Your Environment Is Controlling You | Leidy Klotz
The Art of Charm
Agency: control over your space saves lives
Leidy describes research linking agency in environments to wellbeing, including nursing home findings and practical tweaks.
We spend so much time trying to improve ourselves — but ignore the environments shaping us every day.
Leidy Klotz joins AJ and Johnny to explain how the spaces we live and work in quietly influence our behavior, relationships, and performance. From agency and attention to connection and memory, small environmental shifts can have outsized effects.
This episode breaks down how to design your space for focus, growth, and better conversations — without needing more time, money, or complexity.
Chapters
00:00 – Why logic alone doesn’t persuade
08:00 – Feel first, then reason
16:00 – Reading signals: green, yellow, red
25:00 – Listening vs. pattern matching
35:00 – Loss, framing, and decision making
45:00 – Values, trust, and long-term persuasion
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