Risk, Failure, And Creating An Extraordinary Life with Nic Carlson
Shrink For The Shy Guy
Dr. Aziz: Social Anxiety And Confidence Expert, Author and Coach
4.8 • 649 Ratings
🗓️ 12 April 2023
⏱️ 55 minutes
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Summary
Overcoming fear and anxiety, reprogramming negative stories from the past, and building confidence can be hard work. It can be easy to fall into a discouraged or hopeless state of self-pity, asking "why is this happening to me?" Join Dr. Aziz in this inspiring episide with one of his colleagues, a master of marketing named Nic Carlson. In this episode you'll go deep into Nic's personal story, which is absolutely inspiring. Facing massive adversity at a young age, he continued to find a way to choose risk, action, and willingness instead of shutting down and giving up. The result is not only outward success, but also becoming an open-hearted, inspiring human.
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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 |
| 0:21.9 | journey to eradicate social anxiety and instill confidence, first in myself and then in every |
| 0:28.5 | single person that I meet on my journey. You're going to learn these tools and how to apply them |
| 0:33.1 | in your life now so that you can become the most free, powerful, bold, authentic version of you. |
| 0:47.8 | Welcome today's episode of Shrinking the Shad Guy. I'm your host, Dr. Aziz, and I have a guest |
| 0:52.6 | that I'm very excited to talk with because there's |
| 0:55.4 | a few conversations I've had with Nick, who I'll introduce in a minute, that have left me very |
| 1:01.3 | intrigued. So often for this show, I'll bring in, I know, a guest expert who's someone in the |
| 1:08.1 | field of confidence, social anxiety. Nick is actually someone that I met through |
| 1:13.0 | as a colleague. We've worked together for a number of years and he is a master in marketing |
| 1:19.5 | and runs a team and communication. So you might not think that would be the typical guest I |
| 1:25.0 | would bring on. But in my conversations with Nick, I kept on |
| 1:28.8 | thinking, wow, there's a lot about the way that Nick approaches his life. That is what I'm |
| 1:34.7 | steering and guiding people towards, a life of confidence, of betting on himself, of taking risks. |
| 1:41.2 | So Nick Carlson, welcome to the show. |
| 1:45.5 | Nick runs a marketing agency called Vanguard. |
| 1:48.5 | And we could explore some of the nuances of what you do. |
| 1:51.0 | But I know from my personal experience with it, that it's a stellar company. |
| 1:56.4 | And the best experience I've ever had with a marketing company and from the ground up in terms of how things were built, communication, design, care. |
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