258-Advocacy, Flexibility, and Mental Health: Supporting Today’s SLP Grad Students with Sam Walker MS CCC-SLP, TSSLD

Swallow Your Pride Podcast

Theresa Richard, MA, CCC-SLP, BCS-S

Education, Health & Fitness, Business, Careers, Medicine

4.8 • 899 Ratings

🗓️ 2 December 2022

⏱️ 49 minutes

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In this episode of SYP, I have a conversation with Sam Walker, MS, CCC-SLP, TSSLD about her experience in working with grad students through her programs, SLP Test Prep, SLP Grad Club, and SLP Grad Guide.

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0:00.0	On this episode of the Swallier Pride podcast, we have Sam Walker.
0:04.6	Sam is the owner of Speaking of Semantics.
0:07.6	After finding herself unable to work during part of the pandemic, she turned to her
0:11.1	creative side and started a business with just a few sticker designs,
0:15.2	which has now blossomed into more than just stickers and over 400 designs.
0:19.5	Sam is a huge advocate for graduate students and feels as if it is her calling to
0:23.7	change the narrative for grad school. Hopefully together we can make it a much
0:27.5	more accepting and supportive environment. She's created three businesses
0:31.4	geared towards helping graduate students survive and thrive in grad school.
0:35.4	The SLP test prep is a game-based studying program to help students prepare for the Praxis exam.
0:40.9	The SLP Grad Club is a community for SLP graduate students that offers
0:44.9	resources like monthly webinars, therapy resources, mentorship opportunities, etc.
0:49.9	And the SLP Grad Guide is a library of webinar
0:52.6	that helps graduate students in all aspects
0:54.6	of their academic careers
0:56.0	from choosing programs to applying to their clinical fellowship.
0:59.0	And I just love and adore Sam.
1:01.2	She does a lot of great work for us behind the scenes of the Med SOP collective as well.
1:05.6	And I'm so grateful to have her on to share her story and everything that she's been through.
1:10.3	So I hope you all enjoy this conversation. Welcome to the Swale Your Pride Podcast. I'm your host, Teresa Richard, I'm a board certified specialist in
1:24.7	Swallowing and Swallowing Disorders and founder of the Med-S-L-P collective and MedS-SllP education.
1:30.8	This podcast is dedicated to delivering the latest evidence-based practice to medical
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