Welcome to the Swallow Your Pride Podcast. I'm your host Teresa Richard. I'm a board

certified specialist in swallowing and swallowing disorders and I know firsthand

how much confusing and conflicting information there is out there about how we

assess and treat swallowing disorders.

This podcast is all about bringing everyone together, getting on the same page, being open to

new ideas, and using evidence-based treatment strategies for our

patients with dysphagia. So let's get into it.

Hello everybody, so today's episode is going to be a little bit different from well

kind of anything that I've ever done before so So I really haven't done many solo episodes. I think the thought

of that just scares the living crap out of me. Which is funny because I think, you know, I get a lot of messages from people that are like,

you're so fearless, how did you think to start this podcast? And really I just asked a bunch of my friends

if we could talk and discuss things and record it and that's really

kind of how the whole thing came to be. So I don't, doing the podcast doesn't

stress me out because I put more pressure on my guess than I do on myself I feel like, you know, I just ask the questions and let them talk, but

anyways, today I'm going to talk, I'm going to get a little bit vulnerable with you guys and, you know, I want to talk about really what this podcast has exposed kind of

over the last year and a half that we've had it going and the messages that I get from everybody is just I had no idea

about that I had no idea that existed why didn't I get that training in grad school and I

think it's so easy to almost play victim and blame the system and

blame everything that's gone wrong and you know you didn't get a good education you didn't have a

good clinical fellowship you don't have any mentors where you work nobody helps you

there's HIPAA reasons so you can't get help from other SLPs, I think, there's just a laundry list of reasons why people think that they don't have a fulfilling career.

And something that's always, I guess, kind of been different about me is that I like I hate that I can't stand when people play the blame game and if people if you email me and you say something like that, you probably don't get a response

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