Welcome back to the art of charm. I'm AJ and I'm Johnny and this week we are very excited to build off of last month's first impression theme.

We are kicking off our first episode in July all around gaining other people's interest now if you recall from last month.

We are all about getting that foot in the door and how do we make a great first impression now how do we actually connect with someone and I know a lot of our listeners have questions around starting the conversation.

I'm excited about today because we're going to try to break this into pieces and examine it in a way that allows us to look at something that is anxiety written.

And look at it for the fun that you can have with it if you understand the pieces that go along with it. I'm excited.

And I know a lot of us when we don't have that confidence when we have a little social anxiety we run out of things to say or we don't know how to get the conversation started.

So we're going to be breaking that down in detail today.

We also are excited for the challenge of learning how to connect with other people and how to perfect that pitch and catch of a good conversation.

AJ speaking of challenges. I also want to mention about the private Facebook challenge group with over 17,000 active members and we've already had about 50,000 who have went through it in the past year.

So be part of the community get started register today at the articharm.com slash challenge.

Let's roll.

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Welcome back. You know what today is going to be so much fun.

We're going to be able to dispel some this about approaching and breaking the ice and perhaps getting some interest going on both sides.

And this is one of the things that a lot of people get worked up about. We always hear about approaching anxiety from men and women and about the whole thing of now you're out.

Now you have to go talk to people. People you don't know walking into the unknown. Why is that so scary? Well, we're going to talk about that today.

And I'm excited because once you hear about all the different components and see them for what they are, you can actually start to have some fun with the whole thing.

I'll be honest approaching causes me some anxiety and introvert. It is nerve wrecking. You don't want to be judged the wrong way. And I know a lot of us have that fear of rejection. Right. You put your best foot forward.

You try to get a conversation rolling and much like you see on how I met your mother. Maybe you get a drink thrown in your face like a Barney Stinson, right.

People have this idea that if I do this wrong, the worst can possibly happen. And today is all about showing you how being an engaging conversation list involves being a good listener and paying closer attention with the other person is saying then it is worrying so much about what you're saying.

Before we start, I wanted to say a few things that allows everyone who's listening to this to perhaps calm down about the subject and listen to with an open mind and get ready to have some fun and think about it a bit because a lot of people who have social anxiety tend to think of themselves as broken.

And that's just not the case. It's a temperament thing. Some people have a temperament for being social to put themselves out there and that's great. And they're lacking in some areas where the introverted people to put themselves out there is a terrifying and not only terrified the draining experience.

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