Negotiate Your Best Life Podcast with Rebecca Zung 12 Ways To Manipulate The Narcissist (The Ultimate Guide) with Rebecca Zung on Negotiate Your Best Life #770
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Nov 21, 2025 
Rebecca Zung, a top negotiation attorney and author, shares powerful strategies to navigate relationships with narcissists. She identifies and explains 12 ways to manipulate the manipulator ethically, discussing tactics like narcissistic fluffing and decoying. Listeners learn how to set boundaries, leverage evidence, and anticipate triggers for better outcomes. Zung emphasizes the importance of maintaining calm and authenticity while gaining respect, ensuring everyone walks away empowered to reclaim their peace.
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Narcissist Scarcity Drives Behavior
- Narcissists lack an inner sense of value and crave external supply like adulation and status.
- This scarcity mentality prevents authentic empathy and drives control and devaluation of others.
Rebecca's Covert Narcissist Experience
- Rebecca Zung describes dealing with two covert narcissists in business and family.
- Those covert narcissists caused prolonged drama, confusion, and trauma for her.
Trade Small Praise For Cooperation
- Use 'bartering' by giving small adulation so a narcissist will do a task for you.
- Phrase compliments sincerely and neutrally to avoid triggering their tone-sensitivity.
