E16: VIP Café Show featuring Jonathan Altfeld of Mastery Insight Institute

www.altfeld.comwww.geniusmapping.comJonathan Altfeld's education evolved as an interdisciplinary odd combination of English, philosophy, and computer science.  Inevitably, that led him down a path to Artificial Intelligence.  His first career was in AI.  After a number of years doing that, and winning a conference award for one of his AI projects, he began looking for something that would help him unpack experts’ knowledge with greater effectiveness.  What Jonathan found led him to train with the same people Anthony Robbins trained with.  He didn’t go to Robbins; Jonathan went to the source.  Most people know what it's like when they find something that is truly a calling for them, where they’re an absolute natural – that’s what that was like for him.  Jonathan discovered he was a sponge for nuances of language and how they reflect and affect our bodies, our minds, our beliefs, and our future behavior.  From there, one can apply that anywhere, since language is such a critical foundation of everything we do.  Armed with these tools, he began developing courses to help people become better communicators, better at people-reading and nonverbal awareness and influence, more charismatic, better at managing their emotions, better speakers on any platform, and how to break through their emotional challenges to get better results.When Jonathan spoke about the nature of genius and mastery at Youngstown TEDx, he was living in Tampa Florida at the time, but behind the scenes at TEDx, he met Cassie who was also speaking at TEDx that year, a native of Youngstown with an utterly captivating speech, and ultimately, three months later, they began to date, long distance.  Jonathan and Cassie joke that they’re the only members of the site TEDxDating.com.  😉