Hello, my friends, and welcome to another exciting episode of Negotiate Anything.

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Asul, thanks for joining us today. Thanks for having me, Kwame. It's such a privilege and

honor to be here. No, it's a privilege and honor to have you. And it, again, is way overdue. What about

four years overdue. So I'm glad we can make this happen. So how would you get it started by

telling the audience a little bit about yourself and what you do?

Yeah, so I'm the co-founder of authors who lead and I help leaders write books that people love.

And our focus really is people over paper always. That's what we focus on.

And we see ourselves as a leadership development company whose focus is writing books. So

a lot of that comes with helping people find their identity through their books and building

their brand as leverage for their business and or their next thing. So making a big leap

in their book writing process. So I spent my 25 years in my life actually being an educator, principal, university instructor,

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