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Weekend Wisdom 7-20: Know Your Worth Before Asking For A Raise (Right, WNBA?!) · Wicked Radio with Bill Adams

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  Speaker 1: Pay us what you owe us, careful what you ask for?
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  Speaker 1: WNBA players, what's up everybody who was just reading some
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  Speaker 1: headlines here a little bit separate from the daily live stream,
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  Speaker 1: which we'll get back to tomorrow. And I'm sure I'm
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  Speaker 1: going to talk about this as well on Wicked Radio,
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  Speaker 1: but Delvint would a little bit deeper. You know. I
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  Speaker 1: like to take the headlines and use that as an
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  Speaker 1: excuse to talk about, you know, how we can empower ourselves.
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  Speaker 1: What's the win in all this? Right? And I thought
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  Speaker 1: this WNBA story was interesting. Now the background WA players,
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  Speaker 1: WNBA players all last night all got together in Unison,
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  Speaker 1: which was great, good for them, and they all wore
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  Speaker 1: these t shirts that said, again, pay us what you
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  Speaker 1: owe us. I don't think they really understand how this
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  Speaker 1: thing is going to work, even at their level. Now,
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  Speaker 1: if you're like any one of us that works for
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  Speaker 1: somebody else, in other words, you do a job and
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  Speaker 1: you rely on somebody else to write your paycheck, I'm
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  Speaker 1: sure you've gone through this, right. But I'm sure you
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  Speaker 1: have gone through a fail where you ask for more
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  Speaker 1: money and you get turned down, and maybe they give
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  Speaker 1: me a reason like I got years ago when I
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  Speaker 1: was just new in radio, you know, one of those
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  Speaker 1: boy worm radio guys, right, and all I wanted was
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  Speaker 1: something pathetic. I think it was like a two thousand
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  Speaker 1: dollars raise or five thousand, I don't know, whatever it was.
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  Speaker 1: And my jam at the time, rightly so said do
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  Speaker 1: you make me two thousand dollars more money or the
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  Speaker 1: five thousand it's going to take me to cover the
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  Speaker 1: cost of it. Do you make me more money? And
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  Speaker 1: of course I said no. Well, he was right, and
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  Speaker 1: it stuck with me forever, and it was a great
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  Speaker 1: lesson to learn. And I'm actually so gratefully and so
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  Speaker 1: glad that he actually said that to me years ago,
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  Speaker 1: because every time since, every time I asked somebody else
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  Speaker 1: for more money, I came into it armed with what
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  Speaker 1: I think the takeaway is with this WNBA story, If
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  Speaker 1: you want to ask for more money, you've got to
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  Speaker 1: be able to justify not that you're a nice person,
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  Speaker 1: not that people like you, or maybe even that you
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  Speaker 1: planned to make the company or the organization more money
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  Speaker 1: later on. You've got to prove right now you've made
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  Speaker 1: them more profitable in order to get a raise. Otherwise
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  Speaker 1: you're probably not gonna get it. Now, how does this
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  Speaker 1: relate to the WNBA story? Let me check. Let's go
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  Speaker 1: to chet GPT. Yeah, I checked that one. I've done
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  Speaker 1: grock just this plain old Google search. Has the WNBA
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  Speaker 1: ever made money? No? Never, not once profitable? So careful
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  Speaker 1: what you ask for. WNBA players, pay us what you
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  Speaker 1: owe us. You keep demanding that and you might be
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  Speaker 1: writing checks. It's a good lesson for everybody before you
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  Speaker 1: ask for money. If you work for somebody or something else,
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  Speaker 1: know your value, in other words, how much money you
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  Speaker 1: make them, because it's all a business. Remember that one.
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  Speaker 1: It's a great lesson to learn. But you know what,
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  Speaker 1: there's another great takeaway on this. When you ever get
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  Speaker 1: a conversation thrown back at you like that, like I
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  Speaker 1: did my example, did you make me money? It makes
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  Speaker 1: you examine and pay attention to and really determine your
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  Speaker 1: self worth in an organization. It's a great process to
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  Speaker 1: go through. It really is. More often than not you'll
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  Speaker 1: be able to find how you're able to make them
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  Speaker 1: profitable and you discover your own worth in the organization.
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  Speaker 1: It gives you more confidence to go in when you
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  Speaker 1: do ask for money. So know you're worth before you
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  Speaker 1: ask money. Just don't wear a T shirt that says
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  Speaker 1: pay us what you owe us. It's a bad look.
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  Speaker 1: I don't know if it's gonna work out. I'll talk
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  Speaker 1: to you later