Welcome to Fraud Busting NeoFraus podcast, the go-to resource for female fraud professionals and their allies. In this episode, host Olga invites Nadja El Fertasi, a former NATO executive turned entrepreneur, to share her inspiring journey.

Nadja opens up about her experiences with burnout, the challenges of balancing work and personal life. She emphasizes the importance of emotional intelligence in cybersecurity and discusses the impact of human behavior on digital security.

Through her candid storytelling, Nadja provides valuable insights into overcoming challenges, maintaining mental health, and building resilience. She also offers practical advice on setting boundaries, managing stress, and staying true to one's values.

Join us for an enlightening conversation filled with actionable tips and personal anecdotes that will inspire you to navigate your own professional and personal hurdles with courage and resilience.

Nadja's Bio:

Nadja El Fertasi, founder of Thrive with EQ, is a Human Resilience Expert and former NATO senior executive renowned for her leadership in emotional intelligence and resilience. With over 20 years of experience in the civil-military sector and interactions with professionals from over 40 nationalities, Nadja has honed a profound expertise in crisis management and strategic stakeholder engagement. Celebrated as one of Europe’s influential women in cybersecurity, she features in the book Hacking Gender Barriers: Europe’s Top Cyber Women by Women4Cyber.

At Thrive with EQ, Nadja dedicates her efforts to empowering leaders in critical services infrastructure to adeptly navigate digital disruptions and manage change through emotional intelligence. Her work has earned her global recognition, making her a sought-after expert and speaker on leadership and resilience.

Each week, Nadja shares insights from her own life's challenges in her emotional resilience newsletter, which reaches over 1,700 subscribers. Through these stories, she helps others build their resilience, demonstrating how emotional intelligence can transform personal and professional adversities into strength and leadership.

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In this enlightening episode, Traci Brown, ranked the third-best body language expert globally, joins the Fraud Busting NeoFraus Podcast. As the only podcast dedicated to female fraud professionals, this episode puts a spotlight on spotting deception hidden in plain sight, truly valuable knowledge in the sector of fraud prevention.

Brown shares her expert insights into reading body language, tone, and words, highlighting the importance of paying attention and cultivating awareness. From learning to spot dissent in silence to knowing when someone is ready to make a decision, Tracy illuminates how body language plays a significant role in every interaction.

Besides sharing about her online programs and hiring for events, the discussion delves into the relevance of detecting lies for business survival, with the backdrop of an ever-changing economy.

Finally, Tracy offers advice on dealing with difficulties, emphasizing focusing on objectives, trusting your gut, and recognizing that trusting your innate knowing can protect you.

To book Traci for speaking engagements or purchase her books:

https://www.bodylanguagetrainer.com/body-language-books/

TIME Magazine has named her one of the country’s top deception detection experts. In her fast paced, interactive programs that are sure to entertain, Traci teaches lie, fraud and identity theft detection she’s used to get to the truth in billion dollar business deals, crimes and politics.

She has studied lie and deception detection alongside the Police, FBI, Army Green Berets and people who she believes could not tell her they were in the CIA. Yes, she’s the only one who showed up to class without a gun. She uses this information in her keynotes for banking, credit unions and finance groups to detect and prevent fraud. And this is currently what she’s called most to do.

When she’s not speaking, she’s working on investigations. When the victims or their families feel like the police haven’t done them justice, they call Traci. Cases have included million dollar business fraud, sexual assault, child abuse, municipal fraud and murders. .

Her TV career started when she was asked to interpret the body language of the Aurora Movie Theater Shooter in 2012. And she’s revealed the truth in many events since then: including murders, cold cases and politics. Some of her TV appearances are here: https://www.bodylanguagetrainer.com/body-language-demo-videos/

And she’s the executive producer of the new TV series, Truth, Lies and Coverups.

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