Hello, everyone, and welcome back to an all-new episode of the Financial Confessions. It's me,

your girl, host, founder, CEO, New Yorker, Manhattanite, dog owner, wife, wife to hubby,

Chelsea Fagan. And as you guys know, I love to talk about money. And for many of us, the biggest thing when it comes to how much we're going to earn is our professional pursuit.

Is our, for many of us, nine to five. Now, we talk a lot on the channel about things like the importance of negotiation and kind of how to navigate the

professional world, especially if you're just starting out or you're in, for example, perhaps

a very male dominated industry and you're not a man. Or you might be, for example, the first

person in your family to graduate college and didn't necessarily receive the tools that many

of the people you're competing in the job market with did.

We also talk a lot about the dynamics that financial privilege can play in and around the workplace,

especially when it comes to things like unpaid internships.

For a lot of industries, it's basically a requirement to do unpaid internships, but for many people, that's just literally not economically possible.

And when it comes to increasing your income, yes, side hustles can be very important, and we have an upcoming episode all about maximizing and diversifying your revenue streams.

But for most of us, the largest gains that we're going to make in our income are going to come from our principal job.

Now, that could be from moving to another company, getting a razor promotion within your own company,

potentially going back to school to build skills and change industries, or any other number of ways of climbing the corporate ladder.

But again, the question all comes back to what do you know,

who do you know, what tools do you have to navigate this world and advocate for yourself?

It's easy to say negotiate, less easy to do it in practice. Last season we had on my guest today

to talk about all of these things. And we got a ton of comments and questions about more specific

kind of nitty, gritty professional queries.

So we wanted to take a time this season

to just do a kind of ask a hiring manager slash ask a recruiter

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