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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.

I have some incredible news.

My second book, How to Have Difficult Conversations about Race is now the number one new release in its

category on Amazon. I'm so excited, so excited for this, because we've put a lot of work into it.

And this was risky because as a lawyer who's focusing on negotiation and conflict resolution,

talking about race seems for many to be outside of the scope of what I usually

do. But again, how are we defining negotiation? We define negotiation as any time you're having a

conversation and somebody in the conversation wants something. And as the podcast is titled,

negotiate anything, we can negotiate anything. And in my years of doing all of this work in the

professional world, difficult conversations about race is something that comes up over and over

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