001 Welcome to The Art of Feminine Negotiation: from the Boardroom to Bedroom

<p>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.</p> <p>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.</p> <p>Let me start by answering a few questions you may have. Like ‘what’s up with the title? Boardroom to Bedroom? What does that mean?’</p> <p>Well, I believe that all of life is a negotiation. Whether it’s negotiating with your intimate partner or business partner, your kids or parents, employer or employees, local car dealer or contractor, or negotiating multi-million-dollar corporate transactions. Whether it’s personal or professional or all the spaces in between, deciding to negotiate your best life, with intention, will be a game changer. It just may be the most important skill you’ll ever learn. And yet we’re not taught it.</p> <p>I’m on a mission to change that.</p> <p>Why me? Why this mission?</p> <p>I’ve been an attorney for over 30 years, negotiating high stakes deals across the spectrum. Like most attorneys, I was led to believe I had to bring a ‘take no prisoners’, ‘leave nothing on the table’ approach to bargaining to be successful. My clients called me Barracuda. They meant it as a compliment. Others no doubt called me worse. I was very effective but there was a high cost that came with that approach. And then I had a series of epiphanies. Have you ever had one of those life-changing mindset shifts? I wish I could say it only took one, but it took me a while to overcome decades of conditioning – to really get it. Real negotiation isn’t about winning or losing or even ‘win/win’ in the sense that most people use that term. In fact, the most valuable skills that make and mark the most effective negotiators are the skills that you probably overlook altogether when you think about negotia