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May 10 2022

Episode 184: Brandon T. Adams, Emmy Award Winning Producer

Brandon T. Adams is an Emmy® Award-Winning Producer and Host of the TV Series Success in Your City. He is a Podcaster, Speaker, Inventor, Advisor, Crowdfunding Expert, and Media Expert. Brandon is a serial entrepreneur, owning a stake in a number of businesses, including the Accelerant Media Group, Live to Grind, Young Entrepreneur Convention, Success in Your City, and more. He has partnered closely with two former “Success is a Choice” podcast guests, Kevin Harrington (021) and Jeff Hoffman (174).

Click here to read Brandon’s complete bio.

In today’s episode, we discuss:
  • Doing a reality show with his fiance
  • What success means
  • Producing an Emmy award-winning show
  • The book “Think and Grow Rich”
  • … and much more!!!

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Written by Jamy Bechler · Categorized: Business, Personal Growth, Podcast Episodes · Tagged: Brad Lea, Business, Business Building, Business coach, documentary, Dropping Bombs, Grant Cardone, Jeff Hoffman, Laura DiBenedetto, marriage, Michael Burt, Television

Jul 25 2018

Episode 081: Former FBI Lead Negotiator Chris Voss

Chris Voss is the author of Never Split the Difference: Negotiating As If Your Life Depended On It, CEO of Black Swan Group Ltd., and a former lead negotiator for the FBI.

Prior to 2008, Chris was the lead international kidnapping negotiator for the Federal Bureau of Investigation, as well as the FBI’s hostage negotiation representative for the National Security Council’s Hostage Working Group. During his government career, he also represented the U.S. Government at two (2) international conferences sponsored by the G-8 as an expert in kidnapping. Prior to becoming the FBI lead international kidnapping negotiator, Christopher served as the lead Crisis Negotiator for the New York City Division of the FBI. Christopher was a member of the New York City Joint Terrorist Task Force for 14 years.  He was the case agent on such cases as TERRSTOP (the Blind Sheikh Case – Sheikh Omar Abdel-Rahman), the TWA Flight 800 catastrophe and negotiated the surrender of the first hostage taker to give up in the Chase Manhattan bank robbery hostage taking.

During Chris’s 24 year tenure in the Bureau, he was trained in the art of negotiation by not only the FBI but Scotland Yard and Harvard Law School. He is also a recipient of the Attorney General’s Award for Excellence in Law Enforcement and the FBI Agents Association Award for Distinguished and Exemplary Service.

Chris has taught business negotiation in the MBA program as an adjunct professor at University of Southern California’s Marshall School of Business and at Georgetown University’s McDonough School of Business.  He has taught business negotiation at Harvard University, guest lectured at The Kellogg School of Management at Northwestern University, The IMD Business School in Lausanne, Switzerland and The Goethe School of Business in Frankfurt, Germany. Since 2009 Christopher has also worked with Insite Security as their Managing Director of the Kidnapping Resolution Practice.

In today’s episode, we discuss:

  • Is real life FBI negotiating like what we see in the movies
  • How we can use negotiating skills in our every day lives
  • Strategies for dealing with customer service representatives
  • How to be the smartest and most interesting person in the room

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Written by Jamy Bechler · Categorized: Podcast Episodes · Tagged: Black Swan Group, Chris Voss, Coach Burt, Communication, customer service, Empathy, FBI, Hostage, Kevin Spacey, Michael Burt, negotiating, Never Split the Difference, Sales Training, Stephen Covey, Sympathy, The Negotiator

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