Episode 356: Cultivating Influence, Mastering Networking + Leveraging People Skills To Improve Our Financial Lives With Vanessa Van Edwards
Journey To Launch
Jamila Souffrant
4.9 • 1.7K Ratings
🗓️ 10 January 2024
⏱️ 31 minutes
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Summary
Vanessa Van Edwards, a best-selling author and behavioral researcher on professional communication and leadership, joins the Journey To Launch podcast to discuss science-based communication insights and give actionable social skills tips to advance your career, relationships, and overall life.
We also chat about navigating stereotyping and biases , the importance of making definitive decisions about personal connections, leveraging cues to shape perception, and more.
More than 50 million people have seen Vanessa on YouTube and in her viral TED Talk. She has been featured in Entrepreneur, CNN, CBS, and more. Her book, "Captivate: The Science of Succeeding With People," has been translated into 17+ languages and her latest book, "Cues: Master The Secret Language of Charismatic Communication," was an instant best seller.
In this episode you'll also learn more about:
- Actionable posture tips and desk setups to optimize how others perceive you
- How to recognize if you have weaker people skills and what you can do to improve them
- Why we should go into interactions wondering how we can like the other person more
- The Halo Effect, the definition of a "sticky person," why charisma is just as important as a lucrative idea + more
Other Links Mentioned in episode:
- Order my new book, Your Journey to Financial Freedom and get 2 months free of Freedom Quest & access to the FIRE STARTER Course for FREE
- Captivate: The Science of Succeeding with People
- Cues: Master the Secret Language of Charismatic
- How to Win Friends & Influence People
- A Model of (Often Mixed) Stereotype Content: Competence
- Get The Budget Bootcamp for FREE
- Check out my personal website here.
- Join The Weekly Newsletter List
- Leave me a voicemail– Leave me a question on the Journey To Launch voicemail and have it answered on the podcast!
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- What stage of the financial journey are you on? Are you working on financial stability or work flexibility? Find out with this free assessment and get a curated list of the 10 next best episodes for you to listen to depending on your stage. Check it out
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| 0:00.0 | I try to like everyone but there are definitely people where I'm like wow I've tried. |
| 0:07.0 | I have asked good questions. I have tried to find similarities and we are just like radically different core values different |
| 0:15.9 | great now I know I now know that is not my person actually what research finds is ambivalence in relationship is more draining than toxic. Welcome to the Journey to Launch Podcast with your host Jamila Sufrant as a money expert who walks her talk. |
| 0:37.0 | She helps brave journeyers like you, get out of debt, save, invest, and build real well. |
| 0:44.7 | Join her on the journey to launch to financial freedom in |
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| 1:03.6 | launch.com or click the description of wherever you're listening to this |
| 1:07.8 | episode in the show notes you'll get the transcribed version of the |
| 1:12.0 | conversation the links that we mentioned and so the I've created a free jumpstart guide to help you on your financial freedom journey. |
| 1:25.0 | It includes the top episodes to listen to, stages to go through to reach financial freedom, |
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| 1:37.6 | okay let's hop into the episode |
| 1:39.3 | hey journeys welcome to the Journey to Launch Podcast. I'm really excited to speak to |
| 1:47.5 | today's guest Vanessa Van Edwards. She is a multi-time best-selling author and renowned behavioral researcher on |
| 1:54.9 | professional communication and leadership. More than 50 million people have seen |
| 2:00.5 | Vanessa on YouTube and in her viral TED Talk. |
| 2:03.6 | She has been featured in numerous publications, |
| 2:05.8 | including entrepreneur, CNN, CBS, and more. |
| 2:10.3 | Her book, Captivate, has been translated into over 17 languages. |
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