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May 25, 2025 • 34 mins

🎙️ “FBI Secrets to Building Relentless Trust: Robin Dreeke on the Spycraft of Leadership”

🎯 What if everything you’ve been taught about building trust… is dead wrong?

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You’ve been told that trust is built with small talk, birthday shout-outs, and team-building retreats. But what if that’s just window dressing?

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What if you could learn from the people who truly understand trust? Those who can build it with spies in life-and-death situations! 

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What if you could learn from someone who knows something the leadership world has completely missed?

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Welcome to Part 1 of a 2-part psychological thriller of a conversation with Robin Dreeke—former FBI Special Agent and Chief of the Counterintelligence Behavioral Analysis Program. Robin’s job wasn’t just catching spies. It was turning them. Building trust with people who had every reason not to trust him.

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Now, he’s revealing what absolute trust looks like and why most leaders get it dangerously wrong.

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🔥 In This Episode:

  • Why your team doesn’t trust you (even if they smile in meetings)

  • The FBI tactics that build trust in seconds—even with enemies

  • Why “clickbait leadership” is destroying authentic influence

  • How to survive and thrive in conflict without manipulation

  • The overlooked secret to recruiting allies in life, not just employees

  • How social media is eroding your ability to create real human bonds

  • The misunderstood difference between connection and performance

  • What leaders can learn from spycraft, and how not to weaponize it

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🧠 This isn’t a conversation about theory. It’s about the science of survival, connection, and commanding trust when the stakes couldn’t be higher.


 

👤 Guest: Robin Dreeke
đź”— Website: https://robindreeke.com
📚 Author of Unbreakable Alliances, It’s Not All About Me, The Trust Code, and Sizing People Up
🎙️ Host of the Forged by Trust podcast

 


 

🔊 Subscribe now and turn up the volume. Because the truth is: if you’re still building trust the old way, you’re already losing.

 


 

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