The first thing is practice letting go of all worries regarding all manner of speaking situations when they arise in your mind. So definitely don't "plan ahead" or try and strategize things too much- live life fluidly. Learn to recognise that there is no script to life and no "non-negotiable answers". The feeling that you have to say something one way when somebody asks your name or you have to read something, etc is simply just that. A feeling- an illusion. This may convince you to stop planning for these non-negotiable speaking situations. When I got to grips with this method, yes thoughts did arise of these so-called non-negotiable speaking situations and sometimes they still do. But I recognised that they were simply stuttering thoughts, of absolutely no good or use to me, so I let them go. I don't need to prepare for this or that situation, the moment will take care of itself. As Jack once said to me, see your life as a series of moments and aim to live within each second of it. Become the observer and practice verbalising things less in your head. I don't just mean regarding speaking, but in general. Quieten that voice in your head, it doesn't always need to be on. You'll take a lot more in and understand a lot more by living your experiences more and verbalising less in your head. Then when you reach these "non-negotiable" barriers, because you'll be living second to second, you won't have really had time to work yourself up into a frenzy by thinking about the word you might stutter on- such as your name. When reading something, your mind will be occupied with things like the message you're relaying (i.e. what is it am I actually reading?), the text on the paper and not the stuttering anticipation thoughts which may crop up in your mind. One thing which can help with living moment to moment is being aware of the breath. I find it useful. I'm not always aware of it, but if I find myself losing focus or getting unwanted thoughts, focusing my attention to my breath allows me to centre myself and not get swept away by this or that random thought and decide where I really want to place my attention. Then in these "non-negotiable" situations, I'm simply not occupying my attention on stuttering thoughts and the response just comes out without my conscious control. And if I stutter that's okay. At the end of the day, it's still a habit I've built up over time, so mentally I can do everything right and still stutter. We don't control any individual instance of stuttering or fluency. But in the long-term, the stuttering will fade out through not reinforcing it mentally. It's important to get into a good habit of letting go of these stuttering thoughts when they come to you when you're not in a speaking situation. Right now, that's probably where you'll feel you have the most power as you're not actually required to speak. If you feel some anxiety over whatever's lined up in the future, don't supress that feeling, don't fear it but absolutely don't reinforce it with thoughts in your head. Decide those associated thoughts you get every time you feel stuttering anxiety are no longer worthy of your time, that you'd rather focus on something else. I did this, and then I became far less anxious of upcoming speaking situations. Cultivating this habit will carry itself into the actual speaking situations at its own pace. The anxiety you feel now when you speak along with the stuttering thoughts will dissipate as you live moment to moment in whatever speaking situation you're in. And whenever you miss up, be kind to yourself and move on, as indulging in thoughts of failure is pretty much equivalent to indulging in stuttering thoughts, which we want to die of disuse.