Have you ever had to negotiate with someone who just won’t play fair? In an ideal world, negotiations are always fair. But in real life, things often don’t play out the way we want them to. There is always the possibility one party won’t play by the rules. Because of that, it’s important to be able to identify the tricks unfair negotiators will use to try to ‘win’. In this episode, we uncover some of those tricks, as well as ways to counter them and tips to employ. We touch on everything from de...
Aug 03, 2020•24 min•Season 1Ep. 25
Sheila Mac’s mission is to teach women how to find a glimmer of light in even the darkest situation. Sheila discusses her new book, Bootstraps & Bra Straps, a beacon for all the women who have spent their lives showing up for everyone else and now need someone to show up for them. She shares her B.O.O.T.S blueprint to reinventing yourself: B = Being [who were you and who you need to be now] O = Orientation [where are you at realistically and how can you choose goals based on that reality] O ...
Jul 27, 2020•32 min•Season 1Ep. 24
Matthew Coast is the creator of The Forever Woman, a best selling program that helps women ensure they are loved, seen, and cherished in relationships. His articles, videos, and programs reach over two million women, all over the world, every single month. In this interview, Matthew talks about how to raise your value with men in romantic relationships. While some women may bristle at the idea of having to establish our value, Matthew really promotes loving yourself. He promotes the core princip...
Jul 19, 2020•43 min•Season 1Ep. 23
As a young woman, Elaine was crushed between 3 cars and suffered massive internal injuries and endured multiple surgeries. Elaine bravely self proclaims that she is a functional junkie and shares her journey in hopes it may help others gain insight. We discuss how the fact that pain killer addiction is treated like a dirty little secret perpetuates the problem (if not creates the problem). People in chronic pain experience shame. Tips for people suffering from pain killer addiction: You have to ...
Jul 13, 2020•39 min•Season 1Ep. 22
How often do you apologize in a typical day? Women tend to apologize often – and definitely more often than men. Apologizing typically doesn’t serve you. It can become a disempowering habit that undermines your credibility, confidence and self-esteem. As children, we’re taught that apologizing is polite and expected. Maybe it’s time to recognize that pre-emptive apologizing no longer serves you and acknowledge that it’s time to let it go. What if you turned that habit on its head? What if you de...
Jul 06, 2020•13 min•Season 1Ep. 21
In this episode, Cindy and Marta discuss: How a photography session can help you get your confidence back. The power of a boudoir photography session. Moving past living with a psychological emergency break. How to gain confidence in your own body. Buying and wearing lingerie for you. Key Takeaways: Step outside your comfort zone. You have nothing to lose and everything to gain. When you look in the mirror, appreciate what is good about yourself. We need to learn to love what we have. Upgrading ...
Jun 29, 2020•34 min•Season 1Ep. 20
In this episode, Cindy and Paula discuss: The distinction between living your purpose and following your passion. Skirt Magazine and the movement it is creating. Tapping into the Ask. Stepping into your feminine power with confidence and embracing your value. Living with a mindset of service. Key Takeaways: Happiness comes from alignment to your core purpose, not to your path. Women loving and supporting women is going to have profound effects on the world. Allow the confidence/competence loop w...
Jun 22, 2020•50 min•Season 1Ep. 19
In this episode, Cindy and Traci discuss: Priming people for negotiation before you meet with them. True win-win scenarios and finding them in enlightened fashions. The power of the pen. Types of questions and utilizing them strategically. Key Takeaways: Negotiations are more powerful face-to-face than over the phone. Take notes during a negotiation - it creates a level of rapport and makes you more likeable. The questions are always the answer in any negotiation. Using the right language, such ...
Jun 15, 2020•35 min•Season 1Ep. 18
In this episode, Cindy and Trina discuss: How consulting gives you freedom that other fields may not. Seeing your strengths in your past hurdles. The strengths in having a Power 2 Hours. Increasing your efficiency. Key Takeaways: If you have any skills, talent, or experience, you have something to offer. Give yourself a boundary. Pick your window that is your “Power 2 Hours” and you will get everything else you need done anyway. Be protective of your two hour window (or 2 separate hours if that ...
Jun 08, 2020•38 min•Season 1Ep. 17
In this episode, Cindy and Tricia discuss: How to differentiate between physical and emotional hunger. The hidden cases of emotional eating and how to heal and deal with obsessive food thoughts. Ways to manage stress before it drives you to the kitchen. The PEP test and ways we use food. Key Takeaways: Emotional eating is a spectrum, but essentially everyone is an emotional eater in some fashion. We are in the driver’s seat. We don’t have to people please; we can make new choices. Overeaters are...
Jun 01, 2020•42 min•Season 1Ep. 16
In this episode, Cindy and Robert discuss: What it means to be a manifestation business coach. Replacing the word want with another phrase to shift into attention and what you control. Aligning with your inner truth to live your dream life. Identifying your 20% with your deep why in focus. Key Takeaways: When you connect with your inner truth, that is the most fulfilling and safest place to be. You don’t get what you want, you get what you have. You cannot tune into the frequency of what you des...
May 25, 2020•41 min•Season 1Ep. 15
In this episode, Cindy and Neil discuss: Mastering your emotions and mindset. The identities stored in your body and the needs of the body, heart, mind, and spirit. Executing on your goals with specific metrics that fulfill all of your needs. What to focus on in times of change. Key Takeaways: Life is about 4 things: intentions, feelings, habits, and energy. You set intentions to overcome bad habits using the same style of incantation that helps you to fulfill your goals addressing each of your ...
May 18, 2020•45 min•Season 1Ep. 14
In this episode, Cindy and Robin discuss: Natural solutions for staying healthy in life, and especially in these different times. The hormone deal breakers that throw off your immune system. The power of having an attitude of gratitude and ways to cultivate that attitude every single day. Clearing toxins, of all kinds, from your life. Key Takeaways: You can grow younger no matter what your age. This is the time for us to take our health really seriously. You can’t control the thoughts that come ...
May 11, 2020•24 min•Season 1Ep. 13
In this episode, Cindy and Karen discuss: The evolution in the treatment of mental health and the increase in mental health issues with the new generations. Dr. Cassiday’s studies in positive psychology and how it is coloring how she is handling wellness during this unusual time we are living in. Characteristics of a resilient person and what it means to be a resilient person. What good humor is and developing it within ourselves. Ways to boost our own and others mental health with just the litt...
May 04, 2020•34 min
In this episode, Cindy and R.T. discuss: Taking the time to heal and maintaining our life’s mission during this time of healing. The Seven Submariner Principles that allow us to dive into the depths and always rise again. Understanding where you sit on the emotional plain and looking up. The power for women as they continue to rise above the surface. Key Takeaways: Whenever you are bonding something, there is a healing period to connect the pieces together. We can heal and bond the It’s not abou...
Apr 27, 2020•50 min•Season 1Ep. 11
In this episode, Cindy and Marcela discuss: What priestess power is and the feminine energy within each of us. Harnessing the sacred rage as a powerful tool for good. The power we all have and the profound, powerful effects of us stepping forward individually and in our communities. How we can tap in and harness our feminine energy and sacred feminine rage. Key Takeaways: It is part of our duty to be part of the solution. We are born as we are for a reason. COVID-19, regardless of the reasons fo...
Apr 20, 2020•53 min•Season 1Ep. 10
In this episode, Cindy and Yvonne discuss: In this episode, Cindy and Yvonne discuss: Global grief arising from COVID-19. How we came to be a grief-phobic society. How we can pivot to gain coping skills to deal with grief in the face of COVID-19. 10 tips on how to navigate the new ‘normal’, including: Acknowledge and allow your feelings. And then, choose not to stay there. Be informed without obsessing Be the best example you know Check in with yourself and what you need Reframe your calls to ac...
Apr 13, 2020•53 min•Season 1Ep. 9
In this episode, Cindy discusses: Eliminating Ego from your bargaining, or at least handling it better. How ego can show up in negotiation. Knowing your objectives with clarity. Collaborating for better results than either would have imagined. Key Takeaways: Effective negotiation is about securing desired outcomes, not beating the other party. Concentrating on the win over the objectives often leads to worse results. Preparation includes consideration of your body line and best alternatives. You...
Apr 06, 2020•23 min•Season 1Ep. 8
In this episode, Cindy discusses: What the acronym F.E.A.R. stands for and how it affects negotiation. How our confidence changes our approach in negotiation. Most popular fear factors and why you want to avoid them in bargaining. Limiting beliefs that can hold you back from your limitless future. Key Takeaways: The words we say are only a small part of our communications and bargaining. Fear drops your energy and your ability to maintain clarity. Underachievers and overachievers alike often hav...
Mar 30, 2020•19 min•Season 1Ep. 7
In this episode, Cindy discusses: Holding up your beliefs, examining them, and questioning them. The quality of assertiveness. The key traits identified as making a great negotiator. Social conditioning and women of all ages. Key Takeaways: There is more to being a negotiator than just assertiveness including: rapport building, empathy, flexibility, intuition, and trustworthiness. Five out of six of the key skills identified as marking great negotiators are traits that most would consider femini...
Mar 23, 2020•14 min•Season 1Ep. 6
In this episode, Cindy discusses: How should I react to the Coronavirus? What you resist persists What if the consequences of giving into the fear are greater than the consequences of the virus? What's a small way you can choose to serve? Key Takeaways: Acknowledge what you are feeling, and then choose to focus on hope and possibility Negotiate your mindset. Choose to reach for a better reality chose to pull together to serve each other from a mindset of abundance and generosity It's impossible ...
Mar 20, 2020•10 min
In this episode, Cindy discusses: Where the fear of rejection, of getting a “no” comes from and how it affects us as adults. Shifting your mindset to embracing the “no.” Stretching your boundaries and moving outside of your comfort zone. Going for the “no” and using that as momentum in your tasks. Key Takeaways: Only through persistence and “failures” can we find success. “Sticks and stones can break my bones but no can never hurt me.” If you do the thing you fear, the fear will go away. The fea...
Mar 16, 2020•11 min•Season 1Ep. 5
In this episode, Cindy discusses: Diplomacy in personal relationships. Skills required in diplomacy and how to utilize them. How active listening and openly voicing your needs are keys to communication. Quick tips to navigate the choppy waters of difficult conversations. Key Takeaways: You ARE FIT to be a great negotiator: Assertiveness, Rapport building, Empathy, Flexibility, Intuition, and Trustworthiness. You can take the high road to get even higher results. If you don’t ask for what you nee...
Mar 16, 2020•14 min•Season 1Ep. 4
In this episode, Cindy discusses: The gender biases in society and internally. How identifying ourselves changed results in studies. How women underperform as an outward expression of our internal biases. The effects of stereotypes on both genders. Key Takeaways: In many studies, the mere idea of identifying as a woman often makes people underperform. This shows an outward example of the destructive power of those limiting beliefs. Men are pressured, just as women are, to perform in a way they m...
Mar 16, 2020•10 min•Season 1Ep. 3
In this episode, Cindy discusses: Coming from your feminine, not your masculine in negotiation. Lessons from childhood and law school simulations in negotiation. Fundamental principles of negotiation. The power of relationships in negotiation. Key Takeaways: Negotiation doesn’t have to be a take-no-prisoners situation. It can be about rapport building, empathy, and authenticity. Negotiating and living outside your natural style can lead to feeling disconnected and changing how you act in other a...
Mar 16, 2020•13 min•Season 1Ep. 2
Welcome to The Art of Feminine Negotiation: from the Boardroom to Bedroom, your place to go for hot tips and tactics on how to negotiate your best life so you can stop missing out and start getting more of what you want and deserve … from the boardroom to the bedroom. I’m Cindy Watson, creator and host of the show. I’m excited to have you here and hope you decide to make this a must to tune in to each week. Let me start by answering a few questions you may have. Like ‘what’s up with the title? B...
Feb 04, 2020•7 min•Season 1Ep. 1
