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Evy Poumpouras

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“The most joy in life is my daughter. Think the biggest joy my life is her because I think that was something I always wanted to do and to be a mom. And so that's the biggest joy. And then at the same time, it's my biggest fear because I want her to be well and healthy and okay. And I think A consequence of the work I did, and even still do because I'm in media and news and I cover crime. I have seen what humanity can do. I've seen the good in humanity, but I also have seen the bad things people can do. And so it's hard sometimes. You want to protect your child, but I also know that I can't always shield her. I won't be able to shield her in life from everything.”
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“And that means that they can do and achieve what they want. I think that's the biggest thing. Like you're absolutely capable, even if you feel inadequate, even if you lack confidence, even if you've had horrible trauma in your life, whatever it is, despite all that, you are absolutely capable. And it is your choice”
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“I don't know what that to say to that. I guess what I would say to them is I think the message is that they are extremely capable. And no matter what society is telling, no matter what's happened to them, no matter what excuses people make for them, or maybe they make for themselves, they are much more capable and so that maybe when they see someone like you or myself and they think, oh, look, they've got it all figured out. It's like we figured it out the same way everybody else figured it out. So I think Stephen, the most important thing is like we're not that special.”
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“Would have sometimes have what they call like wheels up parties, which means your protectee is up, their wheels up in the plane. And that's when people were just like, The stress is so high you're so on you're always looking for the threat there's no we work in shifts but there's days where I work sixteen seventeen hour days eighteen hour days depending on what my assignment was it's a lot”
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“Correct, yet it is the worst because it means you failed. It's horrible. It's horrible, I mean, when you would do protection stuff and the person you're protecting, whoever it was, because you would protect I've protected everybody from the president of the United States to former presidents to first ladies, to their kids? Had Barbara Pierce Bush, who was President Bush's daughter, had her for a while to the Secretary of Treasury to the Secretary of Homeland Security? These are all USS protectees and foreign heads of state. When the Prime Minister of the UK comes to the United States, he gets protection. We work with the team because you don't want anybody getting assassinated on US soil. So you protect Russia when he comes Putin. You got to take a bullet for him too. So it's more the mission. But the thing is, it's your responsibility. And so the whole time, I don't want to say you're on edge, but the whole time you're on. You're aware. Your mind's moving. Where's my threat? Where's my threat? Where's my threat? Where's my problem?”
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“It might be true just because it's never confirmed, I'm hesitant, so I don't know. It's very possible. And again, it's not a so a vest like that, it's going to stop around from a pistol typically and maybe a shotgun round. Rifle rounds usually like our countersault teams in the Secret Service, they actually had an extra ceramic plate to help prevent those. So you really need like a different type of exposure to protect from a rifle round. Now in this scenario with him, the shot, you see it go straight to his neck. And that's the thing with vests. They protect you here. Right, they protect your vital organs. And even when I would wear mine, it was, you lived in the reality of if I get one to the head. I'm”
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“That's what they would have had to do. There's no and there's no way anybody would have done it. That's what I said, like if you're a president or person of Congress or some VIP like that, you're going to get those assets. A person like Charlie Kirk, like you or me, we're not going to get those. Who's going to pay for that? So he had security, but it was on the ground with him. They're thinking their type of security thinking, and this is private security. And again, it's not to knock them because this is something new. This is new. They're thinking, I need to protect Charlie from the guy standing at the podium asking a question. All these people pushing up against the rope line who want to talk to Charlie. So they're looking at it from this physical sense. It's like, it sounds terrible, but it's almost like a meat shield. I'm the meat shield between you and them. They're not thinking high ground problems. Nobody thought who would have thought maybe a secret service agent would have, but who would have thought I need to have snipers on the rooftops or countersnipers on the rooftops to protect from a sniper shooting Charlie Kirk?”
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“With Charlie Kirk, there is nothing they could have done, let alone put snipers on the rooftop to prevent that, or countersnipers, rather.”
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“I can't solely blame them because social media posts and the things people are creating and putting out there is giving justification to other people to do this stuff.”
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“Because I would never say it to your face, and they post it, and that what that does is all these negative things, these attacks we make towards people become commonplace. So if all I see is negative stuff, this guy's bad, this guy's this, this guy's that, I start to think it's true. And if you villainize somebody to such a degree, I think, well, I'm going to be a hero if I do something about this. Look what a horrible person this is. I heard this quote once, the bigger the hero, the bigger the villain. I have to make you such a villain so I can feel like a hero, and this is what happens when you villainize people to such a degree, you create a justification. I had to do this. Look at how horrible this human being was. Look at all the horrible things people are saying about them. I am doing the right thing. You just justified it and sold it to yourself. It's the right thing to do. But today with social media.”
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“Yes. I want attention. I want to create significance. And also, here's the other thing. What's happening is. We are villainizing people very easily. We are calling people names, we are villainizing them, and it goes back to social media, clips people are making, even books. Things that our words are our most powerful weapon, and we don't realize that when you open your mouth and you say something and what's happening is people aren't saying something because most people are cowards. They text it and they post it.”
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“Yeah, they were like, we think you did this. He's like, oh, maybe I did it, ha So there's, it's become for whatever reason in that world It's seen as a That is an acceptable thing to do.”
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“But sometimes to the target, if you're looking at mass shootings, now if you're looking at a target like this Charlie Kirk thing we were talking about, right? Sometimes it's done because they want notoriety. It's a big thing. So with this specific shooting Charlie Kirk, it's come out now that the individual was actually on Discord after he did the shot talking about it with other members on Discord according to what law enforcement said. Again, I'm just updating as I know it. It could change. But he was saying he was basically talking with other people and basically saying like he did it and laughing about it.”
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“Somebody in some way, or they do it through social media. Another thing that's really interesting, they happen typically in the mornings. They typically happen in the mornings. That person wakes up and says, okay, today's the day I'm going to do it. I've got my plan in place, and they execute it earlier on in the day. The other thing with mass shootings, mass shootings, not just regular school shootings, in almost all of them, dare I say all of them, all those individuals had a history of mental health issues or mental illness. The other thing too that we see is they had access to weapons. So they were either able to go get a weapon, they knew somebody who had a weapon, and they were able to get that weapon.”
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“And we had that person who showed up to school and who just started shooting randomly. So there's two. So when we look at shootings, let's look at mass. Let's look at mass because if you look at school shootings one-on-one, those are a bit different and they have to do with the city. But if you look at mass shootings, what can we tell for mass shootings? So some of the data shows us, typically that person tends to have some kind of association to the place they go to, the school they went to. Typically, there's some type of connection. Usually at that point where they commit to shooting, something in their life happened, right? There's some type of moment maybe they broke up with a partner, they lost their job, something that offset that moment. Now, over time, historically, they were building up to having all these issues. Those issues don't go away, but something typically happens where they decide I'm going to do this. The other thing is they're planned. So they either, they sit down and decide to plan this out and they communicate it to someone.”
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“One of the things to keep in mind with this with the school shooting, and we don't know this based on this one are these mass shootings or just shootings in general. So school shooting is I show up to school, I don't like you, Stephen. I pull up my gun. I shoot you. Technically, that's a school shooting. A mass shooting is like what we saw the week before, Minneapolis, Missouri.”
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“And there's nobody there to tether me to be like hey, so I look at this stuff and whatever it is I'm looking at that I'm afraid because it depends who I am and what I resonate with. Is it am I afraid of people crossing the border? Am I afraid of school shootings? Am I afraid of this other group? It's just what and everything is fear-based. They're tapping into your fear and they make you afraid this other thing is going to harm me. And there's no ability either I've noticed through social media. There's no middle ground. It's either you're all the way over here and you're all the way over here and they feed on people's fears, these algorithms.”
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“This thing, too, when it shows you that stuff, it's almost like being, how I said, when you're in law enforcement, you're exposed to the worst of people and you have to be really cared not to become cynical. And one of the ways you're also protected is because you're with other officers. So there's that. Team camaraderie everybody else.”
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“Issue with people, and there's also, when you look at behavior, typically the things that keep you in check seem to be a little bit more absent today, which also causes people to behave a little bit more inappropriately. So like, and this is again just for the research, not based on my personal opinion, family. When you have strong social bonds to certain structures, you're less likely to cause harm to others. So family is one social bond that keeps you kind of like in place. Like, I'm not going to do this because it would embarrass my family or hurt my family. Faith or religion, religious institutions, whatever that religion is, that typically keeps people kind of steady. Certain institutions, like having a strong bond to what maybe a school or a certain institutions, there are certain things that keep you less likely from behaving this way. And we do see a little bit of an”
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“It allows people now when you absorb the content online, the majority is very negative, even though we're talking about this event. Everything is typically very ugly online, and so people escalate. And we've also noticed that there's a lack of empathy. We are less empathetic the more we have exposure to online stuff because when people text hateful things, it doesn't become as a big of a deal anymore. Whereas if somebody said it to you, it's a bigger deal. So there is a severe. Mental”
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“Who were looking to cause harm to our protectes, typically had severe mental health issues, and from time to time it wasn't often the Secret Service would work with the courts to involuntarily commit somebody if they thought they were that much harmed. With social media now, the playing field has changed. One, it allows people to say things that they would never say to your face.”
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“No, they're not well. I'm going to be very transparent. People are not well. When so in the US Secret Service we had a unit, it was called the Improtective Intelligence Unit. In that unit is where we would track people who were presumed to be threats against people we were protected. So how did they get on your radar? They would write letters. They would show up at multiple events. They would make phone calls, right? There was ways to do that. Then you have the introduction of social media. So now people are more, they're able to now make threats and say things from the safety of their own home. And that is afraid. It's a more detached way to attack somebody. And now you have to follow those leads. And now there's thousands of these things that come in. And even if they even hit your radar. And so everyone's inundated with tracking people. Now at the time initially, those.”
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“100%. All it takes is one person to do it, another person be like, oh, he can do it? I can do it. He executed his mission. I'm not agreeing with the mission, but that shooter was able to do what he needed to do, and he was successful sadly, right? So someone else is going to see it, and they're going to get that idea. I'm speaking at a university on Tuesday. So maybe somebody hears something I say on a podcast, they don't like it. They might get that idea.”
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“This means that it means you can go after anybody and what I'm not saying I would like this to happen, but to me this is a massive red flag because it means now everybody is extremely vulnerable and now we're looking to targeting people who have shows, who have platforms, who maybe do the dues, who share opinions. That is why this is a bother. This is why people should be concerned.”
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“We're moving into a space now where everybody is fair game, where I have a voice even on social media, I would actually sit and go through X before I would go on air just to get the news updates, see what else was happening, and I would have to sit and filter through all the hateful comments people were writing. Everybody to each other, and then every other five comments was, I'm getting death threats, people are threatening me, because people were expressing their opinions online, and other people were threatening them”
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“And I perceive it as a threat than now, I have the ability to retaliate and take a shot. This is going to open up the door to copycat, because to try to get certain people like a president of the United States or a member of Congress or politician or certain people, those are hard targets. Those are hard to get. They're secure. But now this means anybody who's out there that I don't like and I don't agree with, I can take that target. and cause harm to those people.”
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“It is to some degree understood that these things will happen over time, to people in poor political elected figures. Charlie is uniquely different. He talked about things, but he wasn't a political figure. Nobody voted for him. He was honestly, he had his own, didn't he have his own podcast? He had a podcast? He was either he spoke, he did talks, he shared his opinion, so he's no different in a sense than you and I in a sense. And so what that assassination means is it is fair game now on anybody who has a platform. That's the difference here. So it's different. You're not dealing with presidents now, heads of states, or people in Congress here.”
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“So here's the thing This is truly unique and exceptional and this is why people calling it a political assassination right it is and it isn't here's the difference a president of the United States is a politician he's it's understood that things like this will happen right and he has protection a political appointee like a member of Congress correct because right now members of Congress in the United States and I think in many parts of the world are very afraid right now because their threats have also increased so even here in the United States they're looking to increase the budget on people of Congress in Congress for safety protection”
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“So I have been covering the Charlie Kirk assassination from the news perspective. So you're asking me what assessment can I give you as a former Secret Service? So I'll give you something, I'll share with you what I've been covering and if you have a specific question, feel free to ask.”
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“Did they truly miss it? Or is this kind of this relaxed attitude? Oh, it's Evi. She's so, well, I don't know if they think I'm nice, but after I do these podcasts, I'm like, oh, she's so scary. But, you know, sometimes people will get too relaxed and comfortable. And so it's in a different way. And so I'll test that out. And when I see that, I'm like, no, no, I'm not. You know, if it's someone I really want to work with, I may address it. But sometimes I don't want to say I don't invest the time and energy and effort, but sometimes I know. I know when to invest that time, energy, and effort, and when to say no, and I pull out.”
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“When I, you know, with my inner circle, like even with people I work with, if I start, I really pay attention to behavior or if like this is something small and I don't know if you're the same way, but like if you work with me or you work for me and I send you an email and you don't respond till four days later Massive red flag for me and I won't say anything to you I'll wait and then I'll test it out again with something else and again and as soon as I see that in my head I'm like we're done I may not tell you anything but I'll find a way to let you go So there's certain things because and that's a little bit like moving the shoes closer away from the bed where you'll see people you'll see I'll see somebody do something and I'm like is it a flute?”
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“I can't counter that. You have someone who is consistently demolishing you, and so you think what, I'm going to tell you to what? Do a parapose and that's going to fix it? Do you feel like you have? And I don't know. I'm asking out of humbleness. I don't know. Do you feel that growing up you had a lot of people that Around you that were either had a lot of issues or struggles and that it was something that you had to push through or climb out to get to where you are.”
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“Chronic abuse, chronic trauma, chronic, however you want to define it, and abuse can look differently, or chronically having somebody bully you, that's really bad. That's really bad. There's no strategies, there's no skills, and I would get those folks and they're like, can you help me be more confident, be more this? And they would come out in the discussions I would have that they had somebody that was in their life that he was bully or abusive. I would tell them there are no skills I can give you. Can help you be more confident because I can't.”
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“So interesting because you stood your ground And this is where sometimes we talk about the, you know, how we're talking about the bad things that happened to us and we carry them through. It's one thing to go through something bad and then you move through it, right? You moved on. But when you stay in something bad, so like if you're in a relationship and there's continual trauma, you can't move through that because you're staying there. It happened to you and you're staying in this victim mindset. It's like you're still in it.”
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“But let's say you have a scenario like that. Now, there is a point at some degree where you can remove yourself, either from the parents' house. Let's say you live with your parents. I get this sometimes a lot. My parents are like this or they're like that to me. And I'm like, how old are you? If you're over the age of eighteen and you can work, you have the ability to find ways to remove yourself. You don't have to cut them out of your life because sometimes for people it's really, really hard. They love their family, as messed up as they are. You can love your family, but you don't have to like them. Those are two things, different things.”
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“Actually, you know, the research shows, at least here in the United States, I can't remember the most recent year I looked at. It was a uniform crime report, I believe. It showed there was more abuse from child to parent than parent to child, relationship-wise. I don't mean a five-year-old hitting their parent. I mean, it can be an adult child being abusive to a parent.”
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“No, change the person. It's the iceberg we talked about. They're not accepting the truth of who they have in front of them. We don't accept the truth. I have this person, and this person is horrible to me. They're abusive to me. They're vile to me. And I think if I could just get them to not be like that, everything would be okay. Okay, of course it would. But that's not the truth you're not living in truth. You have somebody who's horrible to you. Now, if it's an intimate personal relationship like a companion, that's a big thing because you live with that person. There's no getting away from them. Typically like if you have a companion or you get married, like you're what? Typically unless you divorce, you're tied to that person. That's really rough. Now let's say it's a parent or a kid because kids can be just as abusive to parents.”
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“Always feel like there's a choice. It may not be the choice you want to make, but you always have a choice. Because in those scenarios, if you've got, let's say, and I've had a lot of people come to me and they're truly abusive relationships, there is no advice I can give you to fix that. That person is just going to abuse you, let alone from you assaulting them back, and then now you're having like, God forbid, like somebody's dead, which does happen. I can't fix that. What I can do is for a person like that, and most people don't leave abusive relationships. The research, I've talked to a lot of people that work with abuse victims, they find that even when they do leave, the vast majority go back. So I think that's a scenario if you have someone like that in your life, the best thing you could do for them is listen and just try to keep them as safe as you can. I don't think there is nothing I can do. What are you going to do?”
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“Movies, like you think you're going to see the scary looking dude, and I'm not saying you're not going to see that from time to time. But these people who do certain things, who take advantage, they don't look like predators, and you have to be careful, because you inadvertently attract people who look at you and think I can manage her, I can do that, I can mold that, I can shape that.”
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“When you look at the people that have carried out some of these shootings, there was one recently this week with Charlie Kirk. Look at that shooter. Does he look like a predator to you? I don't mean it in a cold way, just as he look it. There was one before that here in the United States. It was the Minneapolis school shooting. Did you see that shooter? Does that look like a predator to you? These predators that we envision in our head that we think are these ruthless, scary looking people. There tended not to be that they themselves are not strong, they look for weaker targets because it's easier to take out a manipulate. Predators are not these, it's not like what you see in the movie.”
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“Easier targets. Crime, crime, they pick their targets. They don't want fair fights. They want, I want someone who's going to go down easy. Kids are the most. Overly abused population why?'Cause it kids. the easiest to target, they're the most vulnerable. Why? So if I'm such a strong predator, why am I going for kids? Or next, elderly. Why am I going for elderly?'Cause they're easy for me to conquer, they're easy for me to take down. Predators are not what you think they are. Even if you look at in recent events, if you look at recent shootings we've had.”
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“People see that they pay attention, but if they look like you're a competitor, if they look like you're a counterpredator and you don't even have to be that extreme, but if they look like, hey, this person's gonna push back, I'm gonna be careful. Even with some people you talk to, I bet employees, there's some employees that you're probably more comfortable telling something to, because they're more easily, they're easier to tell it to, they're softer in tone, maybe they're not going to push back, they're easier, and then there are other employees where you're like, I have to think about how I say this because this person's a strong alpha personality. And so I have to approach them a little bit differently. Now, people are the same way we give off cues, we give off vibes, and to some people we can look like.”
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“Why? Because we tend to draw to us those folks because we look like we're easier targets. We look like they're people they can mold or manipulate. And we trust too easily. I'm not telling you not to give trust, but there's certain traits that they look at. They're not going to go after an alpha type personality. You know, if you look like you're an easy target, if you look like you're easy to take down, if you look like you're easily going to be thrown off.”
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“Yes, but even yes, but even in regular relationships, why do some people end up with a bad partner all the time or an abusive partner all the time?”
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“even when they give you advice because you are the exception to everything. When you have that mindset, at least when I had that mindset, all my problems faded away. As bad as they were, or whatever hardship I was going through, I'm like, I'm not that special. There's other people going through it far worse than I am. It doesn't minimize what I'm going through, but it reorients you.”
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“You're not that special, is When we make ourselves so self-important, which in Western culture we have, it's very much about the person, the identity of the person you can do anything. You can this, it's you, you. I think that's great, but what happens is when we get so focused on the singular person and we forget other people, is that we think that we are so special that it's just us and then the rest of the world revolves around us. We're the sun and then everybody else revolves around us. And when you think you're special, it's not that you become a narcissist or anything like that. That's not how I mean it. What I mean by that is if I'm special, then what also that says is my problems are special, my pain is special, what I'm going through is special, and you meet those people where it's like, oh, no, no, no, this is just happening to me, that mindset. And when you are there, you are alone, and there's nothing that anybody can do to help you.”
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“It doesn't piss me off, but when people start telling me about their personal affairs. And it's not that I'm insensitive person. There's a time and place. So if you start telling me about how you weakened was with your grandmother or whoever, and I'm sitting there, I'm like, it's not that I'm insensitive, but it's We're at work. Like I asked you about something specific and you're telling me about this whole story about so you're making it about you and I think that there's a little bit like did you not pause to think like I'm talking to my supervisor or my boss. She's super busy. She's expecting something from me. Let me share it with her. You know, when you do that to another person, you take from them all the time. How's that fair to them?”
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“Because it's allowed I think it's okay to meet people where they are sometimes and listen to them. I think it's valid But it's also when you bend so much You're also doing a disservice to them because you're helping make excuses for them they're not delivering and it hurts the work culture and I think you really have to be careful because a person who comes in with poor performance can really impact the rest of the team. And I've had it like I don't have as many as employees as you have but when I have people that work with me I'm very aware of how their vibration comes in and impacts the other team. I want high performance and if you're coming in with your low vibration and your problems and your dramas it doesn't belong at work”
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“Have to tell them you need to earn my trust. You don't have to say it, but internally, it's kind of like you need to earn this because it means something to give people trust. You shouldn't just automatically surrender it to you. So Jack, what's up, Jack? Jack over seven years earned trust, consistently and over time, and that's why that relationship's the same way. But you are responsible. We are each responsible for ourselves. Jeff, if you keep exposing yourself to low vibration, to chaotic areas, chaotic people, then you are playing a role in the problems that you have”
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“That will make me more likely to be what a victim of crime. But if I take a taxi, I'm less likely to be a victim of crime. I avoid this bad neighborhood. I avoid this bad area. I guess what I'm saying is you also have a responsibility. We have a responsibility to navigate the environment we're in and how we engage with people. And it can't just be he or she screwed me over. It's like, what decision did you make? It's not blame, but what decision did you make that exposed you and made you more vulnerable to getting screwed over? Because typically, maybe not all, but the majority of times there are signs that we choose to ignore, or we think everybody's our friend, and we give them unconditional trust, and then something happens and we think why did that happen? Well, you gave unconditional trust like it was nothing. Your trust should be something people earn.”
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