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 to today's episode of the show. Today, let's talk about you living your most confident

life, fully alive, stepping into the next moment, feeling fresh,

ready, excited, inspired, energized, as opposed to feeling dread, feeling anxiety, feeling

self-doubt, self-criticism, judgment, doom, and really a sense that, you know, life is restricted,

you can't have what you want in life. And, you know, I've lived both of these ways. And my whole

mission at this point in my life is to help as many people as I can live that first way.

And there's many ways to describe that. You could call it, you know, a confident life.

You could say, you know, what is living the life that you really want, the good life, a meaningful life,

a joyful life, whatever term you like that inspires you. That's what we want to talk about.

And I want to share a couple of key insights that I learned way, way back in one of my earliest

days when I first started realizing I wanted to learn about psychology and helping myself and ultimately

helping other people.

There was a teacher I learned from, his name was Robert Firestone, a brilliant, cognitive, and he's way more than cognitive,

though. It's definitely very emotion-focused therapy. But one of the earliest teachers in therapy

I ever had. And I loved his approach. And it was not some sterile clinical approach. It was really

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