Clinical Research Associate (CRA) here. I own my own small business (really small, like me and my wife small). We do contract work w Sm biotechs to lg multinational companies to help them manage their clinical trials. from monitoring data, to proctoring procedures, training the doctors and their research teams, lots of talking and teaching, groups lg and small. I work on mainly medical device studies, from neurovascular, to cardio, periph vasc, diabetes, many spaces. I make about $250k/yr. I’ve stuttered as long as I can remember, since I was a wee child. It plagued me until I was about 17 when I shifted my focus, thinking less about trying not to stutter, but to stutter easily. t changed my life. I still stutter, often. But when fluency is most important, I’m learning those are the most important times not to focus on fluency, but instead, on being calm, confident, whether I stutter or not. and when I do stutter, trying to do so deliberately, naturally, ease out of it, sometimes drawing out the stutter if I have to until I’m past the block and moving on. but mostly being ok with it and developing skills to ease in and out of it. I’m confident, prepared, I know what I want to say. I focus on that. I advocate running towards your goals, and your fears. the times I put myself in life situations that require a lot of challenges to my fluency and are good for my life and/or career have given me confidence. and when I’m confident and ready to deal with my stutter, I’m mostly fluent. Doesn’t always swing that way, but it’s worked out mostly ok. Best of luck to you, give ‘em hell.