I'm Ending Negotiate Anything. Big Swings Only Starts Now.

Big Swings Only

American Negotiation Institute

Self-improvement, Business, Education

4.7 • 751 Ratings

🗓️ 25 June 2026

⏱️ 43 minutes

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Summary

I'm Ending Negotiate Anything. Big Swings Only Starts Now. After 10 years and 1,800+ episodes, I'm closing the chapter on the world's #1 negotiation podcast — and betting everything on what comes next. This is the most honest, unscripted episode I've ever recorded. I'm Kwame Christian — founder and CEO of the American Negotiation Institute, bestselling author, and the host who built Negotiate Anything from a solo credibility play at age 27 into the most downloaded negotiation podcast on the planet. My clients include Google, Apple, NASA, Microsoft, and the Department of Defense. I've trained hundreds of thousands of people to have the conversations that change their lives. This isn't a goodbye. It's a becoming. What's next: Subscribe to Big Swings Only with Kwame Christian — a show about high performers who dared greatly, and what it actually takes to become who you were destined to be. Media inquiries & connections: simon@negotiateanything.com

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0:00.0	So I'm just going to say it.
0:01.8	This is the last episode of Negotiate Anything.
0:06.8	And first, I want to apologize.
0:08.9	Because for all of you who just listen to the audio, you deserve better than this.
0:14.9	You deserve a better send-off than this. For those of you who follow me on LinkedIn and Instagram, you knew this
0:26.6	a couple weeks ago. I made the announcement on LinkedIn and Instagram. And I've known this was
0:32.9	coming for probably about a year now. And this episode is brought to you by Granola, Shopify, HomeServe, and whatnot.
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1:41.6	It was just, it took me a while to fully absorb this and the thing is when it comes to
1:49.4	to making an announcement like this there are a lot of lots of reasons why so I apologize
1:54.2	because I know this is going to be jarring we've been doing this for over a decade over a
2:00.2	decade the average podcast I think 90% of
2:04.2	podcasts stop after three episodes and we have made it over 1,800 episodes deep with this franchise.
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