672: How to Ask For and Get What You Want with Heather Hansen
How to Be Awesome at Your Job
How to be Awesome at Your Job
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🗓️ 31 May 2021
⏱️ 41 minutes
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Summary
Trial attorney Heather Hansen shares the top ten tools from the courtroom to help you get what you want.
— YOU’LL LEARN —
1) How to advocate like the pros
2) How to turn your inner critic into your biggest ally
3) How one question can get people to agree with you
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— ABOUT HEATHER —
Heather Hansen gives her clients the tools to advocate for themselves, their ideas and those around them. She has been a trial attorney for over 20 years and was consistently named one of the Top 50 Female Attorneys in Pennsylvania. Heather uses her psychology degree and her years in the courtroom to help her clients ask for what they want and get it. She’s also an anchor at the Law and Crime Network and has appeared on NBC, Fox News Channel, CNN, MSNBC, CBS and Sirius Radio. Heather has helped thousands of keynote audience members in Kuwait, Ireland, Mexico and across the U.S. become their own best advocates.
Heather is the author of the best-seller The Elegant Warrior: How to Win Life’s Trials Without Losing Yourself, which Publishers Weekly calls a “template to achieving personal and career goals” and the host of The Elegant Warrior podcast. Heather’s next book, Advocate to Win-10 Tools to Ask for What You Want and Get It comes out May 25th.
• Book: Advocate to Win: 10 Tools to Ask for What You Want and Get It
• Book: The Elegant Warrior: How to Win Life's Trials Without Losing Yourself
• Instagram: @imheatherhansen
• Website: AdvocateToWin.com
— RESOURCES MENTIONED IN THE SHOW —
• App: Insight Timer
• Book: Captivate: The Science of Succeeding with People by Vanessa Van Edwards
• Book: Chatter: The Voice in Our Head, Why It Matters, and How to Harness It by Ethan Kross
• Book: Man’s Search for Meaning by Viktor Frankl
• Book: The 5 Second Rule: Transform your Life, Work, and Confidence with Everyday Courage by Mel Robbins
• Book: The Law of Divine Compensation: On Work, Money, and Miracles by Marianne Williamson
• Book: To Sell Is Human: The Surprising Truth About Moving Others by Daniel Pink
• Book: What Every Body Is Saying: An Ex-FBI Agent's Guide to Speed-Reading People by Joe Navarro
• Personality: Judge Rosemarie Aquilina
• Tool: Asana
• Tool: Calendly
• TV Show: Law & Crime
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome to the How to Be Awesome at Your Job Podcast. |
| 0:04.0 | The show where brilliant professionals share how to sharpen the universal skills required |
| 0:08.6 | to flourish at work. |
| 0:10.0 | Enjoy more career fun, wins, meaning, and money with your host, Pete LeCaites. |
| 0:19.0 | Hello and thanks for joining us here for episode 672 with Heather Hansen. |
| 0:24.0 | Heather Hansen is an experienced trial attorney who has a wealth of wisdom when it comes |
| 0:29.5 | to how to advocate for yourself effectively. |
| 0:33.0 | So you'll learn one, how to advocate like the pros, two, how to turn your inner critic |
| 0:37.2 | into your biggest ally, and three, how one question can get people to agree with you |
| 0:42.0 | all the more. |
| 0:43.0 | So if you want to check out the show notes or the transcript or the links to Adam's |
| 0:45.5 | Reef Reference, drop on by awesome at your job.com slash EP672. |
| 0:50.0 | Now here's Heather's story. |
| 0:52.0 | Heather Hansen gives her clients the tools to advocate for themselves, their ideas, and |
| 0:55.6 | those around them. |
| 0:57.0 | She's been a trial attorney for over 20 years and was consistently named one of the top |
| 1:00.9 | 50 female attorneys in Pennsylvania. |
| 1:03.4 | Heather uses her psychology degree and her years in the courtroom to help her clients |
| 1:06.7 | ask for what they want and get it. |
| 1:09.3 | She's also an anchor at the Law and Crime Network. |
| 1:11.4 | It has appeared on NBC Fox News channel CNN, MSNBC CBS and Sirius Radio. |
| 1:17.0 | She's helped thousands of folks in her keynotes in Kuwait, Ireland, Mexico, and across the |
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