Swallow Your Pride Podcast

The Swallow Your Pride Podcast was created with the purpose of diving deeper into the issues that speech-language pathologists face when working with patients with swallowing disorders. We’ll discuss many controversial topics in order to provide the LATES

Recent Episodes

347 – Eyes on the prize: Vanessa Alcala’s journey to entrepreneurship as an SLP

Posted November 4, 2024 • 00:40:02

What do you do when the deck is stacked against you and your career goals? How do you pivot when things aren’t going according to plan? Who do you...

346 – Risky Business: Navigating the Risk of Aspiration & Its Impacts Using the BOLUS Framework

Posted October 31, 2024 • 00:38:16

What if you could take all of the evidence on aspiration, pneumonia, and dysphagia that has been amassed since the 1990s…

…and package it...

345 – How Can SLPs Secure Funding in Healthcare? Part 2 of the Pivotal SLP Workshop

Posted October 26, 2024 • 01:04:10

At the beginning of 2024, I hosted a free 5-day workshop dedicated to showing medical SLPs the ropes to achieving more at work (and for their patients)...

344 – How Can SLPs Secure Funding in Healthcare? with Theresa Richard, MA, CCC-SLP, BCS-S

Posted October 16, 2024 • 00:31:19

Have you ever requested new equipment or reimbursement for a continuing education course or certification? Did you get denied with a big fat NO?

Great!...

343 – Total Laryngeal Transplant: Dr. Lott and Jessica Gregor Share the Details Behind This Major Medical Milestone

Posted October 4, 2024 • 00:47:07

This past August, the Mayo Clinic had accomplished what was believed to be impossible… The world’s FIRST successful *total* laryngeal transplant...