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Is Authenticity Quietly KILLING Your Career? Former Secret Agent Evy Poumpouras reveals how being “real” at work can SABOTAGE your leadership, and breaks down elite strategies for emotional control, communication, confidence, and power. Evy Poumpouras is a former U.S. Secret Service Special Agent, NBC Crime & Law Enforcement Analyst, and bestselling author of Becoming Bulletproof. She protected U.S. Presidents, interrogated high-risk criminals, and learned first-hand how the world’s most powerful leaders control emotion, command respect, and stay composed under pressure. In this groundbreaking episode, she explains: ◼️The 1 psychology trick that instantly makes people respect you ◼️Why you shouldn’t care about people’s feelings ◼️The 5 habits you must get rid of to earn influence ◼️How to tell if someone is lying to you ◼️Why most people stay miserable forever (00:00) Intro (02:28) Why People Are Drawn to Your Mission (05:26) People Waste Time Overthinking Instead of Changing (09:37) Forget About The Past (12:41) Being Stuck in the Identity You’ve Built (19:03) The Secondary Game: Why People Don’t Overcome Problems (25:13) You Can’t Change People (30:20) How Steve Builds His Confidence (35:48) Stop Being Driven by Fear (38:41) How to Self-Regulate Your Emotions (40:29) Should You Be Your Authentic Self at Work? (49:20) Which Gender Tells Lies Better? (51:31) How to Build Confidence (57:11) Why Small Challenges Matter More Than Big Ones (1:03:12) Lessons From the Best Decision Makers (1:10:29) Ad Break (1:11:26) Why Your Tone of Voice Matters (1:18:49) The Importance of Body Language (1:38:15) Dealing With Offensive People (1:44:29) How to Become Unprovokable (1:55:40) How Friends Influence Who You Are (1:57:33) Ad Break (2:03:55) How Poor Performers Impact the Team (2:07:22) Why You Might Look Like an Easy Target (2:20:35) Charlie Kirk and Threats on Social Platforms (2:24:03) How Social Media Reduces Empathy (2:30:48) School and Mass Shootings (2:36:13) Could Anything Have Prevented Charlie Kirk’s Death? (2:41:22) What Are You Most Afraid Of? Follow Evy: Instagram - https://bit.ly/4aN4q4D Twitter - https://bit.ly/4c4TErD Website: http://bit.ly/3K89id3 Evy’s BBC Maestro course ‘The Art of Influence’ can be found HERE: http://bit.ly/4nFGTJT You can purchase Evy’s book, ‘Becoming Bulletproof’, HERE: https://amzn.to/4pbpskF 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: Adobe Express - http://ADOBE.LY/STEVEN Pipedrive - http://pipedrive.com/CEO Plaud - https://www.plaud.ai/pages/steven use DOAC22 for 22% off Note and NotePin
"Don't bring your authentic self to work. I want your professional self. You can bring your authentic self to Thanksgiving meal with your family if you'd like to. Your authentic self is about who? Me, ..."
"What is the overarching theme of why people you think are drawn to your your particular message and what part of that message are they drawn to? I get bombarded on all social media platforms and in em..."
"your current self by saying this happened to me so I'm this way is almost it's like a short-term friend in the moment because it kind of helps you feel heard and understood and it justifies the way th..."
"the reasons why people are tempted to go back is they think that if they go back into their history and understand things, then they can change something in the present that's going to change their fu..."
"There's two personas that I'm thinking about. One of them is personal to me, and then one of them's personal to one of my friends. And before we started, you said one of the things you like is very sp..."
"There's this concept in psychology called um secondary gain that I was I was writing a book about. I'm writing this book at the moment. I was I wrote a chapter about secondary gain and it basically sa..."
"to die or something. If he he very well will. And you know, if you see someone that's about to die, one should intervene. No. But can you intervene? And does he want you to intervene? He doesn't want ..."
"but I want to ask you a question if it's okay. Yeah. How do you build your confidence or what's something you do that builds your confidence? Oh, that's a great question. Um, do you know what's really..."
"So in her case, her sisters have never been able to leave their hometown, her six sisters, because all of them had kids super young. And he actually told me this a couple of months earlier that she's ..."
"Can someone learn to be a better self-regulator of their emotions so that they don't ruin their life by reacting to things all the time? I did. I was very hot-headed growing up. I was just like my fat..."
"day and talked about a previous conversation which is somewhat linked to what we're talking about now. They said, um, hi Stevie, you had that incredible woman on your podcast and she talked about how ..."
"men there's no research that shows one is better than the other cuz women seem to have a sixth sense and people joke about it in like relationship context, but I generally feel like I feel like women ..."
"On this point about confidence, then you said it didn't sound like my friend had a confidence issue. Do you think confidence is the thing that the people who do feel like they're not respected in the ..."
"is I I actually didn't know what the world entrepreneur was I had no idea what it was so I had this idea and I started did trying to figure out how to make the idea happen which looked like 3 months o..."
"You've seen some of the most consequential people ever make decisions, these presidents. Maybe you can't answer this question. I don't know if you can, but who were the best decision makers and why th..."
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"like to have true a true lack of confidence. Like, how does it feel inside your body? And the research I did showed there's really four areas that you feel it. The first area is in your body physicall..."
"is I think is a trait of someone who is feels like they deserve your attention and space and respect because it takes up room to and as you were doing that you were using a good you know 50 cm either ..."
"Have you ever had someone insult you in a really vicious just like horrible way? Dits, dummy, Barbie, you know, and does does it offend in inside even if you don't show it? I don't want to say you get..."
"How do I become unprovokable? Is there a way or is it just by repetitions? It's repetition. If enough people get in your face over time, you learn to manage your emotions. But if you spent the whole t..."
"you might cuz you might still be at an age where you're kind of in the middle there. For me, I've got like five best friends, but then I've got all these other people who I've become friends with pred..."
"I did something at 24 years old that has had a profound impact on my life. I set myself the challenge of posting every single day on my social media channels. And at the time, I was doing it to grow m..."
"We live in a culture though where people are do complain a lot. They complain that things aren't fair, that they're not equal, that they're not, you know, not being treated like they should be treated..."
"conviction because predators can spot prey. Yes. Did you see that through your career that predators, narcissists would go for certain people? Yes. But even Yes. But in even in regular relationships, ..."
"think in court on Tuesday of this week. um shot him in the neck from several hundred yards away. As a former Secret Service agent whose very job was to ensure that didn't happen to someone, to ensure ..."
"You said copycats. Is is that something that you actually saw when you're in the Secret Service that if one incident happened it would 100% all it takes is one person to do it another person to be lik..."
"So this is a graph I found which shows the rise in um school shootings but it's rising it's increasing. One of the things to keep in mind with this with the school shooting and then we don't know this..."
"the Charlie Kirk assassination happen, I'm I'm so curious as to the conversations in your house about that because you must be looking at this from so many different perspectives from like how that pe..."
"this podcast where the last guest leaves a question for the next guest, not knowing who they're leaving it for. And the question left for you is, what brings you the most joy in life? And what are you..."