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With your host, Pete McKitis.

Hello and thanks so much for joining us here for episode 86 with Kwame Christian.

Kwame was just a ton of fun and had a lot of great perspective when it comes to

negotiation we went live with the role play so you're gonna learn some great things when it comes to negotiation we went live with the role play so you're going to learn

some great things when it comes to the persuasive and negotiated skills including one

the first crucial step to negotiation to how to discover your limits by practicing rejection therapy,

and three, what it takes to be a confident, powerful negotiator.

So if you want to check out the show notes or the transcript or the links to items we've talked about here.

You can find that over at awesome at your job.com slash epp 86.

Here's a quick bit about Kwame here.

Kwame is passionate about teaching business professionals how to negotiate and be more persuasive.

He sees himself as a professional problem solver and works with businesses and individuals to come

up with tailored negotiation solutions to improve the bottom line and resolve conflict.

Call me as an attorney at the Christian Law Office, which is just his last name and not a law

office for Christians, specializing in business law for startups and entrepreneurs.

He is a legal analyst at the Kerwin Institute for the study of race and

ethnicity at the Ohio State University, focusing on health disparities,

and the social and political structures that create and maintain them.

He's a consultant at the American Negotiation Institute and produces negotiation for entrepreneurs,

the top negotiation podcast on iTunes. Here's Kwame.

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