Episode 74: Robin Dreeke - Social Engineering Tradecraft

TW: Brief discussion of sexual assault/abuse.

For this episode, we got to speak with Robin Dreeke, a 29 year veteran of federal service, including the US Naval Academy, US Marine Corps and the head of the FBI's Counterintelligence Behavioral Analysis Program. Robin owns peopleformula.com (youtube.com/watch?v=-4EDhdAHrOg) where he offers skills, newsletters, training classes and his books. In this conversation, we reference his books as we talk about building rapport and Robin's five basic principles of trust: 1) Suspend Your Ego, 2) Be Nonjudgemental, 3) Validate Others, 4) Honor Reason, 5) Be Generous.

Robin's books discussed in the episode are:

• It's Not All About "Me (amazon.com/dp/057809665X?tag=&linkCode=osi…)"

• Sizing People Up (amazon.com/dp/0525540431?tag=&linkCode=osi…)

• Code of Trust (amazon.com/dp/1250093465?tag=&linkCode=osi…)

When we discuss validation, we referenced a video on YouTube that demonstrates the concept titled "It's Not About the Nail (youtube.com/watch?v=-4EDhdAHrOg)".