Welcome to the Drupurot podcast. Each week we explore the inner workings of the brain and the body with one of the brightest minds in wellness, medicine and mindset.

This week's guest is Jennifer Kallari, and today we're talking to her about how we can instantaneously become more charismatic and relatable in the eyes of others, including if you're a parent, the eyes of your kids, but it's not just limited to kids and children.

The power of mirror neurons will help you improve every single relationship in your life.

What's this mechanism that allows us to do this? It's our ability to leverage the power of mirror neurons.

What are mirror neurons? And how can we leverage them to become more likable? That's what Jennifer Kallari is going to break down today.

Now a little bit more about Jennifer. Jennifer Kallari is a child and family therapist, author and a deep expert in the area of the practical applications around the science of mirror neurons.

She's the founder of Connected Parenting and the author of Connected Parenting, how to raise a great kid.

But I promise you today's episode is much more than just about raising kids, although that's very important too.

Jennifer has been helping children, teens and their families and even corporations use the power of connection for over 20 years.

Stay tuned to this fantastic re-broadcast of one of our top episodes on the Drupal podcast on charisma and connection with Jennifer Kallari.

I want to start off with your origin story because you have such a unique background of experiences that led to this methodology that you use not only with parents and kids and teenagers, but also for just human beings in general who are looking to improve their relationships with other people.

So take us back to this time period where you started off your career as a social worker and you found yourself working with what people would say would be troubled teens.

Yes, absolutely. So this is going way back. This is probably going back almost 30 years ago.

I'd finished my undergraduate degree in psychology and I wanted to do something real. I wanted to get out there with real families and real kids and make a difference.

I ended up working at this group home for street kids. So these are children who were 11 to 16 years old. They'd been working on the streets of Toronto as child prostitutes.

So they'd been sexually abused, physically abused, deeply traumatized. They were tough. They were scared. They were kind of prickly and I had no idea what I was doing and they could tell.

So I got into this group home. I had no idea what I was doing. They really kind of ran the show.

And we were actually trained in this group home. We were taught not to connect with these children. That's what we were told. Don't get connected to them. They're not here very long.

It's what was called a receiving home. So they were only there for a few months before they were placed in a more permanent home.

So we were told not to connect with them. That is too hard on them. They'd start to like you and then they would just leave.

And none of that made sense to me. These are babies. These are children. They're 11 and 12 and 13 years old and they've been through terrible things. I just it made no sense to me.

So especially at bedtime. And it was what's called a semi lockup facility. So they weren't locked in, but their belongings were so that their shoes and their ID and things like that.

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