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Melina welcome back my friend thank you so much delighted to be here yeah and we are delighted to have you so

for the listeners who may have forgotten remind them about yourself and tell them about what you do

yeah so my name is melina palmer i am an applied behavioral economist which is essentially

i help people to understand how the brain really makes decisions

and then how to apply that in the way that you have conversations or are communicating with

customers, with peers at work, employees, teams, you know, the whole gamut family friends,

right? It all comes into play and helping to discuss. I see,

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