Springboard Podcasts

About The Stuttering Springboard Podcast:

The Stuttering Springboard is a podcast series that looks deeply into critical transition periods in the lives of young people who stutter. Our goal, to help remove the barriers, making those transition periods just a little easier. We explore the high school years, transitioning into college, springboarding into a career and educating parents and others on what it means and how to interact with a person who stutters. These emotional podcasts include interviews with teens and adults who stutter as well as doctors and professors who share the latest research on stuttering.

Our podcast share stories on:

Disclosure
Acceptance
Mindfulness
Parent education
Grit and resilience
Avoidance reduction

The Stuttering Springboard

A podcast dedicated to helping young people who stutter become the best versions of themselves and springboard to the next level in their journey.

Meet Vince Vawter, renowned author, former newspaper editor and a person who stutters. In this podcast Vince shares his wisdom from his lifelong journey as a person who stutters, much of which he captures in his four books, starting with Paperboy, the story of an 11 year old paperboy and his challenges as a boy who stutters. This podcast dives deep into his most recent book: The Stuttering Stoic, where Vince shares the philosophy that has shaped his and Brian’s adult lives for the better. Brian and Vince dive deep into Marcus Aurelius and Seneca and how the messages from ancient philosophers can help us today. Vince’s favorite Marcus quote, “Be indifferent to the things that make no difference” speaks to why we shouldn’t worry about the things we can’t control. Seneca’s quote: “we suffer more in our imagination about the future than the event itself” likely resonates with all people who stutter. This podcast is about overcoming, not curing, your stutter by finding your voice.

Vince Vawter, a native of Memphis and a person who stutters, retired after a 40-year career in newspapers, most recently as the president and publisher of the Evansville (Ind.) Courier & Press.
He attended Louisiana State University, Rhodes College of Memphis, the University of Memphis and the University of Tennessee in Knoxville.
Books:
• Paperboy
• Copyboy
• Manboy
• The Stuttering Stoic