Fight, Flight or Communicate

Our guest today is P.J.Agness, an expert in self-defense and protective intelligence and author of numerous books, including his most recent, Street Level Spycraft, that are all available on Amazon.

P.J. and I talk about communicating in what may be the most difficult situation of all – when you find yourself in a confrontation in which your physical well-being is at risk. P.J. shares his advice for verbally de-escalating a dangerous encounter and controlling your fight or flight instinct. We also discuss how some of the techniques that spies use to motivate sources can be used to communicate more effectively at work.

This is the first of three episodes that I plan to publish over the next three weeks to make up for the lack of a new episode two weeks ago. Enjoy!

As always, thank you to Jim Cirillo of jimiumgroup.com for our original music and to Rachel Greenberger for our original art.

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