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.

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learn more. Jessica and Marcus, thanks for joining us today. Thank you for having us. Thank you, thank you.

My pleasure.

So let's take turns.

How many do you get started?

Marcus, you can get us started telling us a little bit about yourself and what we do.

And then, Jessica, you can jump in too.

Yes, Marcus Truffant, former 10-year veteran to the NFL play for the Seattle Seahawks for 10 years.

I'm born and raised in Washington, so that's a special thing for me, my friends, my family, everybody involved got to watch me play for a long time.

Grew up in the area. I have a wife and five beautiful children.

Been married for 12, 13 years now.

So yeah, so now that I'm retired, definitely more involved with the family. Of course, I missed a lot of

birthdays, missed a lot of holidays, all that kind of good stuff. So now I'm doing a little bit of

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