Mike Carruthers

And so help me be better at that.

I would imagine, being in the Secret Service, that you have to read body language really well when you're protecting the president.

You've got to look at how people are just moving their bodies.

So talk about that.

But if you're dealing with, say, a scammer who's good at that, who can use body language to deceive you, how do you, as a Secret Service agent or just in public, how do you spot that?

You mentioned using all of your senses, and maybe people do that instinctively, but let's dig into that and talk about what that means and what that looks like and how to maybe do it better.

The whole listening thing, you know, we've talked about that many times on the show, the importance of good listening and that generally people aren't that good at it because they want to tell their side of the story.

But talk about it from your perspective of how important that is and how to do it and silence the urge to keep talking.

Well, I love your insight, and I love the fact that it's from the field.

It's from working in the field as a Secret Service agent, where the stakes can be pretty high, and the things that you've learned, I think, are translatable to anybody.

Brad Beeler has been my guest.

He's a former Secret Service agent and author of the book, Tell Me Everything, a Secret Service agent's proven strategies for earning trust, revealing truth, and communicating with anyone.

And there's a link to his book at Amazon in the show notes.

Brad, great.

Great job.

Thank you.

Thank you so much, Mike.

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