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Chapter 2: Your Influential Brain — Why Connection Has a Mechanism

This episode is narrated by David's AI voice — a digital copy of his voice he uses so the show keeps going on the days he can't record.

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A senior executive once told David he couldn't reach his audience, and the anxiety was crippling — so instead of drilling presentation technique, they worked on the neurology underneath it. This episode walks through three brain essentials from Chapter 2 of Cracking The Influence Code — mirror neurons, oxytocin and the amygdala — and lands on the CARE framework as the week's usable tool. Mechanism first, platitudes never.

This episode draws on Chapter 2 of David's book, Cracking The Influence Code: “Your Influential Brain – Neuroscience Essentials”.

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