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The Mindvalley Podcast

Vanessa Van Edwards On How To Be Engaging On Video, Email, And Online

The Mindvalley Podcast

Mindvalley

Education, Health & Fitness, Self-improvement, Mental Health

4.51.5K Ratings

🗓️ 7 July 2021

⏱️ 42 minutes

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Summary

How can you be captivating, dynamic, and memorable on video? How about in emails or chats? Whether you are on endless Zoom calls, emailing important VIPs, giving presentations over the video, or just chatting with friends and colleagues, you need to know how to thrive in digital communication. Learn to captivate every time. On one of the best-rated sessions of Mindvalley Summit, Vanessa Van Edwards, bestselling author of Captivate: The Science of Succeeding with People and founder of ScienceofPeople.com, will give you a roadmap to powerful digital people skills because virtual communication requires different interpersonal skills than in-person.    Vanessa is the Lead Investigator at Science of People. Her book, Captivate: The Science of Succeeding with People, has been translated into 16 different languages, and more than 30 million people have watched her on YouTube. She regularly speaks to innovative companies including Google, Intel, Facebook, Comcast, Miller-Coors, Microsoft, and Penguin Random-House. She has been a spokesperson for Dove, American Express, Clean and Clear, and Symantec. Vanessa has developed a science-based framework for understanding different personalities to improve our EQ and to help us communicate with colleagues, clients, and customers. Her TEDx London Talk on the science of charisma has been watched over 2,000,000 times. She is renowned for teaching science-backed people skills to worldwide audiences, including SXSW, MIT, and CES, to name a few. Her groundbreaking and engaging workshops and courses teach individuals how to succeed in business and life by understanding the hidden dynamics of people.   Listen out for: - How to make our online meetings energy-giving instead of draining. - Tips on how to make a better impression online.  - Shark Tank best pitches patterns. - The secret to creating oxytocin online.   - The importance of seeing hands in online presence. - What all the best Ted Talkers have in common. - The key to using your vocal power to gain trust.   Bonus:                                                                          - Subscribe to Mindvalley Membership to discover 30+ Mindvalley Quests, watch our podcast sessions live, interact with the guests, connect with the world’s best teachers and find your community 👉 https://go.mindvalley.com/NOW    Like this episode? Subscribe to our podcast on iTunes, Spotify, or your favorite podcasting app. Share this with your friends on Instagram or Twitter. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Transcript

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0:00.0

Have you ever been with someone and felt like this person gets me?

0:04.8

Mmm. We just click. I really like her. She makes me feel good.

0:09.7

That's actually oxytocin course in your bloodstream. And oxytocin is a very

0:13.2

complicated chemical, but for our purposes, social interactions,

0:16.5

the moment we handshake or cheek kiss or fist bump or high five or hug,

0:23.5

we get a burst of a chemical that we need to connect. What do we do on video?

0:28.9

I am Vision Laciani, founder of Mind Valley, the School for Human Transformation.

0:33.3

You're listening to the Mind Valley podcast, where we'll be bringing you the

0:36.2

greatest teachers and thought leaders on the planet. It discussed the world's

0:40.1

most powerful ideas and personal growth for mind, body, spirit and work.

0:46.2

We're talking about one of my favorite topics, charisma. And not just being

0:51.2

charismatic in person, but being charismatic digitally and luckily, don't worry.

0:54.8

All the tips I'm going to share with you, you can use both online and

0:58.4

offline. I don't know about you, but I've spent a lot of the last 16

1:03.4

months or so in back to back to back to back to back to back to back video calls,

1:08.5

right? Just like zoom meetings for as far as the I could see on my calendar.

1:13.1

And if I could sum this up in one word, I would sum it up right here,

1:17.9

which is this is how I felt at the very beginning of my endless video calls.

1:22.6

This is a picture of my daughter on her second day of virtual preschool.

1:26.4

She devised a little clever technique where she just went to sleep.

1:30.0

So as soon as the video camera went on, she just put her head down and went to

1:33.3

sleep. Here's the good news. Very clever, by the way.

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