1200. Building a Career as a Speech-Language Pathologist

Discover Your Talent–Do What You Love

Don Hutcheson

Education, Business, Self-improvement, Careers

5.0 • 619 Ratings

🗓️ 26 May 2026

⏱️ 41 minutes

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Summary

"One of the many wonderful things about working as a speech language pathologist is that you can structure the work that you do based on your circumstances at any turning point of your life. The setting you work in, the kinds of clients your work with, the specific modalities that you offer, can all be created by you. When my son was born I wanted to be home every evening and on weekends, so I structured my private practice to make that happen. Earlier in my career my schedule and client base was quite different, which was ideal for that time in my life. But whatever the structure of my work, the thing that I really love about practicing speech language pathology is my one-on-one time with kids--there's something beautiful that happens in those moments when I am able to use my passion and expertise to help kids that stutter become happy, healthy, effective communicators and help families better understand how to best support their loved one who stutters."

Susie Harder, M.A., CCC-SLP is an experienced, licensed speech-language pathologist and Director of Central Valley Stuttering Center in Clovis, CA. She devotes much of her passion to working with children who stutter. She works in private practice and with schools to help support children and provides workshops and consulting-based support to families and school districts. She is also the founder and CEO of Authorable, a program that turns third through sixth graders into authors, creators, and leaders through real book-making experiences.

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0:00.0	Hello, world. Welcome to discover your talent, do what you love. I'm your host, Don Hutchison.
0:16.7	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.
0:26.9	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.
0:38.9	Today I'm delighted to bring you our featured guest, Susie Harder, and our topic, A Day in the Life,
0:45.6	what's it really like to be a speech language pathologist? Welcome, Susie.
0:50.6	Hi, John. Thanks for your time today with you and your listeners.
0:55.9	It is our pleasure. Susie,
1:03.2	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.
1:14.5	She works in private practice and the school setting to help support children and provides
1:19.9	workshops and consulting-based support to school districts.
1:23.4	She recently created the junior author's program, a revolutionary literacy-based platform.
1:29.8	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.
1:40.6	To get us started, if you would, please, Susie, take us back in your story, Family of Origin,
1:45.3	where it all began, and tell us about some of the people in places and choices and changes
1:50.7	that got you where you are today.
1:52.7	Isn't it wonderful to be able to take time and think about the people who helped you along the way?
1:57.9	There's so many wonderful people that are instrumental in creating the
2:02.0	journey that kind of eventually leads you where you should be going. And so I am, I was born and
2:08.5	raised in California, central California, and we are kind of nestled in between the mountains and the
2:15.4	ocean and the foothills. And so growing up, we had a lot of outdoor activities and skiing and hiking and swimming.
2:24.2	I mean, just everything that you could imagine.
2:25.9	We were active kids.
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