On today's show, a former FBI hostage negotiator and New York Times best-selling author

by the name of Chris Voss teaches field-tested principles for effective negotiation.

How to get what you want while maintaining effective relationships?

Why, he who has learned to disagree without being disagreeable has discovered the most

valuable secret of negotiation. How to quickly establish rapport and much, much more.

Some shows don't need a celebrity narrator to introduce the show, could this show

dies? Two men, eight kids co-created by two different women, 13 multi-million dollar businesses,

ladies and gentlemen, welcome to the thrine time show.

From the bottom of my lips, from the bottom of my lips, from the bottom of my lips, from the bottom of my lips.

Thrive Nation, welcome back to another exciting edition of the thrine time show on your radio

and podcast download. And on today's show, we are interviewing Chris Voss, who is a former top

FBI hostage negotiator. And he's teaching field-tested tools for talking anybody into or out of

just about anything. Chris was a member of the New York City Joint Terrorism Task Force from 1986

to 2000. Chris Voss is the author of the best-selling book. You probably recognize the title. It's

called Never Split the Difference, negotiating as if your life depended upon it. And he's a great

American. Chris, how are you, sir? I'm really good, thanks. Happy to be here. I think I pumped up just

from that introduction. Well, Chris, I've been taking steroids for several weeks to get pumped up

to do it properly. To do justice. So let me ask you this, though. Your book is now a runaway

bestseller. And for the listeners out there, though, that aren't as familiar with the book.

What it's all about, could you share with our listeners what kind of nuggets of knowledge they're

going to find in this book? Yeah, it's how to get what you want. Pretty much across the board

and still have great relationships with people. Most people think you can have one or the other

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