Stutter with Confidence - Becoming Open, Active, and Positive about our Speech and Life (Podcast Episode)

Stutter with Confidence - Becoming Open, Active, and Positive about our Speech and Life (Podcast Episode) Stutter with Confidence #60 with Andrey Denisenko Learning to become Open, Active, and Positive about our Speech and our Life Andrey is a lawyer who stutters, and he has a great take on stuttering and what types of things we can do to grow beyond the ashamed, fearful existence that so often accompanies the stuttering life. We discussed his isolation and introversion that quickly developed around 10 years old in response to his becoming aware of his stutter; how as a child he started talking less and less around his parents so that he would not disappoint them after hearing their (well intentioned) suggestions for how he could stop stuttering; how both of us felt severely limited in our youth when it came to talking to girls that we were interested in; the immense power of getting out of the clinic environment to speak to strangers on the streets; the fact that it is often difficult to face our fears of speaking because human beings are not wired to create scary situations for ourselves; his perspective that the most important metric of progress or success for a PWS is to what extent did he or she create speaking situations; the value of becoming desensitized to rejection; Andrey’s coaching approach to help people gradually learn to enjoy and crave the uncomfortable feelings that often accompany those stuttering moments; the idea that true confidence is about becoming fully comfortable being ourself; and a whole lot more. Enjoy. https://youtu.be/7dSkkh1BowA