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

Hey, welcome today's episode of the show today we're going to be talking about first dates

What to do what not to do, good ideas, bad ideas. I don't know if you

want to collect bad ideas for a first date, but maybe you'll see some of the things that you've done,

and maybe they're, you might categorize them as bad ideas. I know I certainly have, and I'm

excited today because we have a special guest co-host, Amber

Grubinman, an exceptional coach on my team who really helps people in all areas of confidence,

especially though dating. So really glad to have you on board today. Thanks for being here, Amber.

Thanks for having me. Awesome. So we're going to get into first dates specifically, you know, things that people do

that get them stuck or unhelpful and maybe some ideas of what you can do instead.

Because I know that when I was really struggling with dating and social confidence, there could be

a lot of fear around the first date. And in fact, I remember when I haven't had that many dates, the idea of a first date

was just very anxiety-provoking.

And then when I went on a lot more of them, it became less so.

But, you know, it's not always the case.

Some people run the same pattern again and again, and they never really enjoy that first date. So, you know, our goal here is

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