Hello, world. Welcome to discover your talent, do what you love. I'm your host, Don Hutchison.

Every Tuesday, I interview someone from around the world who's discovered their talents to do work they love to create a life of success, satisfaction, and freedom.

On Fridays, I interview an individual with many years of experience from one of the most popular or interesting occupations or professions who shares an insider's look at what it's really like to do what they do.

Today I'm delighted to bring you our featured guest, Susie Harder, and our topic, A Day in the Life,

what's it really like to be a speech language pathologist? Welcome, Susie.

Hi, John. Thanks for your time today with you and your listeners.

It is our pleasure. Susie,

are you using your talents doing work that you love? I am. I love my job. I love that. Well, a few words about Susie. Susie Harder, M-A-C-S-L-P, is an experienced clinician who devotes much of her passion to working with children who stutter.

She works in private practice and the school setting to help support children and provides

workshops and consulting-based support to school districts.

She recently created the junior author's program, a revolutionary literacy-based platform.

This community project engages students around the world and collaboratively writing a children's book to raise funds for families who lost their home in the Central California Creek Fire last fall.

To get us started, if you would, please, Susie, take us back to in your story,

Family of Origin, where it all began, and tell us about some of the people and places and choices

and changes that got you where you are today. Yeah. Isn't it wonderful to be able to take time and

think about the people who helped you along the way. There's so many wonderful

people that are instrumental in creating the journey that kind of eventually leads you where you

should be going. And so I am, I was born and raised in California, central California, and we

are kind of nestled in between the mountains and the ocean and the foothills.

And so growing up, we had a lot of outdoor activities and, you know, skiing and hiking and swimming.

I mean, just everything that you could imagine.

We were active kids.

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