Hello and welcome to Iway with Jemita Jamil, a podcast against shame. I'm going to make this

brief because I like everyone else have had a chest infection for what feels like about 400,000 years,

and it's just making my voice too sexy, as you can hear, and I just don't think that's fair for other

podcasters out there. So, you know, I love to be fair. Okay, my guest this week is Annie Samblad, and she is known as the human lie detector,

which I think is one of the coolest and most interesting and scary job titles I've ever heard of.

She has spent her life learning every single micro-expression.

I'm talking about the ones that happen within one 25th of a second.

She can spot all of them and know if someone is bullshitting her. She can read so much about

every emotion someone's having just by the tiny little expressions in their face, the tiny curls

of their lip or the tiny snarl that they may have, things that most of us don't even

know to look out for, but once you see it, you can't unsee it. She had, you know, I think a difficult

childhood, I would say, which she goes into a little bit in this episode. And it made her want to

grow up and make sure that, you know, she was lied to a lot. She wants to make sure no one else has ever lied to again. And so she's made it her life's work to train and teach huge companies, how to spot

bullshit so that when they're in negotiations, like big negotiations, they can figure out

the integrity of the person they're going into business with. And she also helped people

when it comes to deciphering in love and relationships.

She has a new book out. It's called Diary of a Human Lie Detector,

facial expressions in love, lust and lies.

It was recently released and people are loving this book.

I am loving this book.

It is fascinating and you should definitely read it.

But in this episode, we just give you a kind of taste of what it is that she's talking about, why she has chosen this subject as her life's work,

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