Welcome to the How to Be Awesome at Your Job Podcast, the show where brilliant professionals share how to sharpen the universal skills required to flourish at work.

Enjoy more career fund, wins, meaning, and money.

With your host, Pete McKitis.

Hello and thanks so much for joining us here for episode 344 with Jordan Harbager.

I think you will dig this chat with Jordan and it's a special one for me because Jordan's

had a big impact on me as a podcaster and inspired a lot of the way I think and approach the craft in the show.

So you're going to learn about confidence from Jordan and you'll learn one, the secret strengths of

introverts, two, why to ask for what you don't deserve?

And 3.

How a Post-it note can transform your non-verbal communication skills.

So if you want to take a look at the show notes or the transcript or the links to items we've referenced,

you'll find it over at awesome at your job.

Com slashpp 344.

Now here's Jordan's story.

Jordan Harbager has always had an affinity for social influence,

interpersonal dynamics, and social engineering,

helping private companies test the security of their communication systems and working with law enforcement agencies before he was even old enough to drive.

Jordan has spent several years abroad in Europe and the developing world, including South America, Eastern Europe, and the Middle East, and

speak several languages.

He's also worked for various governments and NGOs overseas, travel through war zones, and

been kidnapped twice.

He'll tell you the only reason he's alive and

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