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.

Everyone, we have a special interview for you today because I am not going to be the host of this show. Our new communications and operations

manager, Catherine Knappi, is going to be the guest host for the podcast. And so I want to

give you an opportunity to get to know a little bit about her. So what we're going to do is

first have Catherine introduce herself and then I will hand it over to her. So Catherine,

thank you for joining us. How about you tell the audience a little bit about yourself and what

you do? Thank you, Kwame. I'm really excited to take over the show today. Like you said, I'm

Catherine. I am the communications and operations manager here at the American Negotiation Institute,

but my background is as a psych nurse, and then I'm also a mediator, and I speak on negotiation

for women.

And really exciting.

We have a new podcast coming out, the Ask with Confidence podcast, hosted by me, specifically

for women, and that will be coming out in October.

So I'm really excited.

Fantastic.

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