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Help Wanted

"Should I Tell My Coworker She Hurt My Feelings? Help!"

Help Wanted

Money News Network

Self-improvement, Education, Business

51.3K Ratings

🗓️ 6 February 2024

⏱️ 27 minutes

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Summary

Nicole recently almost did a deal with one of her friends... until that friend pulled out of the deal. Now, Nicole has an emotional email sitting in her drafts: should she send it? Today, Jason shares the thought exercise he applies before sending any email he's not sure about.

Transcript

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0:00.0

This is Help Wanted, the show that tackles all the big work questions you cannot ask anyone else.

0:14.0

I'm Jason Fyfer, editor-in-chief of entrepreneur magazine.

0:16.7

And I'm New York Times best-selling author and money expert, Nicole Lapin.

0:20.4

The helpline is open. All right, Jason, I'm going to read you a super, super embarrassing.

0:29.0

I don't even know if I could do it.

0:30.0

I might have to have Morgan read it, because it's just like my armpits are already

0:35.2

sweating. I'm so excited and I don't even know what you're talking about yet.

0:38.3

It's an email draft for a hard work situation I was in that I smartly left in the draft folder.

0:48.0

So this is something you wrote to somebody else.

0:50.0

I wrote to someone else and I didn't send it.

0:52.0

Great. But I want to know what and I didn't send it. Great.

0:52.6

But I want to know what you think about it.

0:55.3

Okay.

0:56.3

And I want to know what of this.

0:59.4

I don't know if I can do it.

1:01.4

You would change or how you would make it better, which would be like

1:05.6

starting over I think, but here it goes. That sounds great. I'm very excited.

1:09.6

Also, and I genuinely do not know what you're going to send me and I don't even know the hard situation

1:13.8

so I'm learning all this on the fly folks but I'm going to stand in praise before we go any further

1:18.8

of writing the email and then not sending it.

1:22.6

Right it dirty, right it nasty.

1:24.8

Yeah, just get it all out.

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