The Personality Trait That Could Help You Live Longer. Researcher Shares the Surprising Link Between Charisma and Longevity with Vanessa Van Edwards

Dhru Purohit Show

Dhru Purohit

Medicine, Health & Fitness, Alternative Health

4.7 • 3.4K Ratings

🗓️ 11 August 2025

⏱️ 26 minutes

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This episode is brought to you by Pique Life and Bon Charge. We know that exercise and diet play a major role in longevity, but social interactions and meaningful connections also have a powerful impact on how we age. In this episode, you’ll learn how to foster relationships that energize you—not drain you—and avoid the trap of unwanted interactions and energy vampires. If you’re looking to live a happier, longer life, this episode shows you how. Today on The Dhru Purohit Show, we’re revisiting one of our most talked-about moments with behavioral researcher Vanessa Van Edwards. Vanessa explores how key personality traits, like charisma, can contribute to a longer, more fulfilling life and help you manifest the life you desire. She breaks down the OCEAN personality model and discusses which traits may support or hinder longevity. Vanessa also shares examples of social interactions that drain your energy and offers practical tools to help you navigate conversations with greater ease and confidence. Vanessa Van Edwards is a multi-time bestselling author and a renowned behavioral researcher specializing in professional communication and leadership. Vanessa’s work has been featured in national and international media, as well as in workshops worldwide. In this episode, Dhru and Vanessa dive into: How charisma can help you live longer and get what you want (1:16) Key personality traits you can develop to support longevity (2:17) How to conserve energy and manage your social battery (10:05) Why life gets easier when you step into your charisma (12:05) Practical tools to feel more at ease in social interactions (22:56) Final thoughts (24:52) Also mentioned: Full episode with Vanessa Van Edwards This episode is brought to you by Pique Life and Bon Charge. Right now, Pique Life is offering 20% off their Sun Goddess Matcha. Plus, you’ll get a free beaker and frother when you go to piquelife.com/dhru. Right now, Bon Charge is offering my community 15% off; just go to boncharge.com/DHRU and use coupon code DHRU to save 15%. Sign up for Dhru’s Try This Newsletter Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	Hi everyone, Drew Prode here.
0:02.1	Everyone knows that things like our diet, our sleep, and our exercise can impact our longevity.
0:08.2	But did you know that your personality traits and how you connect with others are also directly
0:14.6	connected to how long and well you live?
0:18.1	That's pretty shocking, but it's true.
0:19.9	In today's episode, I'm sharing a portion of my conversation with Vanessa Van Edwards, where we explore the fascinating science behind the personality traits that are linked to living longer. Not only that, but we'll also show you how these traits, like conscientiousness, agreeableness, and even aspects of extroversion are skills
0:39.5	that you can build, not things that you are born with, which is so important because so many
0:44.1	people think you either have it or you don't, it's not true. And Vanessa Van Edwards is going to
0:48.7	tell you why on today's moments episode. So a little bit about Vanessa. She's a multi-time
0:53.8	best-selling author and renowned behavioral researcher on professional
0:57.7	communication and leadership.
0:59.0	Vanessa's work has been featured in national and international media and to audiences and
1:03.2	workshops worldwide.
1:04.3	This episode is certain to challenge the way you think about health and it might just change
1:09.6	the way that you show up in your
1:10.9	relationships. Let's dive in.
1:15.6	Something mind-blowing that I've learned from your content is not only will charisma help us
1:21.7	get what we want in life, but it will actually help us live longer. Can you talk about that?
1:29.0	So the better our connections,
1:34.1	the deeper our connections, the more we look forward to our connections, the happier we are,
1:37.8	the healthier we are, and the longer we live. And this makes sense. Like, think about someone that you kind of dread, like ambivalent relationships. Actually, you hear a lot about toxic
1:42.5	relationships. But when we are ambivalent
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