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The Carey Nieuwhof Leadership Podcast

CNLP 773 | How To Hijack the Brain of Your Audience: J.R. Briggs on Why the Best Leaders Are the Best Question Askers

The Carey Nieuwhof Leadership Podcast

Carey Nieuwhof

Business, Management

4.82.3K Ratings

🗓️ 16 December 2025

⏱️ 85 minutes

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Summary

J.R. Briggs has studied the art of asking questions for ten years. He shares how the quality of your questions determines the quality of your life and leadership, how to use questions to get your audience's full attention, and why question-asking is a dying art.

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0:00.0

The Art of Leadership Network.

0:02.7

It has made us what Charles Derber calls conversational narcissists.

0:09.5

And the cultural headwinds push us to rush to judgment, not curiosity.

0:15.5

I don't mean to sound like Ted Lasso here.

0:17.4

But there's so much media and government leaders, you know, social media. But that

0:22.2

conversational narcissism where the arrows are pointing in and the joke is, you know,

0:27.1

enough about me, what do you think about me?

0:33.3

Welcome to the Carrie Newhoff Leadership Podcast. It's Carrie here and I help our time together

0:37.4

today. It helps you thrive in I hope our time together today.

0:37.9

Helps you thrive in life and leadership. Well, today we are talking about the art of asking better

0:44.4

questions. I think this is a huge neglected leadership area. Nobody really asked questions anymore.

0:50.7

And I talked to a guy, this is the best conversation I've ever had about asking questions.

0:56.3

You're going to learn some really practical hacks. You're going to learn why it's important.

0:59.7

And this is going to improve your EQ. Everybody talks about, you know, how am I more emotionally

1:03.5

intelligent? Well, I have better questions. It really, really helps. Hey, I want you to know too.

1:08.9

I'd love for you to follow along with my travels.

1:13.2

And you can do that best on Instagram. We spent about a month in Franklin, Tennessee, Nashville

1:18.9

this fall. And everywhere I looked, I was like just running into friends from this podcast.

1:23.1

John Acuff, Noah Aaron, a whole lot of other people. I track all that kind of stuff on Instagram and would

1:28.6

love to have you follow me there. I'm just Kerry Neuf on Instagram. By the way, preachers,

1:32.6

if you want to hijack the brain of your audience, J.R. Briggs tells you exactly how to do it.

1:37.6

And we also discuss why leaders are the best question asked. He is the founder of Cairo's partnerships, an organization

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