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 have a really informative and fascinating

interview with an expert who helps people understand

herpes and other STDs, STIs, how to talk about this stuff, how to talk about sex, how to approach

that whole area of your life, dating, and particularly the sexual aspect of dating,

in a completely confident way, a way that's maybe very different than certainly how I approached

it when I was younger, when I had a lot of issues with confidence that led me to not be that

direct, not talk about sex, be very uncomfortable even bringing up the subject, even with

someone I was going to have sex with. And then fears around how much to share, how much to ask, not really understanding much about

STDs and STIs and how they could be transmitted and what the risks are and some basic education

that came from, say, school at the time, but that's not really that much, right?

And in this day and age, you could probably find a lot more online.

However, there's nothing that beats talking to someone who really has mastered this area

and understands it inside and out and is incredibly articulate at being able to teach us all

about how to do these things from a very

practical standpoint. So whether you yourself have experience with an STD or an STI and are

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