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 the show, And today you're going to learn more about how the

truth will set you free. How having the courage and the boldness to be more honest in your life

will ultimately bring you more confidence because so much of a lack of confidence comes from

feeling like other people can't handle us.

We couldn't handle interactions.

If this person gets upset with me, if this person has a judgment of me, I won't be able to handle it.

And when you're just more honest and more blunt and more direct, you realize you can handle things.

And we're going to jump back into our interview with Brad in just a moment, Brad Blatton, the honesty expert.

He's written a number of books about this stuff. You should listen to the first half of the

interview in the last episode if you haven't already. And we're going to jump into that in just a moment.

I want to tell a brief story, though, about me trying out some of the stuff that he said last week,

and then we'll get into the interview. Before we do, though, just a reminder, call the show hotline. If you have questions, I'd love to do Q&A and Ask the Shrink segments, that sort of thing.

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slash shrink for the shy guy. So did you try out some of the stuff that Brad talked about last week

about being more honest? I know I did. And I was looking at my life and I was like, okay, I know I'm

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