Carry On Friends: The Caribbean American Experience

How to Have Difficult Conversations

• Breadfruit Media • Season 2020 • Episode 146

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  • Is your manager adamant that your video must be on for all team calls? 
  • Are you having way more meetings than necessary and not getting your work done?
  • How do you and your partner have difficult convos while working and school from home?

In this episode, my friend Kwame Christian comes back to the podcast to teach how to handle difficult conversations in these unprecedented times. We even role-played one of the above scenarios.


Kwame Christian is a best selling author and the Director of the American Negotiation Institute and a subject matter expert in the field of negotiation and conflict resolution. Kwame has conducted workshops throughout North America and abroad, and is a highly sought after national keynote speaker. Kwame is also the host of the world’s most popular negotiation podcast, Negotiate Anything. He is dedicated to empowering others through the art and science of negotiation and persuasion.

Kwame’s TEDx Dayton talk, Finding Confidence in Conflict, was the most popular TEDx Talk on the topic of conflict in 2017.

His book, Finding Confidence in Conflict: How to Negotiate Anything and Live Your Best Life, is an Amazon Best-Seller and has helped countless individuals overcome the fear, anxiety, and emotion often associated with difficult conversations through a branded framework called Compassionate Curiosity.

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