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Hey everyone and welcome to our throwback episode.

In our throwback episodes, we are reintroducing you to some of our most popular episodes.

This is great for new listeners who want to learn more about the work we've done in the past,

and it's a great refresher if you've been a listener for a long time. Enjoy. My name is Dan Oblinger. I come to you, Kwame, from the middle part of America,

the heart of America, as we say. I am based in and around Wichita, Kansas. My background is in

police crisis negotiations, but I have made that transition to a business

negotiator as well, running a small business centered on speaking and conducting workshops

in listening and negotiations, but also running.

I have a bunch of rental properties.

So managing those as a real estate investor and I have five children.

So those are a totally different sort of

negotiation that requires a lot of emotional control. And my background being in police work and then

in the business world and running a large family with young people becoming adults, I deal a lot

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