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Meryl Streep Shares Valuable Lesson on Knowing Your Worth & Asking For It · On Air with Ryan Seacrest

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  Speaker 1: So assistany The question here that Tanya poses is do
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  Speaker 1: you know your worth? And more importantly, she says, do
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  Speaker 1: you know how to ask for what's your worth? And
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  Speaker 1: why do you bring it up?
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  Speaker 2: Because Meryl Streep is doing press for the Devil Wars
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  Speaker 2: product too. It's the number one movie in America seventy
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  Speaker 2: seven million opening weekend. But back in two thousand and six,
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  Speaker 2: when producers first offered her the role of Miranda Priestley,
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  Speaker 2: Meryl said no, she told Jenna Bush on Today this week,
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  Speaker 2: she said, I said no, I'm not going to do it.
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  Speaker 2: She turned it down to see if they would double
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  Speaker 2: her salary and guess what they did. They did right away.
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  Speaker 3: They called me up and they made an offer, and
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  Speaker 3: I said no, and I wanted to see if I
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  Speaker 3: doubled my ask and they went right away and said sure.
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  Speaker 3: And I thought, I'm fifty sixty.
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  Speaker 4: Took me this long to understand that I could do that.
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  Speaker 2: So reports say that her original offer was around two
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  Speaker 2: point five million dollars. She walked away with five. But
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  Speaker 2: basically she said they needed me.
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  Speaker 4: I was.
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  Speaker 2: She was ready to retire. But the moral of the
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  Speaker 2: story is that she was fifty six years old, and
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  Speaker 2: she's just kind of like, it took me this long
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  Speaker 2: in my life.
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  Speaker 1: Really to realize the worth and stand up for it. Yeah,
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  Speaker 1: ask for the order, ask for your worth. And I
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  Speaker 1: want to see that movie so badly. You have no
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  Speaker 1: idea too. My boys were my buddies and I were
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  Speaker 1: going to go see it.
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  Speaker 2: My friends went opening night and said was amazing.
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  Speaker 1: I can't wait to see it. On air with Ryan
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