Hello friends and welcome back to the Healthier Together podcast.

I'm your host, Liz Moody and I'm a best-selling author and long-time journalist.

This podcast is all about helping you live your healthiest, happiest life, whether we're

busty myths about the latest skincare trends, learning simple hacks for managing anxiety

or overcoming the fears holding us back from taking risks.

And yes, those are all real episodes so if any of those topics sound good to you, scroll

on back in the archives.

This topic has been requested for years and I am so happy that I finally, finally found

the perfect guest to speak on the subject.

I've always thought of confidence as a more amorphous thing, but it turns out that there

is science and concrete action steps that we can all use to become more confident.

I am so excited to welcome Dr. Aziz Ghazapura to the podcast.

Dr. Ghazapura is the world's leading confidence expert, the host of the podcast, String for

the Shy Guy and he has written five best-selling books including the Art of Extraordinary Confidence

and his most recent book, Not Nice Stop People Pleasing, Staying Silent and Feeling

Guilty and start speaking up saying no asking boldly and unapologetically being.

He is the founder of the Center for Social Confidence where he offers coaching, courses

and events all centered around building confidence.

In this episode, we get into whether confidence is something that you have to be born with,

the biggest factors that get in the way of confidence plus how to overcome each of them,

exactly how to stop believing in your inner critic, a science-backed way to stop comparing

yourself to other people, how to stop people pleasing and live your dream life, a trick

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