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, visit our website to learn more

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. Anouj, thanks for joining us today. Thank you, Komi. I think it's a huge privilege for me and honor to join your podcast.

The way I have actually seen all the different podcasts on the list, the topics are stimulating.

It is amazing the work you're doing, Kame.

I really appreciate all that, and I'm glad to be part of this.

Thank you. I appreciate that. I appreciate that. So how about you get it started by telling us a

little bit about yourself and what you do? Absolutely. So I'm actually a finance professional.

So by my profession and education, I'm a chartered accountant from India and a CPA here.

But then life took me in a total different journey about seven or eight years ago.

When I actually got into my MBA program, the UCLA and US Joint Executive Program.

And that totally changed my vision of life and the way I actually was looking at life.

But then the one key factor that was life changing and a turning point was the interest in

negotiation. And I'm sure you understand how that interest in negotiation is great for anybody who actually picks it up.

So during my MBA program, I first had a module on leadership and influencing, and then the

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