What is up, daddy Gang?
It is your founding father Alex Cooper with call her daddy.
Hello, everyone.
Daddy Gang, our guest this week is Doctor Jennifer Freed.
Jennifer's book, a map to your soul, is a guide to getting to know yourself so that you're better able to navigate life challenges such as a breakup, a job loss or a lack of drive.
So Doctor Jennifer Fried, welcome to call her daddy.
I'm so thrilled to be here because just with call her daddy, it's right up my alley.
I love it.
So your book teaches us ways we can improve different domains of our lives.
And I want to begin with impressions and communication.
Let's talk about first impressions.
Do you think that they're important?
And how can we get a better understanding of how others perceive us?
Well, I know they're important because research has told us that we size each other up in the first 5 seconds.
Like the minute you saw me and I saw you.
We've already got assumptions going on.
That's just what the brain does.
There's nothing wrong with that.
So it's so important to know what is that energy we give off on a first impression because it's involuntary.
When you know what the impression is you give off, you have more control over how you're giving that impression.