Ask for More

You do good work. You just can't seem to say what it's worth out loud.

Maybe you accepted the first number they offered. Maybe you took the raise instead of asking for the one you needed. Maybe you quoted a rate so low you resented the job before it began. If money conversations make your stomach drop, here's the good news buried in that dread: you're not bad at negotiating. You've just never been shown a calm way to do it.

Ask for More is written for the quietly capable — the thoughtful, relational people who would genuinely rather be underpaid and liked than fairly paid and suspected of being greedy. Priya Nadkarni knows that under-asking isn't a math problem or a tactics problem. It's a fear problem wearing a skills problem's coat. And fears, unlike verdicts, can be examined, tested, and shrunk.

In warm, plain English, Nadkarni rebuilds negotiation as what it actually is: not a fight over a fixed pie, but a prepared conversation about value. She'll show you why your price is a number for a service and never a score for you as a person. Why the silence you thought was free is quietly the most expensive thing in the room. Why discomfort is not danger — and how to ask while the alarm is still going off, because you've correctly judged the alarm is wrong.

Then she hands you one simple, repeatable method: know your number, name your value, anchor well, stay quiet, and trade instead of caving. You'll learn exactly how to use it for a raise, a job offer, a freelance rate, or an awkward conversation about shared costs. No bluffing. No theatrics. No pretending to be someone you're not.

Just the steady confidence of someone who finally knows what to say — and the words to say it.

Stop leaving money on the table. Start asking for more, calmly. Get your copy today.