Thriving Minds with Alberto Zandi

This week Alberto sat down with Lee Warren, a world leading persuasion and communication expert, keynote speaker, and advisor to senior leaders and global organisations.

Lee’s work challenges one of the most common myths in business and leadership, that people are persuaded by logic, data, and facts. In reality, most decisions are made emotionally first, and only justified rationally afterwards.

You will learn
How to influence people without being manipulative
How to build trust in the first moments of a conversation
What makes someone instantly more persuasive
How to tell when someone is trying to persuade you
The golden methods to network and communicate without feeling awkward or fake

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#LeeWarren #AlbertoZandi #ThrivingMinds #Persuasion #Networking #PublicSpeaking #CommunicationSkills #Influence #Leadership #BusinessGrowth
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This week Alberto sat down with Colin Corby, a leading digital detox expert with over three decades of experience in technology, health, and behavioural change.

In this conversation, they explore how constant stimulation, multitasking, and screen exposure quietly erode focus, sleep, energy, and emotional resilience. Colin explains why technology itself is not the enemy, but how it replaces movement, rest, presence, and human connection.

This episode is about reclaiming control, not rejecting technology, and learning how to live and work with it without sacrificing your health.

You will learn
• Why constant phone stimulation increases stress and burnout
• How technology kills attention span and focus
• How to break phone addiction without quitting technology
• How boredom silence and presence improve clarity and creativity

Follow Colin:
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https://www.facebook.com/techologywellbeing.coach
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#DigitalDetox #TechAddiction #MentalHealthAwareness #ThrivingMinds #AttentionMatters #ScreenTime #ColinCorby #AlbertoZandi #Wellbeing #PodcastLife
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This week Alberto sat down with Gavin Stone, a former British intelligence officer with over two decades of experience working across government agencies and international intelligence operations.

Gavin shares what life inside the intelligence world actually looks like, how spies are recruited, trained, and deployed, and why the real work is nothing like the movies.

This episode you will learn:
• How intelligence officers detect lies and stress in real conversations
• Why body language should be read in clusters, not isolated gestures
• How persuasion and manipulation actually work
• Why people are easier to influence when emotions are activated
• How governments and organisations shape narratives
• How to think more critically and protect yourself from manipulation

This is a rare look inside the psychology of intelligence, trust, and influence, and how these skills apply to everyday life.

Follow Gavin:
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https://www.linkedin.com/in/gavin-stone-146ab1240
https://www.facebook.com/gavinstoneauthor/

Read Gavin's latest books:
https://www.amazon.co.uk/stores/author/B015HWIKGG

#GavinStone #AlbertoZandi #SpyPodcast #IntelligenceOfficer #BodyLanguage #Lying #MI6 #CIA #TruthOrLie #Polygraph #HumanPsychology #CovertOps
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This week Alberto sat down with Dr Tali Sharot, one of the world’s leading cognitive neuroscientists, Professor at MIT and UCL, and a global authority on optimism, decision making, memory, and influence.

Dr Sharot’s research challenges the idea that humans are rational decision makers. Instead, she explains how optimism bias, emotion, and anticipation shape the choices we make, the memories we form, and the way we respond to information.

This episode turns complex neuroscience into practical insight that applies to work, relationships, learning, and everyday life.

You will learn
Why optimism is hardwired into the brain and how it affects resilience and success
How emotion shapes memory more than accuracy or facts
Why telling people they are wrong rarely changes their behaviour
How to become more optimistic
Practical ways to make better decisions and communicate with greater impact

Get Tali's Book, Look Again: The Power of Noticing What Was Always Therehttps://amzn.eu/d/ay0Q0I7

#OptimismBias #NeurosciencePodcast #ThrivingMinds #DrTaliSharot #MentalHealthScience
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This week Alberto sat down with Graham Davies, one of the UK’s leading communication experts, who has advised prime ministers, presidents, CEOs, senior executives, and public figures on how to speak in public and under extreme pressure.

Graham’s work is focused on one core idea, communication is not about talking, it is about taking responsibility for what the audience hears, feels, and remembers.

In this conversation, Graham breaks down why most people lose attention within seconds, why poor preparation destroys credibility, and why speaking is one of the most unnatural human activities we are expected to perform well without training.

This episode applies to boardrooms, interviews, pitches, meetings, dates, and everyday conversations.

You will learn
• Why people stop listening even when the message is strong
• How to structure communication so it lands and is remembered
• How to use pace pauses and eye contact to hold attention
• Why preparation creates confidence and spontaneity
• How to manage nerves and perform under pressure
• How to recover from mistakes without losing credibility

This is a masterclass in communication as a human skill, not a performance trick.

#ThrivingMinds #PublicSpeaking #CommunicationSkills #PresentationSkills #ExecutivePresence #Leadership #Networking #Storytelling #MediaTraining #Confidence #CareerGrowth #AlbertoZandi #GrahamDavies #cambridge
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