Jane Powell (STAMMA chief executive) #591
Distraction Pieces Podcast with Scroobius Pip
Scroobius Pip
4.7 • 2.6K Ratings
🗓️ 21 October 2024
⏱️ 62 minutes
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Summary
Welcome, welcome, welcome to the Distraction Pieces Podcast with Scroobius Pip!
This week Pip is joined by JANE POWELL, chief executive of STAMMA!
You could file this episode under "people you might not know but will be glad you now do" - it's one of those awesome episodes where Pip chats to someone who tends to steer clear of the spotlight, like many of us, but has a huge amount to share when probed just a little bit (also like many of us!). Jane launched and ran the charity CALM (Campaign Against Living Miserably) who you will be familiar with if you're a long term listener of the podcast, and has come through a huge amount of awesome activism work on her journey. Working with STAMMA has proved to be a great chance to continue along similar lines, in smoothing out some of the rough edges of the world for those who stammer. For those who don't, these rough edges might never appear, but with just a slight nudge in the direction of empathy, a lot of the potential obstacles out there rapidly reveal themselves. Jane explains all this, and a huge amount more, so enjoy this absorbing and very interesting chat with Pip and Jane!
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome, welcome, welcome to the Distraction Pieces podcast episode 591. |
| 0:07.3 | And what a special episode this is? |
| 0:09.5 | We've just broken a decade of putting out an episode every week and never in that whole |
| 0:16.3 | decade have we put an episode out on a Tuesday rather than the Wednesday. |
| 0:20.8 | That all changes here and it's because today is International Stammering Awareness Day. |
| 0:27.0 | A lot of you will know I've got a stammer. |
| 0:28.7 | A lot of you found out I had a stammer through the podcast. |
| 0:31.2 | There's so many people who knew my music for years and didn't know I stammered until the podcast. |
| 0:35.5 | My music or my acting. |
| 0:37.4 | So, yeah, I wanted to do something |
| 0:39.5 | special for this episode. And I wanted to talk to Jane Powell, who's someone who I truly |
| 0:46.1 | believe is a truly special, special human. Jane isn't the biggest fan of having the spotlight |
| 0:51.4 | on her. So I had to twist arms here a bit and because it was |
| 0:57.0 | around international Stamarin Awareness Day we made it happen and I'm so glad it did because |
| 1:02.0 | honestly this is one of my favorite conversations I've had on the podcast Jane runs Stammer the the British Stammer association. |
| 1:13.3 | So we've worked a lot at Stammer over the years, |
| 1:16.1 | and it's really interesting to hear kind of how reluctant Jane was to work at Stammer |
| 1:20.3 | and how uninterested. |
| 1:21.6 | There's a really interesting story there, |
| 1:23.0 | but Jane also kind of started Calm, |
| 1:25.9 | the campaign against Levering Miserably, which is a charity that was started, to focus on the epidemic of male suicide. |
| 1:36.2 | But even before that, Jane has been an activist their whole life and has been out there making change and getting arrested and doing all sorts of truly amazing things |
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