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

Health & Fitness, Careers, Education, Business, Medicine

4.8 • 899 Ratings

🗓️ 2 December 2022

⏱️ 49 minutes

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Summary

When you think back on your grad school experience, does it stir up happiness and joy or anxiety and stress? Most SLPs will lean towards the latter, and that’s just the way grad school is… It’s highly competitive to get into grad school and the competition and quest for perfection doesn’t end with an acceptance letter. The pressure felt by grad students is intense and often anxiety-inducing. (Anyone else still have dreams about forgetting to turn in an assignment?) That’s just the way it is. It’s been this way for generations of SLPs… but does it have to be? 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. Sam shares heartbreaking and triumphant stories of today's grad students and the struggles they face along with her own experience as a student and SLP. She is a fierce advocate for change in the grad school experience and mental health support for our SLP students. Haven’t left a review yet? All you have to do is go to your podcast platform of choice and let us know what you think! Thanks for your support of this show! Your support is what keeps Swallow Your Pride coming back with new episodes each week. In this episode, you'll hear about: * The pressure to be a Type A SLP * Where does the standard of perfectionism stem from? * Sharing the positive and negative on social media * Filling in the education gaps for our students * How we can better support SLP students in undergrad and grad school As always, thanks for listening!

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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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