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,

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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. Navid, thanks for joining us today. Thank you so much for inviting me. I'm so happy to be

here. Yeah, it's my pleasure.

So how about you get it started by telling us a little bit about yourself and what you do?

Sure. So I'm a student of mathematics. I'm an applied mathematician who is now working as a co-founder

and CEO at Dollar, where we're helping people get to zero student debt. And I must say that I am a student of your podcast. I'm such a huge fan. I've listened to probably every episode. So to anybody who's listening to this for the first time, please just take the time. It's worth it. Thank you. That means a lot to me. I appreciate it. And I admire the work that you do, too. as a lawyer who's married to a doctor, our student loan debt is laughable at this point. So I admire your mission.

Today we're going to talk about managing conflict within the startup world, specifically within our own businesses, if we're starting our own companies.

And so before we get into the three things that we're going to talk about, can you tell

us why it's so important for people to understand this critical aspect of the business world?

So I'm going to probably end up parroting something that, you know, that you say a lot of times

that the best things in life are on the other side of difficult conversations.

And I think that itself is reason enough. Because what we do

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