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Welcome to It's a Good Life Podcast where it's all about helping entrepreneurs think, feel and do better.

I'm David Lally, one of the shows producers and I'm here today to do a follow-up with Brian on what we learned from his interview with best selling author Vanessa Van Edwards.

We talked all about cues and how we send thousands of social signals every day.

Hi, Brian. This is me. I'm sending you a cue to welcome you to your own show.

What surprised you tell me about the interview with Vanessa?

Well, that was a very nice cue, Mr. Lally.

It's good posture. You were smiling, including your eyes.

I felt your voice, you're standing up. I mean, what a wonderful cue.

Amazing. That's what I learned from Vanessa.

Authentic.

So, as I mentioned, I was actually surprised, you know,

with all the books and podcasts and shows and public speakers on every subject under the sun.

Then nobody's really talked about this stuff before. There's been versions of it.

You know, there's people who say, oh, here's the colors people wear and you can judge that and, you know, read the rooms and those kinds of things.

But really, the whole dynamic that we talk about is like the big thing is the energy. You know, and I talked about with somebody Yawns,

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