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. Aziz.

Welcome to Shrink for the Shy Guy. I'm your host, Dr. Aziz, coming to you from the Center for Social Confidence here in Portland, Oregon.

And I'm particularly excited. Today is a monumental day because this is our first podcast. So whether you're catching this and you're with us here with number one, or you've found a much later episode and I've worked your way back through the archives to this initial episode,

this is where it all begins. So this is a particularly important show. I'm going to lay some of the

foundation, some of the groundwork for what I hope to cover in this show and shows to come. And also

just what this show is about, what the purpose of it is, a little bit about who I am, which you'll

hear a lot more about as the weeks go by.

But let's just start for a moment with looking at what is this show about. It's called

shrink for the shy guy. So as you might guess, this show is for people who are shy. If you're

shy, if you're struggling with shyness or social anxiety, then this is going to be a resource for

you. This is going to be a place for you. This is going to be a

place you can come to listen regularly to get very practical information that's going to help

you overcome your shyness. Now, as I'm going to get into in a minute, I am a shrink, but I don't

have the information in a very hard to follow or arcane way. I want it to be really accessible,

something you can listen to,

get inspired by, get impacted by, whether it's by something I say or an interview I have

with someone who's an expert in this area or has something of value to offer you. So you can take

away what you're learning and go apply it in your life starting today, starting tomorrow,

whenever you're listening to this podcast. And so that's the main purpose of this show is to provide a massive value to you so you can

leave here feeling more confident in yourself, believing in yourself and having a courage to put

yourself out there at a greater level than you are right now. Because if you're stuck

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