Improving by being active: Interview with Cameron Raynes
Freedom from stuttering is when stuttering is not holding you back in life. I'm always amazed by people getting there without speech therapy by simply being active. How can that be?
Our guest today is Cameron Raynes, a fiction writer, a prize-winning author of several books including the novel "First Person Shooter." Cameron doesn't avoid speaking, public speaking included, so let's find out how he does that.
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Improving by being active: Interview with Cameron Raynes
Show Highlights
In this episode, Cameron and I discuss:
- The connection between stuttering and writing, and can writing be a way to escape speaking?
- Cameron's journey to fluency. Definition of a good day.
- Being active without speech therapy
- Participating in a public speaking organization as a practical step we can take
- Emotions about public speaking
- Speaking, stuttering, and jobs
- First Person Shooter as a novel with a protagonist who stutters
- Why read fiction?
Quotes and Takeaways
"I think stuttering has given me the capacity to write dialogue because I've always had these conversations going in my head." - Cameron Raynes
"The process of writing it down and reliving the horror of being 15 having a stutter, I think is part of my self-therapy that allowed me to resolve some of the issues that I carry around." - Cameron Raynes
"I don't incorporate any speech techniques at all." - Cameron Raynes
"For me, it's all about volunteering, consciously putting myself in danger and realizing as I'm doing that I've got control of the situation." - Cameron Raynes
"Well, I'm still not fixed; I'm still going to stutter. It's hardly noticeable, it's hardly ever there but it's still there." - Cameron Raynes
"Now I coach public speaking for Rostrum. I love public speaking. It's crazy." - Cameron Raynes
"My main piece of advice is to figure out what scares you the most and then move towards it." - Cameron Raynes
Resources
Cameron Raynes' website
Cameron Raynes' personal Facebook page
More about Cameron's journey with stuttering: 11,000 days of wishing (and stuttering)
First Person Shooter book
What have you learned from this interview? Share your thoughts in the comments.
If you are a person who stutters,
and you're not quite satisfied with how you feel at the moment of speaking interaction
I invite you to my free training where I share my view on getting free from stuttering.
And for more interaction,
join the Free From Stutter Facebook group.
Please, don't stay isolated! It's crucial to feel you’re part of the community!
If you have thoughts or observations, anything that comes to your mind - let me know in the comments!
Thank you so much! See you soon!
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