Hello, my friend, and welcome to another episode of Negotiate Anything.

Thanks for spending time with us today.

It's listeners like you in 181 different countries that have made Negotiate Anything the most popular negotiation and conflict resolution podcast in the world.

I'm your host, Kwame Christian.

I'm a business lawyer, mediator,

professor, and the director of the American Negotiation Institute. Before we get started,

I have two quick questions for you. Is negotiation a critical part of what you do? Do you need

to resolve conflict and persuade at work? If you answered yes to both of those questions,

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about our negotiation workshops. We've traveled the country working with professionals just like

you, and we'd love to have the opportunity to work with you too. Check out the link in the

description to learn more. David, thanks for joining us today. Well, thank you, Kwa. Thank you so much

for having me. And after you being on my podcast,

it's a pleasure to return the favor as well. Yes, likewise. So how about you get us started by

telling us a little bit about yourself and what you do? Sure. So yeah, so I acquire me on my podcast,

which is called the Self Belief Chief podcast. So I founded the business Self Belief Chief,

which looks at basically coaching high performers. But it's in many different areas. So for me,

my personal struggle is it started from a very early age. I remember a coach of mine. I was a footballer,

a coach of mine. And he sat down and went through a report with me,

and he said, David, you really need to start believing yourself. Anyway, that was the end of the

conversation. He starts walking off. I said, how? And he said, what do you mean? I said, well, you told me,

I need to believe myself more, but how?

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