The 10-Year Motivator | Jacob Rodman on Confidence, Finance, and What Stuttering Builds

Jacob Rodman's speech got stuck at 7. At 20, he's a Northwestern Economics junior interning in distressed investing - and he did 100 networking calls in less than 100 days, stuttering through it. See what it built for him. "If I can talk to a girl I like and a global head on Wall Street, I can talk to anybody." KEY DISCUSSION POINTS: The "10-year motivator": how looking back 10 years fuels the next 10 — for stutters and leaders alike When to step in, when to step back: the parenting inflection point that changes everything Why readiness matters: not ready at 10, feeling it at 14, doing the real work at 18 What Jacob wanted most at 18 wasn't fluency — and what that means for how we approach confidence 100 networking calls in less than 100 days: why repetition built what technique alone couldn't The Starbucks experiment: what his mom learned in 5 minutes that took Jacob years to live TIMESTAMPS: 00:00 - Cold open: "I can talk to anybody" 00:26 - Uri intro + TranscendingX welcome 01:43 - What doesn't show up on Jacob's resume or LinkedIn 03:57 - PANDAS at 7. And the start of stuttering. 06:09 - Where Jacob is now 07:10 - The "10-year motivator": the Wall Street interview 10:13 - Age 7-14: sheltered, protected, not yet ready 12:10 - Age 14-15: when it really hit him 14:15 - Forced to take a backseat: the hidden superpower 19:51 - 7th grade: the teacher who replayed the stutter in front of the class 27:00 - The turning point: when his parents stopped ordering for him 28:22 - "I didn't want it to be the first thought when I walked in a room" 33:05 - The hoodie on a 90-degree day 33:15 - The Starbucks experiment: teaching mom to stutter 35:45 - "It's invisible." 40:44 - 100 networking calls in less than 100 days 45:14 - The date story 47:08 - "Lay the bricks" 50:46 - Where Jacob's going in the next 10 years Our Guest: Jacob Rodman is a junior at Northwestern University majoring in Economics, interning in distressed investing and private credit. He runs a finance mentorship LLC and launched a stuttering support and mentorship program at Sacred Heart University. 🎧 Apple: https://apple.co/4cDZXUo 🎧 Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/show/5eZtG0KwphT0YsCsYnImcq ▶️ YouTube: https://youtube.com/playlist?list=PLjpkZ2GD6EmyfRjvr8oBFt6uz-GmjbfMb&si 📝 Show Notes: http://www.transcendingx.com/podcast Host: Uri Schneider, M.A. CCC-SLP, founder of Schneider Speech and TranscendingX, and Uri Schneider Coaching.