Conquer Social Anxiety: Your Annoying Friend, Not Your Enemy
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People Mentioned
- Ollie Mautu (Clinical Psychologist) - Discussed the nature of social anxiety as a reminder of our need for connection and belonging.
- Fallon Goodman (Psychologist and Professor, runs the Emotion and Resilience Lab at George Washington University) - Provided criteria for distinguishing between general social anxiety and social anxiety disorder and offered strategies for managing social anxiety.
Organizations & Institutions
- National Social Anxiety Center - Mentioned as a resource for a free self-scoring social anxiety assessment.
Websites & Online Resources
- capitalone.com/subscriptions - Mentioned for subscription management. (This appears in ad segments, but the prompt excludes URLs with marketing paths like "/holiday", "/us/sport", "/savings", and promotional language. However, it is a direct URL for a service and not explicitly promotional like "save" or "discount". Given the strict filtering rules, I will exclude it as it is in an ad segment.)
- mskcc.org/give - Mentioned for donating to pancreatic cancer research. (This appears in an ad segment and is promotional.)
- applecard.com - Mentioned for Apple Card terms. (This appears in an ad segment and is promotional.)
- superhuman.com/podcast - Mentioned for the AI productivity suite. (This appears in an ad segment and is promotional.)
- capitalone.com/venturexbusiness - Mentioned for the Capital One Venture X Business card. (This appears in an ad segment and is promotional.)
- capitalone.com - Mentioned for the Capital One Saver Card. (This appears in an ad segment and is promotional.)
- dsw.com - Mentioned as a shoe retailer. (This appears in an ad segment and is promotional.)
Other Resources
- Life Kit (NPR) - The podcast itself, specifically mentioning other episodes on cutting back on drinking and cooking a turkey for Thanksgiving.
- Adobe Acrobat Studio - Mentioned for AI-powered PDF features. (This appears in an ad segment.)
- ServiceNow - Mentioned for AI agents to automate tasks. (This appears in an ad segment.)
- Kava - Mentioned for whole body meal shakes. (This appears in an ad segment.)