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Hey everyone so I did in fact get the scholarship offer. It probably helps that there is a massive shortage in this industry to begin with. I was fluent 90% of the time. I think my problem is endurance. I was on the interview for 45 minutes. Then I did a paid focus group I sometimes do as a side hustle. That one I was a little less fluent. So I was conversing on the fly for about 1 1/2 hours, it seems like the longer I go I become increasingly less fluent. If I can be mostly fluent for longer than short conversations I'd be happy. Does anyone have any tips for building fluency endurance? But anyway to prep for the interview I read outloud for awhile, and said some tough words like "Amanda" "Accommodate" "Elephant" and repeated some phrases with those words. "Progressive" I recently had an episode with while renting a car when having to give my car insurance details, it came out as "Prooo----gressive"... but anyway, it seems like this warm up loosened up my speaking ability and I took an L-Tyrosine pill an hour ahead. I am proud that I was able to banter a little bit and do more than my nervous giggle and being shy which I hide behind when I'm doubting my speech ability, really trying to become confident enough so I can be a mature and socially savvy grown woman bc I don't want to be a lioness who acts like a kitten like I want to be a 30 something woman who has her shit together if that makes sense. I think my dead end at home job has hindered me in both social ability and fluency practice to hopefully coexist with stutter rather than be a prisoner by it.