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There's a link in the description below. Now let's get to the episode. Hello, my friends, and welcome to our practice

session. In our practice sessions, we invite our featured guests to show off their negotiation

and conflict resolution skills in a realistic scenario. In this session, I want you to pay attention

to what our guest does

and not to what I do, because while they are trying to show off their skills and teach you,

I'm trying to frustrate their efforts in different ways through things like aggression, annoyance,

emotionality, or awkwardness. And then after the practice session, we debrief and talk about what

worked, what didn't work, and what you can use in your next difficult conversation.

All right, everybody, welcome to the sparring session. Yes, as promised, we have Lisa Lang here

with us, negotiation extraordinaire. And of course, I, Kwame Christian, am going to be the

guy that everybody hates in this negotiation. And so here's the scenario. So Lisa is representing a

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