Ep. 173 - Human Element Series - Empathetic Chameleons and Painful Lobsters with Laurie Segall

Today Chris is talking with Laurie Segall. Laurie is the founder of Dot Dot Dot, a media company focused on onboarding the mainstream into a new era of the internet, Web3. Laurie is an award-winning journalist who has interviewed the world’s most influential tech leaders including Mark Zuckerberg and Tim Cook. Prior, she was CNN’s senior tech correspondent, covering technology and culture for a decade and a former reporter for 60 Minutes. [July 11, 2022] 

00:00 – Intro 

• Social-Engineer.com 
• Managed Voice Phishing 
• Managed Email Phishing

• Adversarial Simulations 
• Social-Engineer channel on SLACK 
• CLUTCH 
• innocentlivesfoundation.org 

03:23 – Laurie Segall intro 

04:20 – Starting your career in the "wee hours"  

07:54 – Was journalism always the goal? 

12:31 – Navigating chaos 

15:57 – Taking on Revenge Porn 

21:20 – What motivated you to write about your life so early? 

24:46 – Writing during the pandemic 

29:50 – How lobsters grow  

35:44 – Building a company 

38:40 – Wearing 2 hats 

40:54 – Who would you consider your biggest mentors? 

• CNN Digital – Susan Grant  

43:38 – Book Recommendations: 

• Slouching Towards Bethlehem - Joan Didion
• (Laurie’s book) Special Characters - Laurie Segall

45:56 – Find Laurie Segall online 

• Website link: https://www.d3network.io/ 
• Instagram: @LaurieSegall & @d3_network 
• Twitter: @LaurieSegall & @d3_network 

48:32 – Guest Wrap Up & Outro 

• www.social-engineer.com 

• www.innocentlivesfoundation.org