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Alicia, thanks for joining us today.

Thank you for having me.

Yeah, it's great to have you.

Another teammate on the show.

So how about you get us started by telling us a little bit about yourself and what you do?

Yes, Alicia Shaw.

I'm an attorney with Carlisle Patchen and Murphy, and I do our employment law.

We usually represent employers, so I'm typically on the management side, and I do a lot of HR consulting, a lot of counseling for our employers, and a lot of compliance work in terms of what do I do when this happens? And what happens,

you know, what do I need to do if, you know, someone makes a request for an accommodation,

just a lot of very basic HR counseling and consulting, and it's a lot of fun.

Fantastic. And so everybody, in case you weren't up to date, so I'm also an attorney at

Carlisle Patchen and Murphy because I am a stereotypical Caribbean American with multiple

jobs. So if you need legal representation in Ohio, we have you. And you could work with Alicia. And so we are

excited today because we're talking about awkward conversations. And so before we get into the how-toes,

why is it so important for us to have these conversations and have them well?

So from my perspective, as I said, being on the

employer side of things, but even if you're representing an employee or even if you are the employee

or you are the employer, I mean, there are things that happen at work that you just have to

address. And sometimes they involve, you know,

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