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The Jordan Harbinger Show

339: Michele Rigby Assad | My Secret Life in the CIA

The Jordan Harbinger Show

Jordan Harbinger

Social Sciences, Self-improvement, Entrepreneurship, Talk Radio, Business, Science, Education

4.812.1K Ratings

🗓️ 15 April 2020

⏱️ 69 minutes

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Summary

Jordan debriefs Michele Rigby Assad, author of Breaking Cover: My Secret Life in the CIA and What It Taught Me about What's Worth Fighting For.

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0:30.0

Welcome to the show. I'm Jordan Harbinger. As always, I'm here with my producer Jason DeFilippo.

0:39.0

On the Jordan Harbinger show we decode the stories, secrets and skills of the world's most brilliant people and turn their wisdom into practical advice that you can use to impact your own life and those around you.

0:49.0

We want to help you see the matrix when it comes to how these amazing people think and behave. We want you to become a better thinker.

0:55.0

If you're new to the show, we've got episodes with spies and CEOs, athletes and authors, thinkers and performers, as well as tool boxes for skills like negotiation, body language, persuasion and more.

1:06.0

So if you're smart and you'd like to learn and improve, you'll be right at home here with us.

1:10.0

Today's conversation is one from the vault with my friend Michelle Rigby Asad. She's the author of Breaking Cover.

1:16.0

My secret life in the CIA and what it taught me about what's worth fighting for.

1:21.0

If you liked our Jack Barski KGB interview, you'll dig this one as well. Michelle spent 10 years undercover with the CIA working alongside her husband.

1:30.0

They were counterterrorism and counterintelligence specialists. During her time with the agency, her job was to clandestinely meet with sources to prevent or stop attacks from occurring.

1:40.0

So as you might imagine, a lot of rapport, a lot of interrogation and a lot of investigative work. She's lived in six Middle Eastern countries and traveled to dozens of others.

1:49.0

This one is just loaded with a lot of myth-busting about the CIA and CIA officers. We'll also learn how to develop trust with people when they aren't from the same cultural background.

1:58.0

And with some people who are outright hostile. We'll also discuss verbal and non-verbal communication as used by CIA interrogators in the Middle East.

2:07.0

Well, what we're allowed to discuss here anyway. And we'll discover why it's important to get off the X when we're feeling overwhelmed or acute stress.

2:16.0

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2:21.0

And I'm teaching you how to build and maintain a network using systems and tiny habits.

2:26.0

Check out our six-minute networking course, which is free over at jordanharbinger.com slash course.

2:32.0

And by the way, most of the guests on the show, they do subscribe to the course and the newsletter. So come join us. You'll be in smart company where you belong.

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