentic voice.

In this podcast, Brian Nolan and Steff Lebsack dive deep into the two different “camps” on stuttering therapy, how SLPs are trained to treat people who stutter, disclosure, trauma and more. Like many of the Springboard podcasts…  it gets emotional.
Steff Lebsack became a speech-language pathologist because she has an older brother, Jasper, who is a person who stutters. Steff owns Lebsack Speech Therapy, a private speech therapy practice in Denver, Colorado that focuses on the treatment of people who stutter. Steff is part of the adjunct faculty at Baylor University and MSU Denver, teaching the graduate-level Fluency Disorders course. Steff is a PhD student at Idaho State University.
Steff is also Chair of the Board of Stamily, an international community, rich in diversity and bound by one shared experience: we stutter.  Stamily aims to innovate, create a safe space, and connect the stuttering community.
It’s clear that Steff has her hands into all things stuttering: stuttering  education, the clinical aspect and importantly, the international community around stuttering.  Enjoy the podcast!

Rob Bloom started to stutter at the age of 3.  He is currently a Creative Director for Universal Destinations & Experiences. He creates brand campaigns and content for Universal parks, as well as for iconic events like Halloween Horror Nights. In addition to his role at Universal, Rob moonlights on the independent pro wrestling scene where he portrays the character J. Barrister Goodrich, the world's #1 pro wrestling lawyer. You can learn more about Rob at www.robbloom.com.  
This podcast goes from funny, to real and to  real emotional in the journey to become your authentic self.  Take a listen.

Rodney Gabel is a Professor and Founding Director of the Division of Speech and Language Pathology at Binghamton University. Dr. Gabel has 20 years of experience in academia.An expert in stuttering, Gabel owned the Gabel Center for Stuttering Therapy, LLC, a private practice for people who stutter. He has been an active clinician and member of the stuttering community.Gabel has been an active researcher during his career, publishing more than 75 articles and presenting more than 100 papers at professional conferences. 
In this podcast, Brian and Rod explore the research on how stuttering impacts a person’s perspective on a career, the impact of disclosure on self-confidence, talking about stuttering at home and Rod’s approach to speech therapy.

Zachary Emrich-Muise is a 19 year old Communication Sciences & Disorders major at Augustana College in Rock Island, Illinois. Zach, a person who stutters, made a life changing decision to honor the rock in his shoe and go to college to become an SLP.  This young man is part of a new generation of future SLPs who are focusing on mindfulness for people who stutter.  In dissecting the moments directly before, during and after a stutter, Zach describes the feelings of heat and pressure he experienced and then how mindfulness, disclosure and baby steps in avoidance reduction have desensitized his brain and are now creating feelings of peace and Joy.  This is a podcast of hope for those who stutter and education for all of those who don’t.