by Melissa Hereford | Jun 19, 2019 | Confident Conversations, Negotiate With Confidence
You don’t have to feel confident in order for other people to see you as confident. You can feel nervous on the inside and still project confidence. Here are some ideas to get you started: Your body – Stand up straight, as if you have a string pulling you up...
by Melissa Hereford | Jun 19, 2019 | Confident Conversations, Negotiate With Confidence
I’ve always loved this term “Friends With Benefits.” I know, it’s generally used for something racy (!!), but when you think about it, all of your friends give you different benefits. Friends from college give you a connection to your past and memories of a time in...
by Melissa Hereford | May 21, 2019 | Confident Conversations, Negotiate With Confidence
When I was a child, I loved the Schoolhouse Rock song Three is a Magic Number. I learned my 3 times table to this song! And I loved the examples: The past and the present and the future. The faith and hope and charity. The heart and the brain and the body. Turns out...
by Melissa Hereford | May 8, 2019 | Confident Conversations, Negotiate With Confidence
The last few weeks have been tough. You know that my beautiful mother-in-law passed away, I wrote about it last week. I’ve forged ahead because I have to keep going and my to-do list is never ending (as is yours!). I had to dig deep. And it made me reflect on my...
by Melissa Hereford | Apr 30, 2019 | Confident Conversations, Negotiate With Confidence
A couple of weeks ago my lovely mother-in-law passed away. She left us so slowly, over a few years, that her final passing felt like a formality. It was sad, but the real sadness had kept us in it’s grip every week when we went to visit her in the home where she was...
by Melissa Hereford | Apr 24, 2019 | Confident Conversations, Negotiate With Confidence
I love Mel Robbins, she’s one of my role models, like Brene Brown. Last week she was talking about age and how we tend to measure whether or not we can do what we want in life by saying, “I’m too old…to go back to school, start a new career, start a business,...
by Melissa Hereford | Apr 9, 2019 | Confident Conversations, Negotiate With Confidence
I got an email yesterday from Amazon that my copy of soccer legend Abby Wambach’s new book, WOLFPACK: How to Come Together, Unleash Our Power, and Change the Game, is on it’s way! Abby first came to my attention with her keynote address to the Class of 2018 at...
by Melissa Hereford | Mar 29, 2019 | Confident Conversations, Negotiate With Confidence
Have you noticed a decrease in casual, unhurried conversations about work, like the projects you’re working on or what you may find exciting on the horizon in your field or at the company? You may still ask the obvious, “Hey, what’s new with you?” or “How’s that...
by Melissa Hereford | Mar 26, 2019 | Confident Conversations, Negotiate With Confidence
If I could wave my magic wand, you’d all feel empowered and confident to negotiate your salary, a raise, for more resources on your team, to ask for and get more of what you want in life. If you were on one of the calls last week to talk about creating a script to...
by Melissa Hereford | Mar 8, 2019 | Confident Conversations, Negotiate With Confidence
Let’s talk about FEAR. It’s all around you. You’re constantly bombarded with it. News sources take an “imagine the future” approach, giving you the worst case scenario for everything. “Here’s what could happen in North Korea..” “Here’s what the analysts...
