The path of overcoming began when I was just a child. After a terrible fright, I developed a stutter. My parents and I moved from the capital of Russia, Moscow, to a small town when I was 4 years old. At that time my mom was studying at the University in Moscow, and I stayed with my dad who worked as a veterinarian. One night I woke up when my dad was on night duty, and found myself all scared and all alone.  Since then, I began to stutter a lot and treatments by professional speech therapists didn’t seem to help. When I was 26 years old,  I decided to get a master’s degree in journalism in order to overcome my fear of speaking and that’s when I began to learn to speak without a stutter. Painstaking work with private speech teachers and sleepless nights helped me overcome my speech problems. Immediately after graduating from the University, I quickly got a job as a radio correspondent for a radio station, and later became a producer at one of the largest international Russian TV channels.