You can afford anything but not everything.

Every decision that you make is a trade-off against something else.

So what's most important to you and what trade-offs will you make as a result?

My name is Paula Pant, host of the Afford Anything Podcast where we explore this question,

and today I'd like to introduce Robin Drieke, who catches spies.

Robin Drieke is a 29-year veteran of Federal Service, including the U.S. Naval Academy and the Marine Corps.

He was a senior agent in Federal law enforcement, and until recently the head of the Counter-Intelligence

Behavioral Analysis Program, where his mission was to thwart the efforts of foreign spies.

So he's a spy catcher.

He was also tasked with recruiting American spies.

So basically, a lot of what he had to do within his job was generate trust, because when

you're trying to catch foreign spies, or when you're trying to recruit talented people

to become spies for the U.S., you've got to be trustworthy.

You've got to be the type of person who's got people skills.

Robin decided to inspire reasonable, well-founded trust among people by formulating this thing

that he refers to as the Code of Trust.

And the Code of Trust is a system that he devised and tested as he was doing years of fieldwork

in national security.

And since he has developed it, he has now taught this Code of Trust to high-level executives

at Fortune 500 companies, to law enforcement, to CEOs, to academics, to people who work

at think tanks.

So the Code of Trust has been rigorously tested, and has been taught to some of the highest

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