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You Had the Logic - They Still Said No | The Skill of Getting Others to a Yes | Claire Wang, Pricing Strategist and Author of The Price of Influence
You did everything right. The logic was airtight. And still - no. Because logic is only a hygiene factor. You have it, but so does everyone else.
People say yes when your yes serves their purpose.
In this episode of Get Superpowered, I sat down with Claire Wang to unpack getting to a yes as a skill.
Claire Wang is a pricing strategist who spent two decades pricing foreign exchange, telecoms, insurance across continents. Aligning sales, finance, and marketing behind a single number, with no authority over any of them, taught her that pricing is the ultimate school for influence. She distilled those lessons into her book, The Price of Influence.
In this conversation, Claire walks you through why influence is an invitation, how to uncover what the other person truly values, how to make your idea feel like theirs, and how to tell a real yes from an empty one.
You will learn three practical 'try-today' moves:
1. Ask for advice, not approval.
Don't arrive with a finished idea and hope for a yes.
Bring it half-built and ask people to shape it.
What they help build, they back. 2. Test the yes with a small ask.
Ask for a real commitment: ‘Can I put your name next to mine?’; ‘Can I borrow your team for 20 minutes?’
Action is the only honest yes. 3. Write down what would make people say no.
The risk they carry.
The fear they won't say out loud.
Have an answer ready.
Getting a yes was never about having the best logic in the room - everyone has that.
You get there by inviting people in, not pushing your idea at them. And getting to a yes is a skill you can start building today.
Want to learn more about Claire Wang's work?
Book 'The Price of Influence' https://mybook.to/price-of-influence (https://mybook.to/price-of-influence)
Claire's website https://www.claire-wang.com/ (https://www.claire-wang.com/)
Follow Claire on LinkedIn https://www.linkedin.com/in/claire-wang/ (https://www.linkedin.com/in/claire-wang/)
17 Sept 2026
Your Value Isn't Doing More - It's Making Life Simpler for Others | The Skill of Simplification | Neil West, Apple Veteran and Author of It Just Works
Doing more feels like adding value. It isn't.
Real value comes from what you make simpler for the people who rely on you.
But making things simple is hard - someone has to absorb the complexity.
In this episode of Get Superpowered, I sat down with Neil West to unpack simplification as a skill.
Neil West spent sixteen years inside Apple as it became the world's most valuable company built on a single principle: simplicity. He ran Apple's services across Southern Europe and distilled what he saw into his book ‘It Just Works’.
In this conversation, Neil walks you through what simplicity really is, how to actually deliver it in three steps, how to spot the friction you've stopped noticing, and why being concise is a sign of confidence, not a lack of content.
You will learn three practical 'try-today' moves:
1. Simplify your communication.
Cut your next message in half. An email, a deck, an update.
Half the words. Half the slides. You don't need anyone's permission.
2. Ask ‘Why are we doing this?’
Put the question to your team.
If the answers don’t match, the purpose isn't clear yet.
Get it to one sentence everyone would say the same way.
3. Make one person's life simpler.
Pick someone who relies on your work.
Find the burden they've forgotten they're carrying.
The workarounds. The eye-rolls. The ‘I've always done it this way.’
Take one off their plate this week.
Value isn't doing more. It's in making life simpler for the people who rely on you. And that's a skill you can start building today.
Want to learn more about Neil West's work?
Book ‘It just works’ https://mybook.to/bC4E (https://mybook.to/bC4E)
Neil’s website https://neilwest.com/ (https://neilwest.com/)
Keynotes & workshops https://neilwest.com/keynotes-%26-workshops (https://neilwest.com/keynotes-%26-workshops)
3 Sept 2026
It's Not Who You Know - It's Who Names You When You're Not in the Room | The Skill of Networking | Monique Kelley, Author of Redefining Networking
As AI screens and sorts us, the human act of a person vouching for you decides more of who gets the opportunity, not less.
So how do you become the person others name - on purpose, not by accident?
In this episode of Get Superpowered, I sat down with Monique Kelley to unpack networking as a skill.
Monique Kelley is the author of Redefining Networking and a professor at Boston University. She built a communications consultancy for Fortune 50 companies with no advertising - solely through the network and referrals she has invested in over 20 years.
In this conversation, Monique walks you through what she calls 'earning your keep' - how to get clear on the unique value you bring, how to find the people who actually benefit from it, and how to make that value visible, so the right people can name it even when you're not in the room.
You will learn three practical 'try-today' moves:
1. Name the headache you take away.
Finish that sentence for yourself: the thing I reliably solve for people is ____.
Not what you are. The problem you make disappear.
2. Engage your warm network.
Text one of your contacts today.
Offer help or ask for an introduction to someone who'd benefit from what you do.
3. Share the story, not the announcement.
Post one story this week - a problem you solved, not a win you're claiming.
Frame it from your audience's side: what's in it for them.
You don't become the person others name by asking for it. You become it by being useful when you want nothing back - until your value is something others can name in the rooms you're not in.
Want to learn more about Monique Kelley 's work?
Book ‘Redefining Networking: How to Lead with Your Unique Value’, https://www.redefiningnetworkingbook.com/ (https://www.redefiningnetworkingbook.com/)
Follow Monique on LinkedIn https://www.linkedin.com/in/moniquekelleygigliotti/ (https://www.linkedin.com/in/moniquekelleygigliotti/)
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