For someone that's just clicked on this podcast now, who's trying to understand the value that they're going to get from you by understanding the work that you do at Everyday Spy, what are they going to get from this conversation?

This conversation is designed for me to be able to explain how Spy skills have a very real value in breaking everyday barriers. And that's the mission of my company

at everyday spy. We use spy education to break barriers, social barriers, financial barriers,

educational barriers, cultural barriers, language barriers. If there is a barrier in life,

I made it my mission in my company to break that barrier using a proven real-world skill or

technique from espionage. And what sort of means is that to what ends? So if I'm, you know,

the average Joe listening to this now, when you say break barriers, what are those barriers

that I'm going to be able to break in my life? So I intentionally use the term breaking barriers

because we all have different barriers.

What the reality of life is that we all come into barriers that are similar, but we come into

those barriers at different times. For some people, there's a barrier in income that they're

born into. For other people, the barrier that they're born into is that they don't

have a father. For other people, they come into a financial barrier when they're 18 and they have to

leave home. Some people don't ever know financial barriers, but they do know educational barriers

because they suffer from dyslexia or they suffer from ADHD. There are people who have barriers

that are due to anxiety. The reality is

there's really 12 or so barriers that we will all experience in our life, but we will experience

them at different times. For some of us, it won't happen until we become parents. For others,

it happens as soon as we hit adulthood. The idea is that CIA is extremely familiar with barriers.

And what they teach us as officers going through their training programs is not just the

details of tradecraft, but it's really to understand that any barrier that we as individuals

face, they can get us through.

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