I spent the first 24 years of my life calculating the cost of my own voice.
If you’ve never lived with a stammer, it’s hard to explain the specific kind of dread that comes with a teacher moving down a row of desks, asking students to read a paragraph from a setbook. While my classmates were focused on the story, I was counting the desks, calculating which paragraph would be mine, and scanning the text for the "landmine" words—the ones I knew would get stuck in my throat.
I spent years being the "quiet" student. Not because I didn't have the answers, but because the effort of pushing a word past my lips felt like trying to move a mountain. I sat in those classrooms with a brilliant mind and a locked jaw.
For a long time, I thought this was just my "sentence"—a lifelong quietness I had to accept.
My perspective shifted when I stopped looking at my stammer as a permanent wall and started seeing it as a physical habit that could be re-trained.
I began to meet people who had struggled for decades people who had it much worse than I did who were suddenly speaking with a rhythmic, steady confidence. They hadn’t found a "miracle cure"; they had found techniques. Simple, physical, and psychological shifts that allowed them to navigate a sentence without the fear of hitting a dead end.
I realized then that the only thing standing between me and my voice wasn't a lack of ability it was a lack of the right tools at the right time.
People often ask me what the name means. To me, "Flo" (Flow) is the opposite of the "Block."
A block is a wall; it’s a sudden stop that creates panic. Flow is like water. Water doesn't always move in a straight line; it ripples, it curves, and it finds a way around obstacles.
SpeechFlo isn't about achieving "perfect" speech because nobody speaks perfectly. It’s about fluidity. It’s about the rhythm of communication. We named it SpeechFlo because we want to help you move past the "staccato" of a stammer and into the natural current of your own thoughts.
My vision for SpeechFlo is deeply personal. I am building the tool that the 15-year-old version of me desperately needed while sitting in that classroom.
Our vision is a world where no person ever stays silent out of fear. In six months, I don't just want you to be speaking more clearly. I want you to be:
We are building more than an app; we are building the confidence to be heard. Your stammer might be a part of your story, but with SpeechFlo, it no longer gets to be the narrator.
Join us. Let's find your flow.
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