How To Network With Confidence with Robbie Samuels
Authentic Confidence with Dr. Aziz
Dr. Aziz Gazipura, Psychologist and Author
4.8 • 666 Ratings
🗓️ 27 November 2019
⏱️ 48 minutes
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Summary
Build Lasting Relationships That Benefit Your Career
Do you like networking? Or do you shudder at the idea? Many people view networking as a chore or necessary evil that they'd rather never do. Join Dr. Aziz as he interviews networking expert Robbie Samuels to demystify networking. You'll discover how to make it feel less transactional and instead deeply rewarding and mutually beneficial.
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome to Shrink for the Shy Guy. |
| 0:05.0 | This is the show for you if you are sick and tired of being held back by fear, self-doubt, |
| 0:10.0 | social anxiety, shyness, anything that's stopping you from you being you. |
| 0:15.0 | I'm going to share the most powerful tools and resources that I've been discovering over the last 15 years on my |
| 0:21.8 | journey to eradicate social anxiety and instill confidence, first in myself and then in every |
| 0:28.4 | single person that I meet on my journey. You're going to learn these tools and how to apply |
| 0:32.9 | them in your life now so that you can become the most free, powerful, bold, authentic version of you. |
| 0:43.8 | Hey, welcome to today's episode of the show. |
| 0:50.5 | Today we're going to be talking about networking. |
| 0:54.1 | Oh, yes. In fact, let's just do this a little experiment |
| 0:56.8 | right now. Networking. What happens when I say that? What is your internal reaction to that? |
| 1:04.3 | Do you like it? Like, is it just on a general sense, is it positive valence or negative valence? |
| 1:09.4 | Like you like it or you feel aversion towards it? Because that's interesting, right? That's kind of your past experience |
| 1:15.4 | with networking, what it means to you, what it feels like to you. And then, of course, there's, |
| 1:21.0 | you know, how it can, the experience can be. Maybe it feels scary too. It feels uncomfortable. |
| 1:26.4 | Because, you know, when it comes to making connections, |
| 1:28.3 | there's always the inherent risk of rejection, right? Just on a social level, maybe this person |
| 1:32.8 | doesn't want to talk to me. You know, maybe they don't like me. And then, of course, on a, when you |
| 1:37.2 | expand it, just be on a friendly dinner party, but you actually look into networking, which has the |
| 1:41.7 | implication of that we're connecting, but we're also, there's ways that we can support each other in a career context, a business context. So then there's another layer of potential rejection, right? It's like, well, maybe they like me as a person, but they don't want to do anything for me or, you know, all the things that can arise in our minds that make us kind of just want to avoid that area. |
| 2:01.8 | I know I've definitely fallen to that trap at times in my business where it's like, |
| 2:04.4 | no, I'm just going to work on these things over here by myself in a room and talk to people, |
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