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#063 - Robin Dreeke - How To Read Behaviour Like An FBI Agent

Modern Wisdom

Chris Williamson

Society & Culture, Health & Fitness

4.74.6K Ratings

🗓️ 11 April 2019

⏱️ 66 minutes

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Summary

Robin Dreeke is the ex Head of the FBI's Behavioural Analysis Program and an author.

Robin worked as a counterintelligence agent for the FBI recruiting spies, assets and gathering intelligence for 21 years. From being in the New York Field Office in Manhattan on the day of 9/11 to creating the FBI's elite Counterintelligence Behavioural Analysis program, he's had a fascinating career.

Expect to learn the verbal and non-verbal cues which you can use to help earn trust and make your communication more effective with others. We'll also learn to be able to detect deception in others and hear some amazing stories from Robin's time in the most advanced intelligence agency on the planet.

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Robin's Website - http://www.peopleformula.com/

Check out Robin's book It's Not All About Me - https://amzn.to/2Z39wWY

Follow Robin on Twitter - https://twitter.com/rdreeke

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Transcript

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0:00.0

Hi friends. Today my guest is Robin Dreek and he is the ex head of the FBI's

0:06.9

Behavioral Science Division. Now that sounds like an incredibly secretive and

0:12.9

exciting job to have and it really is. Today's discussion takes us through

0:18.1

Robin's 21 year in-field career including when he was in Manhattan on 9-11. He was

0:28.0

out for coffee with his friend as the first plane struck the North Tower and then

0:33.0

back on the 25th floor of his department when the second plane hit. Apart from that

0:39.1

we're also going to learn the verbal and non-verbal cues that both you can use

0:44.0

to help encourage trust and make your communication with others more

0:48.7

effective and also to be able to detect deception in other people. Robin really

0:53.9

is the real deal. It's evident that he has a very terrifying and wide-ranging

1:00.9

skill set of personal and interpersonal communication. I'm super happy to have him

1:06.3

on. I'm not going to pontify any more. Please welcome Robin Dreek. Oh yeah.

1:11.3

PS. We did have some connection issues during this episode. I promise that any of

1:18.0

the cuts I made weren't due to Robin giving away national secrets and also the

1:22.8

irony of a podcast about communication being beset with communication problems

1:27.9

is not lost but there may be a couple of jumps here and there so just bear that

1:32.6

in mind.

1:34.6

So Robin is this the moment where the FBI burst in through the door of my bedroom and tell

1:55.1

me that we need to stop this interview and stuff and this happens? No because I duck

2:00.1

and we really well. And you're on the other side of the screen so you're going to be fine.

2:05.3

Well anyway thank you very much for coming on. Welcome to Monum Wisdom. It's a pleasure

2:08.4

to have you here. Thanks sir. Thanks for having me and excited about as well. It's going

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