Negotiate Anything
Transform your relationships. Speak your truth. Get what you deserve—with Kwame Christian as your guide. With over 16 million downloads and more than 1,600 episodes, Negotiate Anything was the world’s leading negotiation podcast for nearly a decade, reaching listeners in more than 180 countries. But it’s about more than negotiation—it’s about confidence, connection, and creating outcomes that respect your values. About the Host: Kwame Christian, Esq., M.A. Kwame Christian the founder and CEO of the American Negotiation Institute. He's known for his viral TEDx Talk, “Finding Confidence in Conflict,” and is a bestselling author of two books: • How to Have Diffic...
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How to Negotiate With Fear & Win | Damon "Coffee Bean" West
<p>Damon West, Coffee Bean author & ex-felon sentenced to 65 years, reveals the 4-word message from a jail cell that flipped a life sentence into a global movement — and the exact mindset that can do the same for your hardest negotiations.</p> <p><br></p> <p>Connect with Damon </p> <p>damonwest.org</p> <p><br></p> <p><br></p> <p>Contact ANI</p> <p>Request A Customized Workshop For Your Company</p> <p>Follow Kwame Christian on LinkedIn</p> <p>negotiateanything.com</p> <p>Click here to buy your copy of Finding Confidence in Conflict: How to Negotiate Anything and Live Your Best Life!</p> <p><br></p>
What Bruce Lee Taught Me About Negotiation
<p>From sleeping on the beach to building a billion-dollar empire — this episode proves that adversity isn’t the end of your story, it’s the beginning of your edge.</p> <p>In this powerful masterclass from Negotiate Anything, you’ll hear how top performers across industries transform setbacks into strategic advantage—and how you can do the same. Entrepreneur Shaheen Shahn unpacks the mindset behind mastering negotiation, revealing why success isn’t about memorizing tactics, but about showing up with presence, authority, and authenticity. Along the way, he shares hard-earned lessons from surviving adversity, navigating high-stakes business, and turning rejection in...
The Tribal Leadership Model
<p>If you've been pushing hard but feeling empty, this episode will challenge everything you believe about high performance. DJ Vanas — Air Force veteran, member of the Ottawa Nation, and author of The Warrior Within (Penguin Random House) — brings centuries of tribal wisdom into a single, urgent message: you cannot be of service to anyone when you are falling apart.</p> <p>DJ has spoken at Fuqua School of Business at Duke University and Yakima Tribal Jail in the same week. His work spans 574 federally recognized tribes, healthcare systems, military organizations, and Fortune-level business teams. He doesn't teach cutting-edge frameworks — he tea...
Safe Danger: The Leadership Episode That Will Change How You See People
<p>Ben Swire is an organizational consultant, facilitator, and author whose work with Fortune 500 teams, law firms, and schools reveals a hard truth: what passes for "connection" at work is mostly just noise.</p> <p>Water cooler talk. Weekend recaps. Friendly but forgettable. [0:08] Ben has built his entire methodology — called Safe Danger — around a single, deceptively simple idea: real trust only forms when people take small, intentional risks to let others actually know them.</p> <p>And the results are stunning — from IT teams at law firms sharing stories of divorce and addiction to leaders rebuilding their teams after workplace traged...
Clients DON’T Want Solutions First… They Want THIS Instead
<p>In this engaging episode, Lauren Sabo takes the reins to explore negotiation strategies with challenging clients. </p> <p><br></p> <p>The conversation delves into the intricacies of managing client expectations, recognizing the characteristics of difficult interactions, and setting effective boundaries in professional relationships. Drawing from both their experiences and professional backgrounds, Christian and Sabo provide listeners with practical insights that transcend the legal industry, applicable to anyone navigating complex client interactions. Listeners are invited to learn the art of deal discovery and enhance their emotional intelligence to foster more successful negotiations.</p> <p><br></p> <p>What will...
The “Just Do It” Lie No One Talks About
<p>What if the secret to winning any negotiation isn’t what you say—but what you notice about yourself in the moment?</p> <p>In this masterclass episode, we dive deep into the hidden power of curiosity—and how turning inward can completely transform the way you show up in high-stakes conversations. From unpacking the “mental baggage” we bring into every interaction to mastering subtle behavioral cues that influence outcomes, you’ll hear how top performers think, feel, and act under pressure.</p> <p>Featuring insights from a clinical psychologist and a former FBI behavioral expert, this episode blends psychology...
Stop Hiding Your Strengths: How to Stand Out, Get Promoted, and Win
<p>They told us that vulnerability was a flaw — a sign of weakness. But what if the truth is the opposite?</p> <p>In this powerful and deeply human conversation, Kwame Christian, bestselling author and CEO of the American Negotiation Institute, sits down with Jamie Librot, former Global Head of Executive Talent Management at JPMorgan and author of Find Your Gobi.</p> <p>Together, they flip the script on what real strength looks like — exploring why our greatest growth begins the moment we stop pretending to have it all figured out.</p> <p>💬 You’ll learn:</p> <p>Why vulnerability is not we...
Harvard Negotiation Expert: Stop Selling Ideas. Start Telling Stories.
<p>Joshua Weiss—co-founder of the Global Negotiation Initiative at Harvard University—explains why your greatest set of facts will always lose to a compelling narrative. Josh has spent years collecting real-world experiences through the Negotiation Stories Project to show how conflict actually works when emotions run deep and the "ivory tower" theories hit the real world. </p> <p><br></p> <p>If you’ve ever felt like your perfectly articulated strategy fell on deaf ears, this masterclass on storytelling and "intelligent failure" is for you. </p> <p><br></p> <p>Connect with Joshua Weiss</p> <p>The Negotiation Stories Projec...
The Key to Being SO VALUABLE You Never Become Irrelevant
<p>AI can write, edit, even cast—but it still can’t do what made TV legend Bonnie Hammer unstoppable: read the room.</p> <p>In this candid conversation with Kwame Christian, Bonnie unpacks the human meta‑skill behind great leadership and negotiation—reading people and context in real time—and how it powered her “Blue Skies” era at USA & SYFY (Monk, Psych, Burn Notice). She shares why “fake it till you make it” fails (and what to do instead), how to hire for humility and team-first culture, why presence matters (“be in the room”), and how to build a spider‑web career that...
Secret Persuasion Tactics from CIA and FBI: Sell Like a Spy with Jeremy Hurewitz
<p>Master the secret tactics spies use to win trust and uncover the truth.</p> <p>In this gripping episode, Jeremy Hurewitz, corporate intelligence expert and author of "Sell Like a Spy," reveals the secret persuasion tactics used by the CIA, FBI, and elite intelligence officers. Hurewitz draws on his years of experience working alongside former CIA case officers, FBI negotiators, and counterintelligence experts to share powerful strategies for winning trust, gathering intelligence, and persuading anyone — even when they don’t want to share.</p> <p>From the art of elicitation and radical empathy to mastering deception detection and reading peop...
