Nick tells how overcoming his stutter led to acting and becoming spokesperson for The National Stuttering Foundation.

It was a challenge. I had a stutter �till� I still do today. I just work on it a lot. I obsess, if you will, with it, but I stuttered throughout my childhood.

I was playing baseball [and] when I quit playing I needed something else to do to occupy my time, because idle hands, the devil and stuff� So, I just talked to God and challenged myself, because talking in front of one person, much less than thousands of people terrified me.

So, I just decided to take the challenge. When you stutter, a lot of it is [that] you�re afraid you�re not being heard or you�re afraid that you�re being judged. I decided to take both and take my talents - as little as they were at the time - to Hollywood and get beat up for a while.

Working with the NSF, we�ve gotten a lot of letters and it�s reached a lot of the younger kids because I�ve been the youngest spokesperson so far, to date, I guess it reached out and touched a lot of people.