How to Get a Girlfriend with Connell Barrett
Bestselling Author Dr. Robert Glover on How to Confidently Meet Women without Being Too Nice (Encore Episode)
Sat, 23 Nov 2024
In the pantheon of self-development thought leaders for men, no one looms larger than Dr. Robert Glover. A therapist, coach and public speaker for 30 years, Dr. Glover has helped countless men transform from passive and resentful to empowered and confident. His bestselling book, “No More Nice Guy,” is a self-help classic, sharing the same rarified air as David Deida’s “The Way of the Superior Man” and Brene Brown’s “Daring Greatly.”In this encore episode of the How to Get a Girlfriend Podcast, dating coach Connell Barrett and Dr. Glover—author of “The Dating Essentials for Men”—will discuss:(5:03) How Connell’s Nerdy Client Ken Got His Very First Kiss Ever(12:19) A Simple Tip on How to Always Know What to Say to Women(19:57) Dr. Glover Reveals Why “Nice Guy Syndrome” Is Hurting Your Love Life(26:20) How Dr. Glover Cracked the Code in His Own Dating Life(30:33) How Shame Can Hurt Your Self-Esteem(34:22) Why Indian and Asian Men Struggle with Dating in the U.S.(42:11) Why a Woman Wants a Little “Caveman” in the Guy She Dates(43:35) How to Confident and Strong without Being an A-Hole(50:22) Dr. Glover’s Formula to Be a Man of “Loving Dominance”(55:11) Why Rejection is Good for You(1:01:03) How to Stop Feeling Needy with Women(1:07:01) The Easy Way to Get a Woman’s Phone Number(1:09:45) Dr. Glover’s Top Tip to Stay out of the Friend ZoneAre you ready to stop being “Mr. Nice Guy” and start being the man women want you to be? Listen now, and take one step closer to getting a great girlfriend!TO LEARN ABOUT DR. GLOVER’S COACHING, COURSES AND HIS BOOK, “DATING ESSENTIALS FOR MEN”http://www.drglover.comFOLLOW DR. GLOVER ON TWITTER/Xhttp://www.twitter.com/dr_r_gloverFOR A FREE STRATEGY CALL WITH CONNELL TO LEARN HOW TO CONFIDENTLY FLIRT WITH WOMEN BY BEING AUTHENTIC (NO SKETCHY PICKUP MOVES NEEDED):http://www.datingtransformation.com/contactTO GET FREE ACCESS TO “THE FLIRTY 30,” 30 CHARMING QUESTIONS TO ASK WOMEN ON DATES, ON THE APPS, AND WHEN YOU APPROACH:http://www.datingtransformation.com/FLIRTY30
Chapter 1: What is the main focus of the podcast?
Welcome back to the How to Get a Girlfriend podcast. I'm your host, dating coach Conal Barrett. I help men learn to flirt, gain confidence, and of course, get a great girlfriend, all by being radically authentic, being your best true self. And thank you so much for being here for Relaunch Week. This podcast used to be called Dating Transformation.
And I've changed some things, made some adjustments, and we are now the How to Get a Girlfriend podcast. And I hope you've been listening to the last five episodes because over the last five episodes, I've shared five puzzle pieces for how you can get a great girlfriend. So the last five episodes, if you've listened to them, thank you. If you haven't, go back and check some of them out.
The first episode is all about radical authenticity and why that's what women want. There's an episode all about flirting. In my last episode, I had my girlfriend on, my amazing girlfriend Jessamyn, and I talked about our first date and how she and I got on the path to becoming boyfriend and girlfriend.
Anyway, the last five episodes, all the puzzle pieces are there for what you need to get a great girlfriend. I wanted to finish Relaunch Week with a special episode featuring an amazing, iconic thought leader. His name is Dr. Robert Glover. He wrote a bestselling book called No More Mr. Nice Guy that sold a bazillion copies and is still selling copies.
And he's also the author of a great book called Dating Essentials for Men. And Dr. Robert Glover is all about No More Mr. Nice Guy. It's all about understanding why and how many men put on a mask with women and put on a false, supplicating, quote unquote, nice guy persona that is inauthentic, that women don't like. And if you are one of those men who puts on a mask
who comes across as overly nice, falsely, supplicatingly nice, then I'll bet you've struggled with some problems like the friend zone or having women say, hey, you're a nice guy, but I'm going to go hook up with this cool, charismatic guy over here. Sorry. So if you struggle with those things, this is a great episode for you. I had a great conversation with Dr. Glover recently.
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Chapter 2: How can being radically authentic improve dating?
Basically, way back in the very first days of this podcast, Dr. Glover came on and we had a great conversation. So I'm going to do a replay of that for you in two minutes. So I hope you listened to the whole episode. It's all about how to not be a fake nice guy and how to be a lot more confident with women and putting that true, real, best self out there.
So I hope you listened to the whole episode. It's definitely worth it. Dr. Glover is a true, frankly, he's a genius. He really is a genius in the area of helping men. All that said, if you don't have time to go through and listen to every word of the episode, here is the TLDR version. I'm going to suggest you go to a couple spots in particular.
There's a great moment at the 19 minute and 57 second mark where Dr. Glover talks about what nice guy syndrome is and how it could be hurting your love life. Also, at the 34 minute mark, there's a part where he talks about why Indian men and Asian men struggle with dating in the U.S., He's really articulate about why men of those ethnic backgrounds can really struggle with dating in America.
And I know this as well. I've coached a lot of men of Indian and Asian backgrounds. And so he's right on the money there. And then I think my favorite part comes at the 50-minute mark, 50 minutes and 22 seconds, where Dr. Glover gives his formula for what he calls loving dominance. I love that term, loving dominance. My term for that,
before I ever heard his term, is positive dominance or assertive dominance. Basically, it's about being a kind, loving, good man, but also a man of strength and backbone, because women want both. They want muscle, metaphorically speaking, and they also want heart. Heart and muscle. Steel and heart. And Dr. Glover's term for that is loving dominance, and he talks about
formula for creating that because that is absolutely what women want. So enjoy this episode. Enjoy Dr. Robert Glover waxing eloquent. It was a great, fun, lively discussion. And without further ado, here is Dr. Robert Glover. Enjoy. Don't you just love a woman with a really elegant, amazing accent like that? Hey, what's up? Connell Barrett here. Welcome to the Dating Transformation Podcast.
This is our very first episode. You are on the maiden voyage of learning how to gain self-confidence, flirt, and find an amazing girlfriend, and to do this all with authenticity as your real best self. Not some pickup artist, not some guy who's just reciting a bunch of lines. from YouTube or Reddit. Yeah, so who am I? Well, my name is Connell Barrett. I'm a dating coach for men.
Basically, I am Hitch. If Will Smith was a skinny ginger with glasses, except I would never slap Chris Rock. I would never do that to Chris. I love Chris. And I'm so glad you're here. Thank you so much.
Stick around because by the time you're done listening to this episode, you're going to get some game-changing tips to help you overcome your fear of rejection, to become more confident and authentic, and also to get on the path of meeting your dream girlfriend. So stick around. You're going to get three game-changing tips later in the show.
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Chapter 3: What is Nice Guy Syndrome and how does it affect relationships?
And then if you're anything like I used to be, there might be some occasional really dark moments when you just wonder, do women even like me? Am I ever going to find the one? Am I ever going to find love and find someone who loves me for me? And that's what this podcast is here to help you do. To gain confidence, find love, and help you understand that, hell yeah, you're enough.
The big bad wolf here with dating, a lot of guys think, oh, you know what? I need to just meet girls. I need to find out where they are. Or I don't know what to say. Or I just need the right lines. And sure, it's good having the right flirtatious lines. But really, the main enemy here, the thing that you really want to overcome is self-doubt and lacking confidence in yourself.
Because when you go through life, when you go through your dating life, doubting yourself and just lacking that self-belief, then you end up in a lot of pain. Or you can, right? You can get friend-zoned. What are women attracted to more than anything else? Arguably, I would say it's confidence. So if you have that self-doubt and low confidence, it keeps you from approaching.
It ends up causing you a lack of dates. You might struggle on the apps. You get in your head about what to say if you doubt your words. And basically, you ask yourself the question, do women even like me? Or at least do quality women like you? And I've totally been there. I've totally been there. And so have a lot of guys. And I want to tell you a quick story about this guy named Ken.
He was one of my very first clients. Ken came to me. He was in his late 20s. Ken's a little bit chubby. And he had never had a girlfriend. He'd never even kissed a girl. And when Ken came to me, he had never had a date, never kissed a girl, and just really felt like, well, I guess I'm going to have to settle for somebody I'm not that into or maybe even end up alone.
And what Ken thought he had to do was do a bunch of pickup artist tricks, was do a bunch of things he read in the book The Game or he read on Reddit forums and things like that. So basically Ken came to me and I said, you know what? I think there's a better way. Let's do something a little bit different than what you read about in the game.
I said, let's do something what I call being radically authentic. And that's the main tip I want to give you here in the first five minutes of this show is I want to give you a window into the power of being radically authentic, which means awakening your best, most confident, most amazing higher self and putting that guy in charge of your dating life. Ken and I go out for the weekend.
This is New York City. This is almost 15 years ago. I'm sorry, over 10 years ago at this point. Ken's a short little nerdy guy. He's a little bit chubby, but he's very smart. He quotes Plato. He reads classic philosophy. He was under the impression that, you know what? I'm too short. I'm 5'7". I'm a little bit chunky. Women just don't want me. Women just don't want to date me.
And I said, you know, let's try something different. Instead of cool, amazing lines, why don't we try putting your real self out there? Let's show women the best, awesome, most awesome Ken. So we go out for the weekend. I do this in-person training with guys where we go out for the weekend and I'm their wingman. And so I became Ken's wingman for the weekend.
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Chapter 4: Why do men seek approval from women?
Chapter 5: What are the challenges Asian and Indian men face in dating?
And then nine weeks later, she dumped me. She left me for a guy on a motorcycle, a mustachioed, cool, muscly guy on a motorcycle. You know your marriage is in trouble when during your quote honeymoon period, somebody you work with says, hey, Connell, I saw your wife on the back of a guy on a motorcycle. Yeah, not a good thing.
And basically that sent me off on a five-year journey where I hired all these different dating coaches, cool dating coaches, brilliant self, what would you call it, peak performance coaches, cool dating coaches, sketchy pickup artists. I hired hypnotists. I worked with all kinds of coaches. I worked with a guy who used to coach top tennis players and athletes and
And basically over the course of the four or five years I spent doing this, I basically came up with a, let's call it a formula, a system about, hey, be radically authentic. Show women that best, true, authentic self. Take some courageous action and let those dating chips fall where they may. And I guess that's my tip for you today.
That's what I want you to begin to do and make a shift is to follow this philosophy. Here's a philosophy I want you to follow on your next date or the next time you're texting a girl from a dating app or the next time you're at a party and you're not sure what to say and you get stuck in your head. Here's the philosophy. What I'm thinking and feeling is what I'm saying and doing.
I'll say that again. What I'm thinking and feeling is what I'm saying and doing. When Ken went out that night, he wasn't overthinking, he was walking up to women, he was cracking jokes, he was quoting Plato. Like who quotes Plato at a bar? Nobody. But because Ken was putting his real, true, genuine self out there, women who like that kind of type, they're going to go crazy for that guy.
And really, that's what this is about. Think of your higher self. It's sort of like... if you use planned lines if you pretend to be someone you're not if you if you wear a mask around women then you're kind of like a a watered down well drink you're like a watery wine spritzer Not very satisfying.
But if you become radically authentic, if you say what's true, if you take risks that are honest, if you're authentic while always being respectful of women and empathetic, of course, but if you're putting that true best self out there, your jokes, your sense of humor, your stories, your version of nerdy Ken,
then what's going to happen is instead of a watered down wine spritzer, you become a shot of Jameson. You become a shot of really strong whiskey. Not everybody wants whiskey. Not every woman's going to want that shot. But the women who want, who love a good Jameson, they're going to become intoxicated on you.
And the great thing about being radically authentic is you attract the kinds of women who like your type and You don't attract the other women, and that's okay. We're not trying to attract every girl. We're just trying to attract the right, wonderful woman for a relationship with you. And also the other great thing about being radically authentic is you don't have to be somebody you're not.
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Chapter 6: How can men stop feeling needy with women?
Chapter 7: What does it mean to be a man of 'loving dominance'?
He's guided thousands of men like you to more confidence and helped them attract their dream girlfriends. So book a free strategy call today to see if Conal's coaching is right for you. On your call, Connell, or a team member, will give you personalized advice to help you have more confidence, more dates, and more fun. Oh, and you'll be dating women as your best self. A charming gentleman.
That's because Connell does not teach creepy pickup artist tricks. He unlocks your most confident self so you can make authentic, romantic connections. Your next steps? Book your free call today at datingtransformation.com forward slash contact and grab a time that works for you. Then you'll be on your way to more confidence, better results, and attracting bright, beautiful women.
Oh, so you know, soon Connell will stop taking on new clients. So book a call today while you still can. Go to datingtransformation.com forward slash contact and transform your love life. Bye.
And we are back. It's launch week here at the Dating Transformation Podcast, and it's a special week, so we've got a very special guest. Today, I'm talking to Dr. Robert Glover. Dr. Glover is the author of the mega bestseller, No More Mr. Nice Guy. I know it's a bestseller because I've seen his sales figures and I've salivated over them.
Chapter 8: Why is rejection seen as a positive experience?
He's also the author of the book, Dating Essentials for Men, which has recently become an Amazon bestseller. And Dr. Glover has over 30 years of experience as a therapist. a coach, an educator, and a public speaker.
Through his books, his online classes, and his workshops, he has helped countless men change their lives, helping them transform from being more passive, resentful, inauthentic men to empowered, confident, real, authentic guys. And I'm all about that. information on Dr. Glover, please visit his website, drglover.com. That's D-R-G-L-O-V-E-R.com. End of plugs.
Dr. Glover, thank you so much for joining.
Thank you so much for joining me today. Every time I hear somebody read the bio that I've sent them, I think, I need to shorten that. I need to cut it down to just, Dr. Glover lives in Mexico. Just that. No more than that.
But anyway, it's good to be here. Thanks for the invitation. My pleasure. My pleasure. Let's get right to it. The man listening to this podcast is a nice guy. And I mean that both in the good ways and maybe some of the ways that aren't so healthy and good. He's maybe a little introverted. He's a white collar guy. He wants love.
He likes and respects women, but he struggles with confidence and he struggles with dating. For this guy, please tell them a little bit about what it means to be a nice guy and specifically what it means to have nice guy syndrome.
Okay, so yeah, we'll get to kind of cover two topics here, the whole nice guy dynamic and dating. And, you know, they often overlap, not always. But yeah, I'm a recovering nice guy. You know, if you'd met me 30 years ago, I would have told you I'm a nice guy. I'm one of the nicest guys you'll ever meet. I would have thought that was a good thing.
I couldn't understand why everybody didn't have that philosophy. You know, be kind, be generous, be easygoing, and, you know, avoidant of conflict and pleasing of other people. And for me, my story began in my second marriage when my wife just flat out told me, she says, you need help. Everybody thinks you're such a nice guy, but you're not. You treat me badly. You're passive aggressive.
You'll blow up. You embarrass me in public. You know, if you don't go get help, I'm going to leave you. I thought, wait a minute. You're the one who's angry all the time, never wants to have sex anymore, is moody, you know. And I'm the one that has to go get help? Okay, I went.
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