Do you sometimes struggle with questioning if you're manly enough?

If you are as good as other guys, if women would see you as a dominant, strong, attractive

man, or do you compare yourself a lot and feel like you're somehow weaker or lacking?

In today's episode you're going to learn how to break that old pattern and step into accepting yourself at a higher and deeper level than ever before.

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 shrink for the shy guy.

I'm excited to be with you here today because we're going to be diving into something

that I think stops a lot of men from fully feeling confident in themselves, from fully being

able to put themselves out there, for you to put yourself out there in whatever ways you want to,

for dating and relationships, speaking up at work, creating your own business, increasing your sales and

marketing, whatever it is that you want to do, there's this force that kind of holds us back,

this little nagging thing in the back of our minds. And it's not even necessarily related to the

thing that we want to do. It can have nothing to do with that. But what it relates to is inner confidence and inner self-esteem. And that is this idea of being manly enough, being a man

on some level, whatever we associate to that. And, you know, this is the kind of thing where

sometimes it might be right in your face. You might be walking around and

noticing it all day long. Lots of comparison to other guys. Oh, he's better looking. He's more

attractive. He's more manly. Women like him more. He's more dominant in the meetings. You know,

you might be doing that day in and day out. And if so, man, I'm glad you're listening today because you're going to get

a lot about how to break free from that. Or it might kind of be dormant. It might kind of just be

in the background a lot of the time and you don't really notice it. It's not really that strong,

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