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Kwame Christian Esq., M.A.

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Helping you master tough conversations & live well
🚀 CEO American Negotiation Institute
🎙️ Pod: Negotiate Anything
📚2× Bestselling Author
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Comment “CONFIDENCE” for the full episode link 👇

Most people think confidence in a difficult conversation means speaking louder or always knowing what to say.

But real confidence is staying calm when the conversation gets uncomfortable.

In this episode of the Kwik Brain podcast, I sit down with Kwame Christian to talk about how to handle difficult conversations with more confidence, emotional control, and better outcomes.

In this episode, you’ll learn:
☑️ Why intelligent people often struggle with conflict
☑️ Why confidence is a skill you can build
☑️ How to prepare so you don’t freeze under pressure
☑️ How curiosity and emotional regulation create better outcomes
☑️ Why connection is one of your strongest tools

If there’s a conversation you’ve been avoiding, this episode is for you.

👉 Comment below: What helps you stay calm when a conversation starts getting uncomfortable?

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🔁 Share it with a friend. by @kwamenegotiates

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If you’ve ever felt resentment quietly building in your relationship, this is the conversation you need to hear.

In today’s episode, I’m joined by world-renowned negotiation experts, @kwamenegotiates, to give you a crash course on advocating for yourself.

The greatest things in life are on the other side of hard conversations. You don’t want conflict, you don’t want to upset anyone, and you just don’t know how to bring it up.

Listen now! 🎧 “How to Get What You Want Every Time: 3 Steps to Negotiate Anything With Anyone.” by @kwamenegotiates

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Need a speaker? I’m your guy! 😎

Go to www.NegotiateAnything.com to work with us. by @kwamenegotiates

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Good work SHOULD speak for itself...but it doesn't.

It's time to go from being overlooked to undeniable.

My good friend, Kwame Christian and I go deep on this on his new podcast, Big Swings Only. by @kwamenegotiates

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@kwamenegotiates just made a decision in The Room that most people would never have the guts to make.

After ten years and more than 1,800 episodes, he is ending Negotiate Anything. The biggest free negotiation library on the planet, and he is walking away from it on purpose. His new motto is three words. Big swings only.

Here is the belief underneath it. If you already have the mindset and the skill set, the only thing standing between you and the home run is whether you are willing to swing. That is it. Not talent. Not timing. Willingness.

And then he said the line that got me. He treats every swing like Michelangelo carving David, chipping away everything that is not the statue. So whether the swing connects or whiffs, he is becoming the man he respects either way. Win or lose, you are building yourself.

Stop shrinking the swing to protect the miss. Take the big one.

Save this for the morning you need the nerve. New episode out now.

#MickUnplugged #TheRoom #KwameChristian #MickHunt #Podcast #PodcastClip #BigSwingsOnly #BetOnYourself #Mindset #Purpose #Reinvention #Negotiation #NegotiateAnything by @kwamenegotiates

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Trying to play someone else’s game leads to nowhere.

Kwame Christian and I went deep on this on his Big Swings Only podcast.

Shout out to @teacherscollege in this episode. by @kwamenegotiates

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@kwamenegotiates summarizes key points like no other.
His new podcast, Big Swings Only, goes where no one else goes. by @kwamenegotiates

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Hot take from @kwamenegotiates, and this one is a full toolkit in one line.

It is not me versus you. It is you and me versus the problem.

That is the entire shift. Most of us walk into a hard conversation trying to beat the other person. Kwame walks in trying to beat the problem with them. And he has a three-step way to actually do it that he pulled from ten years and more than 1,800 episodes of studying this.

One, acknowledge the emotion. Name what the other person is feeling out loud so the temperature drops. Two, get curious with compassion. Ask open questions and, this is the wild part, talk only 30 percent of the time. Three, move to solving it together. Same team, same side, same puzzle.

Most people talk 90 percent and wonder why nobody feels heard. Flip that ratio and watch how fast people open up.

Save these three steps for the next argument you can feel coming. New episode out now

#MickUnplugged #TheHotTakes #KwameChristian #MickHunt #Podcast #Negotiation #NegotiateAnything #Communication #ConflictResolution #ActiveListening #Relationships #EmotionalIntelligence by @kwamenegotiates

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Hot take from Kwame Christian, and it might sting a little.

You cannot convince anyone of anything.

Read it again. Not your partner, not your kid, not your coworker, not the person you have been arguing with for three years. People are not convinced by you. They convince themselves. And the harder you push, the harder they dig in. You have felt that. The more right you are, the more they act like you are wrong.

So @kwamenegotiates flips the whole thing. Instead of pushing, he spends the conversation on their goals, not his. He gets patient. He shows enough real empathy that the other person gives themselves permission to come around. It stops being me against you and becomes two people on the same side working the same puzzle.

This is the founder of the American Negotiation Institute, a man who does this for a living, telling you the secret is to stop trying to win and start trying to understand.

Save this for the next time you feel yourself about to push harder. New episode out now.

#MickUnplugged #TheHotTakes #KwameChristian #MickHunt #Podcast #Negotiation #NegotiateAnything #Communication #Relationships #Mindset #Leadership by @kwamenegotiates

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The Unplugged Truth is where I tell you the one thing a guest taught me that I could not stop thinking about. Kwame Christian handed me this one and it fixed conversations at my job and at my dinner table.

Stop asking why.

Think about it. When somebody is already heated and you hit them with why did you do that, it does not land as a question. It lands as an accusation. We have felt that since we were kids, because why did you do that always meant you were already in trouble. So the walls go up and you never get the real answer.

@kwamenegotiates fix is stupid simple. Swap why for what or how. Instead of why did you do it like that, try what were you trying to get done, or how did you land on that. Same information, none of the damage. You keep the trust you spent months building.

This is the founder of the American Negotiation Institute, and he just gave you a tool you can use tonight with your partner, your kid, your coworker, anybody.

Save this one so you actually remember it in the moment. Then try it on the next tense conversation and watch what happens.
New episode out now. by @kwamenegotiates

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