To improve execution of your strategy, a general activity I would do is to allow yourself to “fail” at the strategy, and then calmly restart and use it. In a controlled environment (preferably with a conversation partner) allow yourself to stutter freely, not using any fluency strategies. Allow all moments of disfluency to happen until they naturally end, don’t use any strategies or tools, just allow yourself to stutter until the stutter stops. Then, start that phrase over from before the stutter, and utilize the techniques you are trying to learn. The term applicable here is that there is too high of a ‘cognitive load’ to effectively produce natural conversational speech while focusing on improving a speech tool. Allow yourself to talk as if you were in a normal conversation (stuttering and all) and then add in the cognitive load of speech tools after you know what you are going to say and are prepared to stutter. In theory, this allows your brain to focus on adding new layers of thought during conversation. Keeping up in a fast moving world takes a lot of thought already, and our adult brains aren’t flexible enough to adapt to adding new stressors on top of old ones. We need to separate it out so we can focus on learning without the stress of talking. A crucial aspect of this is allowing yourself to stutter freely without judgement so you aren’t clouded during implementation of your speech tool