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Inside SLP

Podcast by Megan Berg

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Inside SLP is a limited series podcast that reveals how our profession came to be and why it functions the way it does. Most clinicians work inside a system they were never taught to see, shaped by decades of history, policy, economics, and unspoken assumptions. This show offers lightbulb moments that bring clarity to the structures beneath our everyday work and opens space for thoughtful, grounded understanding of the field we share.

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22 episodes

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20: An Invitation

For twenty episodes, we’ve been examining the architecture of a profession under strain, including its history, its blind spots, and the pressures it was never designed to hold. In this final episode, we step back from diagnosis and turn toward orientation. Not a to-do list, and not a call to fix what’s broken, but an invitation to understand where we’re standing, and what it means to be a stakeholder in what comes next. We explore: * The beauty of the boring: Why slow, rigorous data, like the PACT survey, matters more than outrage when systems lose touch with lived experience * No-blame cultures: What aviation and nursing can teach us about designing systems that tolerate human error instead of punishing it. * Internal architecture: How to hold professional dignity while working inside institutions that move slowly by design. * The wire: Why staying present with complexity may be harder (and more generative) than choosing a side. Connect: * Contact Megan: therapyinsights.com/insideslp [https://therapyinsights.com/insideslp] * PACT Survey: pactsurvey.com [https://pactsurvey.com/]

9 Jan 2026 - 13 min
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19: The Iceberg of Professional Grief

Anger can feel clarifying, but without context, it rarely leads anywhere new. In this episode, we step back from the outrage cycle to examine what’s sitting underneath it: systemic grief, misaligned training models, and the shame many clinicians carry inside a profession that was never fully built to hold them. We explore: * The arsonist parable: Why chasing villains distracts from the work of rebuilding. * A profession at its Flexner moment: What medicine’s shift away from the generalist model reveals about where SLP may be headed. * The normalization of shame: How outdated training structures offload systemic gaps onto individual clinicians. * The paradox of the nine: What becomes visible when we hold multiple professional perspectives at once. Sources: * Duffy, T. P. (2011). The Flexner report―100 years later. The Yale journal of biology and medicine, 84(3), 269.

9 Jan 2026 - 13 min
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18: What People Are Actually Arguing About

The intensity in SLP spaces right now isn’t a sign of collapse. It’s the friction of a profession that has grown faster than the structures built to support it. In this episode, we slow the noise down to examine what’s actually underneath the debates, through data, psychology, and the real set of options the field keeps circling. We explore: * The preparation gap: What the 2020 Ad Hoc report acknowledges about the limits of our current training model. * Displaced aggression: Why frustration so often turns inward when systems feel unreachable. * The doctorate conversation: How the push for an SLPD reflects a hunger for depth, not just status. * The domino effect: What changes like abolishing the CCC, unionizing, or rethinking undergraduate training would actually set in motion. Connect: * Contact Megan: therapyinsights.com/insideslp [https://therapyinsights.com/insideslp] * PACT Survey: pactsurvey.com [https://pactsurvey.com/]

9 Jan 2026 - 17 min
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17: Apparently, You Can Do That

In 1968, the ASHA Convention became a moment of rupture. Not because of disorder, but because long-standing tensions were finally named. This episode examines what happened when Black clinicians challenged the limits of a profession that defined itself as “neutral,” and what that moment revealed about power, voice, and professional growth. We explore: * The Denver moment: Why ASHA leadership responded to internal and external dissent with heightened security. * The “birdwatcher” debate: Whether a professional association can remain technically neutral in a socially unequal world. * Exit and voice in action: How the National Black Association for Speech-Language and Hearing emerged. * Clinical consequences: How this advocacy reshaped the profession’s understanding of difference versus disorder. Sources: * Malone, R. (1999). The first 75 years: An oral history of the American Speech-Language-Hearing Association. American Speech-Language-Hearing Association. * Williams, R., & Wolfram, W. (1977). Social dialects: Differences vs. disorders. Connect: * Contact Megan: therapyinsights.com/insideslp [https://therapyinsights.com/insideslp] * PACT Survey: pactsurvey.com [https://pactsurvey.com/]

9 Jan 2026 - 11 min
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16: Optional Membership Is the Point

Many SLPs experience ASHA membership as essential to survival even when, structurally, it is designed to be optional. This episode examines why that tension exists, and what it reveals about how professions stay healthy as they grow. Rather than framing optional membership as a threat, we look at how it functions as a stabilizing feature in mature professional systems and why the fear of “splintering” often signals growth, not collapse. We explore: * The rootbound analogy: How a structure built for a smaller profession can start to constrain adaptation. * Exit and voice: Why meaningful participation depends on the possibility of choice. * The 96% signal: What ASHA’s own internal report reveals about shared concern and institutional inertia. Sources: * Hirschman, A. O. (1972). Exit, voice, and loyalty: Responses to decline in firms, organizations, and states. Harvard university press. * Final Report, Ad Hoc Committee on Graduate Education for Speech-Language Pathologists, March 2020 [https://www.asha.org/siteassets/reports/ahc-graduate-education-for-slps-final-report.pdf] * Final Report of the Ad Hoc Commiftee to Plan Next Steps to Redesign Entry-Level Educafion for Speech-Language Pathologists December 2023 [https://www.asha.org/siteassets/reports/ahc-next-steps-to-redesign-entry-level-education-for-slps.pdf?srsltid=AfmBOooUVT6iqCXHDZ4ptCVmJGHRyFAxCofjM_69REVKDmVwE5Dl9JUI] Connect: * Contact Megan: therapyinsights.com/insideslp [https://therapyinsights.com/insideslp] * PACT Survey: pactsurvey.com [https://pactsurvey.com/]

9 Jan 2026 - 15 min
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