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Welcome to the American Negotiation Institute's podcast, where we will teach you the skills you need to get more out of life.

And now your host, Kwame Christian.

Hello and welcome to another exciting episode of negotiation for entrepreneurs.

I'm Kwame Christian.

I'm a business lawyer by trade,

but my passion lies in teaching you how you can use negotiation and persuasion to get more of what

you want and how to make the difficult conversations in your life easier. Before we jump into this

episode, I'd like to give a couple of listener shoutouts. I'd like to give a shout out to Stephanie and Mike from Portland, Rina from China, and I'd also like to give a special

shout out to the listeners who took the time to fill out the survey and the newsletter. That's

really helpful. In particular, I want to point out one listener who said that he or she is a lawyer

that wants to start a consulting business and loves gummy bears.

And so when I told Whitney, my wife, that one, she asked, is that you? And she asked that

because that is exactly what I would say in the Tell Me About Myself section. So thank you all

for connecting with me. You know I love hearing from all of you. So if you haven't yet,

please connect with me on LinkedIn. There's a clickable link in the episode description that takes

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