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And now, without further ado, let's jump into the interview.

Welcome, Kwame.

Hey, thanks for having me, Erin. Appreciate it.

It's great to be here.

It's Friday afternoon for me.

I think Friday morning for you, so you're a little bit further away from the weekend.

But what we might do is just before we do full intros, we might just wait and allow people to join us, make their cups of tea or coffee or whatever

they're doing and settle in. I'm coming to you from Dublin and Ireland and Kwamey, whereabouts are

you in the world? I'm in Columbus, Ohio. It's really nice. I always, I mean, I say this, I've done a

couple of these live sessions before and it does always blow my mind to think that I'm just sitting here by myself in my office in Dublin and I can be connected with people across the world. So it's really, it's really brilliant. But now that people have had a couple of minutes to join, maybe I'll do a quick intro and tell everyone what we're going to talk about today. So as as I said, my name is Erin, Erin Trimpton,

and I'm a LinkedIn learning instructor, as I know you are too, for me.

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