Seth, thanks for joining us today. Oh, my great pleasure, Kwame. I've been looking forward to this.

Me, too. And listeners, I, the universe was trying to stop us from having this podcast,

but we kept our fighting. Yes, so I appreciate your patience here. So how would you get

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

By all means, Kwame. First, I'm a fan. I've been enjoying your work and proud of it and excited for it.

So I'm delighted to be with you. And just by way of introduction, I am a professor at NYU Stern School of

Business and also at Columbia University, where I teach courses on negotiation

and conflict management, which I've done for many years. Before that, I was a corporate lawyer. I

practiced corporate and securities law for major firms in New York for several years, so I have

a transaction background. And I also teach around the world. I teach in China

almost every Friday evening by Zoom. And I have an active training practice. So there's every

way that I can share the skills of negotiation. I'm doing that. I love it. And you have a new book coming out. Can you tell the listeners about that?

Yes. Thank you so much. It's 15 tools to turn the tide, a step-by-step playbook for empowered

negotiating. And it's coming to fruition right now. It's as we speak, it's later April. And our pub date is May 23rd. And depending on how

you count it, this book has been three years or 23 years in the making. Well, my wife remembers when

I was talking to her during our courtship 23 years ago now about writing a book.

And three years ago, I started to focus on this specific topic.

And to my delight, it sold.

And here we are.

But it took quite a while to take it from inception to production.

So here we are.

And we've got to figure out a way to party for it.

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