36: Anxiety Expert Mark Metry Gives Advice on Being Your Best Self

The Primal Kitchen Podcast

Mark Sisson & Morgan Zanotti

Fitness, Entrepreneur, Sisson, Parenting, Health, Wellness, Weightloss, Primal, Paleo, Nutrition, Health & Fitness

4.4 • 717 Ratings

🗓️ 18 July 2022

⏱️ 55 minutes

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Summary

Is Anxiety More Prevalent in Males?

This week, Morgan chats with Mental Health Advocate and Anxiety Expert, Mark Metry on the topic of social anxiety. Mark is a Forbes featured TEDX speaker, a global top 10 podcast host of the Social Anxiety Society and a best selling author of Screw Being Shy, but there was once a time where he couldn't even make eye contact with people due to suffering from immense social anxiety.

In this enlightening talk, Mark goes in depth about growing up in the inner city as a first generation immigrant and how racial bullying in school affected his self esteem and began making him closed off to the world. After spending years being overweight and depressed, he went on a self healing journey with the help of psychotherapy, gratitude, healthy habits and developing hobbies such as writing and podcasting. Morgan and Mark discuss the how social anxiety affects your mind and body in cognitive distortions and how it hijacks your entire nervous system, but how diet and lifestyle changes can set the foundation for long term results in a positive direction.

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0:00.0	First off, what is social anxiety? It's basically like this algorithm that gets you to not be yourself.
0:08.6	Hey, everyone. I'm Morgan, co-founder of Primal Kitchen and host of the Primal Kitchen podcast. Today, I'm
0:14.1	chatting with mental health advocate Mark Metri, who is a Forbes featured TEDx speaker, podcast host of the Social Anx Society and a bestselling
0:23.1	author. But once upon a time, he couldn't make direct eye contact with anyone and suffered
0:27.8	from social anxiety and health issues that disrupted his life. Marcus since developed tools to
0:32.7	overcome these mental health issues and has helped thousands of people overcome social anxiety
0:37.0	and shyness. And we'll be sharing some of his tips and secrets with thousands of people overcome social anxiety and shyness
0:37.8	and will be sharing some of his tips and secrets with all of you. Before we get started,
0:42.1	a brief reminder that any and all opinions and views shared by hosting guests on this podcast
0:46.4	are the speaker's own and do not represent the view of Primal Kitchen or its affiliates or parent
0:50.2	company. Hey, Mark. Morgan, how are you? I'm great. How are you? I'm, I'm super, super
0:57.0	great. And I was going on a walk before this. And I was like, okay, don't say any kind of crazy
1:01.4	health claims. So I'm glad you should say that disclaimer, but hopefully we'll go there.
1:05.0	No, we've disclaimed. So you're good. You can just, you know, you can let it rip. We want all the crazy, all the crazy health stuff.
1:16.9	So I love, I'm loving this. I, for those folks listening who know me, I definitely have like a predisposition to anxiety. I always say, I think like people who live in the past have like maybe
1:22.5	more shame issues and people who live in the future have like more anxiety issues. And I am definitely like mentally
1:28.2	always in the future. So anxiety is just like a force I live with. So I'm just super excited to hear
1:34.8	your story and what you have to offer the audience. So give us the background. Like how did you
1:39.5	get here? This is like such an interesting area to be a, I don't know, a specialist in. So fill us in.
1:46.0	Like, how does this relate to your personal story? Yeah, for real. So I've been trying to tell
1:51.8	my story over the last few years. And I think the best way I found to kind of describe my story and
1:57.8	what I do is I literally spent every single day for the first part of my
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