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Help Wanted

"Asking For Money Makes Me Want To Puke. Help!"

Help Wanted

Money News Network

Self-improvement, Education, Business

51.3K Ratings

🗓️ 11 July 2023

⏱️ 20 minutes

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Summary

Listener Ela is calling the Help Line because she gets overwhelmed by guilt and anxiety whenever clients ask for her project rate. That ends today! Nicole gives Ela her favorite pro tips and a practice negotiation session that will help her get what she deserves once and for all. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0

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0:25.0

Profits may be subject to capsule gains tax, and the value of cryptocurrencies can go down or up.

0:38.0

This is help wanted. The show, the tackles all the big work questions you cannot ask anyone else.

0:44.0

I'm Jason Feiffer, Editor-in-Chief of Entrepreneur Magazine.

0:47.0

And I'm New York Times' bestselling author and money expert, Nicole Lapin.

0:50.0

The helpline is open.

0:53.0

Pretty much everything in life is negotiable.

0:57.0

Your phone bill, your cable bill, your medical bill, the APR and your credit card, all negotiable.

1:03.0

So seriously, if you are not negotiating everything, you are leaving money on the table.

1:09.0

But how do you get the confidence to ask for that lower bill or even ask for what you deserve at work?

1:16.0

Today, I'm talking to Ella, who wrote in saying that she feels guilty and sick to her stomach when it comes to negotiating her own contracts with clients.

1:24.0

So today, we're going to work on our negotiating toolbox.

1:27.0

So that next time, Ella has the tools and confidence to knock it out of the park.

1:33.0

Can you tell me a little bit about what's going on?

1:36.0

Yeah, so I am usually a freelance writer and I've been having, I guess you could say, confidence issues in regards to asking for my worth where negotiations for my rate.

1:53.0

They caused me a lot of anxiety and I recently joined this group where a lot of women who freelance, they've been sharing their rates.

2:02.0

And I found that I usually ask for quite a bit less.

2:06.0

But I also, like I'm a student, I'm not like experienced, I don't have like 10 years of experience or anything like that.

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