Jim Fortin, world-renowned influence and persuasion expert, joins our show in this special episode of the Elite Man Podcast! In today’s episode Jim shares with us the techniques and strategies he’s cultivated over the years to influence and persuade the outcome to his favor in just about any situation. He talks about controlling social frames, using language patterns, mastering sales, and why Donald Trump and Barack Obama are both master influencers. Jim also covers at length the process of changing your internal belief systems to shape your external environment. He covers the one true way to habituate behaviors and reprogram your identity for that of success in any aspect of life, something that not too many people, if any, are talking about. If you’re wondering how to change your internal belief systems and identity to achieve massive success in life, check this episode out now! *Download this episode now and subscribe to our channel to get more of these amazing interviews! In our episode we go over: How Jim became a master persuader, influencer, and sales expert His background in hypnosis and NLP and how he’s used these two teachings to impact so many people from the inside out Jim’s work on the subconscious mind and why the subconscious mind is so powerful when it comes to change Using language patterns to influence people into thinking something without them even knowing How to have the dominate frame in a social interaction, no matter how much social capital someone else may appear to have Why you should go through life with the mindset of needing absolutely nothing from everyone Believing in yourself and thinking that you are really, really good at what you do and that you are the one deciding if you should work with someone else How Donald Trump and Barack Obama both used NLP techniques to win their respective elections Why Trump and Obama both ran the perfect campaigns for the year they ran them in Changing your life from the inside as opposed to changing it externally Reprogramming your internal identity and how this will change your life Adopting the identity of someone who already has what you want and how this can help you reprogram your identity Being something or someone in your mind before trying to do something in your external world Being self-integral and self-responsible and holding yourself accountable into getting things done Pretending to have confidence as a means to actually getting true confidence Habituating the things that will create the highest leveraged behavior to get you to the outcome you want The power of repetition and breaking out of bad habits The fact that people have between 70-95% of their thoughts being negative or unproductive and how to snap out of this cycle How to take control of your emotions and not get down, EVER How to change your interpretations of the world How to be happy every single day no matter what happens in life How to change your self-image with a simple but effective technique The fact that you are where your attention is Check out Jim on: Website: jimfortin.com Facebook Group: facebook.com/groups/hpspgroup Instagram: instagram.com/iamjimfortin *Ashwagandha is an adaptogenic herb that’s been used in Ayurvedic medicine for thousands of years. As an adaptogen, it’s great at combating stress and preventing the release of excess cortisol. By regulating the body’s physiological response to stress, ashwagandha is believed by a number of researchers to be able to stave off the anxiolytic effects of day-to-day, and even acute stress. In one very impressive, double-blind, placebo-controlled study conducted in the year 2000, 88.2% of all participants who took a form of the ashwagandha herb saw a marked improvement in their anxiety levels after 2 and 6 weeks, the pre-determined follow-up times of observance. Certainly more research  should be conducted, but the more this wonder-herb is being studied the more promise it shows. As a suspected potent antioxidant and anti-inflam