166: Kevin Barrows | Think Like an FBI Interrogator
The Jordan Harbinger Show
Jordan Harbinger
4.8 • 12.3K Ratings
🗓️ 28 February 2019
⏱️ 49 minutes
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Summary
Kevin Barrows is a former FBI special agent who now conducts traditional corporate fraud investigations, reputation risk and due diligence efforts, and supervises computer forensic and computer crime assignments for Renaissance Associates.
What We Discuss with Kevin Barrows:- Why conducting a successful interview is an art that requires establishing credibility, understanding motivation, employing psychology, assessing body language, and listening.
- Why approaching a witness at an inconvenient time, in the wrong place, or in the wrong way can ruin an interview before it gets started.
- How to quickly identify the motivation of the person being interviewed.
- How to make the truth the only option for the person being interviewed.
- How to create and execute a game plan to get to that truth -- whether it's with our spouse, our kids, or our colleagues and employees.
- And much more...
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| 0:51.4 | Welcome to the show. I'm Jordan Harbinger. As always, I'm here with my producer, Jason DeFilippo. |
| 0:56.4 | I recently took a few courses from expert interrogators and became fascinated with the idea that there are |
| 1:02.0 | some people who are so good with questions that we as a society rely on their skills to solve crimes, |
| 1:09.2 | prevent catastrophes, and get to the truth in lots of very important, often life or death situations. |
| 1:15.7 | Today on the show, former FBI investigator Kevin Barrow is teaching us the fundamentals of interrogation. |
| 1:21.0 | He's now a fraud investigator who focuses on large-scale money laundering and internal investigations |
| 1:27.2 | for major financial institutions and white collar crime. And what he's teaching us today |
| 1:32.0 | applies as much to those investigations as it does to parenting or managing a business. |
| 1:37.7 | Today we'll learn why conducting a successful interview is an art. It requires established |
| 1:42.4 | incredibility, understanding motivation. It employs psychology, assesses body language, listening |
| 1:47.4 | skills. The goal is to make the truth the only option for the interview. And we'll learn how to |
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