The reason you struggle to connect with people

Shawn Hesmatpour

Published on: 30/06/2025

For a huge chunk of my 20s, I didn’t realize how much I was contracting my energy. I was obsessed with optimizing my habits, protecting my focus, and staying in my own lane… which, on the surface, looked like discipline. But under the surface?...

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Speak Your Truth. Be Vulnerable.

Shawn Hesmatpour

Published on: 21/10/2024

Vulnerability (open to speaking my truth) has allowed me to create deeper relationships with the people in my life. I am able to be authentic and honest around my friends, family, followers, students, women and loved ones. The feeling feels like...

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