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How to Be Awesome at Your Job

776: How to Pushback Effectively and Stand Up For What You Want with Selena Rezvani

How to Be Awesome at Your Job

How to be Awesome at Your Job

Sharpening, Self-improvement, Meaning, Winning, Development, Money, Interview, Writing, Health & Fitness, Speaking, Mental Health, Success, Wins, Fun, Skills, Business, Careers, Training, Education, Collaboration, Decisions, Career, Selfhelp, Mockaitis, Thinking

4.51.1K Ratings

🗓️ 16 June 2022

⏱️ 38 minutes

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Summary

Selena Rezvani reveals why self-advocacy is critical for success–and how to do it effectively. 


— YOU’LL LEARN — 

1) How to turn a “vague no” into something you can use 

2) The LARA framework for when you’re faced with a no 

3) How to know when it’s time to stop pushing 


Subscribe or visit AwesomeAtYourJob.com/ep776 for clickable versions of the links below. 


— ABOUT SELENA — 

Selena Rezvani’s mission is to help professionals stand up for themselves at work and advocate for their needs. She’s the author of 2 leadership books, the bestseller Pushback and The Next Generation of Women Leaders. 

Selena addresses thousands of professionals each year and has been featured in TEDx, Oprah.com, Inc., Todayshow.com, and NPR. Today she’s a columnist for NBC News Know Your Value. Selena is based in Philadelphia where she lives with her husband Geoff and 9 year old boy-girl twins.  

• Book: Pushback: How Smart Women Ask--and Stand Up--for What They Want  

• Website: SelenaRezvani.com  


— RESOURCES MENTIONED IN THE SHOW — 

• Study: Enclothed Cognition by Adam Galinsky and Hajo Adam 

• Previous episode: 282: How to Manage Your Attention and Your Priorities with Neen James  

• Previous Episode: 327: Unclog Your Brain through Unfocusing with Dr. Srini Pillay 

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Transcript

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0:00.0

Welcome to the How to Be Awesome at Your Job Podcast.

0:04.2

The show where brilliant professionals share how to sharpen the universal skills required

0:08.6

to flourish at work.

0:10.2

Enjoy more career fun, wins, meaning, and money.

0:14.1

With your host, Pete McHydus.

0:16.2

Hello and thanks for joining us here episode 776 with Salina Resvani.

0:24.0

Salina had some excellent wisdom to share with regard to pushing back effectively standing

0:29.4

up for what you want, so you'll learn one, how to turn a vague no into something you

0:33.3

can actually use to the Lara framework for when you're faced with a no, and three, how

0:38.6

to no, when it's time to stop pushing.

0:40.9

So if you want to check out the show notes or the transcript or the links to pieces that

0:44.3

we mentioned here, please drop on by awesome at your job.com slash EP 776.

0:51.1

And while you're there, check out some of our goodies such as every episode tagged by

0:54.8

the topic and covered the full text transcripts, the summary wisdom in the gold nuggets of

1:01.3

the action points.

1:03.0

So good stuff over at awesome at your job.com.

1:05.3

Now here's some good stuff about Salina Salina Resvani's mission is to help professionals

1:09.0

stand up for themselves at work and advocate for their needs.

1:12.3

She's the author of two leadership books, the best seller push back and the next generation

1:16.4

of women leaders.

1:17.9

Salina addresses thousands of professionals each year and has been featured in TEDx,

1:21.4

open.com, ink today show.com and PR today she's a columnist for NBC news, know your value.

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