Episode 419: Vanessa Van Edwards: The Power of Body Language and Charisma for Effective Communication
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January 28, 2025
TLDR: Discussion on charisma with author Vanessa Van Edwards, focusing on balancing warmth and competence cues, practical tips for video calls, oxytocin and connection, handshake styles & vocal cues, digital communication nuances, power posing + confident body language, and the impact of fake vs genuine smiles.

In this enlightening episode of the Habits and Hustle Podcast, host Jen Cohen welcomes Vanessa Van Edwards, a behavioral investigator and bestselling author, known for her books "Captivate" and "Cues: Master the Secret Language of Charismatic Communication." This episode explores the science of charisma and how body language can enhance interpersonal communication in both personal and professional contexts.
Key Takeaways
The Essence of Charisma
- Warmth and Competence: Vanessa emphasizes that charisma is rooted in two primary traits—warmth and competence. People’s judgments about us are influenced 82% by these traits, which answer the critical questions: "Can I trust you?" and "Can I rely on you?"
- Balancing Cues: Balancing warmth (friendliness) and competence (capability) is key. Too much warmth without competence can lead to being disregarded, while too much competence without warmth can make one seem cold or intimidating.
Practical Tips for Effective Communication
Video Calls and Virtual Interactions
- Oxytocin and Connection: The episode discusses the science of oxytocin, the hormone associated with bonding and trust. Vanessa shares practical tips to enhance connections through digital platforms:
- Use oxytocin-based words like "high five" or expressions of excitement.
- Maintain appropriate distance on camera to avoid invading personal space.
- Be mindful of your background and lighting; both impact perceived warmth and competence.
The Importance of Handshakes
- Handshake Styles: The handshake communicates a lot about personality and can reveal confidence levels. For instance, a firm handshake is often linked to competence, while a weak handshake may suggest submission or lack of confidence.
- Pheromones and First Impressions: Engaging in a handshake attracts pheromones and can create a subconscious bond.
Gestures and Vocal Cues
- Effective Gesture Usage: Research indicates that gestures add significant value to communication, sometimes carrying more weight than words. Using gestures effectively can enhance storytelling and clarity in presentations.
- Vocal Power: The tone of voice plays a crucial role. Lower tones are generally viewed as more confident. When introducing oneself or making important points, ensure to start with a warm, lower tone.
The Science Behind Smiling
- Types of Smiles: Vanessa discusses the difference between genuine and fake smiles. Authentic smiles engage the upper cheeks and convey true warmth, while fake smiles can be easily detected and fail to promote connection.
Understanding Personality Traits
- Big Five Personality Traits: Vanessa introduces the Big Five traits (Openness, Conscientiousness, Extraversion, Agreeableness, Neuroticism) and their impact on relationships. For example, high neurotic people often need reassurance while low neurotic individuals may bring calmness to the dynamic.
- Compatibility: Understanding the personality traits of colleagues or partners can help in tailoring communication styles for better interaction.
Popularity and Presence
- Being Liked: To achieve charisma in any setting, Vanessa suggests the principle of liking more people. The most popular children are those who actively show interest and connection with others.
Conclusion
This episode of the Habits and Hustle Podcast provides invaluable insights and practical strategies on enhancing communication skills through effective body language, vocal tones, and interaction styles. Listeners will find actionable tips to apply these concepts in everyday interactions, fostering better relationships in both their personal and professional lives.
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Guys, I'm so excited about this podcast. Today we had Vanessa Van Edwards, who I'm a huge fan of. Vanessa, I've been watching Vanessa's videos on YouTube forever. She is a behavioral investigator and she started a company called The Science of People. She's also a major best-selling author. Her first book is called Captivate, The Science of Succeeding with People. She's also a body language trainer and she specializes in science-based people skills.
Her latest book is called cues, which was amazing. And it is for anybody and everyone who wants to either read other people or really activate their strengths and make sure to bring in them forward. She talks about what makes somebody charismatic, what makes somebody likable,
how you win over anybody or influence somebody just by how you move what you say, like how you say it. It's just I can go on and on, but I don't want to. I'm basically like butchering this, but trust me, listen to the podcast. You're going to get so much out of it. Enjoy.
On today's episode, we have Vanessa Van Edwards who I am just smiling from like, I'm grinning from ear to ear because you guys, I have been waiting for this interview for months. Her information is so amazing. She wrote a book called Cues. Her other book was called Captivate.
They like the C words. Yeah, you really do. Confidence, charisma, cues, captivity. Why is that? I don't know. Just such a good, such good words. They are good words. And you could talk, we could talk all about that. Oh, yeah. So you're like, she is an expert on body language on, on communication.
And this new book is called Master the Secret Language of Charismatic Communication. She talks all about signals and how to have the most impact in meetings and first impressions. It doesn't matter if you're just someone who's dating or if you are someone who is a professional, you can literally glean anything and everything from your work. Thank you.
Oh my goodness, I'm so happy to be here. I've been waiting for months too, so like I can't wait. Oh, come on. You're just saying that. I cleared my day. It was like it's a Jennifer Day. Look how good you are. Look how good you are. This is my day. You know how to make a great first impression. I better. I wrote a book about it. More than one book and you crush these books. Crush.
You know, like I said, practical information. I think that what's really helpful is a lot of the communication books. I'm an awkward person, right? Like I'm somewhere in between introvert and extrovert. I'm an ambivert. And so many of the books that I read growing up or guides I saw were written by extroverts.
And I just felt so like I had to pretend to be outgoing to make a good first impression. And so for so long, I felt like I was faking it till I make it, make it, make it, made it, made it, made it, I didn't make, I didn't made it. So fake it till I almost made it. Yeah. I was like pretending to be something I wasn't. And it was exhausting. And so I so appreciate you saying that about the books, because the books are the guides that I wish I had had. Very practical.
a little funny. I just try a few jokes on there. Also, what's the science say? Not someone's opinion, but what's the science actually say? I should say. What Vanessa's title is, she's called the behavioral investigator. She just studies people's behavior.
also helps people with how to cue better to get what they want, right? Yes. And I heard on a couple of interviews, you were kind of nervous about even putting the book out because it could be used as manipulation. Yes. So like, there's this hidden language that's happening. We don't realize it's happening, but we are constantly sending signals back and forth. And so as I realized, I have a very weird problem where I misinterpret neutral cues as negative.
And there's actually research behind this that some say that if you're neurotic, I'm high in neuroticism, which is one of the personality traits. So I worry as a hobby. It's like one of my sport. I love to worry. And so because of that, I have this negative lens that I was missing all these cues.
And so when I first heard her writing about them, it was just let me catalog the cues that are being sent to me. So I stopped misinterpreting them. So I stopped every time I would leave a party, I would turn to my husband and be like, she's mad at me. And be like, what? I'm like, she, she's so mad at me. He's like, no, she's not mad at you. What did you see the way that she looked at me? He's like, no. And so I realized I had to create some sort of a glossary for myself to stop seeing people in that way.
The problem is other people will use that that information negatively. And so I was so scared that when I put the book out, the people would say, oh, I'm going to manipulate people with these cues. And unfortunately, they are very powerful. Like they can use them. Yeah. And that made me very nervous. But I thought, you know what, I'd rather have the information out there to be used for good. And hopefully then we can have a common language where we can say, that's the cue that you're sending. And I either like it or I don't.
Well, think about like Robert Greene's 48 Laws of Power, right? Yes. It can kind of be considered the same kind of thing, right? Like how to get power over people. There could be a negative connotation to it, but I actually think, you know, and I'm close friends with Robert and I love that book. It's a huge monster book, right? Yes. And it could be used for good and for bad. Okay. In fact,
This is a really creepy weird fact. But the classic book, How to Win Friends and Influence People, Dale Carnegie. Dale Carnegie. That book has helped millions of people. People still read it. I read it when I was a teenager. Fun fact is that Charles Manson read that book in prison.
and used it to build his cult later. No way. In one of his early prison stints before he did the really bad stuff, because he had little bad stuff, he read that book and he took a class that was being offered in prisons on the deal Carnegie Method for how to infringe on people and that is exactly what he used to build his cult later.
So, these things really, if you know how people work, and that's really what it is, is there's these hidden dynamics of people. And there are laws, right? There's 48 laws of power. There are 96 behavior cues. If you learn what they are, you can use them in any way that you wish. Absolutely. And that's what I'm fascinated by all this information. I love it so much.
fascinated by human behavior in general, like why people do what they do, and also like why I'm doing what I'm doing and how it could be misinterpreted. You know, and a lot of times I'm misinterpreted, right? So that's why I found that book, this book vary, to your point, very resonated, because people can think I'm being bitchy, I'm being hard, I'm being cold, I'm being this, but it's just what I'm doing.
So it's interesting. So I have the problem where I think I misinterpret cues being sent to me. Do you worry that people misinterpret the cues you are sending to them? I don't worry about it. I don't really care about it. I don't care if people think that. I don't care what people think. I don't really care. I'm just being honest. I worry for you. That's the truth. That's the whole other problem. Maybe I'm a sociopath.
That's not really what it is. I feel like I'm sometimes very direct and very to the point. And I don't like to mince a lot of words a lot of times. And that can be sometimes seen as... So the way that we break it down, which is like, I think this is the most important thing, which you know I love, is we think of people as two basic traits, warm and competent.
And so if you're direct, if you speak right to the point, if you have really direct nonverbal cues, so lots of eye contact, lots of head movements, very clear gestures, people see you as highly competent. That's great. The problem is, is competence without warmth leaves people feeling suspicious or at least will feeling intimidated. That is directly from the research. The people who are off the charts and competence
people go, ah, there's enough warmth. I don't know if they like me. I don't know if they're friendly. And so without warmth, people don't always believe your competence, but they can't digest your competence. And so you're right in that sense of like, am I being too direct? Is that going to turn someone off? It's simply because you're just lacking the warmth. It's like a lubricant that warmth lubricant is a lubricant for competence.
Well, that's interesting because it's not about me, this is a good call. No, it's not about me because I mean, the other thing a lot of times, and I think, I want to first talk about, I'll bring this up in a second, I'm going to hold my thought. I want you to first, let's talk about charisma because charisma is a combination, right? You said warmth and calmness and having that perfect blend. Perfect blend. And so 82%, massive number, 82% of our judgments of people are based on those two traits.
which is shocking to me because when you ask, and I've asked audiences, how do you want to come across? Name your perfect first impression, hundreds of words, outgoing, funny, smart, witty, impressive, memorable, all the words you could think of. But actually, when it comes down to it, the only two words that make up 82% of our judgments are warmth, friendliness, like ability, openness, and competence, capable, powerful, efficient. In that way, when we meet someone, we are very quickly trying to answer two questions.
And in your interactions, if you can quickly answer these two questions, your whole interaction will be better. Doesn't matter if it's a date or negotiation interview, which is, can I trust you and can I rely on you? And we are looking to people to see, can I trust you and can I rely on you? And that's when we have a good date. That's when we have a good interview. That's when we want to work with someone or be friends with them or talk to someone. That's what we're looking for is just the answer to those two questions. So what happens if you have too much warmth
and not enough confidence. Let's talk about the two imbalances. The reason why charismatic people are so magnetic, that we're drawn to them, is because they have the perfect balance. The moment we get out of balance, out of whack, let's say you said too high in warmth. People who are sending lots of warmth cues, they're seen as friendly, trustworthy, likeable, compassionate, but not that smart.
Not that capable. Not that powerful. They're often interrupted. So highly warm people have this problem where people always come to them for their life, for like advice and their life story. Like highly warm people are constantly sitting in the corner of the room in someone's like verbal vomiting all over them. That is a highly warm person because they are sending off signals of open to me. Open up to me. Tell me everything. So people constantly seek them out and verbal vomit all over them, but don't take them seriously. Forget having met them before. Forget their names. So highly warm people are super liked in the office.
But when they want to get a razor promotion, they're looked over. Wow. Highly warm people are, yeah, she's nice, but they wouldn't have you on their team. They wouldn't buy from you. They wouldn't come to you for really important advice. Highly warm people also struggle with being people pleasers. And that's because highly warm people, the reason they're sending those cues, like from a psychological perspective, is there's two desires that we have as humans to be liked and to be respected.
People who are highly warm have been taught with that social ear from their parents that being liked is more important than being respected. And so what can happen is they say yes too much, they over commit. And so people highly warm people, I always joke that if you have a highly warm friend, you know, you have a highly warm friend, if they always say yes, then cancel it last minute. That's not me.
And that is because highly warm people in the moment, they want to please you. They really want you to like them. They want to seem open and likable. So like, of course, and in the moment, they mean it. But then real life hits third. I'm going to like hire and do it. I got to stay home and watch Netflix. I cannot put on a pair of pants. There's no way that's going to happen. Exactly. So that's highly warm, right?
Superpowers, they have superpowers, collaboration, being supporters, being open, being liked. Their weaknesses, they're not taken seriously, they're overlooked, they're underestimated, they're doubt, they're dismissed. That's our problem. Highly competent folks on the other hand, highly competent folks are always seen as impressive, they're seen as smart, they're seen as powerful. But what can happen is because they're constantly sending out competence cues, people think, ooh, she's intimidating.
I can't open up to her. She's cold. And so this is what the research shows is that competence without warmth leaves us feeling suspicious.
Now, I guess my question is, can you beat one in certain environments and another in another environment? So this is the advanced, right? So actually very highly charismatic people use their warmth and competence like a thermostat or like a dial. So when they're around really warm people, they dial up their warmth cues, right? They send a couple more warmth cues when they're happy hours and they're socializing, when they're schmoozies, when they're with a VIP that like, oh, this VIP, I want to be a little warmer with them. I want to get into their, and get into their good side. They dial up warmth.
They also oftentimes we default to higher and warm throughout our families around our friends. Maybe we dial up a little bit in competence and business situations. Right. So yes, that's actually, that's where the magic is, is that not only can we be different in different situations, but we can actually control it. And that's my other favorite C word.
I love control control. Oh, man. Boy, boy, do I love control. So as a social warrior, I socially overthink I lay in bed at the end that I know replay every conversation. What the antidote to that for me has been control. So what happened is when my anxiety, my awkwardness, what should I do with my hands? What cues should I send? How will they take me serious? And then I would replay. Now I have 90s excuse to choose from. So I know exactly what cues I want to send. I know exactly what cues are being sent to me.
And so the way that we can take control is we say, OK, in this situation, I want warmth. I'm dialing up the warmth. In this situation, I'm going to hit him with competence. Or I know why they see me as cold. I'm OK with it. Right. That's what I liked about this book and your book, your content.
is because you don't have to be a naturally, emotionally, highly intelligent person to get these things. So I was going to say to you, I think that there are people who are naturally more gifted than others in picking up these social cues. And to be like, okay, I got to dial in that warmth. I got to take it back a bit.
but the majority of people do need help in these search because they walk away kind of like, well, why did that interview go badly or why did that date go badly? Why did I get a no? Why did I get a no, right? And so if you have the tools and the information to understand more, it is so powerful. Oh my gosh, it's so empowering. Empower exactly. It's so empowering. And I also like what we don't realize, and this is what gets me excited about this, is our cues are contagious.
So it's not just you being in control of your cues. Let's you show up how you want to show up. That's one part of the equation. The second more exciting part of the equation for me is if you show up more warm and more competent, you trigger other people's warmth and competence.
So if I'm with my team, if I'm with my family, if I'm with my friends, and I'm showcasing very purposefully in control warmth and competence, they are catching that warmth and competence. But if we show up as our most charismatic self, that is the single best way to make everyone around us be their most charismatic self.
And also to add on to that. So in order to be successful, to be successful, it's not about being the most competent or being the most war. It's about really having that real perfect blend. So you don't have to be the smartest. You just have to have enough charisma or have the
the blend of charisma to get your goal done. Exactly. And also, there's one last area that we haven't talked about, which is you mentioned smart people being the smartest person. This is the problem I think that smart people make. Yeah. Smart people are smart. They rely on their really good ideas. And they think, I have a great idea. I'm really smart. That's enough. As they show up to pitches, they show up to meetings and they're like, why aren't people getting my ideas?
And again, the research proves you can have the smartest idea in the world. But if you're not lubricating it with warmth, people cannot believe it. So what will happen is smart people, they double down on competence, and that doesn't work. And they wonder, what is happening? So then they go sterile. And that's the last area that we are trying to fight against is a lot of really powerful smart people don't know what to do with their cues. So they under cue.
They under signal. So you'll notice it now, especially in the last five years. It feels like people have decided stoic is good. Being unreadable is good. Well, I don't know what cues to say. I don't know how to be warm confidence. So I'm going to send no cues at all. And so what's happening is we're getting on video calls. We're watching presentations with people who are like robots.
They're trying to conceal their facial expressions or trying to conceal their body. They try to be as unreadable as possible. The problem is muting, going mute, is in itself a cue. If you go mute, you actually look a lot like a liar. Liars often go mute because they're trying to not give away the truth.
And so what's happening is this muting, this under signaling is actually backfiring to all these smart people. So then that's a great segue into how to queue properly, right? So now I feel everybody's on Zoom more than ever, right? These video calls.
or emailing, they're not really, so can you give some good tips and good cues how to be, how to kind of rock the video conference? And Matt, your cues on video call matter more than ever, because actually other things are taken away. And I was felt very fortunate with the timing. So I signed the book deal for cues in June of 2020. And I was writing cues all through 2020 and 2021. So I was hyper aware of video.
If it had only been a few months earlier, I think I would have been less aware of the idea. So a lot of the research we did for cues was on video because we couldn't do it in person. Right. So for example, I'll give you one example. So I partner with Dr. Paul Zach. Dr. Paul Zach is an incredible researcher. He's kind of the oxytocin guy. If you've ever heard of oxytocin, the chemical connection, the chemical of love, he's the guy who's been researching it for the last
23. Oh, wow. Yeah. He's the one who kind of discovered that you can bottle oxytocin and you can give people nose sprays.
full of oxytocin. Did you wear a necklace or something that was a oxytocin necklace? I have an oxytocin necklace. Where do you buy them? I'd see. I'd see. Is it a real thing? Yes, I got a gold oxytocin necklace and I wear it instead of a heart. Because, you know, if we're talking about a real connection, it's a oxytocin, not a heart. Yes, I wear it out. It was really intense at work. So the way that oxytocin works, it does a lot of things in our body. So remember that, but if you wear it, you're not like, how does that
Well, I wish it, I wish it actually triggered oxytocin, but when you look at it, it makes me feel good. Oh, okay. Okay. Actually, the only way that we produce oxytocin is eye contact, touch, and me two moments. Like moments where we're like, oh, me two, that makes us feel that warm and fuzzy, like belonging and connect and like, oh, I trust this person. I'm on the same page with this person. Like that's why we're always like, oh, where'd you go to school? Who do you know? Because the moment you have a tie, you're like oxytocin.
Is that like a dopamine head? So oxytocin is a chemical of connection. It makes us feel trusting. It makes us feel the warm and fuzzy. Dopamine is the chemical of excitement and motivation. Dopamine makes us want to do things. Dopamine is like, I have a present for you. That's dopamine. Oxytocin is me too.
like slightly different. So dopamine is like a motivating chemical. It makes you want to do, it makes you want to achieve, it makes you want to succeed. Dopamine helps beat burnout. Oxytocin helps build rapport. God, they're slightly different, right? Okay. So, um, so I partnered with Dr. Paul Zach, I've been friends with for years.
And I said to him, I'm worried. I'm literally writing the book on cues, and there's a whole cue on touch. And I'm like, Dr. Zach, like, what are we going to do in a world without touch where we're on a video call? There's no handshake. There's no cheek kiss. Like there's no, there's no oxytocin creators report. Yes. And oxy oxytocin is created by touch.
primarily. So he said, let's touch you and I feel oxytocin with you. Well, we are making eye contact. We have lots of meat. So it's not the only way. It's the primary way. It's the fastest way. That is why we're so inclined upon first meaning to handshake or high five or cheek kisses because we want to seal the deal kind of chemically. So I asked him, what do we do? Like we're in this environment. He said, I said to him, I have a theory.
that if you use oxytocin words, it could kind of replace the level of engagement. So if I were to get on video and say, sending a high five, sending a virtual cheek kiss, would it do anything? So we did a little experiment where we had, he has this amazing technology on smartwatches where he measures your skin conductance and like your physiology to see if you're actually like being turned on, not sexually, but just physiologically. It's all smartwatch on your wrist, yeah.
I have to clarify that. And so what he did is we had to put on the software on their smartwatch and watch two different videos. One video, we used oxytocin words. I can see you. That's not such a word. Sending a virtual high five, sending a virtual hug, wish I could handshake you. And the other one was just positive neutral. So hey, so happy to be here. So glad we could do this. Great to get together.
we found that the when we use the oxytocin words, it had double the engagement, double, meaning even saying, sending a virtual high five actually triggered a physiology like having an actual high five. Wow. So very first thing is on your first 10 words or video call, you should be using oxytocin words. It's so good to see you.
Oh, I wish I could give you a hug sending a hug from here. Hey, virtual high five. If that feels natural to you, that's a really easy way to produce oxygen. If that doesn't feel natural to you, you want to do the next few warmth cues. So one is making sure that you're not too close to the camera. That's like the biggest mistake that we make in virtual calls. So in interpersonal reaction, interactions, there's four space zones. And these are incredibly important for gauging intimacy.
So we're very aware of these, even our distance of our chairs right now, I would say what we're about three feet away. Probably. Yeah, around three feet. That's like the ideal for an interview because it means we're close enough or we can make eye contact. I can see all your facial expressions. If we want to reach out right now and just see if you can touch my fingers, we can. That's the ideal. We want to be able just close enough or if we wanted to touch, we could.
and we judge that for intimacy. The problem is on video calls, all the space goes away, because there's no actual people. So what happens is people get really close to their camera and we accidentally go into the intimate zone, which is zero to 18 inches away. Yeah, well, to tell us what the four, you're just in the book too, but. Yes, so the four zones are the public zone, which is about over seven feet away. That's like, I don't know you, I can wave to you, but I couldn't talk to you. Then is the social zone, five to seven feet away.
That's like, I can see you. I know you. I feel safe around you. We're not going to have an end up conversation, but I could be like, how are you? Right. Good to see you. Then there's my favorite zone, which is the personal zone, which is right here, which is about three to five feet away, right? Eight inches to five feet away, depending on what culture you're in. And that's a great zone because we can touch if we want to. I can see your facial expressions and it's still comfortable. Zero to eight inches away is the intimate zone.
We only like people in our intimate zone if we want to be intimate with them. So we briefly enter it for a hug and then immediately back up, back up. If we're about to kiss someone, we're usually in the intimate zone, right? If we're really feeling close someone, we're in the intimate zone. So we reserve that for people that we feel very, very close to. Well, on video call, if you are less than 18 inches away, if you measure the distance from your nose and your camera and you're less than 18 inches away, you are accidentally going into people's intimate zones, which is triggering.
I know if there's a computer in the middle of you. There's an instinct. And this is why people are really close to their camera. You're like, whoa, whoa, back up. It's a digital close talker. It's still the same. Still the same. Yes. What I don't understand. And that makes sense. That's really great. Those are great tips for people because we're doing Zoom now. And by the way, take a measuring tape and measure those in your camera and your camera. Yeah, that's it.
What I was going to say is how about in terms of the lighting, all that, that doesn't matter, right? People are not like, is that too in depth? No, I do think it matters. Like I would even say like your lighting and your background really matters. Okay. So there's four different ways we send cues. There's nonverbal. So our body language, our facial expressions, our voice tone, that's about 60 to 90% of our communication. It's the biggest.
So, you know, our hand gestures, our smiling, our eye contact, those all matter. Next is verbal, so the words we use. So, saying, it's good to see you, our handshake. I wish I can give you a high five. Exactly. Third is vocal, how you say your words. And we can talk about that in a second because it's a huge important video calls. The last one is imagery. Imagery, what's in your background, the colors you wear, the props you hold. So, for example,
There's research that looked at the background and they said by far having a real background is better than having a virtual background. And that is because we see a virtual background. Our eye is like, what's back there? I don't understand. Where did your hand just go?
So like those cues really matter. So yes, I mean, the basics are lighting from the top, right? Coming down at you is always better. I'm having cues in your background that help you, that serve you. Like for example, when I was presenting on cue is I kept getting the question over and over again, our cues universal, our cues cultural. Yeah.
And I was so like, this question is crazy. I'm getting it all the time. So I took down everything in my background and I added a world map behind me. The question went away. Really? Just speaking with a world map behind me, it went away because that cute people to go, oh, she speaks around the world.
Like that small prop. And so what I would think about is in your zoom backgrounds, in your dating profiles, you want to create cues that either answer questions or attract the right people or detract the wrong people. So I believe for dating specifically and creating allergies. So allergies are props that are going to either turn someone on or turn someone off.
So like allergies? I call it an allergy cue. An allergy cue is like a cue that people feel strongly about, that it's going to turn off the wrong people. So for example, I'll give you a really specific example. One of my friends was dating forever. She went on so many bad first dates, bad first two or three dates. Could not find the right person. I looked all over pictures. They were all very flattering, very beautiful. But the problem is, is they were too bland. And one of the problems is she's a vegan.
And she would, that would come up on the first, second date. And if you're a vegan, you're either really into that or you're not into that. Very people feel kind of the middle. That's so true. Right. So I said to her, I want you, I bought her a sweatshirt that said, if you're not nice to animals, I'll kill you. Okay. That's what the sweatshirt said. Cause that's how she feels. Yeah. She's like, this is so extreme. I was like, I want you to wear it. I want you to wear it. And I want you to wear it in your very first profile picture because it's either going to turn someone on real hardcore or they're going to be like,
allergy. Yeah. That's so true. Right. And that's why you meet my other man. Yeah. So I want, I want you to create props that are allergic to your wrong people. Right. That's a great idea. Like our brand is called science of people. I purposely told so science as an allergy. There are certain people who are like, I don't like science. You're not my person. Right. You're not going to like my book. Science is in almost every cover marketing in my book because if you don't like science, it's an allergy for you. Yeah. If you like science, you're like,
Yes, who wouldn't want to have data and science backing these things? Not my people. They want like a bobblehead just wandering around to say, my opinion is like, they want funny stories. And we have some of those, but like, you got to like data, you know, and so I want to get an archimac, our archi-com. I agree.
I agree, you know, like, go get your archie. No, it's true. Like, I mean, especially with this type of information, you want to have some kind of legitimate science backing of it, right? I agree, but not everyone does. And so I would think about like for your personal brand, for your professional brand, for your LinkedIn. Yeah. Like, for example, if you want to get a job in a tech startup, do not be in a suit.
100%, that's a great point. So you should be in the clothes that you wanna wear at your ideal job. So tell us about that. Let's talk about, before I even jump into that, I'm gonna forget why do people when they see each other and they don't know somebody, they get into that intimate zone by doing that face to face kissing or that hugging. When they don't even know them, it's like uncomfortable. If you're someone who doesn't like to be touched or anything else, isn't that too just
Like you just, it's just like you're you're just assuming and it's like makes it can they have that just be kept it give you the opposite effect. So here's the thing humans are super curious creatures. Again to see words I just love. Yeah. Here's what happens is we meet someone.
Even if we don't know them, we really want to know, we want to assess you out. And so when we get close, we're producing oxytocin to see, do I like this person? But we're also looking for pheromones. We're also judging, is this my person smell wise? I'm going to tell you, we're really discussing two disgusting studies. Okay. But these change the way that I think about touch.
They did a study where they that exact question like why humans evolved to handshake it seems crazy more than that and people are now constantly coming up to me kissing both you and i'm like i don't even know you and you're like why would humans it's very dangerous we don't really know someone that will to allow them into a stranger why would you do it.
And then you feel like, and then for the other person, it puts them in a situation where they feel like they're being rude if they step away. So then you just have to go about that. And then everything becomes, you're putting yourself in an awkward situation. But it's primal. Here's the problem. It is so primal. That's why like, it's hard not to do this because what they did, that was exactly the question they were wondering.
So what Pink did is they found that what happens when you handshake someone is, you can decide about four of the five personality traits for my handshake alone. So blind handshake, you can tell about someone's extra version, you can tell about their gribbleness, you tell how organized they are. So first, you can tell a lot about a person by their handshake. Tell us about mine. Let me shake your head. Okay. Okay. So I would say that you are ambitious, organized,
Extroverted by my handshake by your handshake. Yeah, because what was my handshake to you firm? Okay quick, and you only pumped me once Let me give you I'm gonna give you the office at handshake Okay, I'm you're gonna see how you're gonna see me as different right? I mean you that I just gave you my real handshake I'm gonna give you a handshake that is not my personality. You're gonna be like whoa it feels really different
Okay, because I've heard that this, I wanted to say one thing. We all know that that like, you know when you like give someone a handshake and they give you that like dead fish, that dead fish. I'm like, that person is so good to turn off. I'm going to give you that fish. You're not going to like it. Okay. That's like all horrible. Now I'm going to give you the other one. Okay. We're going to know the other way. You're going to be like, well, that's so different. Ready? Okay. Okay.
Oh my God, that's like, people do that. I'm always like, wow. It's like there's so it's so don't you think of me differently? 100% 100. Okay, what does that say? So tell us about this. Okay. Okay. So so first we learn a lot about someone from a handshake. So mind the one pump.
I mean, you know what? I don't even want to do. I don't even want to tell people because I don't want you to change who you are. No, I don't. I think it's brilliant. You just know who you are and own it. And it's okay. That means although I don't be dead fish. Okay. Let's go over this again. So mine is. Would you say ambitious, ambitious, extroverted and organized, organized? Yes.
Dead fish is when it's very, very loose and limp, and we see someone is like a pushover, can't get stuff done, probably timid, and probably not organized. I also think that they're like, they're probably just lame. Like, I mean, who does that? And lame. Like, who does that? Like lame. And also completely unaware of, like, socially and self unaware. Like, how do you not know that's a shitty handshake, right? You'd be shocked.
Okay, like someone listening is like, oh, I have a dead fish handshake. Change it. Change it. Okay, so here's what's crazy about this study. It's firstly found out you could find out a lot about someone from their handshake. What's the other one? You didn't tell us the third one. The sturdy one. Oh, you're really sturdy. When I like really, I may hand you, I like really strong and I fast pumped you. Yeah, you should. So I took over the handshake as that's dominant, right? It's very imposing. It's very powerful. It's like, um, it's not even organized. It's like hyper focused. Like you probably thought like, whoa, she gets it done. Yeah.
Right. Yes. And so I, I quick pumped you and I, and I held harder and I also pulled you a little bit closer to me. Yes. Yeah. Even we can do is here, give me a good girl's do that to me. I'm very like, well, I'm, I'm always like very like, like put, like put back a little bit or like kind of like that. I kind of like it. But when guys do, I'm like, wow, that guy is like, oh, I love when people like dominate. Yeah. I like that. Like that's like, oh, he's a guy. I like girls and guys too. I like, I like both. I'm like, yeah.
Because when a girl does a straw, oh my god, I'm into it. It's so intense. I'm so into it. You were squeezing so hard. So the other thing that can happen is this. So if I turn you up, this is a very submissive position. It's very weak for me. And so I'm saying you're in charge versus if I were to do this to you, that should not feel good.
That's saying, I'm in charge. There's certain politicians who do this, so if you've seen the politicians, you go like this, and they pull you close, and they go like that. That means you're in charge. So if your palm is up, you're in charge. If you're showing your very weak part of your hand, that means you're submissive.
But you're saying, I'm weak to you. Also, there's more pheromones that come out here. So a lot of times women will be like, oh, it's so good to meet you. Yes, to like be sort of like, I'm showing like my intimate space versus like, hey, nice to meet you, which is like much more I'm in charge. So that's the handshake signs. But what this study found, which I think is insane.
is in the 10 to 20 seconds after someone hand-shaped, some point in the interaction, they would touch their own nose. And they hypothesize that we like to smell what the other person's hand smelled like. And I cannot tell you, now that I know this, you'll never really all learn that. Now when I hand-take people, I have to say, don't touch my nose, don't touch my nose, don't touch my nose. Don't touch my nose, don't touch my nose. Like it just happened now where I was like, don't touch my nose. Because it's actually a human instinct, I swear, to shake hands and then touch your own nose.
Because we want to smell it.
I love this. So you want to see how the other person smells. For fair, but wow. And hormones, and you can learn a lot about a person by smell. It's totally subconscious. Here's another, the other example I share about this in my TED Talk, which I think was one of the reasons the TED Talk did so well, because it's so disgusting. Is they had two groups of people come into the lab, the first group ran on the treadmill wearing sweat pads. They caught their sweat. The second group skydive for the first time wearing sweat pads.
They took the sweat pads, both looked identical, but two different kinds of sweat, and they had participants smell them. Disgusting, right? I hope they paid them really well. And FMRI machines. They found that when people smelled the fear sweat, the skydiving sweat, they began to feel afraid, even though they had no idea what they were smelling. When they smelled the runner sweat, they felt nothing at all.
So what this means is that when we are afraid, it creates a certain kind of smell and it's actually catching. It's contagious. So I think one of the reasons why we insist on cheek kissing is we're like, are you afraid? Really? A little bit. This is like silence of the land. It's so creepy. It's so creepy. Another favorite. See what I'm just joking. Yeah. No, no, no. But that's what we're sussing out because we don't want to catch it.
Very highly charismatic people are so confident. They are sending signals of confidence and we walk that confidence. We want to catch it. When someone is low confident, when they're sterile, when they're afraid, we don't want to catch it. True, true, true. That's such a good point.
What happens if it's not about confidence? It's about like the opposite. It's like, I don't want this rando to be like, touching me and kissing me. It's not that I'm not confident. It's just like, I don't know. I just don't want there because you don't want to talk to me. Yeah. 100%. So people who are less comfortable with touch, it's probably because they're like, I don't want to take a risk on your PBGBs.
I don't know what you're going to smell like or like, I don't know you. Yeah. Yeah. I kind of like it. Like, I kind of like to know what other people are about. Like, that's my whole job, right? I love thinking about it. It's like, I'm going to smell you. I want to get close to you. I feel your hand. Like, what do you think of that? I'm almost like gross and not like not very clean or I'm like into it. Like, I'm like, no judgment. Like, I'm like, what are you like?
What gets you going? Really? Yeah, totally. That's my job. So you think if I could, I had an experiment one time where I just, all I did in the experiment was looking people's junk drawers, their trunks of their car and their medicine cabinet. It was like the greatest three months of my life. Like it was like the best. So that would be interesting to me. Okay. I like that. But if you're kissing someone, she's just knowing people.
I guess some consciously is telling you something. Exactly. And now that I'm aware of it, this is a gross challenge for listeners. Next time you cheat, kiss someone, just smell a little bit.
like, what do you smell? I'm telling you, you're going to learn something. It's 100% true. What if you, like, I guess, and do we even know ourselves, like what we think of that smell? Like, if it could be very nondescript sometimes. I also think it's super subconscious. Like, even I've known, I've known about this research for almost a decade. Like, I've known about it. And even still, I'm trying to say people out. So I just try to, like,
like take someone in, like I take in their handshake and I try to think like what just pops into my head because I don't know exactly what it is, but I know there are certain things that will pop into my head that I'm like, interesting. That is so interesting. I'm like fascinated by it. It's so weird though, but it is less weird than that. I promise. No, no, no, it's actually.
I love all this stuff. There's also something else that I heard that gestures are way bigger than words, right? It's like way more impactful than words. Yes. So there's a beautiful researcher, Susan Goldametta, who wrote a book called Hearing Gesture. And basically her argument in all of her research is that gesture isn't just like extra. Like we kind of think of it as like fluff. Like we don't really think about it, but actually gesture is critically important to our comprehension, both as a speaker and as a listener.
and that some gestures carry 400% more information than words. Like, for example, if I were to say I have a really big idea and I hold up like I'm holding a little a quarter, you're like, that doesn't look very big at all. You're actually more likely to believe my hand. Same thing with if I were to say, I have three different things I want to tell you, but I hold up the number five.
You're like, no, it's five. You're actually more likely to believe my hand. So our brain actually gives a lot of weight to gestures. Yet, we don't think about our gestures. And so one of the experiments we did in our lab, I've always been interested in gesture, is we watched and coded thousands of hours of TED Talks looking for pattern. And we found that the most popular TED Talkers, by view count, use an average of 465 gestures in 18 minutes.
It's a huge amount of gesture, whereas the least popular TED Talker is using an average of 272 gestures, almost half. And the reason for this is when we are listening to a speaker and they know their content really well, they're outlining their content along with their words. And so when we're thinking about presenting an idea, telling a story on a date, showcasing our smarts, actually the best way that we can underline that is being like, I know my content so well.
I'm going to tell you this point, number one, and this point, number two. And I tell you, it's this big or it's this big, like we're, it's like, wow, they're so congruent. Their gestures are literally punctuating their words. I'm glad that you mentioned that Ted, the TED talks. So I know you did a bit, you did a bunch of studies on that and also shark tank, which I'll get to in a second. So give me some other cues or points of why what you noticed when you did all your research with the TED talks.
Yes. Actually, this brings us right back to which I forgot about, which is vocal power. I wrote that down voice because the gestures and the voice are so much more powerful than we don't use the actual word you use. Yes. Like, I always think of these as opportunities. Like, imagine you work so hard on your ideas and your presence, your makeup, your hair, your clothes. Imagine if you just added these, it's like supercharging your charisma. So gestures is one, vocal power was the other very clearly in that there is like a TED talk sound. So I'm going to do it for you so you can hear it.
There is vocal cues that we use. So vocal cues are voice, volume, pace, cadence that make us judge someone's charisma levels, their warmth, their confidence. So like for example, all the best head talks start like this.
Today, I have a big idea. I'm gonna break it down into three areas that are gonna change your life. And when they get to a statistic, they say, and now that took giant percent, giant percent. And you go, wow, that's a big percent. Like they even cue you of when you should be wowed. That is so interesting. So, wait, cause my TED talk did very, very well. Yes.
And I started with, I wish I just walked it. I wish you watched it. I know I was down. I know I know. Did you use that voice? I started it by saying, yeah, do the beginning for me. Okay.
So I know the secret to getting anything you want in life. You did it. So we were just talking back and forth. You'd be like, I know the secret to getting anything you want in life. But you said it in Ted Talk voice. So I know the secret to getting anything you want in life. That's a Ted Talk voice. You did it. So if you tell you think, because when I was like, when I did my Ted Talk. Yeah.
I left there thinking oh my god i bombed right like so many things went wrong i had no time my hands and i was like i i was so nervous that my mind but i had like cotton mouth i was like i they had to like restart it for me i'm like stop because i need some water i could not even like if there are so many like like foibles that happened.
That's good, though. What I'm thinking, I'm curious, but is it because there were so many foibles that I came across very real? That people maybe were like, ah, that would happen to me, that big loser. Here's the misconception. If you go watch the TED Talks, it didn't do well. And by the way, it didn't do well as like 20,000 views, still like a lot, right? Go watch those talks. The misconception is that those people messed up. No. The worst TED Talks sound like this.
Today, I want to talk to you about a big idea. This is a life-changing idea. The last 20 years I've spent researching has been on the marine biology life in the series of the ocean. It's so robotic and so memorized, and actually what happens is the worst head talkers, they under cue.
We're right back to where we started. They are so focused on the script. Right. They take away all the vocal charisma. They take away all their gestures. They stand there with their hands limped by their sides. In the microphone, we're citing a script.
Right. And you're right. Because they all memorize. And there's no gestures. So actually the foibles, the vulnerability, we like speakers who use a conversational tone, a conversational stage tone, because we're like, ah, we could be having coffee with them. That feels really real. So all the best, sometimes you're like, Brene Brown, Simon Cinek, they're not that rehearsed. Now they might have been actually rehearsed. But when they're talking on stage, Ken Robinson, it sounds like they're joking around at your dinner table. It does not sound like today.
is the speech of my lutz, like they're not talking like that. So our vocal power one is not scripted, not under queuing, adding lots of emotion, including foibles, including vulnerability. And second, and this is what they all have, is they use the lowest end of their natural tone. So the other mistake the worst tautakers make is they would start on a really high tone like this.
Say to walk on stage, hey, everyone. Good morning. Today, I really want to talk to you about a big idea. And you're like, no, I cannot listen. That's so true. Click away. So the tone that you give is one of the most important parts of our vocal confidence.
Is that the tone? Do you know that girl Elizabeth Holmes? Oh, let me talk. Let's talk about Elizabeth Holmes. Okay. Okay. So this research is pretty well established that lower tones for both men and women are seen as high as seen as higher in confidence. Goes flying. Yeah. Sorry. Sorry. Say that one more time. I want that to be like said properly with me listening. Yes.
So it's pretty well established research that people with lower tones are seen as higher in confidence. In fact, research has found that it takes about 500 milliseconds of hearing someone speak to decide how confident they are.
It's incredibly fast. Literally your first word, that's when someone decides how confident you are. And it's usually based on the tone. I think that study came out in the early 2000s. I think Liz with Holmes read that study. You think so? I do. I think she read it and she went, wow, great. This is the clearest link to confidence we have. Women need to be taken more seriously. I'm going to take this study and I'm going to go solo that no one can question my confidence and my competence. So what she did is she went too low.
She went to really low down here, so she was talking like this. The problem is we all can hear the inauthenticity and it's actually distracting. So when she was talking, it was like, what is happening with her voice? So I think she wrote that study and took it one step too far. Well, what's interesting, though, is she did raise almost a billion dollars.
with that voice. She did. And she was like a kid from Stanford, right? It worked. It worked. It worked. It worked. So what is interesting is, again, that's cute gone wrong. But these are cues that actually, it may be a cue gone wrong, but these cues are so subliminal that even if you know what's happening, it's happening. It still happens. And like, investors and employees would say, her voice sounded weird, but boy, did she sound like she knew she was talking about it. Well, 100%. Like, first of all, does anyone have any video or
Yeah. Has anyone ever heard her speak before the Theranos? Yes. I've listened to many of them. I did a little breakdown of Theranos. Yes. You can find clips of her on a podcast or her voice is much higher. It was. Oh, my gosh. Obviously higher. Yes. Obviously. Absolutely. And also employees have said that when she was drunk,
She would speak. I saw that on the special on her. By the way, if you want to hear the perfect example of her low voice, go listen to the first one minute of her TED talk. It's bizarre. Like it's so low and it's hulty. How do you stay that low for so long? Oh my gosh. It must have been like exhausting for maybe that's why she wore a turtleneck. It's like it's exactly her vocal cords. Totally. So in your first few lines of your video call, of your phone call, of your date,
You do not want to go, Hi, that is the mistake that we all make is we take in a deep breath and we say hello on the upper part of our breath. So we say, so good to see you. So I hate that. So we listen to recordings in our lab. We listen to recordings of phone calls of sales pitches of negotiations. And always the highest note someone has is their very first word, which is so sad because that means all of their confidence is giving away in their very first words. People go, Hey, it's so good to hear from you.
It's true, but the problem is it's like a very weird blend because you're trying to be warm with a warm cue. You want to come across open and nice. Yeah. So you go high, of course, right? Remember that a high voice tone is not warm. A high voice tone just means excited.
So like, for example, we talked to babies, we talked to puppies. Yeah. Hello, little one. How are you? Excitement, not warmth. So warmth comes from vocal warmth. So listen to the difference. Local warmth is we hear happiness. We hear compassion. We hear smiling and actually smiling changes the sound of our voice. We did this in our lab where we had actors come in and record different halo's. So we had them do their normal hello. Hello. Then we had them think of something that made them happy. Make a smile and say, hello.
So this is the difference with that. So this is my neutral hello. Hello? Here's my happy hello. Hello? Like you can literally hear it in my voice. By your smiling. Yes. Even if it feels like a fake smile, it doesn't matter. You can still hear it.
Wow, okay. Right, because the shape of my mouth, again, we're very subconsciously aware of these cues. Yeah. We don't have to think twice about it, but if I were to answer the phone and be like, hello, I all sound very excited to hear from you. No, you don't. I just sound miserable, actually. It would be like, ew.
Right. I actually would come across as less likable. We literally studied this in our lab. People rated the smiling halos as more likable. We asked people to listen to these halos. They had no idea what they were listening to. And they didn't know the person was smiling and they rated the person as more friendly, more likable if they want to hang out with them. So when I hear hello.
You much more want to hang out with me just by even that fake smile. So are there are there? And I think you talk with in this book or the other book about smiling in general. Yes. What smiles are the most impactful or the most powerful to get what you want. So there's a smiling. It's funny because it's sort of gotten a bad rap.
the last few years like it's horrible to be told to smile like no one likes that. So I try really hard to not give that advice. So what I would say is either smile for real or don't smile at all. Here's why. Dr. Barbara Wild and her researchers found that when they showed people pictures of fake smiles and real smiles and the differences in a real smile are
upper cheek muscles are activated. So it goes all the way up into our eyes of these upper cheeks, right? Those upper cheek muscles are activated. And by the way, only one in 10 people can consciously activate them. So it's very hard to fake that. That means it's a real smile. We look for those upper cheek activation muscles. When it's a fake smile, it says in the bottom half of our face, right? They're not activated up here.
Like crow's feet you mean? Crow's feet, yes, and a ton of those. Crow's feet are fantastic. The problem is, Botox is a very complicated issue, and I'm not anti-botox, but it's important to know if you're going to do it, that it inhibits your emotional feedback loop. So when they Botox people's smile wrinkles, they actually felt less happy. When they Botox people's anger, they felt less angry. So they're actually thinking about using Botox as anger management treatment.
So again, not that very good. Yeah. They've actually found that it inhibits the anger cycle. But if you cannot make that anger expression when your eyebrows are pulled down in those vertical lines, it actually makes your body almost goes, oh, my face is in anger. I guess I'm not that angry. It literally makes you feel less angry. So there are things about using it for anger management techniques because it actually helps inhibit that loop. But for smiling, it can also inhibit your happiness. So
What Barbara Wilde found is that when we see someone with a fake smile, we do not have any mood change. When we see someone with a real smile, we catch the happiness.
So if you want to smile, make sure it's real. That makes you literally more physically memorable. It makes you more contagious. I'd rather you real smile or no smile. A fake smile doesn't do much. Okay. Give me some other cues like that. That goodness. There's so many. I know. Give me, there's like a bill. I mean, I'm trying to fake it. Oh, I want to ask you about power posing. Yes. Because, you know, it was that Amy Cottie who did this whole thing. Yes. Wasn't that kind of
I heard that people... There was some faulty science behind it. And the power posing is not actually something that you can use as... Come out defending her work. So I highly recommend if you're interested in really learning about it, she's come out with a defense of her work and explanation of what happened. So it hasn't been totally debunked. There was some fuzzy science in there, but she's come out. So it has not been debunked.
She insists that her science was whole. I'll leave it up to you to decide and you can go read her rebuttal. What is good to know, though, I don't know how accurate it is that power posing completely changes your testosterone. That was a big leap. That was the biggest leap in her research. I also think I love power posing, but you can't walk into a meeting.
with your hands above your head. I like the idea of it, but I actually like to take it down a notch, which is just a very simple, my version of a power pose is actually just expansive posture, which very simply, the only distance that I care about, I don't care if your arms are up, I don't care if you're claiming space. That doesn't matter to me. All that I care about is the distance between your earlobe and your shoulder.
The distance is my favorite distance on the human body. Okay, really? This is the distance in your ear and your shoulder. Okay, why? Why? When we are anxious or defeated, we tend to roll our shoulders up. We tend to sink our head down. We often tilt our head down. People who are really ashamed will often have no space between their ears and their shoulders. It makes us feel very protected. And so you'll notice you were really anxious. We'll sit like this, like teenagers will be like,
You know, where any space right here, whereas confident people, they want to claim their space. They roll their shoulders down and back. They usually use armrests. They usually have their torso open. They have their head up and out and their chin up. So the only distance that I care about that's the most important on video calls on profile pictures is I want this distance to be as big as possible that you're not like this in your profile pictures. It was like the worst because it literally shows low confidence that you're not going to start your video call.
Hi. Good to see you.
And that's what people do in their first impressions. They accidentally creep their shoulders up. Hey, everyone could see you. That's a great point. So if you keep your shoulders down and head up and that's for everything, not just, again, this is for like LinkedIn profiles, LinkedIn profile, video calls, video calls in person, how you wave hello, how you walk into a room, how you carry your stuff. I mean, oftentimes I'll see you with their laptop, right? And they have it like tightly in front of their chest with their shoulders hunched up. And I'm like, what are you doing?
Wow, you look small. So that distance is the only power pose, quote unquote, power pose distance that I care about. That's actually the most impactful for your perceived confidence. But you said, okay, so when you said we were when you were kind of imitating that one, how about a head tilt? I heard it. I used, I thought you, I love head tilt. Yeah, you like head tilt. Yeah. So isn't that still the ear to show? So let's do the difference.
I'm going to do a head tilt that I like. A head tilt is in a universal sign of warmth. It's a universal sign of engagement. It shows I'm listening. So if I head tilt, I still have lots of distance. Mostly, I'm just exposing my ear. And you see that as, ah, she's listening. She's open versus right now. So you don't shrug those ear. You don't shrug those shoulders up. And that also makes it really hard to have vocal power.
So if I were to try to give an entire podcast interview like this, you would actually hear it in my voice. It actually sounds smaller. It sounds weird. Exactly. Because you can hear it. We don't like people who take up little space. But the moment that I add more space, you go, oh, that's better. That is 100% true. Yeah. OK, how about this? I've got so many, but like, can I even add? I love it. I feel so OK. But how about, I haven't known here, but I don't remember why the walk. There's like about a walk here. You could tell a lot by someone's walk.
I mean, I don't remember why I had it down here. I don't know, but you can tell some, but there's not, it's funny, there's bio-emotional has some interesting things about walking, but I didn't even include that in the book because it's hard to learn it. It's hard to change your... Yeah, maybe I heard that. Maybe I mentioned the book that like having movement in your walk, like not having like your arms really stiff, like the more movement you take up. Maybe more movement in the walk. Maybe more movement in the walk. Yeah, that was probably what... Okay, so let's get back to the other stuff you're saying. So for the video calls, how about in terms of emailing and texting people?
Yeah, so the last, the second last chapter in the book is on verbal, right? Because so much of our communication is emailed. Right. What we're fighting in verbal is sterile.
meaning a lot of our communication has gotten so sterile that our words mean nothing. So we send emails like, hey, our meeting is planned for next week. I'll prepare the proposal for you and I'll get all the information over to you. Talk to you next Tuesday. Right? Like we get those emails all the time. It's hard to reply to them. We're burnt out and texting also and texting also, right? Hey, are we still on for next Tuesday? Mm hmm.
Right, right. We get those all the time. The problem is, is in terms of our brain, our brain needs more cues. If we have taken out all the cues from our body language in an email, we have no body language in an email, we have no facial expressions in an email, we have no voice turn in an email, we better make our verbal cues pretty powerful. Right. And so that's why we're so burnt out on email. That's why people might respond slowly to your emails is there's not enough cues. It's like under signaling. Right. So what I like to think about is adding warmth and competence to your emails, to your texts.
Can we text also? Yes, absolutely. So when we are getting a text or email for someone or reading a LinkedIn profile, we're also trying to see warmth and competence. It doesn't go away in communication. So I had a little LinkedIn profile. Actually, I say that we did in our lab, we had people come into our lab. I felt bad for these participants. They had no idea what was coming for them.
Yeah. And we had them take our charisma diagnostic to see where they were on warmth and competence. By the way, that's up for free. You can get whatever you want. It's ncbel.com slash charisma. So take it as many times as you want. So then take that. It's like a, you know, 10 question questionnaire to see where they were on warmth and competence. Then we asked them to open up their email sent folder. And we looked at their last five emails sent.
And we counted the number of warm words, the number of competent words. So warm words are words that are like the warm and fuzzies. Happy, best together, collaborate, open, emojis are warm, exclamation points are warm. Words like, wow, yay, fab, whoop. Those are all warm words. They make us feel like, ooh.
Wow. I like this person. But emoji, doesn't it kind of also, yeah, it takes away the people. You don't feel a person's confident. They feel like it's friendly. You feel like it's too like cutesy. It's all friendly. So we counted the number of warm words and we counted the number of competent words. Competent words are words that make you want to get it done.
productive, efficient, brainstorm, power through goal, win, achieve, success, master, those kinds of words, statistics, numbers, prices, charts, graphs, right? So those are all competence. We count them all up and we could almost exactly predict where someone was on the Christmas scale, based on the kind of words they use.
So someone was highly charismatic. They had a perfect balance of warmth and competence. If someone was highly warm, they used a ton of emojis and a ton of exclamation points. If someone was super competent, they had either nothing at all or lots of statistics and big words. Wow. So in your text and your emails, you want to balance number of warmth and confidence words.
Now, is that for personal and professional? I think so, right? Like I want to be seen as charismatic in all my relationships. Now, on emails that don't matter, like emails where it's purely logistics, sure, you don't need to do it, right? Like these are the emails that matter to you. Like the email is like to your boss or client or an important email to your best friend. So it's not that you have to use them in every email. Like you wouldn't be like, have the perfect hand gestures when you're trying to talk to your husband about the weekend plan.
Okay, well, if you want to, if you want to text back from a guy that you like or want to use it, right? So give us an example of what you, what you should do and what you shouldn't do. Okay. Okay. So, um, what I wouldn't do is are we still on for tonight?
Right, which is like often the text that you get. Yes, sterile. They're like, I'm just making this up before. Hi, you know, I don't know how you say like, don't even say things that are like social scripting. Like, how is your day? Agreed. Yeah. Oh, agreed. So like, for example, I'm, I live in Texas, right? Yeah, I might be like howdy. Yeah.
Okay, just to be a little different, you know, cute. Um, uh, and I may be like, so instead of are we on for tonight? Howdy. So excited for tonight. Still looking good.
So that's very different because I'm giving an interesting howdy and an interesting opener. I'm saying so excited for tonight. So it's a little dopamine word. Excited is a great dopamine word. It's almost like a charisma word. It's perfectly warm and confident. And then I'm like, it's still looking good for tonight. Still looking good for tonight is such a good psychological sentence. Right. Cause you're basically saying, I'm looking good. Are you looking good? Yeah.
I love it. Okay, if you don't live in Texas, what do you do? What do you write? A little chow? What if it's not a bunch of plants? Give me another one. That's not flat. And but you don't have to like use all of our owners. You can, but like, yeah, you don't have to use howdy or a little hard chow or whatever. They're great. Yeah. If you can, they're fantastic. If you want someone to respond to you, that's not like, if you don't have plans, but you want them to engage. It's using words that are going to wake people up. So it's not like, how's your day going?
Right. So boring. It's what's good today. We're like, even just like that very small switch, asking someone, how are you? You're going to get good, busy. Exact or nothing. Or nothing. Right. Asking someone, what's good? What's good? You're going to get like, oh, what's good? What's good? What's good? Well, you know, I've just had a beautiful cup of coffee. Me too. We should get one together next week.
Right like it's using more being a little safer like you'd be i mean listen you could be a great like matchmaking coach do you know what back in the day matchmaking was like my dream career and i would like love it all i would love it to i would like i would do personality assessment some people i would do by language now by the way i'm getting to that don't even think you're getting away spot free i didn't even get to the hard stuff yet.
I'm going to throw all this up and I will. No, not. Listen, I'm going to do the stuff that's like, you know, very tactile for people who are going to be for work for business. Like, okay, so be hard one emails. Okay. Well, first of all, I have a button. I want to talk about like even how, um, and I want to talk about the shark tank pitches. Like you analyze like 500 of them, right?
And you notice which ones, why the ones that did well versus not? Yes. Okay, talk about that. And then I want to get into the, I want to get into the science of personality, knowing like even like opposites, like if you're a neurotic person, seeing with, I found that stuff so interesting. So interesting. That would be bad to making stuff for sure. Like, we start taking, and also just like in terms of like relationships in general, 100%
It like if you're in one and it's not working and why it's not working. I think that was fascinating when I heard you. I mean, the personality stuff is the basis of all of our relationships, right? Okay. Start taking the personality. Is that good? Perfect. Yeah. I mean, I have all these other things. I want to talk about the interruptor, which I've interrupted you.
No, we're talking. It's great. Okay. Um, that's a shark tank and the science of popular. Oh my gosh. Well, you got to pick which one are we going to do? Do this shark tank, but do it quickly so we can move on. Okay. Don't stay on it forever. Okay. Okay. Okay. So we analyzed 495 pitches on shark tank looking for patterns. Very, very simply. The biggest pattern was dopamine. In other words,
The pictures that created some kind of interaction were the ones that did best. So they thought of some reason to pass out a sample, to touch, to go into the shark's intimate space. Because in the shark, take a remember, they're all seven feet away. It's really hard to bomb a sun when you're in the public zone. So we found that what would happen is they would cleverly think of ways to go very briefly into the shark's intimate zone or personal zone, and they immediately had more oxytocin.
And you noticed the ones that did that. They were much more likely to get a deal. And also, when they walked in, they did something. Their first impressions were really strong, so they had a grand entrance. Maybe that's what you meant by walk. Maybe. They were walking in. So, like, from the very first moment that you saw them, they were walking and they were taking up space. They had lots of space between their ears and their shoulders. Oftentimes, they would use some sort of a greeting hand gesture, like they would wave to a shark or say, good morning, sharks.
There's something about it. Exactly. There's something about, we like to be acknowledged. Sharks like it too. So when someone was like, today I'm gonna pitch you an idea with no hand gestures, no open palm. We love an open palm. So that was like the biggest takeaway. Open palm, some kind of greeting, some kind of interaction, any opportunity you can have to go into someone's personal space or social space, not intimate. The social space, you're gonna produce more opportunities for connection. So walking in doing some kind of hand gesture was a big one. Open palm, yep, having some kind of interaction if you can and having a greeting.
Good to see you sharks. So happy to be here. Today, I have a great deal for you. How about one that? Was there anything about like, I noticed a lot of them when they, I love that show, by the way. So good. Yeah. Um, when they hone in on one particular shark, like, Oh, is that purposeful? Yeah, we also found that if shark would say something like, you remind me of myself almost
always they were going to get a deal eventually. So there was something to like, like picking your target and giving them extra eye contact, extra nods, answering their questions first, right? Like, so it's good to have like a pick, like a target, same thing in dating, I think too. Like it's always good to have like a target that you're going after as opposed to like, I will date anyone. No, you want to date the right person.
Exactly. Okay. I know what I want to ask you before we moved on to these other things, which I think is really important is the priming, how you prime people. So that's exactly what we're talking about with the words. So like when you mention words like collaborate, people are more likely to be collaborative. So that's the definition of that thing. Priming is when you set up people's behavior by priming them with the right cues, like a wall primer, right? Like you prime a wall so the paint is stickier.
Words can prime interactions. So if I have an email or a text where I'm like, I'm so excited for tonight. Are we still looking good? Right. I am priming for excitement and good looking.
Yeah. Good. Look at it. So I love that. And then what was the other? Oh, yeah. Oh, with her personality. Yeah, that was okay. We'll do it. Well, personality is a very big topic. I know, but I found it. You want to pick your favorite? I just find it to be so fascinating. Like why certain relationships do well versus not? And like, yeah.
with the, again, if you, when you have this information, and also this can be like professional relationships. Oh, no, actually the book I give example, more professional relationships, even though it's really important for personal relationships. Right, because you could still, it's the same trait to apply, right? 100%. So let's talk, can you talk about that? Yes. So there's a lot of personality.
tests out there. Enneagram is very popular right now, disk is very popular right now, Myers-Brigg. Those are all fine, but they're just not super backed up in research. Doesn't mean they're not true. They just haven't been replicated over large populations. The one that has is the big five. The big five is replicated over and over again. It's like the standard in academic community for personality. And I basically have said that there are five personality traits that everyone has, and you're either high, medium, or low on each of them. They're like a spectrum.
So openness is how you approach ideas, creativity, conscientiousness is your organization, your approach to details, extraversion. So it's ocean, O-C-E-A-N. So I'm extraversion, how you approach people, agreeableness, how you approach cooperation and teamwork, and my favorite neuroticism, how you approach worry.
And so like, for example, I think you were saying something about like even some like what this is the piece of information I saw, like you're saying, if you're one person who's very open, like you want to try like a taco stand, like down the street, right? Kind of like get to like, if you want to like become, you know, fast friends with someone at a conference, right? Yes. You can easily see it and you ask someone else and they're like, I don't really want to go. Yes.
Those two open person needs another open person. Yes, openness is like one of the most helpful. That's why I start with it in the book, which is if you want to know how open someone is asked where they want to go for lunch. A high open person will be like, let's try somewhere new. Let's go to that new place I saw. That tells you a lot about them. That means that they're driven by new. They get bored easily. If someone's like, oh, I have my favorite place with my favorite dish, my favorite waitress, and I know exactly where to park,
That's probably a low up person. Like tradition, habit, routine, routine. The way that you would approach them for pitching a new idea, professional, let's say it professionally, is very different. So a high open person, if I have a high open client, I'm pitching on new. I have a great new idea for you. You're going to love it. It's going to completely change the way you interact. A high open person is like turned on by that. They're like, yes, a new way to interact.
A little person is like, no, I don't want a new way to interact. I'm interacting just fine. Thank you very much. If it ain't broke, don't fix it. A little person I would say, listen, you're doing a great job of what you're doing. I have one little tweak that's going to make things easier for you. It's proven by research. It's proven by other people. And if you make this one small change, it will help everything else be so much easier for you.
How do you know if someone is or not? Oh, that's how they want to go for lunch. Yeah. Yeah. That's exactly a great one. But if you're not having lunch though, or like even in a... So we have a research on our website which has like, I call them behavioral questions or like questions you can ask to like, suss out someone's personality. So like, things like, where do you want to go for lunch? Things like, what do you, what do you do this weekend?
I hope in person like, oh, you know, there's this festival that we heard about like literally so I'm high open literally this weekend. I just got confirmation of my tickets. I'm so excited to a fairy festival. I'm taking my daughter. I never been before. It's the piano gardens and it's literally a fairy figurines and trees.
It sounds amazing. I don't know if it's going to be amazing, but I can't think of it. So now we're going to do that before, but my high openness, but that would tell you that I'm into high openness. High openers that they're trying something new. They're doing something new. A low open person is like, Oh, well, every Friday I have dinner with my family. Saturdays, we always do pancake breakfast. Usually we have movie night, we're going to do a regimen, teen regimen. So that's going to suss out.
I was the other ones that you said they're not great. They're not compatible though. You said highly neurotic or hyaluronics and lunar products are great together. So hyaluronics, they can bounce to their out really well. They found research shows that two low conscientious people in a marriage have financial problems. Totally. That makes sense.
Don't want to pay the bills. So does it make sense? Okay. So is it true that opposites attract or not always? Not always. That's a cliche that isn't always true. Like sometimes high and low people drive each other crazy. Like actually, that's a really hard one in a marriage because high open people are like, let's try some more. Yeah. For sure. That was really hard. So that one's hard opposites, but low and high inerotics do well together typically. Not always, but typically. Yeah. High and low contest people drive each other crazy. The high conscious person is like, pick up your socks.
Yes, just freaking pick up your socks and the little consciousness person is like my pile of our organization. What if you have a high conscientious, but low open it? Like what if you have like, oh, yeah, that's right. And that's the dynamics of marriages.
Right? Like you can tell, you can solve so much dynamics of a marriage if you know people's personality traits and personality ratings. So for example, if someone is, if I know, like I have, I do the personality matrix for everyone in my life, right? I know everyone in my life's ocean and they know mine too, by the way.
Because if I'm like, OK, I have an employee, let's say, where I give them their personality test before I start, and they are high in openness. OK, great. They're going to want the new projects. I should give them new stuff, not as much old routine. They're going to get really bored, right? And they're high conscientious. I cannot casually assign them a project.
I have to make sure that if I was on the project, I am ready to go with details. So like, for example, I have a high-conscious employee. And if I were to say, hey, next week, I really want to talk about you coding our YouTube videos. She'd be like, OK, how do I do that? Is there a tutorial that I can watch? When do you want me to do that Tuesday mornings or Monday mornings? And if I don't have those answers for her right then and there it creates anxiety.
So that way, knowing your people and how they're ready, you can predict what their needs are. Right. That's why I think this is so important to stuff. To me, I think there's just- And in matchmaking, if I was ever going to be a matchmaker, I would try to match people who I think are going to help each other. Some opposites are helpful. Low neurotic and high neurotic, they're helpful. Low conscientious high conscious, they can drive each other crazy, but they can also help the other. A low conscientious person can help a high conscientious person be more spontaneous.
and that high-conscious person can help a low-conscious person be more organized. That can work if you're willing to learn. I feel like a lot of this stuff, though, there's always, of course, it's never an exact thing, but I find this to be so helpful in just in terms of personal relationship, understanding this stuff.
That is what took anxiety away from me, right? Like my anxiety, my awkwardness comes from not understanding, not knowing, not knowing how to help my husband, not knowing how to predict my friend's needs, disappointing them. So when I felt like I had so much relief when I learned the personality matrix, cause I was like, oh, I know what she's gonna want because here's where she is. You don't even seem awkward. I can't, you keep on saying that. I am, ask my high school friend, they'll tell you. Really? Cause you don't have any. There's no one to ask, but yeah.
Come on. Well, that goes into the science of popularity. Yes. What makes somebody popular? It's funny. Yes, this is a great, this is like a great kind of sum up of everything we've talked about, which is under signaling is bad. If there's one thing you're going to take away from this interview is under queuing, under signaling, holding back is bad. It never serves you. It gets you into the danger zone. Same thing with popularity.
So they want to talk about the danger zone. The danger zone is when we're sterile, that's when we're not warm or competent. We're not sending enough cues. And that's what I call the danger zone. It's like, that's when people will dismiss you. And so people feel like they can't quite get a read on you. You're not warm or competent. Same thing in popularity. They wanted to know what makes kids popular. Now, what's funny about this, if you were to think about what makes kids popular, what would you guess? I know you know the answer to this. So what would you have guessed?
Um, I would have, I would have guessed people who are of course, open, um, that are actually a lot of it would be openness, um, friendly, friendly. Uh huh. Um, has an ease. Yeah. Yeah. Like, like, like casual, easy going. Yeah. I also would have probably guessed pretty or handsome. Oh, you're talking about Kate for girl. Okay. For girls, I would say pretty. Uh huh. For boys, I would say athletic.
Right. So that's what most people think. Yeah. But actually when they looked at it and they did this across multiple schools, they had all the kids basically rate and rank each other and tell who their connections were so they could see literally who were the most popular kids. What they found, there was one difference. It didn't have to do with GPA. It didn't have to do with athleticism. It didn't have to do with prettiness. They also had them all ranked for attractiveness as well. Wow. It had to do with the most popular kids had the longest list of people they liked.
The most popular kids had the longest list of people they liked. In other words, to be popular, you have to work on liking more people.
Not being pretty, not getting people like you. They had the longest list of people that they liked. Why is that and how is that? They found that those are the kids that would walk down the hallway and smile first, nod first, wave first. They were the kids who would say, hey, come sit with us. Like a Ferris Bueller. Exactly. Friends with everybody. And so like, that's, I think, the war, what I, my work, my mission in this world is trying to fight against holding back. Like, if you like someone, just say you like them.
If you're with someone, assume that you're going to like them, right? I would always rather assume liking than try to be protective or ambivalent. Really? No, I mean, I'm saying really with the popularity stuff. The more people so the people who are, because you know that whole thing about like Mean Girls, right? We're much more discretionary, discerning. Mean Girls are not the true popular girls. They're not really the popular girls.
So the people who are friend on this mean girls, they know as mean girls, but those are the groups that people want to become friends with. Now, when you did your research on science and popularity with young people, how did it change as you were getting older? No, for older people. Because you could be a not popular kid, but a super popular adult. Could you not? I don't know.
I don't, I don't think the study actually looked into adults. It was purely dangerous. It was purely dangerous. But I do think this is the same. Like I think like at work, the people who we, who we think are popular, the ones who like say hi to us first invite them and invite us out to lunch. Like they're the likeers. The ones that people like, yes, those are people I want to be with. And so when I were that city, I decided in that moment I'm going to be a likeer. I would rather say I like you and have you reject me than miss the opportunity of us liking each other.
Yeah, absolutely. And that's good information for kids to hear too, right? It's like, yes, 100%. So that's like the kind of empowering, and I tried to write the books to be safe for kids and teachers. Like there's nothing in there that would be inappropriate for them. Right. Specifically because I wish that we had had more of this kind of communication work. Like I wish that we'd had an empowering way. Super, super, like,
I think it's so empowering. You know, I wanted to talk about a couple of different things too, like how to spot a lie or things like that that I think is super valuable. Like talk about a lot of like Lance Armstrong in the book. Yeah, even like Britney Spears, you know.
Is there, can you just give a couple of different points? Sure. Of certain things, like the had a spot, a liar would be one of them. And then, well, let's just do that one. Okay. That's a very big topic. I mean, honestly, I could've wrote a book just on that. Yeah. But I was like, it's so negative. I decided to only keep it to one chapter. Right. Because I was like, I was talking to my publisher. I was like, this could be its own, yeah, science-owned book. And I was like, oh, the idea of doing a bunch of touring about how to spot that deceiver in your life. You know, I just was like, no, let's keep it to one chapter.
So we did a bunch of research in our lab on light detection. Very simply, we hadn't will submit two truths and a lie to us. Yeah, I love this so fun. It was like such a fun research to code. Two truths and a lie is a very simple game. You say two truths statements about yourself and one lie, but you try to hide which one is the lie.
And we coded them to see if we could find differences. And that was a lot of our line of detection research where we found differences in the lies. So I'll give you my favorite one, which is a vocal cue, which is that liars typically on the lying statement, they asked it. So instead of saying the statement, they went up at the end of their sentence, like they were asking a question because they weren't sure that was true.
And liars that the research proves this, academic research that liars don't believe what they're saying. So they're basically asking, do you believe me? Right. So I'll give you mine. Here's three statements about me. See if you can figure out which is the lie.
I'm from Los Angeles. I love dogs. I'm a vegetarian. You're a vegetarian. Not a vegetarian. Right. That's right. That's exactly how they went up. Just a little bit. Yeah. Exactly. That's exactly what happened. So the line made them a little nervous. So they went a little higher than mobile power. Yeah. And they often went up their sentence that they were asking you.
So that's the biggest thing. That's why. Listen for that. If you accidentally heard the question of reflection and second, make sure that I don't want to teach you how to lie better. That was the other part of this, but I don't want to teach you how to lie better. But if you believe in something, say it, like a price or a timeline, don't say the price of my service is $5,000.
Right. So the price of my service is $5,000. Because then you're, are you seeing like uncertain? Exactly. So it's more important on delivery. Negotiations asking for your raise, asking for promotion. Don't ask it. Say it.
That's a great thing. Cause when you have that voice, that octave going up, it sounds like you're asking permission. Exactly. And you're begging people to negotiate with you. People subconsciously are like, she doesn't believe what she's saying. Should I believe what she's saying? Right. Let's give me another one. Like the pursing of the lips, I know is one. Yes. Right. Pursing is another one. So lip pursing is the universal withholding queue. So we're like holding back. So like if I, um,
press my lips together into a hard line. So we found that and Lance Armstrong did this in his Larry King interview that liars will often lip purse right before or right after a lie as if to be like, don't give it away. Right. They'll be like, like mine would be. I'm from Los Angeles. I love dogs. And I'm a vegetarian.
Like, but you know what you did also? Elizabeth Holmes did that all the time. Yes, all the time. Yes, she had so many lying red flags she would give off. When you just did it and you looked like her, I'm like, oh my God. Well, if you first those lips together, that's a big one. And that's because I think she was constantly trying to hold it in. Okay, so is there any that are kind of we haven't heard before? That's like, oh, very interesting. I've heard the persing of the lips before.
Um, there's so many. There's like, I would say 14 different like red flag cues to look out for when you haven't heard of them. Like when someone's deceiving you.
I can actually give a myth, which is much more empowering. Yeah. There's a horrible myth about lie detection that when someone looks up to the left, they're lying. Yeah. When they look up to the right, they're lying. That has never been repeated in research. Really? Never been repeated. In fact, like do not use that because it will make you get false positives.
Lefties often switch. There are people who process down. There are people who process up. That's true. And so you have to be very careful of the myths. There's no Pinocchio's nose, right? Like if someone lip purses, this does not mean they're lying, right? That could be their baseline. I talk about this in the book, like how you cut yourself. So just keep in mind with that. And there's no like one single cue that means someone's lying. There's red flags. There's a cluster of red flags you can look for, but not one single cue.
Is there anything else we can go through that you wanted to kind of speak about? Let's see. The last one is that how to stop interrupting, get someone to stop interrupting. Should we do that as the last one? Yeah, absolutely. Go ahead. That's kind of my favorite one. I know I saw that one. I love that one. It's so fun. This is so practical. If you're interrupted, you have to notice. So this is if you are interrupted and you want to get someone to stop talking, this is also how you can politely interrupt, and this is also what you can do with it over talker. So it's all the same skill.
So there's three different things you can do and they go up in level of aggression, right? So level one is when someone's speaking and you want to get word and you can, I call it the fish. I call it the fish. You just open your mouth slightly. We know the universal cue of like, don't people do that naturally though? No, especially because what happens is instinctively, if we're like, I want to talk, I want to talk, we go,
We often will hold our mouth and to say, keep together. It's not your turn. It's not your turn. But that's not the opposite. You want to open your mouth. So it's. Right. So that's a very works on video too. That's a great one season. Perfect. Yeah, especially even if you're on mute, you can. What did you do on the phone? Um, I think even like.
like breathing. I'm not to say something. I'm taking any breaths about to talk. That's okay. Yes. Fish. Then the bookmark. So the bookmark is when you just hold up your hand just slightly. So like you just excuse me. It's also like a pupil like you're you're holding your hand up. So what you can do is like, I think you're just holding your hand up slightly. You can also pair them together.
That's a good one too. Yeah. And by the way, the longer someone talks, the more aggressive you can be with this, like literally like, like the higher your hand can go. Like the more egregious it is. And lastly is a touch. If someone's like so in their own world talking, you can usually anchor them with like a
Very, very quick. It works. Yeah, it works. And by the way, if you've gotten to that point, they're still not talking. This is not the person you want to be in our conversation with. Yeah. I mean, a lot of people are so completely unaware. Unaware. That's what, like, attaches the final thing, that they don't get the touch and then it'll wrap up in the next 10 seconds. This is a rude person. It's probably a narcissist. Absolutely. So is there a lot of difference between, I mean, there are traits that are narcissistic and charismatic. Are there a lot that kind of
I think that there are. I don't know too much about narcissism. I haven't done that much research on it, but I think that confidence can be so confidence is closer to narcissism than charisma, but narcissists can be charismatic. They usually very much are can be. I don't know. I would be curious to see the research if there's like a bigger overlap.
I'm looking here again because there's so many like, I didn't ask you all these other questions. Could you come back again? Yeah, of course. I come out late all the time. I'm happy to. I mean, I have all these things. We could definitely do part two because like you have so much amazing information. I'm trying to like just give like just a flavor. Hopefully we gave a lot. This is one like, I always like to kind of end interviews on this idea, which is
Yes, charisma is warmth and competence, but it doesn't mean that you have to be like a robot. Like there are 90s excuse you can choose from. So as you pick them, you get to kind of pick your recipe. And that's the fun part, right? Like we don't all want to look and sound the same. That would be horrible. So I think the fun part of is like picking the cues that make you feel good. Like that's your unique flavor. And it's like if everyone could just pick their unique flavor of charisma, I would be so happy. I mean, listen, you've been incredible as usual.
I love this stuff, but it shows, and you're super passionate about it, which makes it why it's so good. I'm not joking. You have to come back. I'm back in LA all the time. I love all the stuff. I mean, tell people, okay, her book is called Cues, and like I said, the first one's called Captivate.
amazing, informative, helpful for any form of communication, really. Where do people find you if they want to know more about you? Yes, so I read the Audible books if you like my vocal power. So you can check Audible. It's on Amazon, wherever books are sold. I think it's still in airports. And then I'm at scienceifpeople.com. So if you want to see some of my cue breakdowns, I do Britney Spears, The Rock, Justin Bieber, you can go check out my YouTube channel. I have a lot of fun on there. Amazing. Thank you so much. Thank you. Bye, everyone. Bye.
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