Help Wanted

Jason and Nicole talk about a taboo topic in the work world: salary transparency. Should we be talking openly about how much we’re making? Nicole and Jason outline when transparency helps and when it hurts.

Today, we have two people calling the Help Line: Nicole and Jason. They are negotiating business deals with people they know personally, and are totally stumped. How do you protect the friendship, and still get what you want? So, Nicole and Jason phone-a-friend: Chip Massey, former FBI Special Agent and expert negotiator. Chip shares his proven strategy for effective dialogue, and Nicole and Jason put it to the test in a mock negotiation.

The boom of online courses, coaching and consulting has opened up a new revenue stream for anyone with a teachable skill. This is all fun and games, until you get to the little detail of pricing. How do you set a price on… yourself? That’s the question that made listener Kelsey call the Help Line. To give her the cheat code on pricing strategy, Nicole and Jason phone a friend who knows the courses landscape inside and out: Matt Gartland, CEO at Smart Passive Income Media.For more Matt, check out all things SPI: https://www.smartpassiveincome.com/

Listener Ela is calling the Help Line because she gets overwhelmed by guilt and anxiety whenever clients ask for her project rate. That ends today! Nicole gives Ela her favorite pro tips and a practice negotiation session that will help her get what she deserves once and for all.

Do you have the entrepreneurial itch? That impulse to quit your nine-to-five and start your own thing— any thing? That’s the situation today's caller Laura found herself in when she called the help line. To help Laura take her next steps, Jason shares the framework for a low-risk trial run anyone can try out when the entrepreneurial itch takes hold.

Happy 4th of July! To celebrate, here's one of our favorite episodes from earlier this year.Sooner or later, you're going to need to ask for a favor that will advance your career. We all do… but we don't all do it well. Jason and Nicole show you what works and what doesn't with real-life examples, including a pitch that led them to hire someone, and a whackadoodle pitch that definitely DIDN'T earn someone a job, and how Jason scored a favor from the one and only Michelle Pfeiffer

You've probably gotten the career advice, "go big or go home." But taking that approach 100% of the time just sets you up to fail. Through unpacking their own missteps and wins, Nicole and Jason explain why— and when— you should actually go medium.

So you want to (or have to) bootstrap your business. Nicole is self-funding the business that makes this very podcast, and she will tell you: it is not easy. To share best-practices around protecting your bottom line and mental health, Nicole and Jason are joined by Christina Stembel, who has self-funded her business Farmgirl Flowers.Learn more about Christina and her biz here: https://farmgirlflowers.com/about

Say you're working on something that could be really great, but you need help to get it there. This happened to Jason recently; and the person he needed to call for help? Jimmy Fallon.So Jason had to ask himself: is this worth it? To find his answer, Jason came up with a four-part checklist to help you decide if the thing you want to do is worth asking for.

Nicole had a great appearance on Good Morning America… until she made one tiny mistake that she can’t stop thinking about. Jason and Nicole dig up their most embarrassing moments and workplace missteps, and decide on a benchmark for when to call out your mistakes, and when to keep them to yourself.