Coming to you from the Center for Social Confidence in Portland, Oregon,

Welcome to Shrink for the Shy Guy, helping men everywhere go from social anxiety to social domination

with your host, Dr. Raziz.

Hey, welcome to today's episode of the show.

Today we're going to be getting into small talk mastery.

Oh yes, oh yes.

So if you want to check out more about the show,

make sure you go to shrinkforthe shy guy.com. Shrink for the shy guy.com.

You can get show notes.

You can get information about the interview.

You can get a transcript.

You can also check out ways to go deeper.

You can get my ebook there, five steps to unleash your inner confidence, which will help you, as the title suggests, unleash your inner confidence. So go there for more.

And I'm super excited because small talk, as you'll hear in the interview that I do today with

Dan, I think is a superpower. Now, most people, and you might be in this camp, kind of recoil at the idea of small talk.

You're like, small talk, it sounds terrible. I don't like it. I don't want to do it. I just want to

skip over it. And I get it. I used to hate it too. And I used to be pretty bad at it. That's probably

one of the reasons why I didn't like it. But when you learn how to master it or at least get okay at it, so many things change.

So much of our social anxiety and our discomfort of meeting people and talking to people we

don't know that well is not that, you know, this is not a good fit or this person's going to hate

me or I'm no good. It's none of that stuff.

We're just, it's a little uncomfortable because we don't know where to connect or how to do it.

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