Today's episode is brought to you by John Hancock and their new podcast, Friends, who talk about money.

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I'm Carly Zaken. I'm Danielle Weisberg. I'm Danielle Weisberg.

Welcome to Skim from the Couch.

This podcast is where we go deep on career advice from women who have lived it.

From the good stuff like hiring and growing a team.

To the rough stuff, like negotiating your salary and getting it. like

negotiating your salary and giving or getting hard feedback.

We started the skim from a couch, so what better place to talk it all out than where it began on a couch.

Today we have a special bonus episode of skimmed from the couch.

Claire Wasserman joins us to talk

about one of our favorite topics. Money. She's a career coach and the

founder of Ladies Get Paid, a Career Development Platform for Women.

She's also the host of John Hancock's new podcast, Friends who Talk About Money.

Claire, we are so excited to have you with us. to skim from the couch so excited to be here I'm such a huge fan of you guys oh thank you

We're gonna jump in with our standard questions skim your resume for us. Oh man okay so I started in independent film question. for about a year. made my way to an experiential marketing firm,

decided I wanted to be in advertising.

But about a year later, I went on my own and I created a startup

which worked for about eight months and then it failed. So after that I worked for an

organization called the Art Directors Club. It is a community and network that helps connect people in

visual communications.

So a little bit deeper into advertising,

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