Unstructured

Brian Ahearn is the Chief Influence Officer at Influence PEOPLE. A dynamic international keynote speaker, author, coach and consultant, Brian specializes in applying the science of influence and persuasion in everyday situations. He is one of only 20 individuals in the world who currently holds the Cialdini Method Certified Trainer® designation. This specialization in the psychology of persuasion was earned directly from Robert B. Cialdini, Ph.D. – the most cited living social psychologist in the world on the science of ethical persuasion. Brian is one of only a handful of people certified to lead the Moment Maker Workshop, which is based on Robert Cialdini’s New York Times best-seller Pre-suasion. Brian's Links Web: https://www.influencepeople.biz Twitter: https://twitter.com/brianahearn Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/IinfluencePeopleBrianAhearn And don’t forget to support the podcast by subscribing for free, reviewing, and sharing. Web: https://unstructuredpod.com/  Twitter: https://twitter.com/unst

Chris Curran produces or has produced podcasts for Forbes, Dun & Bradstreet, Johnson & Johnson, ePlus, AAPD and more, as well as select business authors including Dr. Dan Peters, Pamela S. Harper, Laura Shin, Dr. Laura Mattia, Erik Townsend, and many others. Chris has previously been on staff at some of the most prestigious recording facilities in the world: The Hit Factory, The Soundtrack Group, and Quad Recording. He has many album credits including engineer, producer or assistant engineer roles on projects with Foreigner, Sarah McLachlan, MC Hammer, Itzhak Perlman, Naughty by Nature, Ice Cube, Jeff Buckley, Philip Bailey, Biohazard, God Street Wine, Biggie Smalls, Puffy, Heavy D., Helmet, Monster Magnet, Nuno Bettencourt, Onyx, Quicksand, Savatage and many others. Chris is also the founder of Podcast Engineering School, author of Leap Beyond Your Limits, as well as the host of The Podcast Engineering Show and The Mystic Show. When not working, Chris facilitates retreats and meetups with Pause Your

ToyMakerz is driven by the life & creations of the series’ star, David Ankin. The show follows his team of custom motor vehicle fabricators that do one-off custom builds & OEM enhancements. Ankin is a former stunt man, motorcycle racer, fabricator & customizer, that designs the vehicles, leads the fabrication and builds, and drives the vehicles to the extreme. The show incorporates nationally known experts, outside contributors, & celebrity guests. The company is co-owned by David Ankin and his business partner, David Young, and they create one-of-a-kind racing creations that Ankin visualizes and builds. ToyMakerz is produced by Lucky13Cinematic. Web: https://www.toymakerz.com  Twitter: https://twitter.com/toymakerz  Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/Toymakerz/  Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/realdavidankin And don’t forget to support the podcast by subscribing for free, reviewing, and sharing. Web: https://unstructuredpod.com/  Twitter: https://twitter.com/unstructuredp Facebook: http

Jenny speaks, consults and trains people in the skills of “people hacking” and explains how “Social Engineering” using psychological methods can be a huge threat to organizations of all sizes. She reveals how that same knowledge is a valuable tool for security professionals of all types in the prevention of these attacks, scams and cons of all kinds. Using a mixture of scams, psychological tactics, advanced profiling and non verbal communication skills, Jenny highlights how criminals, special interest groups and others with malintent, can talk or trick their way into gaining access to personnel, buildings and confidential information. Using a blend of anecdotes, science and humor, Jenny is an exceptional and highly impactful speaker. A regular keynote at major security events (Infosec, Rant, DISA, Nordic IT Security, ICS2, Trend Micro, Cisco, NTT, Bright talk, Cyber Security Week) and multiple TEDx contributor, Jenny has been a guest expert on security, scams and social engineering for various televisio

After many years arguing with people who were wrong on the internet, Jesse Richardson realized that evidence and rationality were utterly useless in the face of entrenched beliefs and motivated reasoning.  What he suddenly understood with great clarity, punctuated by the tangy sting of tartar sauce, was that the root cause of almost every problem in the world was nothing so complicated as money and power, but simply that most of us are never taught how to think independently and critically.  So, after several months work, he launched a little microsite that took 24 of the most common fallacies of logic that politicians, the media, and advertisers use to deceive and manipulate people and made them something that wasn't entirely boring. Specifically, he took each fallacy and condensed it down into a single simple sentence that anyone could understand, added some nice graphics, and made the microsite URL interactive so that anyone could use it to tag someone committing a fallacy online e.g. yourfallacy.is/ad-hom

Thomas (Tom) Pecora has 27 years of security experience and served for 24 years with the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) retiring as a GS 15 Senior Security Manager.  He has extensive worldwide operational security support experience and in depth knowledge of CIA and Intelligence Community security disciplines through overseas postings and travel assignments to facilities and stations in Africa, Latin America, Southeast Asia, Europe, and the Middle East. Thomas's links Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/Guardian-561121847691876/ Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/guardian_novel/ YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_1s8iH1WsQk And don’t forget to support the podcast by subscribing for free, reviewing, and sharing. Web: https://unstructuredpod.com/  Twitter: https://twitter.com/unstructuredp Facebook: https://facebook.com/unstructuredp Instagram: https://instagram.com/unstructuredp Join the Facebook group:  fb.com/groups/unstructured

In this special episode of Unstructured, Randall Kenneth Jones interviews me. We talk about why I have several interviews in the can and more. If you want to know what is happening behind the scenes of the show, please check this out and let us know what you think. Randy's links Web:  https://randallkennethjones.com/ Twitter: https://twitter.com/randallkjones Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/mindzoo/ Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/randallkennethjones/ And don’t forget to support the podcast by subscribing for free, reviewing, and sharing.  Web: https://unstructuredpod.com/ Twitter: https://twitter.com/unstructuredp  Facebook: https://facebook.com/unstructuredp Instagram: https://instagram.com/unstructuredp  Join the Facebook group: fb.com/groups/unstructured   

David Burkus is a best-selling author, a sought after keynote speaker, and Associate Professor of Leadership and Innovation. His TED talk has been viewed over 2 million times and he is a regular contributor to Harvard Business Review. We discuss ideas and originality as well as instructional versus big idea books. David's links Web: https://davidburkus.com Twitter: https://twitter.com/davidburkus Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/drdavidburkus LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/davidburkus/ And don’t forget to support the podcast by subscribing for free, reviewing, and sharing. Web: https://unstructuredpod.com/  Twitter: https://twitter.com/unstructuredp Facebook: https://facebook.com/unstructuredp Instagram: https://instagram.com/unstructuredp Join the Facebook group:  fb.com/groups/unstructured

Joel Byars comes on to discuss comedy - the craft and the lifestyle. For Joel, stand up comedy is an outlet to examine the fine print of life and he will continue to provide authentic entertainment until deemed illegal. Growing up in a house of educators, Joel has combined his passion for educating and entertaining by hosting his award winning Hot Breath! Podcast, teaching a weekly comedy class and co-authoring “The Comic’s Playbook” with MIT alum Dr. Robert Joseph. All of Joel’s professional endeavors are designed to help people discover their creative potential. Joel’s inspirational story has been featured in publications ranging from Atlanta Magazine, Atlanta Business Chronicle, Creative Loafing’s “Best of Atlanta,” VoyageATL, ATL Eats and being selected as “Morning Person of the Day” by international creative community Creative Mornings. Some of his accolades also include writing for Comedy Central’s Roast Battle at the prestigious Just For Laughs Comedy Festival in Montreal and being crowned the Nation

He is there on people's worst day. When things are out of hand and threats abound, Dr Andy Young is on the case. Andy Young received a bachelor’s degree in Bible from Lubbock Christian University in 1993, a masters degree in Youth and Family Ministry from Abilene Christian University in 1995, a masters in Community Counseling from Texas Tech University in 1999, and a doctorate in Counselor Education from Texas Tech University in 2003.  He has been a professor at Lubbock Christian University since 1996 and currently teaches in the undergraduate Behavioral Sciences Department and graduate Nursing department.  He has also taught in the graduate Counseling and undergraduate Bible departments.  He has worked with the Lubbock Police Department since 2000 and the Lubbock County Sheriff’s Office since 2008 and currently serves on the negotiating teams for both agencies.  He also serves as a clinical director for the Critical Incident Stress Management Teams for the South Plains Regional Response Team, the Lubbock Pol

In this roundtable, we discuss dynamic ads in podcasting? Are they good? Are they horrible? Whatever they are, they are the future. Jason can be found at https://jpd.me James hosts a kind of popular newsletter at https://podnews.net And don’t forget to support the podcast by subscribing for free, reviewing, and sharing. Web: https://unstructuredpod.com/  Twitter: https://twitter.com/unstructuredp Facebook: https://facebook.com/unstructuredp Instagram: https://instagram.com/unstructuredp Join the Facebook group:  fb.com/groups/unstructured

Robin is a best-selling author, professional speaker, trainer, facilitator, and retired FBI Special Agent and Chief of the Counterintelligence Behavioral Analysis Program. Robin has taken his life's work of recruiting spies and broken the art of leadership and relationship building into Five Steps to TRUST. Since 2010, Robin has been working with large corporations as well as small companies in every aspect of their business. Whether it is newly promoted leaders, executives, sales teams, or customer relations, Robin has crafted his Code of Trust for quick results and maximum success.  Robin's links Web: https://www.peopleformula.com Twitter: https://twitter.com/rdreeke Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/Robin.Dreeke If you’d like to learn more about other FBI Agents check out https://unstructuredpod.com/fbi-agents And don’t forget to support the podcast by subscribing for free, reviewing, and sharing. Web: https://unstructuredpod.com/  Twitter: https://twitter.com/unstructuredp Facebook: https://facebook.c

This is a special episode that includes three authors that are all part of the writer's group The Thrill Begins. We discuss the group and their individual thoughts on writing. EA Aymar - https://eaymarwrites.com Shannon Kirk - http://shannonkirkbooks.com Wendy Tyson - https://wendytyson.com  And don’t forget to support the podcast by subscribing for free, reviewing, and sharing. Web: https://unstructuredpod.com/  Twitter: https://twitter.com/unstructuredp Facebook: https://facebook.com/unstructuredp Instagram: https://instagram.com/unstructuredp Join the Facebook group:  fb.com/groups/unstructured

Rick Alan Ross is the founder and Executive Director of The Cult Education Institute. He is an internationally known expert regarding destructive cults, controversial groups and movements and author of the book "Cults Inside Out: How People Get In and Can Get Out." Since 1982 he has been studying, researching and responding to the problems often posed by controversial authoritarian groups and movements. Ross has been qualified and accepted and testified as an expert witness in court proceedings across the United States including US Federal Court. He has also frequently assisted local and national law enforcement and government agencies. He has personally assisted thousands of families in an effort to help the victims of destructive cults, groups and movements. Rick Ross is one of the most readily recognized experts offering analysis about destructive cults, controversial groups and movements in the world today. He has been a paid consultant for the television networks CBS, CBC and Nippon of Japan. And als

Margot Leitman is an award-winning storyteller, best-selling author, speaker and teacher originally from Matawan, New Jersey.   A leading expert in the growing field of storytelling, Leitman has written two books on the subject: the best-selling, Long Story Short- the Only Storytelling Guide You'll Ever Need and her latest What’s Your Story? A Workbook For the Storyteller in All of Us both from Sasquatch Books.  Her comedic memoir, Gawky…Tales of an Extra Long Awkward Phase is available from Seal Press/ Perseus Books.  ​ She has written for NBC, DreamWorks TV, the Hallmark Channel and the PixL Network and a variety of print and online sources including Cosmo and Backstage Magazine. In 2016 she worked as the west coast story scout for This American Life.    Margot is a five-time winner of The Moth StorySLAM, and was the Moth GrandSLAM winner in New York City achieving the series' first ever score of a perfect 10. Her stories have been featured on NPR's  “The Moth Podcast,” “Good Food," “Unfictional,” "Stranger

Mandy Obrien is a body language reader who analyzes videos on line. She has been controversial at times but has clear vision. I really enjoyed chatting with her and learning about her. She is very open and honest about her thoughts and feelings. This was a fun chat. Mandy's links Web: https://bombardsbodylanguage.com/  Twitter: https://twitter.com/social77media  Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/Bombardsbodylanguage/ And don’t forget to support the podcast by subscribing for free, reviewing, and sharing. Web: https://unstructuredpod.com/  Twitter: https://twitter.com/unstructuredp Facebook: https://facebook.com/unstructuredp Instagram: https://instagram.com/unstructuredp Join the Facebook group:  fb.com/groups/unstructured

Squadcast founder Zachariah Moreno returns with co-founder Rockwell Felder to chat about version 2.0 of Squadcast. Squadcast Links Web: https://squadcast.fm  Twitter: https://twitter.com/squadcastfm Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/SquadCastFM/  Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/squadcastfm/  And don’t forget to support the podcast by subscribing for free, reviewing, and sharing. Web: https://unstructuredpod.com/   Twitter: https://twitter.com/unstructuredp  Facebook: https://facebook.com/unstructuredp Instagram: https://instagram.com/unstructuredp Join the Facebook group:  fb.com/groups/unstructured  

Kenneth Lanning is currently a consultant in the area of crimes against children. Before retiring in 2000, he was a Special Agent with the FBI for more than 30 years. He was assigned to the FBI Behavioral Science Unit and the National Center for the Analysis of Violent Crime at the FBI Academy in Quantico, Virginia for 20 of those years (longer than any other agent doing behavioral analysis). He is a founding member of the Board of Directors of the American Professional Society on the Abuse of Children (APSAC) and is a former member of the APSAC Advisory Board. He is a former member of the Advisory Board of the Association for the Treatment of Sexual Abusers (ATSA). Mr. Lanning is the 1990 recipient of the Jefferson Award for Research from the University of Virginia, the 1996 recipient of the Outstanding Professional Award from APSAC, the 1997 recipient of the FBI Director’s Annual Award for Special Achievement for his career accomplishments in connection with missing and exploited children, and the 2009 reci

Alex Riesenkampff is the founder and CEO of GetVokl, the Live-streaming video service that some have dubbed BLAB 2.0. We discuss how he envisions the service expanding and serving the community as well as the challenges that he faces in this space. It is a fascinating conversation about new technology. Alex's Links Web: https://getvokl.com Twitter: https://twitter.com/getvokl Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/getvokl Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/getvokl/ And don’t forget to support the podcast by subscribing for free, reviewing, and sharing. Web: https://unstructuredpod.com/   Twitter: https://twitter.com/unstructuredp  Facebook: https://facebook.com/unstructuredp Instagram: https://instagram.com/unstructuredp Join the Facebook group:  fb.com/groups/unstructured

In the weeks since recording the first episode with David Freiheit, YouTube has done some interesting things with his videos and had a little bit of fun in front of the US Congress. We go deeper about Canada C16 and Jordan Peterson and on to the platforms. This is a fun freewheeling chat. If you haven't heard the first episode with David, be sure to check it out!  David's links: Web: https://vivafrei.com YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCzGiDDKdphJ0GFvEd82WfYQ Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/vivafrei/  Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/vivafrei/  Twitter: https://twitter.com/thevivafrei And don’t forget to support the podcast by subscribing for free, reviewing, and sharing. Web: https://unstructuredpod.com/  Twitter: https://twitter.com/unstructuredp Facebook: https://facebook.com/unstructuredp Instagram: https://instagram.com/unstructuredp Join the Facebook group:  fb.com/groups/unstructured