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A Better Social Life On Your Terms (Or Your Money Back)
Improve your people skills, conversation skills, and confidence, or use our one-click money-back guarantee to get 100% of your money back if you’re not delighted by the improvement you’ve made.
Grow your conversation skills from home, at your own pace, through simulated, personality-changing conversations.
If you feel uncomfortable making conversation or don’t know what to say, this is the program for you.
- Know what to say so you don’t blank out
- Gain the ability to talk to anyone (Be it someone you’re attracted to or a group of people)
- Breakthrough shallow small talk to build real connections faster.
Spend 5-10 minutes a day | 5 weeks course | Self-paced or with community | 15-day money-back guarantee | Switch program if you don’t love it
How to build connections faster with anyone you meet
If it takes you forever to connect with new people and you see others go from “Hi” to close friends in no time, this is the program for you.
- Know exactly what to say to make the friendship move forward.
- Know how to have engaging conversations with people, even if you usually have no clue what to talk about.
- See how you can make close friends without having to be vulnerable.
Should I sign up for FFP or Deepen Your Friendships?
If you have good relationships with existing friends but it takes forever to make new friends, consider FFP. If you are dissatisfied with your existing friendships, consider DYF.
15-day money-back guarantee | Switch to another program if you’re not satisfied | 5-10 minutes a day | 5 weeks | Self-paced or with community
A Blueprint for Building Real Friendships
After working with thousands of people seeking stronger friendships, we designed Friendship Academy to give you everything you need to build connections that last.
Friendship Academy includes three of our most transformative courses, each tackling a different part of the friendship-building journey:
- Go From Self Conscious to Confident: Discover your confidence and learn how to start conversations with ease.
- Increase Your Likability: Become someone people want to connect with, authentically and naturally.
- Deepen Your Friendships: Go beyond small talk to build genuine, lasting connections.
15-day money-back guarantee | Switch to another program if you’re not satisfied | 5-10 minutes a day | 12 weeks | Self-paced or with community
Crush your awkwardness
Let’s “spy” on real-life interactions together to learn what to do (and not do).
If awkwardness is keeping you from living the social life you want, this is the program for you.
- No longer let awkwardness hold you back
- Know what’s expected of you and how to act in social settings
- Get past the awkward initial stage so you can express your personality and form a connection
- Master group conversations
15-day money-back guarantee | Switch to another program if you’re not satisfied | 5-10 minutes a day | 8 weeks | Self-paced or with community
Crush your social nervousness and build deep core confidence
StoC is our flagship program on how to overcome social anxiety. If the main thing holding you back from a rich social life is social anxiety or shyness, StoC is the program for you.
- Overcome your social anxiety
- Develop self-confidence and self-esteem
- Change the way you talk to yourself
- Feel more confident in groups and new situations
- Feel more confident in dating and relationships
Should I sign up for StoC or Awkward to Awesome?
StoC has a deeper focus on emotions and self-image. If you instead want advice for how to act and what to do, consider Awkward to Awesome.
15 day money-back guarantee | Switch to another program if you’re not satisfied | 5-10 minutes a day | 8 weeks | Self-paced or with community
Become a captivating person no longer held back by self-doubt
If you hold yourself back, are met with indifference or feel bland and invisible, this is the program for you.
Develop the ability to intuitively know what to say to set yourself apart, maintain interest, and build real connections with strangers, co-workers, friends, and dates.
- Learn to make conversation in a captivating way (without the need for spectacular experiences or topics)
- Break out of old conditioning from parents and bullies that is holding you back
- Talk with anyone, whether it’s someone you’re attracted to or a group of people.
- Breakthrough shallow small talk so you can build real connections fast
15-day money-back guarantee | Switch to another program if you’re not satisfied | 5-10 minutes a day | 5 weeks | Self-paced or with community
Become a more likable person
If likability is keeping you from living the social life you want, this is the program for you.
- Learn the likability factors that make someone a friend magnet
- Make a great first impression
- How to let people in – without compromising your mental health
- Know what to say that makes people like you, appreciate you, and want to stick around
- Disagreeing with grace and winning people over to your way of thinking
- Standing Your Ground While Still Being Likable
- Managing Moods and Mitigating Meltdowns
15-day money-back guarantee | Switch to another program if you’re not satisfied | 5-10 minutes a day | 5 weeks | Self-paced or with community
Build stronger and more meaningful friendships
Cultivate Deep, Meaningful Friendships and Heartfelt Connections that Matter
- Know exactly what to say to take the friendship to the next level.
- Learn how to make conversations flow—even when your mind goes blank.
- See how you can build close friendships without oversharing or being too vulnerable.
- Discover how to invite people to hang out without it feeling awkward.
- Get practical steps to stop overthinking and start connecting for real.
Should I sign up for FFP or Deepen Your Friendships?
If you have good relationships with existing friends but it takes forever to make new friends, consider FFP. If you are dissatisfied with your existing friendships, consider DYF.
15-day money-back guarantee | Switch to another program if you’re not satisfied | 5-10 minutes a day | 5 weeks | Self-paced or with community
Compare Courses
Conversation Confidence |
Invisible to Interesting |
Self-Conscious to Confident |
Awkward to Awesome |
Likability Hacking |
Deepen Your Friendships |
Fast friend Protocol |
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| Focus | Make conversation with confidence and know what to say | Become a captivating person no longer held back by self-doubt | Crush social anxiety through inner work | Know what to do and say to stop feeling awkward | Become a more likable person | Build stronger and more meaningful friendships | Build connections faster with anyone you meet |
| Scope | 5-10 minutes a day | 5 weeks | 5-10 minutes a day | 5 weeks | 5-10 minutes a day | 8 weeks | 5-10 minutes a day | 4 weeks | 5-10 minutes a day | 10 weeks | 5-10 minutes a day | 5 weeks | 5-10 minutes a day | 5 weeks |
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| Become More Interesting | ⭐⭐ | ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ | ⭐⭐ | ⭐⭐⭐ | ⭐⭐⭐⭐ | ⭐⭐ | ⭐ |
| Improve Conversation Skills | ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ | ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ | ⭐⭐⭐⭐ | ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ | ⭐⭐⭐ | ⭐⭐⭐⭐ | ⭐⭐⭐ |
| Build Confidence | ⭐⭐⭐⭐ | ⭐⭐⭐⭐ | ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ | ⭐⭐⭐⭐ | ⭐⭐⭐ | ⭐⭐ | ⭐ |
| Dating Confidence | ⭐⭐ | ⭐⭐⭐ | ⭐⭐⭐⭐ | ⭐⭐⭐ | ⭐⭐ | ⭐ | ⭐ |
| Build Self-Esteem | ⭐ | ⭐⭐⭐ | ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ | ⭐ | ⭐⭐⭐ | ⭐⭐⭐ | ⭐⭐ |
| Master First Impressions | ⭐⭐ | ⭐⭐⭐ | ⭐⭐⭐ | ⭐⭐⭐ | ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ | ⭐ | ⭐ |
| Overcome Social Anxiety | ⭐⭐⭐ | ⭐⭐ | ⭐⭐⭐⭐ | ⭐⭐⭐ | ⭐⭐⭐ | ⭐ | ⭐ |
| Build Deeper Connections | ⭐ | ⭐⭐ | ⭐ | ⭐ | ⭐⭐ | ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ | ⭐⭐⭐⭐ |
| Relationship Confidence | ⭐ | ⭐ | ⭐⭐⭐⭐ | ⭐ | ⭐ | ⭐⭐ | ⭐ |
| Finding Genuine Friendship | ⭐ | ⭐ | ⭐ | ⭐ | ⭐ | ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ | ⭐⭐⭐⭐ |
| Meaningful Conversations | ⭐⭐ | ⭐⭐ | ⭐ | ⭐⭐⭐ | ⭐⭐ | ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ | ⭐⭐⭐⭐ |
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