Episode 442: Cultivating Influence, Mastering Networking + Leveraging People Skills To Improve Our Financial Lives With Vanessa Van Edwards REWIND

Journey To Launch

Jamila Souffrant

Finances, Business, Realestateinvesting, Entrepreneurship, Earlyretirement, Investing, Budgeting, Wealth

5 • 1.7K Ratings

🗓️ 3 September 2025

⏱️ 32 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 related blog posts/links mentioned in this episode:

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
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0:00.0	We tend to as humans, this is one of my negativity biases, which is that when I'm with someone
0:08.3	and they behave badly, I define them as bad.
0:12.0	We don't do that to ourselves.
0:13.1	If we have a bad day, we think this was a bad day.
0:15.8	And so thinking, how can I like this person more also disengages our negativity bias a little
0:20.6	bit to think,
0:21.3	oh, okay, they had a bad day. We'll try again.
0:26.3	Welcome to the Journey to Launch podcast with your host, Jamila Sufran. As a money
0:31.5	expert who walks her talk, she helps brave journeyers like you, get out of debt, save, invest, and build real wealth.
0:40.8	Join her on the journey to launch to financial freedom in five, four, three, two, one.
0:52.2	Hey, journeyer, a quick note, you will be listening to a rewind episode. That means this episode was previously aired months or years ago. I have hundreds and hundreds of episodes of the podcast. And so I will be sometimes replaying my favorite, favorite conversations for you to maybe listen to the first time or re-listen to again.
1:12.4	So enjoy.
1:13.8	If you want the episode show notes for this episode, go to journey tolaunch.com or click the
1:19.8	description of wherever you're listening to this episode.
1:22.8	In the show notes, you'll get the transcribed version of the conversation, the links that we mentioned, and so much more.
1:30.1	Also, whether you are an OG journeyer or brand new to the podcast, I've created a free
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1:39.3	It includes the top episodes to listen to stages to go through to reach financial freedom,
1:44.6	resources, and so much more. You can go to journey to launch.com slash jumpstart to get your guide right now.
1:51.7	Okay, let's hop into the episode.
1:55.8	Hey, journeyers. Welcome to the Journey to Launch podcast. I'm really excited to speak to today's guest, Vanessa Van Edwards. She is a multi-time bestselling author and renowned behavioral researcher on professional communication and leadership. More than 50 million people have seen Vanessa on YouTube and in her viral TED Talk. She has been featured in
2:18.7	numerous publications, including entrepreneur, CNN, CBS, and more. Her book Captivate has been
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