Inside Influence

How does your biology impact your intuition? How can understanding of neuroscience help you be a better leader? And what can a brain scan tell us about depression? Sylvia Damiano is a self described part Gloria from Modern Family and part neuroscientist. And if you think that that would make for an awe inspiring combination. It does. She has spent her career immersed in getting to grips with how o...

John Hall is the creator of one of the world's most influential influence agencies and yes that is a bit of a mouthful. The name of that agency? Influence and Co. Check them out online, they have been ranked the number one company dominating content marketing in the world. What these guys don't know about getting cut through in magazines and online isn't worth knowing. In the last few years alone...

How do you go from an idea to influence to income. Often we only hear about the two polarities. We hear about people who got a great idea, who put a lot of time and effort into building their influence with very little results. And then there's the multi-millionaires who are living in a New York loft apartment who, just last week, were living in their parents basement but then they discovered this...

Tell me what you're paying attention to. And I will tell you who you are. That's a quote from this episode's guest Alison Hill. Alison started her career as a professional psychologist or head mechanic. She likes to call it where she spent many years tweaking the minds of top performers as an in demand coach with some of the world's largest companies including BHB McDonald's. The names go on. I ac...

F or anyone looking to be an authority in their industry I can promise you that being able to stay five steps ahead of the others in your space is one of the keys.  How exactly do you track trends? Where do you look? How do you take something on the fringe of what's going on, and make it relevant to the people that you're interested in influencing? How do you use that to drive the next big ga...

I want you to imagine that for the first 30 years of your life you couldn't read. Then fast forward 10 years and imagine finding yourself at the world investment forum having been invited to facilitate 462 people. One hundred ninety three countries countless languages. And your role is to make sure that they are all heard. It's all recorded and that an agreement is found. That's the role and the h...

Former U.S. President Franklin Roosevelt once said I'm not the smartest fellow in the world but I sure can pick smart colleagues. Building a high impact community of people around you who are smarter or more experienced than you in a variety different areas is one of the largest things you can do to fast track or up the ante on your own influence. Essentially having a speed dial of your own A Team...

My next guest Chris Voss was the FBI lead kidnapping negotiator and what that means is he had to understand influence at a level and with stakes that you and I can barely imagine. During his 24 year tenure in the FBI He was trained in the art of negotiation at Scotland Yard at Harvard Law School. He is also the recipient of the Attorney General's Award for Excellence in law enforcement and has tau...