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#83 Vanessa Van Edwards (Behavioural Investigator): On First Impressions & How To Be Memorable

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emma gannon

Authors, Wellbeing, Arts, Books, Social Media, Creativity

4.61.1K Ratings

🗓️ 9 June 2017

⏱️ 40 minutes

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Summary

Vanessa Van Edwards is an author, Huffington Post columnist and behavioural investigator. Sheconsults Fortune 500 companies and is a professional people watcher—speaking, researching and cracking the code of interesting human behaviour for audiences around the world. Vanessa’s groundbreaking workshops and courses teach individuals how to succeed in business and life by understanding the hidden dynamics of people. She has been featured on the Wall Street Journal, the Today Show, CNN, Fast Company and Forbes. In her own words she loves inappropriately intimate questions and eavesdropping on strangers conversations in coffee shops. she loves to figure people out. Vanessa doesn’t believe there are boring people—just individuals afraid to expose who the really are.

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So if you're interested, go to careers. Kingfisher.com today to find out more about their tech and digital roles. Thank you so much to

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Kingfisher for sponsoring this podcast.

0:56.7

Hello and welcome back to my podcast Control-Or Delete. This is Emma Gannon and

1:01.5

today's guest is Vanessa Van Edwards.

1:05.0

She is an author, a Huffington Post columnist and a behavioral investigator and she consults Fortune 500 companies.

1:12.0

Basically, she is a professional people watcher, speaking,

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researching and cracking the code of interesting human behavior

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for audiences around the world.

1:21.0

Vanessa's groundbreaking workshops and courses teach individuals how to succeed in business and life

1:25.8

by understanding the hidden dynamics of other people. She's been featured on the Wall Street

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Journal, Today Show, CNN, Fast Company and Forbes.

1:34.7

In her own words, she loves inappropriately intimate questions, which is good because I just

1:39.6

am very nosy on this podcast and probably ask people too many personal questions and

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