Open for Registration: How to Ask for What You Want

The Ask for What You Want course is finally here! So excited to share all the AFWYW tools with you folks and get into the nitty-gritty of how to pursue your dreams together.

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I've shared the course description below.

Master tactical tools for confident requests. Practice naming your desires, making bold asks, and building influence through relationships.

Wish it wasn't so stressful asking for what you want?

Feeling stuck? Want change but not sure where to start?

Want to make a big ask but not sure how to mitigate the risks?

Frustrated that others aren't responding the way you want to your asks?

This course equips you to confidently and effectively advocate for your desires every day. Ask for What You Want (AFWYW) is a framework of proven tools drawn from my decades of experience as a founder, operator, and executive coach. These tools help you pursue your dreams and face the fears you'll inevitably encounter along the way. They work for any ask you might have in work or life: from asking your boss for a raise, to asking your report for better results, to asking your partner to load the dishwasher properly.

You'll learn how to:

1. Cultivate confidence and soften fear of rejection by finding the right ask for right now
2. Be a strong advocate without being a jerk by eliminating entitlement, righteousness, and blame
3. Build your influence via genuine relationships by handling rejection graciously

Asking for what you want boils down to answering a few simple yet essential questions. What do you want? How will you pursue it? What impact do you make? The AFWYW framework answers life's big questions with science, not mysticism. Those answers are out there. They're not unknowable mysteries, they're scientific discoveries—ones you alone can uncover. AFWYW will help you avoid the major pitfalls with its proven best practices. But the only way to be sure what works is to test your asks in the real world! So find an ask you're willing to make today to keep learning. Just follow the scientific method: hypothesize, experiment, analyze your results, and try again. Or when it comes to asking for what you want, I put it this way:

1. Articulate what you want
2. Ask for what you want intentionally
3. Accept the response graciously
4. Try again!

That's Ask for What You Want in a nutshell. It makes pursuing your dreams sound so easy! But the reality is we give up on our dreams all the time. We just get busy with other things that feel less risky or frustrating. So let's name the obvious: our dreams are important and worth pursuing—whether or not we succeed. Don't let distraction keep you from your pursuing your dreams, big or small. Consider how to pursue them effectively, not whether to pursue them at all. That's why I created Ask for What You Want.

In this course, each week you'll apply one step of the AFWYW process (articulate, ask, accept) to a real desire in your work or life. You'll practice the tools for each step via group discussions, breakouts, and weekly experiments in the real world. As with any scientific experiment, you won't always get the results that you want. But you'll learn from them either way: discovering your true desires, how to confidently advocate for them, and how to cultivate the genuine relationships you'll need to make an impact. You'll face your fears gradually, and prove you can Ask for What You Want anyway.