What up family, it's episode 321 of the Genius Life.

What's going on everybody, welcome to another episode of the show, I'm your host Max Lugovira

Filmmaker, health and science journalist in New York Times best-selling author. I've dedicated my

life to unraveling the science behind our choices, including what we eat and how we live,

affect our cognitive and physical performance, how we feel, our health span, and our risk for disease.

This podcast is all about how to live in that optimal state, which I call living like a genius.

Guys, we're going to try something different on today's episode of the show,

in which I welcome my new friend Andrew Bustamante. Andrew is a former covert CIA intelligence officer

and US Air Force combat veteran. His goal is to help teach his listeners to utilize the same

awesome spy skills that he's learned over decades of experience and training at the CIA,

so that you can live life on your own terms. He shares powerful social hacks, elite systems

of thinking, and practical tactics to gain power and influence in the real world. He has a YouTube

channel and a podcast all called Everyday Spy, which is his personal brand that he's created

after leaving service. And the dude is brilliant. So on this episode of the show, we get into his

background and what led to him becoming a CIA intelligence officer, some of the more challenging

missions that he's been on, etc. But he also shares powerful tools to leverage in your personal

and professional life to, for example, gain leverage and find out when somebody is not telling

the truth to you. He's got a nonverbal, very specific nonverbal cues that he shares to detect

when somebody is lying, for example, how to gain influence and be more persuasive, how to keep

your goals in mind and continue moving towards them, despite an ever changing environment. And so

much more, I loved chatting with Andrew again, super smart dude, very articulate and just bring

something so unique to this conversation. So please listen through all the way to the end and

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