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Amy Fish, I WANTED FRIES WITH THAT

Totally Booked with Zibby

Zibby Owens

Connection, Inspiration, Moms, Entertainment, Arts, Reading, Books, Parenting, Literary

4.4602 Ratings

🗓️ 24 April 2020

⏱️ 23 minutes

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Summary

I interviewed Amy Fish (over Skype - the new normal!), the author of the fabulously titled I Wanted Fries with That: How to Ask for What You Want and Get What You Need. She is the ombudsperson, also known as the Chief Complaints Officer at Concordia University in Montreal, Canada, and regularly teaches, speaks, and writes about how to complain effectively. Her book is both funny and absolutely helpful. It’s about how to ask for what you want and get what you need. Amy and I talked about why we're fearful to "make waves," the art of speaking up for yourself, and how to make a phone-free dinner table happen!

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Hi, I'm Zibi Owens, and you're listening to the award-winning podcast.

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I hope that you have had a chance to check out We Found Time. Wefound Time.com, my new online

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magazine. We have such amazing essays out this week and I really hope you'll take the time to go

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read them or send them to friends or see what you think. And I'd love your feedback if you

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have any thoughts. All the essays on We Found Time are written by authors who have been on this

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podcast already. So it's original content and I think it's really awesome. So I really hope you'll

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Today I'm on Skype with Amy Fish, who's the author of I Wanted Fries with That, how to ask for what you want and get what you need.

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She is the ombudsperson, also known as the chief complaints officer

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at Concordia University in Montreal, Canada,

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and regularly teaches, speaks, and writes about how to complain effectively.

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Her work has been published in Reader's Digest, Hippocampus magazine,

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Costco Magazine, HuffPost, and several other

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publications she currently lives in Montreal. Welcome, Amy. Thanks for coming on Moms Don't Have Time

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to Read Books. Thank you for having me. It's my pleasure. Could you please tell listeners what I

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wanted fries with that is about, and also how you came up with that fabulous title? Sure, the book I wanted fries with that is about how do you ask for what you want and also how you came up with that fabulous title sure the book i wanted to surprise to that

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is about how do you ask for what you want and get what you need there are 27 chapters it starts off

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with little things how to get greener lettuce and we work up to the bigger things like how to get

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the right break at work or how to negotiate with your spouse. How did you become like the chief complaint

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