Evy Poumpouras is an American journalist and author. She was a special agent, polygraph examiner, and interrogator with the United States Secret Service from 2000 to 2012. Poumpouras was a co-host of the Bravo TV series, Spy Games.  https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Evy_Poumpouras ## Notes - [[How to make people respect you in seconds]] - [[Letting go of labels]] ## Quotes - [[4 personality types]] - [[Don't label the person, label the behaviour.]] - [[Fear is like fire, if you extinguish it while it's small, it won't become an inferno.]] - [[Good communicators don't break eye contact]] - [[I know fear keeps us alive, but I also know that fear keeps us from living.]] - [[It is work to sit with someone and actively listen to what they're saying - what they're showing you.]] - [[It's always on you. You're the governor of you.]] - [[Nothing would've changed until I realized I need to focus on behaviour rather than labels]] - [[Talk less, listen more.]] - [[We like to label people because it's easy]] - [[When we shut up, we make space for people to reveal themselves.]]