Andrew spent seven and a half months in coaching with Aziz and saw major shifts: more energy, easier conversations with strangers, less self-criticism, and more self-compassion. He credits Aziz as foundational to his personal development and recommends him for lasting change, not quick fixes.
My name is Andrew, and I am putting together this video for Aziz for the center for Social Confidence. And I have been working with Aziz for seven and a half months, and Aziz has been my coach. And this is basically just a video around what you can kind of expect if you choose to work with Aziza. So it's going to be a little bit vulnerable for me. But before I was coaching with Aziz, I would say, you know, my experience with social confidence and social anxiety was very variable. There were some days that I felt very on, very confident, very excited to engage with people, and then there were days where I felt completely uncomfortable and, like, I didn't want to have anything to do with people, and my anxiety was very rampant, and I also felt not very whole in myself. So that's kind of the context for the video. I wasn't actually really hesitant to work with Aziz. Basically, as soon as I saw his website, I felt very resonant with what he was offering, and I kind of just went ahead and contacted him because I really. I really. I really associated with what he was about and what he was doing and what his mission on the planet was. And I said, yes, I want this. Let's do it. So I contacted him, and we set up an initial consultation, and we went from there, and the results have been very, very, very powerful. Like I said at the beginning of the video, I've been working with Aziz for seven and a half months, and in that time, we have created drastic, like, really, really powerful, drastic results in my life. And I feel very excited and happy to say that, you know, I'm someone who's a very driven and ambitious individual. And. And it was very frustrating for me to be at the place that I was because I really didn't feel like I was getting the results that I wanted in my life. And although Aziz is not the only person that I've been working with, he's been a very powerful, core foundational kind of support piece for my exploration and my growth over these last seven months. So some of the things that I've experienced through working with him have been, you know, having more energy, feeling more confident, interacting with strangers much more easily, engaging in, you know, lengthy conversations with people in line at Starbucks, and actually feeling really fulfilled and good in my body. You know, striking up random conversations with people in the street if I wanted to. My sense of self has gotten more expressed. I feel like I'm able to talk to people about things that are important for me much more easily, and that used to be a big challenge, you know, I can kind of make myself vulnerable in front of people and actually show them more of who I really am. And that hasn't always been the case. One of the big things that I've learned through working with Aziz is really, you know, how to love myself more and how to have more compassion and, you know, just going easy on myself. You know, so many of the ways that I was acting in the world before were really, you know, I just had this horrible self talk. What I was, you know, I was almost berating myself. If I didn't meet up to this high expectation or standard that I had for myself, and if I just even missed it by a minimal amount, a miniscule amount, I would literally read myself out and say, oh, you're a horrible person. La, la la la la. You're not worth anything. And I would just go on this attack, and I would attack myself and barrage myself with negative criticism, and it really wasn't healthy. So that's another big, big piece. What shifted since I worked with Aziz? So with all that being said, I highly, highly, highly recommend his work, and it really has been very powerful and transformative for me. And I would say don't work with Aziz. If you're just looking for, you know, a quick fix and you want to just, like, you know, learn how to strike up conversations with, like, with a random person, I mean, he can help you with that, but as far as I can tell, he's really about helping you transform your whole experience. And to me, that's really been invaluable, and I'm very, you know, pretty much, like, eternally grateful for the man he's helped me step into and become, and I still have a lot of work to do, but I've come a long, long way. So thank you very much and good luck.
