Welcome to Shrink for the Shy Guy.

This is the show for you if you are sick and tired of being held back by fear, self-doubt,

social anxiety, shyness, anything that's stopping you from you being you.

I'm going to share the most powerful tools and resources that I've been discovering over the last 15 years on my

journey to eradicate social anxiety and instill confidence, first in myself and then in every

single person that I meet on my journey. You're going to learn these tools and how to apply them

in your life now so that you can become the most free powerful bold authentic version of you welcome today's

episode of the show i'm your host dr z's and I'm excited to be with you today because today I have gone

back through the annals of time.

Is it annals of time?

Sounds a lot like anales.

Anyway, back through time over the last 20 years.

That's right.

20 years of obsessively studying and then helping people

with confidence. Now, 20 years ago, I was not helping anyone. Actually, I had one friend that I was

helping because we were both trying to meet women. And that was the source of wanting to build

confidence. And then what happened, happened though is it became like a raging

fire inside of me. It became, oh, this is my life's work. And for him, it was like, dude,

I got a girlfriend. I'm good. And I was like, we're just getting started. And so that was when

I was 20 years old. And I just turned 40 a couple months ago.

So it was right in my 20th year that I reached that threshold moment of pain and suffering of a life not fully lived,

a life in the cage of severe social anxiety and excessive people pleasing and niceness and disconnection for myself and

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