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5 min readKwame Christian opens the final episode of Negotiate Anything by admitting he has no script and no structure. He apologizes to listeners for the jarring announcement, then explains that after more than a decade and over 1,800 episodes, he is ending the show to launch something new: Big Swings Only. The episode is raw, emotional, and deliberately unpolished — a solo reflection on why he started the podcast, what it became, and why he is walking away from it now.
The podcast that built a career
Christian started Negotiate Anything in 2016, when he was 27 years old and trying to establish himself as a negotiation expert. He knew there would be age bias — most people in the field enter after decades of experience in law enforcement, business, or counterintelligence. So he used the podcast as a credibility play: a body of work he could point to when people asked why they should listen to him. "The podcast is older than the company," he notes. "The podcast is older than the American Negotiation Institute."
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What you'll learn
- 1 (00:00) **Announcement: The End of Negotiate Anything** - Kwame Christian announces this is the final episode of the podcast after over a decade and 1800 episodes.
- 2 (02:49) **Origin Story: Why the Podcast Started** - Kwame recounts the 2016 origin of the podcast as a credibility-building tool for a 27-year-old negotiation expert.
- 3 (06:08) **Early Validation and Community Wins** - A 28-year lawyer hired him for a multi-million dollar deal, proving the podcast worked as a credibility tool.
- 4 (10:26) **The Strategic Decision to End the Show** - Kwame explains the business and emotional reasons for ending Negotiate Anything.
- 5 (11:45) **History of the Show's Growth and Monetization** - A chronological look at the podcast's evolution from free to major network deals.
- 6 (14:36) **The Catalyst: LinkedIn Network Ends** - The end of the LinkedIn deal forced a strategic reassessment of the show's future.
- 7 (19:04) **The "Big Swings Only" Philosophy** - Kwame introduces the mindset that will define his new show and explains its two meanings.
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Show Notes
I'm Ending Negotiate Anything. Big Swings Only Starts Now.
After 10 years and 1,800+ episodes, I'm closing the chapter on the world's #1 negotiation podcast — and betting everything on what comes next. This is the most honest, unscripted episode I've ever recorded.
I'm Kwame Christian — founder and CEO of the American Negotiation Institute, bestselling author, and the host who built Negotiate Anything from a solo credibility play at age 27 into the most downloaded negotiation podcast on the planet. My clients include Google, Apple, NASA, Microsoft, and the Department of Defense. I've trained hundreds of thousands of people to have the conversations that change their lives.
This isn't a goodbye. It's a becoming.
What's next:
Subscribe to Big Swings Only with Kwame Christian — a show about high performers who dared greatly, and what it actually takes to become who you were destined to be.
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