Andrew Bustamante is a former covert CIA intelligence officer and US Air Force combat veteran. He is the founder of EverydaySpy, an online education platform that teaches real-world international espionage techniques that can be used in everyday life. 00:00 Intro 02:47 Your Time At The CIA 03:15 What Is The CIA? 03:57 You've Got It Wrong About Spies 06:43 Applying Real Spy Skills To Overcome Any Barrier In Our Lives 08:13 How To Manipulate People 18:15 The Psychological Profile Of A CIA Agent 21:13 I Held The Key To Nuclear Missiles 23:15 It Was A Horrible Job 25:00 Would You Have You Pressed The Nuclear Button? 27:18 The CIA Message That Changed My Life 29:13 The Interview Process For The CIA 31:31 How Did You Feel When You Received That Letter? 33:54 Did The CIA Tell You To Cut Off From Your Social Circle? 34:44 Your Ethnicity Factor To Be Recruited By The CIA 36:03 Do You Have To Change Your Identity? 37:14 How Expensive Is To Train A CIA Agent? 37:21 What's The CIA Training Scheme? 38:04 Do They Show You How To Kill? 39:06 How You Teach The Art Of Lying 41:00 Body Language & Lying 42:46 Demystifying Lying Signs 45:44 How To Tell If Someone Is Lying 47:34 Human Psychology 50:32 The Essence Of Manipulation 52:09 How To Find Someone's Ideology To Manipulate Them 56:12 Have You Changed The Way You Look At The World? 01:00:01 Perception vs Perceptive 01:01:59 Leaning Into Objective vs Subjective Feelings 01:03:25 How To Train Yourself To Apply Rational Objective Perspective 01:05:54 Your Business Success 01:09:01 What Is SADRAT? 01:11:07 Change The Game When Selling Your Products 01:13:13 What Is Espionage? 01:14:08 What Is Our Secret Life? 01:18:16 How To Enter Someone's Secret Life 01:23:33 How To Apply It To Business 01:26:19 Adapting To Change Faster Than Your Opponent 01:29:18 Were There Times Your Life Was At Threat? 01:31:43 Sexpionage, What Is It? 01:33:49 Disguise, Did You Ever Do It? 01:38:44 Do CIA Agents Get Trained To Not Feel Fear & Anxiety? 01:41:23 How Do They Train You To Slow Down Your Emotional Brain? 01:47:28 Your Wife & You Leaving The CIA 01:48:55 America Is Going Through A Hard Period 01:54:15 What's The Advice For Everyone To Make That Change? 01:56:27 How Does Your Identity Stop You From Evolving? 01:57:39 What Is Something You Used To Believe That You No Longer Do? Want to learn more from Andrew? Find your Spy Superpower: https://everydayspy.com/spyquiz Explore Spy School: https://everydayspy.com/ Join the podcast: https://youtube.com/@EverydaySpyPodcast Follow Andrew Twitter - https://bit.ly/49AI9qT Instagram - https://bit.ly/4bTOIqf YouTube - https://bit.ly/3IkEhOY Follow our Shorts channel for more content: https://www.youtube.com/@TheDiaryofaCEOShorts Join this channel to get access to perks: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCGq-a57w-aPwyi3pW7XLiHw/join Follow me: https://beacons.ai/diaryofaceo Sponsors: Whoop: https://join.whoop.com/en-uk/CEO This episode of The Diary Of A CEO was filmed at Gold Tree Studios, located in the heart of the Sunset Strip, West Hollywood, California