S2E202 The Science of Succeeding with Vanessa Van Edwards
It's a Good Life
Brian Buffini
4.4 • 2.4K Ratings
🗓️ 25 June 2024
⏱️ 30 minutes
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Summary
When your connections with people deepen, your influence, impact and income increase. In this episode, bestselling author and speaker Vanessa Van Edwards outlines the three levels of connection and explains how to best communicate to create meaningful engagement with others.
YOU WILL LEARN:
· The questions that positively influence a connection.
· The significance of self-narratives in leadership.
· Practical tips for overcoming awkwardness.
MENTIONED IN THIS EPISODE:
S2E54 Charisma - How to Have It and How to Use It
“Captivate,” by Vanessa Van Edwards
NOTEWORTHY QUOTES FROM THIS EPISODE:
“We need more than ever to be connected, to be turned on, to be engaged.” – Vanessa Van Edwards
“We are able to gift people dopamine in conversation.” – Vanessa Van Edwards
“We love people who gift us dopamine and we create mental markers for those people.” – Vanessa Van Edwards
“The biggest mistake that we make is we think that social skills or connection will happen by osmosis, or naturally, the more we work with people. That could not be further from the truth.” – Vanessa Van Edwards
“If you decide you're going to change your victim mindset into a redemption mindset, your world will change.” – Vanessa Van Edwards
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome to It's a Good Life, the Podcast for Entrepreneurs, where it's all about growing |
| 0:07.7 | yourself and your business. |
| 0:09.7 | Here's your host, founder of America's largest business coaching company, Brian the Feeney. |
| 0:15.0 | Well, top of the morning to you and welcome to It's a Good Life. |
| 0:20.0 | Today we have a special guest and we have very few people that we bring back. |
| 0:27.0 | But this particular individual, not only is she a phenomenal communicator, an absolute delight as a human being, but one of our most popular |
| 0:35.4 | episodes ever, and that is the great Vanessa Van Edwards. Vanessa, we are delighted to have you today. |
| 0:41.7 | I'm so happy to be back. I'm honored. Well we are |
| 0:45.8 | delighted to have you and excited for you to be speaking at our upcoming |
| 0:49.2 | mastermind summit so we're so excited to see in person and that's going to be such a blessing for our audience. |
| 0:55.0 | Vanessa is the lead investigator at Science of People. |
| 0:59.0 | And our mission is to help introverts leverage their strengths, show high achievers how to achieve their secret |
| 1:04.4 | secret skills and I love this teach awkward people to feel more confident. |
| 1:08.8 | Vanessa will also be again join us at mastermind that she'll be covering the science of |
| 1:13.7 | charisma when we do our event August 6th and 7th in San Diego but today we're going to |
| 1:19.2 | dive into the three levels of connection I really want to know how our communication |
| 1:24.4 | affects our connection with those around us, especially in days like this. |
| 1:29.1 | Yes, this is one of my favorite topics because it was such a personal struggle. |
| 1:34.0 | I felt like for many years, I don't know if you've had this experience where you really want to connect. |
| 1:39.0 | You're going to networking events, you're saying yes, you're meeting all the people, and you feel like |
| 1:44.8 | you're having the same conversations over and over again, where it's like it's a social |
| 1:50.8 | script and I realize I was asking the wrong questions. I was like something |
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