On today's show, PhD Melanie Katzmann, the best-selling author of the new book

Connect First, 52 Simple Ways to Ignite Success, Meaning and Joy at Work,ars with you specific and actionable ways to make better connections with people on the

planet Earth as humans.

If you've ever struggled to connect with your colleagues and coworkers, this show is for you.

Some shows don't need a celebrity narrator to introduce the show, but this show does.

Two men. Eight kids co-created by two different women, 13

multi-million dollar businesses. Ladies and gentlemen, welcome to the Thrive Time Show.

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Here we go. Yes, yes, and yes, ladies.

Started from the bottom that we're here.

We started from the bottom now we're here.

Yes, yes, and yes.

Ladies and gentlemen, on today's show, I am honored to be joined with a doctor, a business

psychologist, an advisor, and a consultant to some of the world's top public and private

companies she's been featured on the in the New York Times on O magazine

Vanity Fair Josh basically the the publications that won't let me be featured in them.

She's been on those publications. So she's pretty long lists sir. She's classy

she's a great American. Thank you Miss Melanie for being on the Thrive Time

show. How are you? I'm terrific and really happy to be here.

Okay, well I, we have so much ground to cover, but I want you to start and kind of share with us you had a lot of success but where did you

grow up I mean where did you come from my friend?

Okay well some people might think I come from Mars but I come from Suburban Long

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