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Safe Danger: The Leadership Episode That Will Change How You See People
- Podcast
- Negotiate Anything
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- Apr 20, 2026
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- 4386
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Summary
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. 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. And the results are stunning — from IT teams at law firms sharing stories of divorce and addiction to leaders rebuilding their teams after workplace tragedies. In this episode, Kwame and Ben go deep on what curiosity, vulnerability, and psychological safety actually mean — and why most people are only operating at a surface level of all three. Connect with Ben Swire benjaminswire.com Buy the book: Safe Danger Contact ANI Request A Customized Workshop For Your Company Follow Kwame Christian on LinkedIn negotiateanything.com Click here to buy your copy of Finding Confidence in Conflict: How to Negotiate Anything and Live Your Best Life!