The Courage To Be Vulnerable
Authentic Confidence with Dr. Aziz
Dr. Aziz Gazipura, Psychologist and Author
4.8 • 666 Ratings
🗓️ 28 May 2014
⏱️ 33 minutes
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Summary
Being vulnerable, especially as a man, can be difficult. We get many messages growing up that we must be strong, in charge, and always "have it together." Revealing challenges, confusion, or pain can make us feel weak, or worse...
Join Dr. Aziz as he reveals why vulnerability is uncomfortable, how to make it easier to do, and how to transform your life by telling the truth!
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| 0:00.0 | Coming to you from the Center for Social Confidence in Portland, Oregon, |
| 0:05.0 | Welcome to Shrink for the Shy Guy, helping men everywhere go from social anxiety to social domination. |
| 0:13.0 | With your host, Dr. Aziz. |
| 0:17.0 | Hey, welcome to today's episode of Shrink for the Shy Guy. I'm your host, Dr. Aziz. And today's |
| 0:23.1 | episode is going to be covering the two most powerful forces that influence you on a daily |
| 0:30.4 | basis. They absolutely affect your sense of shyness or fear or self-doubt or social anxiety. |
| 0:39.7 | And on the flip side, they strongly affect your sense of confidence, belief in yourself, liking and loving who you are. And these things are so |
| 0:45.1 | powerful that I think if you can get a handle on both of these two areas, you can radically transform |
| 0:51.1 | from shyness to confidence. In fact, that is the path to from shyness to |
| 0:56.6 | confidence. And these two forces, although they're incredibly powerful, are rarely talked about. |
| 1:02.9 | They're things that we don't really want to talk about. We don't really want to think about it. |
| 1:06.3 | And the last thing we want to do is share one of these things with someone else. |
| 1:11.7 | I don't know if you have a guess at this point what these two forces are, but I'll share them with you now. |
| 1:15.9 | It's shame and vulnerability. |
| 1:20.1 | Shame is that sense of I'm not good enough. |
| 1:24.2 | And if you listen to one of the earlier podcast episodes when I talk about the cause of shyness, I believe shame is the cause of shyness or is at the root of shyness. And shame is an |
| 1:33.0 | experience of feeling in your body, a squeezing, dropping, heavy, tight feeling, usually in your |
| 1:41.9 | throat, chest, solar plexusus or stomach, and a mental thought stream |
| 1:48.0 | about why you're not good enough. Perhaps you replay an incident in your mind where you fell short |
| 1:55.1 | and you have this cringy sensation. And combined with that as just this overwhelming sensation, this feeling, this knowing |
| 2:03.3 | of, I'm not good enough, I'm wrong, I'm bad, I'm unlovable, people won't like me, what's wrong with me. |
| 2:11.8 | And that's shame. And shame occurs when we fall short of some way that we believe we're supposed to be. |
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