Invest in Your Team and Treat Yourself

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Jun 28, 2022
2 min read

Negotiate and invest; Guest Kwame Christian brings his distinctive insights as a founder and CEO of American Negotiations to talk shop about how to handle your entrance into a life with auxiliary cash flow. He shares with host Liam Leonard the importance of rewarding yourself carefully, hiring consciously, and investing confidently on this episode of The Prosperity Perspective podcast.

3 Key Takeaways:

As business owners, we’re very selfless. But it’s okay to reward yourself with whatever version of self care you deserve as long as it's not destructive to others.
Investing in your team and therefore yourself as a leader is the best choice you can make.
If you want to be successful, you need to start delegating tasks to your talent force. Avoid the classic founder problem of spreading yourself too thin.

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Show Notes:

[0:25] Guest Kwame Christian introduces himself and his background as a CEO

[1:10] Kwame shares the most difficult conversation topic that he has had to deal with

[3:10] When Kwame reached significant cash flow, he began building a framework for investment

[9:07] Kwame shares how he planned to expand his company to more employees

[12:20] What was the first role that Kwame hired for and what was his thought process behind that decision?

[13:15] Looking at today: Kwame’s framework has shifted, but he is still invested in people

[15:20] Kwame explains where he takes his money if his business no longer needs the investment

[17:55] Kwame describes how things have changed for his personal life since he began his business venture

[19:45] He leaves one piece of advice to listeners who are reaching a point of profitability

It’s okay to spend money on yourself in celebration if you’ve earned it

About Kwame Christian

Kwame Christian is a best-selling author, professor, business lawyer, and the Founder and Managing Director of the American Negotiation Institute (ANI).

Following the viral success of his TedxDayton talk, Kwame released his best-seller Finding Confidence in Conflict: How to Negotiate Anything and Live Your Best Life in 2018. He’s also a regular contributor for Forbes and the host of the number one negotiation podcast in the world, Negotiate Anything. Under Kwame’s leadership, ANI has coached and trained several Fortune 500 companies on applying the fundamentals of negotiation to corporate success. His second book, How To Have Difficult Conversations About Race, releases later this year.

Beyond his role at ANI, Kwame serves as a professor for Otterbein University’s MBA Program and Ohio State’s top-ranked dispute resolution program at Moritz College of Law. That said, Kwame’s proudest achievement is his family. He’s married to Dr. Whitney Christian, and they have two lovely sons, Kai and Dominic.