Welcome to the American Negotiation Institute's podcast, where we will teach you the skills you need to get more out of life.

And now your host, Kwame Christian.

Hello and welcome to another exciting episode of Negotiation for Entrepreneurs.

My name is Kwame Christian. I'm a business lawyer and I am passionate about teaching business professionals like you how to negotiate and how to be more persuasive. So I just wanted to post this quick episode to give you a quick update on me and tell you what is next for the podcast. So for those of you who were concerned, my surgery

went really, really well. And as you can tell, my voice is even slowly coming back. So I am well

on my way to becoming a human of average health. So that is exciting. It's been a while. But yeah, it was a quick elbow

surgery. I played tennis since I was five. And I just guess all the repeated motions caused

some elbow problems. But the surgery was a success and I'm already, I've almost got full range of

motion in my arm. so I'm feeling good.

In my time off, I got a lot of messages from listeners, which is really cool, because one of the

things that was weird about podcasting is that I could see the statistics.

I could see that there were people listening, a lot of people, all over the world listening,

but I didn't know who you were. And so that's why I keep on asking, hey, touch base with me

on LinkedIn, because I want to know who you are. And knowing who you are and what you do and what

your interests are helps me to create content for the program. And so I, in my time off, I got a lot

of people connecting with me. And they shared some

topics of interest and things like that. It was really cool. And so in addition to all of that,

I spent Monday with all of those suggestions percolating in my mind. That in combination with the

lingering general anesthetic and the pain medication that I was on,

it made my mind a fertile breeding ground for ideas. So I want to take some time to give some

quick shoutouts to some of the listeners who reached out to me. So a shout out to Tim from Kentucky,

Danielle from Philly, Chris from San Francisco,

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