Tommy Talk: THE POWER OF SAYING “NO”
Elvis Duran and the Morning Show ON DEMAND
Elvis Duran Podcast Network and iHeartPodcasts
4.7 • 1.2K Ratings
🗓️ 15 August 2025
⏱️ 12 minutes
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Summary
On this episode of “Tommy Talk,” Tommy discusses the power of saying “No.” It’s one of the hardest things for us to say, but why? Let’s dive into how saying that tiny little word can help us step into our power.
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| 0:00.0 | This is an IHeart podcast. |
| 0:04.5 | Adventure should never come with a pause button. |
| 0:07.1 | Remember Movie Pass? |
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| 0:11.1 | I'm Bridget Todd, host of There Are No Girls on the Internet. |
| 0:13.9 | And this season, I'm digging into the tech stories we weren't told. |
| 0:17.4 | Starting with Stacey Spikes, the black founder of movie pass who got pushed out of the company |
| 0:21.6 | he built. Everybody's trying to knock you down and it's not going to work and no one's going to |
| 0:26.7 | like it. And then boom, it's everywhere. And that was that moment. Listen to there are no girls on the |
| 0:31.7 | internet on the IHeartRadio app, Apple Podcast, or wherever you get your podcast. |
| 0:37.1 | Hey guys. Welcome to Tommy Talk. |
| 0:39.7 | This is a new weekly series that is part of my I've never said this before podcast where I am talking about things that I have never really publicly talked about before in hopes that it maybe helps you and gives a new perspective or two. |
| 0:52.9 | And today's topic is the power of saying no. |
| 0:57.9 | Ooh, this is a big one. |
| 1:00.9 | How many of you have a hard time saying no? |
| 1:04.1 | Whether it's saying no to a colleague, to a friend, to a lover, to anybody. |
| 1:15.5 | No. No, they are two of the hardest letters put together by one word that are so hard to say sometimes. And I think about my journey with saying no. |
| 1:25.0 | And it's evolved. It has evolved, which is why I wanted to do this talk today. |
| 1:30.5 | So I was always a people pleaser growing up. I just was. I've been in the entertainment |
| 1:36.1 | business a long time, but I started doing, you know, modeling and acting kind of fell in a bunch |
| 1:42.2 | of different categories. And then I was in corporate America running |
| 1:45.0 | social media before I became a host. So I've had many lives and many different professional |
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