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S02E58: Overcoming Social Anxiety with Mark Metry

The Chrises are joined live by Entrepreneur and Author Mark Metry. The LinkedIn Leader shares how he overcame his social anxieties and how others can do the same with tips from his book, Screw Being Shy: Learn How to Manage Social Anxiety & Be Yourself in Front of Anyone. With a book tour planned and TedX speaking engagements lined up prior to quarantine, Mark discusses pivoting to focus on promoting his work via podcasts, including his own. The Host of Humans 2.0 Podcast talks about getting into the creative FLOW, trusting oneself, and beating Elon Musk to artificial intelligence. Always exploring new ways to move his inspiring mission forward, Mark alludes to creating a documentary series, writing a cookbook, and dropping an album. Expecting 2021 to be a basement year, Mark opens up about using the time to build a better version of himself for the long term while hopefully having good enough technology to not be stuck only talking to Wilson the Volleyball from the movie Castaway.

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S02E14: Releasing Traumatic Stress & Improving Performance (Because The Chrises are Human) with Garrett Wood

The Chrises go into deep hypnosis over big, juicy, sour lemons from the Human Knowledge Tree, Garrett Wood of Gnosis Therapy. Finding the magic of hypnotherapy has helped Garrett handle personal triggers of trauma and become less of an a-hole. With FOMO and Instagram influencers a thing of the past, the Indiana Jones of Therapy talks about anxiety being the current shared emotional zeitgeist, and he answers questions flying in from the 24 hour Chrises hotline. Garrett implores people to find coping mechanisms without perfect results and negative externalities, such as coloring or slapping the bass guitar. When he’s not busy healing the world, the citrus coffee connoisseur has been dusting off his skateboard, pumping up his paddle board, and parkouring around Long Beach.

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