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All right. I have a very special guest today. Kwame Christian, welcome to the show. Lindsay,

thanks for having me. Yeah, yeah. I have been a fan and really, really appreciate the work that you do.

And I've been really anticipating this conversation because you are a pro at difficult

conversations.

So why don't you tell me a little bit about what you do and what you've been up to?

Yeah. So I think as we as we get started in this conversation about difficult conversations,

it's important to think about my origin in this because I came to this field because I was

profoundly bad at having difficult conversation. So I'm a recovering people pleaser. And now what I,

what I've done is I've shifted my identity from people pleaser to negotiator. And so this

journey is really interesting because I wasn't even a really aware of the concept of negotiation

until law school. And the only reason I took the

negotiation course was because it fit into my schedule. And when I took the course, it was eye

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