677: Erin McGoff - How to Communicate at Work, Negotiate Your Salary, Write Cold Emails, Overcome Rejection, Run Better Meetings, and Build a Career That Matters

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Now on to tonight's featured Leader Aaron McGoff is the youngest of six kids, which means she learned early that if you want to be heard at the dinner table, you better be quick and funny. Her parents are writers who told her to make a dent in the universe. So when an older executive told the then 23-year-old Aaron to be more realistic about her ambitions, Aaron responded by getting international distribution for her documentary. Then, while stuck in a tiny Brooklyn apartment during COVID, Aaron propped up her

phone on a window AC unit made a TikTok video about job interviews and woke up to 20 million views. Today she's got millions of followers from all over the world and is the best-selling author of a new book called The Secret Language of Work. During our conversation we discuss how to best answer the question. So tell me about yourself. Then how to properly ask for and earn

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