Secret Agent: Send Your Children To A Village! How To Detect A Lie Instantly! The Eye Contact Trick I Learnt From 12 Years As A Secret Service Agent! - Evy Poumpouras

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🗓️ 6 June 2024

⏱️ 125 minutes

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She was the last line of defence and ready to die for the most important person on earth, here are the secret skills she’s learned defending 4 U.S. Presidents. Evy Poumpouras is a former U.S. Secret Service Special Agent and multi-media journalist. She is also the co-host of Bravo TV's series ‘Spy Games’ and author of the best-selling memoir, ‘Becoming Bulletproof’. In this episode, Evy and Steven discuss topics such as, Evy’s close encounter with death on 9/11, how to gain control over anyone, her biggest lessons from working for Obama and Bush, and the best way to tell if someone is lying to you. 00:00 Intro 02:05 My Mission To Unlock People's Potential 05:05 How You Became A Secret Service Officer 10:43 How To Get Someone To Do What You Want Them To 13:10 When You Listen To Someone They Like You More 14:34 You Need To Know About Them And Then You Can Start Asking The Right Questions 18:18 How To Get Others To Respect You 22:59 Is It Your Ego Or Have Your Boundaries Being Broken? 26:49 How To Build Confidence 29:34 The Different Versions Of Ourselves We Create 32:49 What I Learnt About Leadership From Working With 4 US Presidents 35:47 I Was In The Room When US Presidents Would Make Tough Decisions 38:36 My First Day Working For George Bush 41:07 Secret Service Training: Only 1% Make It Through 44:16 The 1% Of People That Became Part Of The Secret Service 46:06 How Can You Tell If Someone Is Lying To You? 48:16 Who's The Biggest Liar You've Met? 50:54 Signs They're Lying To You 52:59 What Your Body Language Reveals About You 01:00:19 Do Men Struggle With Strong Women? 01:01:00 What Advice Would You Give Your Daughter Become A Resilient Person 01:04:37 What Do You Work Out Your Mind And Body 01:07:19 What Was The Scariest Day Of Your Career? 01:12:28 How Was Your Mental Health During Your Career? 01:17:48 Discrimination In The Secret Service 01:19:39 How To Be Heard And Respected 01:25:51 Why You Need To Take Personal Responsibility 01:33:48 The Addiction To Being A Victim 01:35:02 Identifying Victims That Don't Want To Change 01:39:47 Undercover Missions 01:45:24 Discrimination In The Job 01:50:58 Labelling Yourself Can Affect The Way You See Yourself You can purchase Evy’s book, ‘Becoming Bulletproof’, here: https://amzn.to/3RhDtz9 Follow Evy: Instagram - https://bit.ly/4aN4q4D Twitter - https://bit.ly/4c4TErD Watch the episodes on Youtube - https://g2ul0.app.link/3kxINCANKsb My new book! 'The 33 Laws Of Business & Life' is out now - https://smarturl.it/DOACbook Follow me: https://beacons.ai/diaryofaceo Sponsors: PerfectTed: bit.ly/PerfectTed-DOAC with an exclusive code DIARY10 for 10% off ZOE: http://joinzoe.com with an exclusive code CEO10 for 10% off Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0	Being an interrogator on a special agent with your secret service, I'm trained in the art of reading people's body language, verbal cues, I mean even written statements.
0:08.0	So you can figure out who's full of BS and who isn't.
0:11.0	Oh. So one of the things I would see a lot of guilty people do is...
0:14.4	Evie Pomporis, former US Secret Service Special Agent, who protected presidents, worked
0:20.0	undercover and trained in the art of live detection, human behavior, and cognitive influence.
0:25.0	She's now on a mission to help us all benefit from the lessons she's learned along the way.
0:29.0	Evie, I want to go into all of the techniques, the life lessons, the wisdom.
0:32.0	So what are the core components of how to get someone to do what you want?
0:35.1	Everybody is motivated by something different.
0:37.1	What you want to understand is that person's motivational mindset.
0:40.8	What the biggest mistake people make is that... What about when your boss or your colleague isn't listening to you? What should you do?
0:45.6	So it's called paralinguistics. Everyone's so focused on what they say. They don't think about
0:50.0	the tone, pitch, of the voice, but there are simple things you can do to make sure people
0:54.0	hear you first you spent 12 years around people like Bill Clinton and Barack Obama did you
0:59.0	learn anything about leadership they're not driven by emotion and the problem the majority people have is
1:03.9	they're bringing a feeling into it. You don't want to be an emotional
1:06.6	decision-maker. It never goes well. Pull back and be objective.
1:12.0	Evie. When you think back of your secret service experience,
1:15.0	was there ever a day when you thought the President's life was at risk?
1:18.0	You know, I don't think they ever talked about it, but...
1:20.0	And then, what was the scariest moment of your career?
1:22.0	There was another undercover case.
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