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,

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Nate, thanks for joining us today.

Hey, thank you so much for having me.

It is a pleasure to have you,

my friend. So how would you get it started by telling us about yourself and what you do?

All right. My name is Nathan Whitkin. I'm an attorney and master public policy.

I practiced law of many types for nine years, was a professional mediator, was president of the

Ohio Mediation Association, and most importantly, I proposed a variety of social innovations,

publish them in academic journals,

and some of my best ideas have been about new ways to resolve disputes.

Yes, and that is why we are having you on, my friends.

So before we even jump into it, we'll talk about co-resolution.

And let's just give us a little snippet on what that is.

So co-resolution is the only, it's a cutting-edge negotiation process,

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