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With your host, Pete McKitis.

Well, hello, hello, and welcome to episode 31, and I hope you are going to be kicking off a lovely

4th of July weekend to American listeners.

It's got some holiday fun and if you're not in the United States well I still hope it's a great 4th July weekend even if it's not so meaningful as an actual date or holiday here.

But today we are chatting with Julia Atkinson and we brought in a little bit of fun international

flavor here.

So we're going to talk about what it's like working in the United States versus in different countries.

And I made this one kind of a lighter fun or shorter one and we couldn't help it we also got into the Myers Briggs a little bit we're both E and FJ's, that is we prefer extroversion, intuition, feeling, and judging and

we'll kind of talk about what all that means if you're not familiar.

So here's the scoop.

You're going to learn one the differences between

eastern and western styles of communication to a quick rundown of the four

different Myers-Briggs preferences from ENFJ to ISTP and three what is Guanshi a Chinese word that has worldview implications

wherever you are so a quick bit about Yulia Yulia Atkins is an executive coach

with more than eight years of experience living and

working in China before taking her business to the US in Chicago. She's got 10 years of leading

teams in multinationals and IT and telecommunications giving her a first-hand corporate know-how.

She has used an interactive coaching process to help clients attain awareness of deeply rooted beliefs

and values and related behaviors.

From that awareness, she helps them identify and

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