How Words Shape Us: Marshall Jones on Tone, Truth & Influence
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🗓️ 8 December 2025
⏱️ 119 minutes
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Marshall Jones joins us to break down the psychology of communication — tone, body language, truth-telling, influence, and why “How are you?” is the first invitation to lie. If you want to understand people better (and be understood), this episode will change how you talk and how you listen.CHAPTERS:00:00 - Intro00:53 - How to Connect Emotionally04:04 - Identifying Challenges07:32 - Time Under Tension Explained13:36 - Moving People Emotionally17:58 - Knowledge vs. Knowing18:48 - Emotional Language and Hormones20:06 - Journey into Words23:15 - The Nature of Words24:33 - Personal Perception27:19 - Embracing Your Complexity29:40 - Body Language Listening36:15 - Methylene Blue by TruBrain40:19 - Daily Interpretation Techniques42:46 - Understanding Others Deeply46:19 - Final Thoughts and Reflections46:40 - Selling Yourself Effectively51:29 - Texting Etiquette Tips54:00 - Public Speaking Strategies56:00 - Total Influence Techniques57:28 - The Importance of Stop Rules1:00:55 - The Director’s Cut Concept1:03:33 - Changing Your Narrative1:06:51 - Vocabulary Editing Tips1:10:50 - Understanding African Time1:14:50 - Effective Hand Gestures1:17:20 - Mastering Hand Communication1:26:55 - Captivating Audience Attention1:30:30 - Comfort in Being Wrong1:31:30 - Muckraking Explained1:34:14 - Cultivating Personal Growth1:38:10 - AI and Negative Content1:42:17 - Mark's Lean Eating Habits1:47:40 - Comfort with Audience Attention1:49:16 - Embracing Public Attention1:54:49 - Last Poem Reflection1:57:53 - Discovering Your Unique Spark1:58:18 - The Inner Knock Explained1:58:28 - Welcome to My HouseSpecial perks for our listeners below!🥩 HIGH QUALITY PROTEIN! 🍖 ➢ https://goodlifeproteins.com/ Code POWER to save 20% off site wide, or code POWERPROJECT to save an additional 5% off your Build a Box Subscription!🩸 Get your BLOODWORK Done! 🩸 ➢ https://marekhealth.com/PowerProject to receive 10% off our Panel, Check Up Panel or any custom panel, and use code POWERPROJECT for 10% off any lab!🧠 Methylene Blue: Better Focus, Sleep and Mood 🧠 Use Code POWER10 for 10% off!➢https://troscriptions.com?utm_source=affiliate&ut-m_medium=podcast&ut-m_campaign=MarkBel-I_podcastBest 5 Finger Barefoot Shoes! 👟 ➢ https://Peluva.com/PowerProject Code POWERPROJECT15 to save 15% off Peluva Shoes!Self Explanatory 🍆 ➢ Enlarging Pumps (This really works): https://bit.ly/powerproject1Pumps explained: https://youtu.be/qPG9JXjlhpM?si=JZN09-FakTjoJuaW🚨 The Best Red Light Therapy Devices and Blue Blocking Glasses On The Market! 😎➢https://emr-tek.com/Use code: POWERPROJECT to save 20% off your order!👟 BEST LOOKING AND FUNCTIONING BAREFOOT SHOES 🦶➢https://vivobarefoot.com/powerproject🥶 The Best Cold Plunge Money Can Buy 🥶 ➢ https://thecoldplunge.com/ Code POWERPROJECT to save $150!!
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| 0:00.0 | know that if you cultivate a good garden, there are going to be people that don't like that. |
| 0:04.2 | And so they're going to want to draw attention away from your garden. Or just burn it. What is a word? |
| 0:08.7 | How am I talking right now? Like I'm not even thinking about it. Just spewing out words. |
| 0:12.6 | Our sensory systems are so profound. We hear our own BS when we say it. When I say, yeah, I'll be there on I know I'm not gonna do it |
| 0:22.4 | and you know what the other person knows to text messaging is a whole other thing |
| 0:26.2 | because it opens up how other people have learned to hear we all just have a voice |
| 0:30.7 | in our head that is doing the filtering slash interpreting what I love about our |
| 0:34.5 | technology is that it's given us this opportunity to to recognize that there is the long form and their short form. |
| 0:40.3 | You ever get on the phone and you know you have five minutes and you don't tell them you have five minutes and then you get pissed at them for violating the five minutes you didn't tell them that you had one thing that tells the truth is your tone. |
| 0:52.0 | All right, Marshall. |
| 0:53.6 | I got a question for you. Yeah. How you doing? Listen. All right. Now, I'm doing live. Just make something up. Look, I'm good. I'm good. I'm good. Don't ask me. Don't ask me anything else. Are you sure? Yeah, yeah, yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. So what we doing? I'm doing. He's a podcast. Yeah, no, nothing, nothing, man, no, I'm good, I'm good, I'm good, yeah, so what we doing? Yeah, nothing, nothing, man, nothing. Yeah, I'm straight, bro, I'm straight, I'm good, I'm ready to go. You know, let's just, yeah. You see, it's that, that question is in how many of us is that our opening question? Hey, what's going on? How are you? |
| 1:29.3 | And it's the first invitation to lie. |
| 1:31.8 | How many of us have answered that question, honestly? |
| 1:36.4 | Or how many of us have heard someone ask the question in the way that they ask it? |
| 1:40.6 | You can tell they really don't care. |
| 1:43.2 | Right. |
| 1:43.4 | So you're like, listen, if you really wanted to know, I could tell you. |
| 1:47.3 | In fact, I had a friend of mine, he goes, he was an acting school. |
| 1:50.9 | He said, he walked down the hall one day. |
| 1:53.7 | He said, hey, Brad. |
| 1:55.4 | This is him. |
| 1:58.6 | Hey, man. |
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