If we have a goal of being confident of speaking powerfully, I don't think that it is enough.

I am Mission Laciani, founder of Mind Valley, the School for Human Transformation.

You're listening to the Mind Valley podcast

where we'll be bringing you the greatest teachers and thought leaders on the

planet to discuss the world's most powerful ideas and personal growth for mind,

body, spirit, and work.

Welcome back everyone to the Mind Valley Podcast.

This episode is especially for you

if you have ever suffered from social anxiety.

Now this is an actual issue that hits 60% of people, 60% of you out there

identify, according to psychology today today as people who are shy or

socially anxious and I want to tell you what happened to me recently I was

invited to a networking event so I walked into this bar it was in New York there were a ton of people around there and all of a sudden I just felt

awkward and within 15 minutes of walking in, making meaningless small talk with people,

and being stuck in a situation where I just felt awkward,

I saw a couple of interesting people. They were in a deep conversation, I had no idea how to get in that

conversation, I decided, screw it, I'm just walking out of here. Now maybe I shouldn't have

had done that, but I literally suffered from social anxiousness in this situation. This is why the

topic today is so important. We know that loneliness is something that almost 50% of people in the Western world report

suffering from, but often it's hard for us to get in the groove when it comes to meeting people.

So today's guest is Andrew Horn.

Andrew Horn has done so many amazing things in the world.

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