Andrew Bustamante is a former CIA covert intelligence officer. Check out his work and podcast at https://everydayspy.com Please support this podcast by checking out our sponsors: - Wealthfront: https://wealthfront.com/LEX to get $50 sign-up bonus - LMNT: https://drinkLMNT.com/lex to get free sample pack - BetterHelp: https://betterhelp.com/lex to get 10% off - ExpressVPN: https://expressvpn.com/lexpod to get 3 months free - MasterClass: https://masterclass.com/lex to get 15% off EPISODE LINKS: Everyday Spy: https://everydayspy.com/quiz Everyday Spy Podcast: https://everydayspy.com/podcast Andrew's Twitter: https://twitter.com/everydayspy Andrew's Instagram: https://instagram.com/everydayspy PODCAST INFO: Podcast website: https://lexfridman.com/podcast Apple Podcasts: https://apple.co/2lwqZIr Spotify: https://spoti.fi/2nEwCF8 RSS: https://lexfridman.com/feed/podcast/ Full episodes playlist: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLrAXtmErZgOdP_8GztsuKi9nrraNbKKp4 Clips playlist: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLrAXtmErZgOeciFP3CBCIEElOJeitOr41 OUTLINE: 0:00 - Introduction 0:56 - CIA and the President 12:34 - War in Ukraine 53:30 - Most powerful intelligence agencies 1:00:40 - David Petraeus 1:10:17 - Undercover disguises 1:23:16 - Human nature 1:32:36 - CIA recruitment process 1:49:19 - CIA and secrecy 1:55:52 - Cyber security 2:06:34 - Sexpionage 2:13:08 - Private intelligence 2:26:35 - NSA and Snowden 2:54:34 - Conspiracy theories 3:15:42 - CIA and UFOs 3:30:27 - Spy tricks 3:47:10 - Advice for young people SOCIAL: - Twitter: https://twitter.com/lexfridman - LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/lexfridman - Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/lexfridman - Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/lexfridman - Medium: https://medium.com/@lexfridman - Reddit: https://reddit.com/r/lexfridman - Support on Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/lexfridman
Andrew Bustamante is a former covert CIA intelligence officer and US Air Force combat veteran. He is the founder of EverydaySpy, an online education platform that teaches real-world international espionage techniques that can be used in everyday life. 00:00 Intro 02:47 Your Time At The CIA 03:15 What Is The CIA? 03:57 You've Got It Wrong About Spies 06:43 Applying Real Spy Skills To Overcome Any Barrier In Our Lives 08:13 How To Manipulate People 18:15 The Psychological Profile Of A CIA Agent 21:13 I Held The Key To Nuclear Missiles 23:15 It Was A Horrible Job 25:00 Would You Have You Pressed The Nuclear Button? 27:18 The CIA Message That Changed My Life 29:13 The Interview Process For The CIA 31:31 How Did You Feel When You Received That Letter? 33:54 Did The CIA Tell You To Cut Off From Your Social Circle? 34:44 Your Ethnicity Factor To Be Recruited By The CIA 36:03 Do You Have To Change Your Identity? 37:14 How Expensive Is To Train A CIA Agent? 37:21 What's The CIA Training Scheme? 38:04 Do They Show You How To Kill? 39:06 How You Teach The Art Of Lying 41:00 Body Language & Lying 42:46 Demystifying Lying Signs 45:44 How To Tell If Someone Is Lying 47:34 Human Psychology 50:32 The Essence Of Manipulation 52:09 How To Find Someone's Ideology To Manipulate Them 56:12 Have You Changed The Way You Look At The World? 01:00:01 Perception vs Perceptive 01:01:59 Leaning Into Objective vs Subjective Feelings 01:03:25 How To Train Yourself To Apply Rational Objective Perspective 01:05:54 Your Business Success 01:09:01 What Is SADRAT? 01:11:07 Change The Game When Selling Your Products 01:13:13 What Is Espionage? 01:14:08 What Is Our Secret Life? 01:18:16 How To Enter Someone's Secret Life 01:23:33 How To Apply It To Business 01:26:19 Adapting To Change Faster Than Your Opponent 01:29:18 Were There Times Your Life Was At Threat? 01:31:43 Sexpionage, What Is It? 01:33:49 Disguise, Did You Ever Do It? 01:38:44 Do CIA Agents Get Trained To Not Feel Fear & Anxiety? 01:41:23 How Do They Train You To Slow Down Your Emotional Brain? 01:47:28 Your Wife & You Leaving The CIA 01:48:55 America Is Going Through A Hard Period 01:54:15 What's The Advice For Everyone To Make That Change? 01:56:27 How Does Your Identity Stop You From Evolving? 01:57:39 What Is Something You Used To Believe That You No Longer Do? Want to learn more from Andrew? Find your Spy Superpower: https://everydayspy.com/spyquiz Explore Spy School: https://everydayspy.com/ Join the podcast: https://youtube.com/@EverydaySpyPodcast Follow Andrew Twitter - https://bit.ly/49AI9qT Instagram - https://bit.ly/4bTOIqf YouTube - https://bit.ly/3IkEhOY Follow our Shorts channel for more content: https://www.youtube.com/@TheDiaryofaCEOShorts Join this channel to get access to perks: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCGq-a57w-aPwyi3pW7XLiHw/join Follow me: https://beacons.ai/diaryofaceo Sponsors: Whoop: https://join.whoop.com/en-uk/CEO This episode of The Diary Of A CEO was filmed at Gold Tree Studios, located in the heart of the Sunset Strip, West Hollywood, California
Ex-CIA spies Andrew and Jihi Bustamante expose the TOP SECRET mission the CIA don’t want you to hear on uncovering a traitor, and the spy hacks that could change your life. Andrew Bustamante is a former CIA officer who spent 7 years in covert operations. He co-founded 'EverydaySpy', an online platform where he teaches practical spy skills for everyday life, with his wife Jihi: a former CIA targeting officer. Together, they co-authored the upcoming memoir, ‘Shadow Cell: An Insider Account of America’s New Spy War’. They explain: ⬛How the CIA tried to bury this story for 3 years ⬛Why Andrew and Jihi are leaving the US by 2030 ⬛How the CIA creates fake businesses to spy on you ⬛The secret CIA hack for fear and anxiety ⬛Why the Epstein case was the perfect cover up 00:00 Intro 01:48 A Challenge for DOAC Followers 03:19 The CIA Has Declassified My Undercover Story 05:24 Why Didn't the CIA Want Your Story Public? 06:42 What the Book Reveals About the CIA 07:01 How I Became a CIA Spy 08:03 Does the CIA Allow Relationships Between Spies? 10:33 Your Job Was to Identify People to Capture or Kill 12:10 How Did They Work as a Tandem Couple? 13:52 Where Does the Story Begin? 15:57 The Mission to Find the Mole Who Infiltrated the CIA 24:20 We Were Risking Our Lives Taking This Job 32:05 Did You Have to Change Your Identity? 32:58 What Was Your Undercover Job? 36:23 CIA Involvement in Illegal Activities 37:31 Using Terrorist Tactics 41:48 What Was Your First Mission? 44:30 When Did You Feel Most at Risk? 46:07 How Did They Find Out You Were a CIA Spy? 1:00:36 Planning My Escape 1:10:34 The CIA and Military Black Budget 1:12:08 Was TikTok Started as a Spy Platform? 1:16:33 Privacy Is Not Real 1:20:27 The Jeffrey Epstein Case 1:28:26 Ads 1:31:54 CIA Techniques for Anxiety and Self-Doubt 1:37:55 CIA Training During Interrogations 1:45:12 Why Did You Leave the CIA? 1:50:10 How the Mole Got Caught 1:58:05 How My Worldview Changed After Joining the CIA 2:00:22 Why We Want to Leave the U.S. by 2026 2:02:28 Ads 2:04:37 How CIA Tactics Changed After 9/11 2:13:51 America Is Changing 2:18:13 Should We Be Scared of Where We’re Headed? 2:23:24 Are We Heading Toward an Economic Collapse? Follow Andrew and Jihi: Find your Spy Superpower: https://yt.everydayspy.com/44p4fvq Follow Andy on YouTube: https://youtube.com/@Andrew-Bustamante Explore Spy School: https://everydayspy.com/ Support Andy's sponsor Axolt Brain: https://axoltbrain.com/andy Listen to the podcast: https://youtube.com/@EverydaySpyPodcast You can read Andrew and Jihi’s CIA book ‘Shadow Cell’, here: https://geni.us/ShadowCellBook The Diary Of A CEO: ⬛Join DOAC circle here - https://doaccircle.com/ ⬛Buy The Diary Of A CEO book here - https://smarturl.it/DOACbook ⬛The 1% Diary is back - limited time only: https://bit.ly/3YFbJbt ⬛The Diary Of A CEO Conversation Cards (Second Edition): https://g2ul0.app.link/f31dsUttKKb ⬛Get email updates - https://bit.ly/diary-of-a-ceo-yt ⬛Follow Steven - https://g2ul0.app.link/gnGqL4IsKKb Sponsors: Stan Store - https://stevenbartlett.stan.store/ for your 30-day free trial Netflix - http://netflix.com/title/81725526 KetoneIQ - Visit https://ketone.com/STEVEN for 30% off your subscription order
Andrew Bustamante is a former covert CIA intelligence officer and US Air Force combat veteran. He is the founder of Everyday Spy, an online education platform that provides people with useful spy skills for everyday life. He is also the host of the ‘Everyday Spy Podcast’. 00:00 Intro 01:56 What is Andrew doing now? 04:35 What is every day spy? 07:16 Your perspective on the world before the CI 10:02 Why the CIA chose Andrew? 12:37 Is there anything we can do once we know there's a system 18:52 The importance of awareness in our society 20:07 Living in a state of your own barriers 24:20 'Cheating' in the context of cheating 26:24 How to break free of the system 28:37 Knowledge, information & experience 30:07 Real life examples of how you've helped people 31:17 How to train people to have perception and perspective 38:25 Getting into someone else's perspective 41:16 Asking open-ended questions to get into someone's reality 46:54 We should gamble on our lives when the odds are in our favor 50:32 Who can't be taught these CIA skills 52:23 Reaching an equal point with China 54:06 What history tells us about changing superpowers 57:20 Is the war in Ukraine & Russia a symptom of a change in power? 01:00:46 Current State of US politics, there's only one person that can beat Trump 01:07:07 Was Trump's shooting a staged assassination? 01:16:16 If that bullet had hit Donald Trump, how would things be different 01:19:31 How to bend the world for success 01:23:05 CIA skills for overcoming trauma 01:27:31 How do we know if we're wired for success? 01:33:35 What is your favorite case study? 01:36:56 How do we influence people? 01:40:05 The influence framework 01:44:05 Know, like, trust framework 01:47:15 The power of polarity, what marketing strategy builds more influence 01:54:21 How to persuade someone 02:01:50 How to get any job 02:13:57 The R.I.C.E framework 02:26:47 The 4 Cs of influence 02:31:44 What a great leader does 02:34:13 The core components of a great leader 02:36:43 Seeing every interaction as a transaction 02:41:48 Your book Want to learn more from Andy? Find your Spy Superpower: https://yt.everydayspy.com/DOAC Follow Andy on YouTube: https://youtube.com/@Andrew-Bustamante Explore Spy School: https://everydayspy.com/ Join the podcast: https://youtube.com/@EverydaySpyPodcast You can purchase the The Diary Of A CEO Conversation Cards: Second Edition, here: https://g2ul0.app.link/f31dsUttKKb Sponsors: Fiverr: https://www.fiverr.com/diary PerfectTed: https://bit.ly/PerfectTed-DOAC with an exclusive code DIARY40 for 40% off
“Many people think we’re on the cusp of World War Three, but I believe WW3 has already begun” - Andrew Bustamante Today’s conversation isn’t as straightforward, but it’s critically important. Conflict zones around the world have increased by 66% in just three years. Nearly half of the world’s leading strategists think nuclear weapons will be used within the decade. We’re at a tipping point, and we need to understand what's coming next. I’ve brought together three incredible minds, Benjamin Radd, a senior fellow at UCLA and an expert on political conflict in Iran; Annie Jacobsen, an investigative journalist specialising in U.S. national security; and Andrew Bustamante, former CIA spy and nuclear weapons expert. These guests bring firsthand experience, intelligence expertise, and decades of research to unravel the truth behind the world's growing tensions. I invited Benjamin, Annie, and Andrew because when it comes to the reality of conflict and nuclear threats, they’ve been at the frontlines. Their insights don’t just theorise about war, they've lived it, investigated it, and seen the consequences up close. In an era of misinformation and fear, these voices provide clarity and value. We cover: - Why World War 3 may have already started, without us realising? - How _____ could trigger global war without firing a single shot… - How misinformation and AI are becoming more powerful than armies. - Why we are just one miscommunication away from nuclear disaster! - The dangerous isolation of global leaders from reality, and why it matters. With all the chaos unfolding around the globe, this is the conversation you cannot afford to miss. The potential consequences are not distant hypotheticals, they’re real. Get access to exclusive Diary of a CEO content: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCGq-a57w-aPwyi3pW7XLiHw/join