Welcome back to the Negotiate Anything podcast. I know it's been a while. It's good to be back. And with this episode, it's going to be a reintroduction because we have a lot of new listeners and I want to let people know who we are and what we do. And I know I haven't uploaded an episode in almost a month, which is crazy for a weekly podcast.

I haven't gone this long in well over a year, so I apologize for that.

And I know we have a lot of new listeners because even though we haven't uploaded an episode

in that amount of time, we've still been averaging about 9,000 to 10,000 downloads per week.

And I also want to, in addition to the reintroduction, share some major, major updates about

the podcast and the company that will explain why I've been off for so long because we have

some exciting new opportunities. Also, I want to apologize for the untimely delay. If you've been

watching the news or paying attention to what's happening in the world in general, there's been a lot

of social unrest as it relates to the treatment of minorities across the world. It started with the

death of George Floyd and really the protests have spread around the

world. So the fact that I disappeared right at that time probably looked really, really, really bad.

So I apologize for that. But I have a good excuse. I literally could not post an episode. Couldn't

post an episode. So I'll explain why after this

brief reintroduction of the show. So let's start off with the basics. Who am I? Who is this guy?

Who has this negotiation podcast? So my name is Kwame Christian. I am an attorney, a mediator,

professor, author, and the director of the American Negotiation Institute.

And here at the American Negotiation Institute, we have a very simple foundational core belief

that guides everything that we do.

And it's that the best things in life are on the other side of difficult conversations.

And when you stop and think about it, you'll realize that in your own life.

Anything that you've achieved or accomplished or any relationship that you've had that was worth

having or opportunity, professional and otherwise, that was worth having, has come as a result

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