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All right. I am really excited about this episode because I have my good friend Vanessa Gaballero on the show.

She's going to talk to us about how to negotiate your salary and a lot more.

So Vanessa is a talent acquisition manager and she has

years of experience negotiating salary offers. She's also building a side business where she helps

women in their 20s and 30s find their voice after divorce as they start to rebuild their

lives and become not only financially independent, but most importantly, emotionally powerful.

So it's a really unique business, and I encourage you to reach out to Vanessa if that speaks to

you. Here are a few things that I want you to focus on as we go through the interview.

First, we discuss the important differences between using a staffing agency and applying

directly with a company

or trying to advance within the same company. We also talk about the major pitfalls to avoid

when negotiating your salary. And on that topic, we run through an incredibly helpful scenario that

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