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Jean, thanks for joining us today. Oh, thank you so much for having me. It's a pleasure to be here.

Yeah, it is a pleasure to have you. And you come highly recommended from our mutual friend,

Veronica Cravener, for the listeners who don't

know you yet, how would you get started by telling us a little bit about yourself and what you

do? Well, I'm a commercial and insurance mediator. I'm and arbitrator. I am based out of Los Angeles,

but especially thanks to Zoom, you can mediate anywhere in the world.

I am a lawyer in Southern California and obviously Los Angeles,

but I've practiced for, I think, 37 years before I decided to go from being an advocate

to a neutral, a full-time.

And so I've been mediating on a full-time basis since 2017. And I love it.

It's great. I should have done it earlier, maybe. But whatever, life is great. So it's wonderful to

help people settle their disputes. No, this is great. And I realized as I was going through some of the

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