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Hello, my friends, and welcome to this very, very quick episode.

And I just wanted to tell you a little bit about what we've been working on here. So, of course, you can hear the joy in my voice when I do this podcast. I really love podcasting. And some may even say, Kwami, podcasting must be your favorite part of the business. And you'd be close. You would be close because this does bring me a lot of joy. But actually, the thing that I like more than podcasting is

presenting, doing keynotes, doing workshops, doing trainings. I love that because I get to go out and

have a real relationship with people. And what's really fun is when podcast listeners like you,

either bring me in to do a training or show up at some of my events

because it's almost like we're starting off the friendship at a different level

because you've listened to a lot of my voice already.

And I don't know, it's just a completely different vibe.

So I've been all over the

country already this year and we're only six months in and the calendar is getting booked up very

quickly. And I want to make sure that my podcast listeners, like you, are the people who are

filling up the calendar. So again, I just want to remind you about these trainings that we do.

So if your organization does professional development training and you are a human who happens to talk to other humans as part of your work,

then we can do a training for you. So we have the transactional trainings for people who are lawyers, people in procurement, people who are salespeople, those type of things, real estate, a lot of real estate as well.

So we can have those

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