Welcome to the Shaline Show. Shaline is a New York Times best-selling author, celebrity

fitness trainer, and obsessed with helping you live your dream life.

My name is Shaline Johnson. I'm a New York Times best-selling author. I am the creator of

the Smart Success Academy as well as the Marketing Impact Academy. Many of you might know me.

From late-night TV, I do fitness infomercials. A lot of people know me from fitness. They

assume that that's my full-time business. It's not, which is really ironic is that when you make an

exercise program, like the one you're seeing on TV right now, I made that over two years ago.

I developed it 15 years ago, and I filmed it two years ago, and it's now, just now, on TV. So,

you know, I haven't been twiddling my thumbs for the last two years. What I love to do, what I do

full-time, is help people build their businesses online. And what I want to talk to you about today is

a really, really common hang-up for a lot of people. And that's shyness. I promise that this is

going to be helpful for you, because not only am I going to talk to you about, you know, where it comes

from, but I'm going to give you specific tools and tips. And I'm not going to tell you have to change

it all the time, but I'm going to help you understand when it's really important for you to change it.

Now, true confession, I have to tell you a story. This is kind of embarrassing for me to admit,

because it's a character flaw. It just is. I'm not blaming my parents for anything. I've taken full

responsibility, but growing up, I was rarely on school the time. We rarely saw the beginning of a movie.

I don't ever remember seeing the beginning of a movie, to be honest. We showed up to all, like,

family engagements, like Thanksgiving, etc. Anything like that. We were always late. And my dad's

thing was like, you know, if you show up late, the foods are already on the table. You don't have

to wait around. You come for the best part, and then you leave. And I was like, that's really brilliant

thinking. And I grew up in a family where we were just late to everything. Now, my dad is still

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