Gregg Henriques is a psychologist and professor with expertise in depression, suicide and personality disorders. He developed a new theoretical system for psychology and joins us today to share it with us.

As we discuss his theory we will talk about:

• His new theory of psychology
• The 4 interlocking peices and how we can apply them in every day life
• How to build a C.A.L.M Narrator
• So much more....

You can find out more about Gregg on his website: greghenriques.com as well as his articles on Psychology Today  

Gregg recommends we read: The Mindful Path to Self-Compassion: Freeing Yourself from Destructive Thoughts and Emotions by Christopher K. Germer

Chase Hughes is an ex-military Chief that wanted to learn how to better the study of influence. He wanted to see if he could teach anyone to use these skills fast and with precision.  Join us this month as we discuss this very topic with Chase and try to answer:

• Can we train people in influence like we train animals?
• Can we control our own minds to condition ourselves to not be influenced?
• Can we change how we react to fear, anger or other emotions?
• So much more...

You can follow Chase on his Twitter account: https://twitter.com/thechasehughes

Check out Chase's book. The Ellipsis Manual 

and also his book recommendation, Be the Pack Leader by Cesar Milan

Whitney Merrill is a privacy attorney, worked with the EFF and runs the Crypto and runs the Crypto Privacy Village at DEF CON. (See a pattern yet?)

This month we have a very fun and lighthearted chat with Whitney about things like:

• Is it possible to remain private today?
• Is it possible to be safe and date online?
• How dangerous is OSINT?
• And so much more

You can find out more about Whitney on her website: https://whitneymerrill.com/

She recommends the book "How To Make a Spaceship" by Julian Guthrie

 Join us with our guest Clint Watts as we ask questions about:

Misinformation campaigns and their success.

• How is misinformation used?
• Why is it so powerful?
• How can we be safe from falling victim?
• So much more

Clint can be followed on his Twitter Account @selectedwisdom  and on https://www.fpri.org/contributor/clint-watts/

Clint also recommends these books:

Identity: The Demand for Dignity and the Politics of Resentment Francis Fukuyama 

The Fifth Risk Michael Lewis 

American Nations: A History of the Eleven Rival Regional Cultures of North America 

Joe Navarro immigrated to American not knowing any English. How did this mold and shape him to become one of the most well known FBI agents and now one of the world's leading expert's in body language?

Join us in this discussion to find out:

• Why did he write this book?
• We will see more of him before another 8 years?
• How has nonverbal reading changed his life?
• Can you really learn these skills?
• Did Cat's youth really make her doubt Joe's stories?
• And so much more....

You can find more information about Joe's classes and books at his website https://www.jnforensics.com/

Joe's new book The Dictionary of Body Language and Joe's book recommendations are:

The Biological Mind by Alan Jasanoff

Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind by Yuval Noah Harari

Who We Are and How We Got Here: Ancient DNA and the New Science of the Human Past by David Reich

Till next time!

Did you know that Walmart sells smoothies? Well we didn't either (and we still don't think they do), but this smooth talking Brit will have all of you driving to your local walmart ordering a Crypto AI Blockchain smoothie from Walmart before you are done listening.

Nick Furneaux, lord of all OSINT and new author about crypto currency sheds light on exactly how crypto and social engineering collide.

This is one podcast you will certainly enjoy, whilst laughing all the way to smoothie land.

Find out more about Nicks Classes and training and book at his website www.csitech.co.uk 

Follow him on twitter at nickfx

And pick up Nick's recommended book, Endurance by Scott Kelly

So many times we get asked how can you become a professional social engineer.  This month we talk to two amazing women who were never in the industry, took a huge risk and it paid off.  Join us in this fascinating conversation with Whitney Maxwell and Rachel Tobac.

These two wonderful personify doing things ethically, honestly and with empathy.  They are an amazing example to our community and we had a great opportunity to talk about:

• How did you get into the SECTF?
• How did winning change your life?
• Did you get into SE because of it?
• Does Whitney really have relatives with everyone's name?
• Why is Rachel so scary?
• So much more.....

Whitney Maxwell can be found on Twitter at https://twitter.com/whitneynmaxwell/ and her book recommendations are:

• The Harry Potter Series
• The Midnight Line - A Jack Reacher Novel
• Crucial Conversations: Tools for Talking When Stakes are High by McGraw-Hill Education
• Smart Women Finish Rich by David Bach
• Everything That Rises Must Converge: Stories (FSG Classics) Paperback – by Flannery O'Connor

Rachel Tobac can be found on Twitter at https://twitter.com/racheltobac and her book recommendations are:

• Influence by Robert Cialdini
• Bossy Pants by Tina Fey
• As well as recommending two other podcasts: Masters of Scale by Reed Hoffman & How I Built This - Guy Raz

I sense there is something important in your life? Something that you will be listening to shortly that will change the way you view... everything.  Ian Rowland is a renowned expert into cold reading. In his book, "The Full Facts Book of Cold Reading", Ian explains exactly how cold reading works.

Despite being told exactly how this trickery works, notice how he still reads Cat during our podcast. We discuss:

• Do you know any Jennifer's?
• How does cold reading work?
• What application does Cold Reading have to social engineering?
• So much more...

Check out Ian on his website: https://ianrowland.com/ or his Twitter account: https://twitter.com/ianrowland1

Ian recommended a book for us this month: Dale Carnegie,  How to Win Friends & Influence People

 It might not come as a shock to you that we here at SEORG love Neil Fallon and Clutch. Having Neil out at DEF CON was an amazing experience.  After 4 long days at DEF CON we hosted our annual live podcast for Episode 108.

Join us as:

• Neil fixes Chris' technical issues.
• We discuss ways to improve the SEVillage
• We talk about professional SE work 
• and we suffer through our final sleep deprived moments in Vegas....

You can follow Neil on Twitter at: @npfallon

Check out Chris' latest book: Social Engineering: The SCIENCE of Human Hacking

Paolo Gaudiano has more than 25 years of interdisciplinary research, teaching, entrepreneurship, consulting, public speaking and writing experience. He recently embarked on a mission to use everything he has learned to revolutionize the way people think about Diversity & Inclusion, and what they do about it. 

Today we discuss:

• What are biases
• How are they used?
• Are they positive or negative?
• How can a social engineer use biases?

You can follow Paolo on his twitter account: https://twitter.com/aleriapbc or his company Aleria PBC

Paolo recommended a few books this month:

The Diversity Advantage: Fixing Gender Inequality In The Workplace by Ruchika Tulshyan

The Hate U Give by Angie Thomas 

When Affirmative Action Was White: An Untold History of Racial Inequality in Twentieth-Century America by Ira Katznelson