EPISODE · Aug 7, 2023 · 10 MIN

Approaching Strangers while Battling Social Anxiety

from Communicate with Confidence with Lilith Rose · host Lilith Rose

Today, I'd like to start off your week by talking about a unique experience that I had over the last couple weeks in regards to approaching strangers while dealing with a whole heap of social anxiety and just overall exhaustion. I came in contact with this guy who runs this project called Unlabel Me. The project’s focus is knowing and understanding people's labels and then seeing past those to who they actually are as people. Pretty cool project. We were doing some filming in the studio and everything went wrong. I was exhausted, all my tech was breaking, and I ended up spending almost an hour just trying to set up the shots while the interviewee was there. So, I'm dealing with all this and just barrel through to get it done. But the next day we meet up again and this guy says, “Hey, I want to do some off the cuff interviews, like with people on the street.” And this filled me with such a rush of anxiety, it almost broke me.