073 – John Holahan, MBA Founder of SimplyThick – Through Thick and Thin: Xantham Gum and IDDS Implementation
Swallow Your Pride Podcast
Theresa Richard, MA, CCC-SLP, BCS-S
4.8 • 899 Ratings
🗓️ 30 January 2019
⏱️ 62 minutes
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Summary
If you’re into grainy sludge, feel free to skip this episode. For the rest of us, John Holahan, founder of Simply Thick, is here to talk about xanthan gum, rheology, and IDDSI.
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| 0:00.0 | This is episode 73 of the Swallier Pride Podcast, and today's guest is John Hallahan. |
| 0:05.7 | He is the founder and inventor of Simply Thick. |
| 0:09.4 | Just a quick disclaimer that all statements and opinions expressed in this episode do not reflect on the organizations associated with the speakers and are their own opinions solely. |
| 0:20.0 | Welcome to the Swallow Your Pride Podcast. |
| 0:23.0 | I'm your host, Teresa Richard. |
| 0:24.4 | I'm a board certified specialist in Swallowing |
| 0:26.5 | and Swallowing Disorders. |
| 0:28.2 | And I know firsthand how much confusing and conflicting |
| 0:31.0 | information there is out there about how we assess and treat |
| 0:33.8 | swallowing disorders. This podcast is all about bringing everyone together, |
| 0:37.9 | getting on the same page, being open to new ideas, and using evidence-based |
| 0:42.3 | treatment strategies for our patients with dysphasia. |
| 0:45.6 | So let's get into it. |
| 0:47.0 | Hello, John. |
| 0:51.8 | Hi Teresa, how you doing? I'm great. How are you? Very well, thank you. Thank you. I'm looking very forward to this. Yes, I am so happy to have you on here. I appreciate the invitation. I really do. All right. Well, why do you tell people who you are and I'll tell people who I think you are? |
| 1:06.5 | Okay. I'm John Hallahan. I'm founder and inventor of Simplic. That's the short summary, but I mean there's a whole lot behind that that goes into that. That's a good place to start. |
| 1:17.0 | Yeah, yeah, yeah, we'll dive into all that. Well, you know, I think and how I got introduced to John was, you know, everybody talks about, |
| 1:23.5 | call your local simply thick rep. |
| 1:25.0 | Call your local simply thick rep. |
| 1:26.5 | They're all so nice, they're also generous, they'll send you a million samples, |
| 1:29.6 | just reach out to him. |
| 1:30.9 | And luckily I have a wonderful simply thick rep in my area Duke and I actually I met Duke for I think we met for drinks one night and he was like you really need to interview John and I was like really I don't know and he was like yeah and I'm like well do you know that I kind of like talk bad about thick and liquids on my podcast sometimes and I say that I wish patients enough to be on him and he's like no he shares kind of the same mentality he wishes people didn't |
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