# Remembering Your Why for Grad Students & Beyond

Page: https://stenobird.com/podcast/slp-coffee-talk-984852/remembering-your-why-for-grad-students-beyond
Text version: https://stenobird.com/podcast/slp-coffee-talk-984852/remembering-your-why-for-grad-students-beyond.md
Podcast: [SLP Coffee Talk](https://stenobird.com/podcast/slp-coffee-talk-984852)
Published: 2026-04-27T10:00:00+00:00
Episode link: https://www.buzzsprout.com/2017690/episodes/18948488-remembering-your-why-for-grad-students-beyond.mp3
Audio file: https://www.buzzsprout.com/2017690/episodes/18948488-remembering-your-why-for-grad-students-beyond.mp3
Processing state: not_requested
JSON: https://stenobird.com/v1/public/podcasts/slp-coffee-talk-984852/episodes/remembering-your-why-for-grad-students-beyond
Duration seconds: 1471

## Resource

In this episode of SLP Coffee Talk, Hallie chats with Cary—school SLP, private practice clinician, and creator of the SLP Grad Student Instagram page—about finding your why and holding onto it when things get hard. Cary gets honest about the rejection letters, Praxis failures, and imposter syndrome she pushed through on her way to the field, and shares what the CF year really feels like when you're suddenly on your own. This one's for any SLP questioning whether they belong here. Bullet Po...

## Actions

- request_transcript: `POST https://stenobird.com/v1/public/podcasts/slp-coffee-talk-984852/episodes/remembering-your-why-for-grad-students-beyond/transcription-requests` — Idempotently request low-priority transcript generation for this episode.
- read_markdown: `GET https://stenobird.com/podcast/slp-coffee-talk-984852/remembering-your-why-for-grad-students-beyond.md` — Read the agent-friendly Markdown representation of this episode resource.

A page view does not enqueue transcription. Agents should invoke `request_transcript` explicitly when they need this episode processed.

## Transcript

Full transcripts are not published on public pages unless there is a clear rights basis.