Smart Mouth Podcast | Brand Strategy, Marketing & Entrepreneurship · Sasha Fedunchak | Brand Strategist & Business Growth Advisor

Breaking Barriers in Healthcare with Alexandria Russell, SLP

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"If you don't believe in DEI, then what are you wanting to treat?"

Sasha introduces Alex as a longtime friend and former client of Daring Creative. The tone is warm right away. Sasha is clearly there to celebrate Alex's path, but she also wants to get beneath the surface of what the business now has to hold. They talk about Winter Wellness Group and the kind of practice Alex is building in Philadelphia. The practice serves adults and seniors. Alex says the political moment and the changing funding climate are landing close to home. Sasha keeps returning to what those shifts mean for access. Alex answers by naming knowledge and access as the two things that help people stay healthier and live longer. She also explains that speech pathology is broader than many people realize. It includes cognition. It includes communication. It includes language, speech, swallowing, and voice. That framing changes the whole feel of the interview. The work starts to sound central to everyday life instead of specialized on the margins. Alex also speaks plainly about representation. She says that, as far as she knows, she is the only Black woman-owned private practice in Philadelphia focused solely on adults and seniors. She does not frame that as a victory lap. It lands more like a reality check about how much room still exists to grow the field. The episode keeps balancing the personal and the strategic. Sasha pushes on the business implications, while Alex keeps linking them back to health, dignity, and who gets served.

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A care-focused episode that keeps returning to access, visibility, and the daily work of practice.

This episode tracks Alexandria as she talks about running Winter Wellness Group in Philadelphia, where politics, funding, and access keep pressing in on the work.

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Press play for a conversation about access, visibility, and what care really costs in adult and senior speech pathology.

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