Stop Overthinking. Start Confidence-Maxxing.
You've read the articles, watched the videos, and replayed every awkward moment in your head. This book ends that cycle. With a clear, proven system built for overthinkers, you'll learn how to start great conversations, feel comfortable in any room, and build the kind of confidence that lasts.
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What You'll Learn Inside the Book
You'll learn how to start conversations without overthinking, keep them going without going blank, and actually enjoy social situations instead of dreading them.
You'll know what to say, how to say it, and how to bounce back when things get awkward. You'll get tools to quiet that inner voice that always wants to grade you mid-conversation, plus strategies for telling better stories, asking better questions, and creating real momentum in your social life.
Whether it's speaking up in meetings, joining group conversations, or turning small talk into real connection, you'll finally feel like you know what you're doing and you'll develop unshakable confidence in your people skills.
Hi, I'm Jeff Callahan.
Back in college, I couldn't even start a conversation with the person sitting eight inches away from me. I wanted to speak up. I just didn't know how. For years, I felt stuck. Like there was a version of me that could be more comident, more connected, more me, but I had no idea how to get there.
Fast forward: I've now helped hundreds of high achieving overthinkers build real social confidence (without pretending to be someone they're not). My work has been featured in TIME, Inc., Business Insider, Yahoo! Finance, and more.
Clients from Microsoft, Google, Facebook, Netflix, Visa, the US Army, Stanford, and Harvard have used my system to speak up, connect faster, and lead with confidence.
What I teach in this book comes from lessons that took me over 20 years and 100,000 conversations to learn. If you've ever felt like people skills are something you should've figured out by now but haven't, I wrote this for you.
Table of Contents
• Introduction - Be A Rebel. Talk To People.
• Chapter 1 - You Can Just Change Things
• Chapter 2 - Competence-Maxxing
• Chapter 3 - Choose Your Own Reality
• Chapter 4 - Awkward Moments Are Temporary
• Chapter 5 - You Can Treat Yourself Like A Friend
• Chapter 6 - IRL-Maxxing
• Chapter 7 - Jumping The Motivation Gap
• Chapter 8 - People Are Nice, But You Have To Go First
• Chapter 9 - Enthusiasm Sparks Enthusiasm
• Chapter 10 - Every Conversation is Practice
• Chapter 11 - You Can Talk About Yourself
• Chapter 12 - You Can Be Interesting
• Chapter 13 - You Can Be Interested
• Chapter 14 - You Have Great Stories
• Chapter 15 - Friendship-Maxxing
• Chapter 16 - The Roadmap
• The 21-Day Confidence-Maxxing Challenge
