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Insight with Chris Van Vliet

How to Negotiate ANYTHING with Former FBI Hostage Negotiator Chris Voss - Never Split The Difference

Insight with Chris Van Vliet

Chris Van Vliet

Entrepreneurship, Mental Health, Business, Health & Fitness, Sports, Wrestling

4.9 • 4.5K Ratings

🗓️ 26 July 2021

⏱️ 52 minutes

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Summary

Chris Voss is the former lead international hostage negotiator for the FBI and the author of the bestselling book, "Never Split The Difference". He is also the founder and CEO of The Black Swan Group which offers negotiation training for businesses and individuals using Chris's hostage negotiation tactics. He joins Chris Van Vliet to talk about how everything in life is a negotiation, he also discusses powerful negotiation techniques like mirroring and labelling, he describes the scariest situations he has been involved with while negotiating with kidnappers, gives tips on how you can get upgraded when you check into a hotel and much more! Find out more about Chris Voss and Black Swan Group at: https://www.blackswanltd.com/ If you enjoyed this episode, could I ask you to please consider leaving a short review on Apple Podcast/iTunes? It takes less than a minute and makes a huge difference in helping to spread the word about the show and also to convince some hard-to-get guests.  For more information about Chris and INSIGHT go to: https://chrisvanvliet.com Follow CVV on social media: Instagram: instagram.com/ChrisVanVliet Twitter: twitter.com/ChrisVanVliet Facebook: facebook.com/ChrisVanVliet YouTube: youtube.com/ChrisVanVliet Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Transcript

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0:00.0

Oh, man, welcome back to another audio adventure here on Insight.

0:09.6

I'm Chris Van Fleet, and I'm honored that you're here with us,

0:12.2

whether this is the first episode that you've ever listened to,

0:15.3

or whether you're here every single episode.

0:18.3

Thank you so much for joining us.

0:20.2

And let me tell you, if this is the first

0:22.4

episode that you've ever tuned into, you have chosen the right one. I've been looking forward

0:28.6

to picking Chris Voss's brain for a few years now, ever since I read his bestselling book

0:33.1

called Never Split the Difference. It's so good. Chris worked for the FBI for 24 years where he was the lead international hostage negotiator.

0:42.2

And since retiring from the FBI, he's now founded the Black Swan Group where he teaches

0:47.2

people how to negotiate using his hostage tactics.

0:51.6

So get out your pen and paper because you're going to learn a ton from this one.

0:57.1

You can find Chris on social media. He's at Voss Negotiation. That's VOSS negotiation on Twitter.

1:05.1

And he's at the FBI negotiator on Instagram. And if you're not following me already, it's just my name. It's

1:11.8

at Chris Van Fleet. Big thanks to R Castro 12 for this review for the show. He says, great listen.

1:20.8

I work all day and listen to a lot of podcasts. And when Chris is doing an interview, it just feels

1:25.7

like you're in the same room with the guests with great questions.

1:30.4

Well, thank you so much, R Castro 12.

1:33.1

I appreciate the review.

1:34.2

And if you happen to be listening on Apple Podcasts right now, it would be so amazing and so helpful if you could leave a review on there to help us continue to climb that chart and to continue

1:46.9

to get the word out to more and more people. Oh, this interview here is packed with so much knowledge

1:56.1

and so much value that you can immediately start applying to your own life.

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