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Hey, everybody, it's Mariel. When was the last time you negotiated something?

Not your salary, though. Well, think about it this way. Have you ever compromised with a friend

or a housemate, partner, family member? If so, you have done some form of negotiation, whether it was over who's going to do

the dishes, what you were having for dinner, or where you were going to go on vacation together.

I had some friends the other day a couple deciding on what ice cream flavors that they

were going to get from the grocery store. That's Joan Moon, founder of Moon Negotiation, a negotiation and career coaching firm.

She's also the head of negotiation coaching at the Harvard Kennedy School.

And she says, yeah, some negotiations are much higher stakes than others.

But the point is, negotiating can help you come up with compromises, creative solutions

that go beyond yes or no, this or that. And that can help you get unstuck. It can really

improve your everyday contentment, your satisfaction with your situation, and it can really

give you a sense of agency. It gives you a sense that you are making intentional choices

and creating a life for yourself,

curating a life for yourself that you're happy with.

On this episode of Life Kit,

Joan and I are going to walk through some of the negotiation strategies

that you might typically use when you get a job offer or a promotion

and talk about how you can apply those in your day-to-day lives.

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