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Today we have an episode with my co-host, Ariel Garden.

Hello and welcome to another untangle. As we begin to open up, as the world opens up, as people

leave their homes and go and connect with one another, the power of human connection takes on a whole new meaning.

Today, we're going to examine an interesting take on human connection and how we

influence one another with my friend and awesome guest, John Levy. John is a behavioral scientist

best known for his work on influence and human connection. He's been able to connect and foster

meaningful relationships with people of all domains, celebrities, royalty, noble laureates, and then bring

the links in this network together in meaningful ways.

John is here to share his insights on human connection with us and show us how to connect

with anyone.

Welcome, John.

Thanks for having me.

I'm super excited.

That's my joy and pleasure to have you here. So let's dive in by

understanding a little bit about why human connection is so important. We all know it's important

intuitively, but can you put some words around it for us? Oh, for sure. So I'll just start off by

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