TranscendingX with Uri Schneider

Feb 24 2025 81 ep. 63 mins 4

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Life is a journey through adversity - and our biggest challenges often hold the greatest lessons for us to learn and grow. Join me as I sit down with remarkable individuals who've unlocked extraordinary lives by transforming how they deal with stuttering, speech, and self-expression. Through raw conversations with high performers, researchers, and everyday heroes, we explore powerful insights and unconventional tools for facing challenges head-on. From hitting rock bottom to landing their dream job at the White House, these stories show us how lessons from adversity ripple into every aspect of human performance and potential. This isn't about finding 'the right way' - it's about discovering your own toolkit of strategies that work for you. In the TranscendingX community, people like you discover how today's challenges become catapults to tomorrow's breakthroughs. *TranscendingX Podcast formerly "Transcending Stuttering"

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#74 Advocating for People who Stutter with Maya Chupkov

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#73 Solocast: 10k Show and Tell

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