PART 2 of 2
🎙️ "The Lies We Tell Ourselves: Susan Ibitz on Truth, Trauma, and the Patterns You Can't Hide"
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Guest: Susan Ibitz, Former Political Influence Consultant, Profiler, and Civilian Hostage Negotiator
🔥 What if the most dangerous lies in your life are the ones you tell yourself about your past, your identity, and the person you insist you have already become?
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This episode will push you to confront the truth you avoid, the story you hide, and the patterns that still drive you even when you swear they no longer matter.
Episode Summary
In part two of my conversation with Susan Ibitz, we go deeper into the psychology of human behavior, deception, survival, and the hidden emotional coding that shapes every decision, every relationship, and every leader. Susan has lived more lives than most people can imagine. From surviving a chaotic childhood in Buenos Aires to running political influence operations across the globe to being trained by Paul Ekman to profiling criminals and CEOs alike, she brings a level of experiential insight that punches through the nonsense fast.
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This is a masterclass in human truth.
We dismantle the myths of body language, the false confidence of pop psychology, and the ways people use oversimplified ideas to avoid confronting the deeper emotional facts of their own history. We discuss survival patterns, childhood adaptation, and how leaders unknowingly repeat unresolved trauma in the boardroom.
Susan walks you through her own story, including the brutal honesty of being a dyslexic child misunderstood by her family, leaving home at seventeen with a backpack, being mentored by broken people who recognized her brilliance, running political campaigns on multiple continents, and building a career behind the scenes shaping powerful figures.
She reveals how survivors read micro-signals before a mood becomes a word, the difference between real threat and imagined danger, and why most people misread others because they have never learned to read themselves.
Prepare to be changed.
What You Will Learn
• Why most body-language advice is wrong, and how real profilers actually decode behavior
• How childhood survival strategies become adult leadership blind spots
• Why nuance and context matter more than any "tell" or gesture
• How dangerous people actually choose their victims, and why your posture, tone, and energy decide everything
• Why forgiveness has nothing to do with allowing people back into your life
• How unresolved emotional history shows up in your leadership identity
• The truth about political influence operations and the people behind the people
• Why real strength is the courage to confront the story you keep avoiding
👤 About Susan Ibitz
Susan Ibitz is a former political influence consultant, profiler, and civilian hostage negotiator. She is the author and researcher behind Irrational Humans and the founder of the Human Behavior Lab. Her specialty is decoding deception, patterns, and human behavior in high-pressure environments from sales to politics to crisis negotiation.
🔗 Connect with Susan Ibitz
Website: https://susanibitz.com
YouTube: Human Behavior Lab
Blog: Irrational Humans
LinkedIn: Susan Ibitz
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