Hello, my friends, and welcome to another exciting episode of Negotiate Anything.

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conversations easier. And now, let's get to the show. Lori, thanks for joining us today.

Oh my goodness, I'm thrilled to be here. Thanks for having me.

Yeah, it is our pleasure. So how are you get it started by telling us a little bit about yourself and what you do? Sure. Well, the way that we've been trained to do this is to talk about our careers. So I'm a writer, a speaker, an entrepreneur, and I'm focused on the HR space. But I like to tell people what I do when I'm not working. I think that's so much more interesting. And, you know, when I'm not working, I mean, I'm on the internet like everybody else. But I love art.

I love music. And I'm

an avid animal rescue advocate. So I try to take all of that and live a life of purpose and service

where I help people fix work. That's what I'm all about. Oh, that's fantastic. And so for the listeners, when you think about fixing work, what does that mean to you?

Sure. Well, you know, I started out my career in corporate human resources, and I was young and naive.

And it was back in the day when Friends was on TV the first time, like not even in reruns.

So that's how long I've been working well over 20 years.

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