The Mel Robbins Podcast
The Most Important Career Advice You’ll Ever Hear With Harvard Business School’s #1 Professor
03 Apr 2025
Today, you’re going to learn exactly how to earn more, get promoted, network more effectively, and finally land your dream job. This is the most important career advice you’ll ever hear. In this episode, Mel sits down with Harvard Business School Professor Dr. Alison Wood Brooks, who’s pulling back the curtain on everything your boss won’t tell you: from mastering negotiation and communication to building real influence at work. Dr. Brooks teaches Harvard’s #1 course on negotiation and communication. Today, she’s giving you information that could change everything. Whether you’ve just been laid off and need a roadmap, you’re stuck at a job and craving recognition, or you’re doing well but ready to level up – this episode is your next step forward. Here’s what you’ll learn: -How to ask for a raise, and actually get it. -What it really takes to earn a promotion. -How to nail any interview with confidence. -The path to discovering and landing your dream job. -The science behind negotiation, and how to do it better. -How to handle high-stakes conversations with ease. -Strategies to conquer anxiety and show up like a leader. If you’re ready to make more money, step into your power, and move your career forward with clarity and confidence this episode is your playbook. For more resources, click here for the podcast episode page. If you liked this episode, and want more incredible communication tools, listen to this next: Research From Princeton: 13 Proven Hacks That Boost Your Influence & Make You More ConfidentConnect with Mel: Get Mel’s #1 bestselling book, The Let Them TheoryWatch the episodes on YouTubeFollow Mel on Instagram The Mel Robbins Podcast InstagramMel's TikTok Sign up for Mel’s personal letter Subscribe to SiriusXM Podcasts+ to listen to new episodes ad-freeDisclaimer
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Hey, it's your friend Mel, and welcome to the Mel Robbins Podcast. Okay, I just finished a conversation with acclaimed Harvard Business School professor Allison Woodbrooks, and all I'm going to say is, wow. If you or someone that you love wants to make more money, land a promotion or a raise, find your dream job, or simply be more confident and influential at work or in life, congratulations.
Seriously, because you hit play on the exact thing you need to listen to right now. Professor Brooks teaches two of the most popular courses at Harvard Business School. One is on the science of negotiation, the other one on the science of communication. The strategies and tactics that you're about to learn come from Professor Brooks' 15 years of research.
It's what she's teaching at Harvard Business School. It's the subject of her new best-selling book, Talk. And today, well, today, she is in our Boston studios to share all of this with you and your loved ones. So whether you're about to graduate,
or you're entering the workforce, or you're a shift worker, or a corporate executive, or you're just tired of having the overnight shift at the hospital, your friend Mel Robbins is going to tell you, you deserve more respect, you deserve to be paid for your contributions, and you have more influence than you think. Today, with the help of Professor Brooks, you're going to learn how to unleash it.
Because what she's going to share with you, it's going to blow your mind and catapult you forward in your career. Because this is a free masterclass from one of the most popular professors at Harvard Business School. Hey, it's your friend Mel, and welcome to the Mel Robbins Podcast. I am so excited that you're here. It's always such an honor to be able to spend time with you and be together.
And if you're brand new, I just want to take a moment and welcome you to the Mel Robbins Podcast family. And because you hit play on this episode and you found the time to listen to this, here's what I know about you. You're not only the kind of person that values your time, but you have a lot of ambition and you're looking for ways to advance your career and you're in the right place.
Your ambition might mean that you want to make more money or land your dream job or just get the recognition and respect that you deserve at work. Well, this conversation today is a must-listen for you and for everyone that you care about because there are specific things that you can do based on the research to get what you deserve at work and in life.
Everything that you're about to learn today comes from 15 years of research from Harvard Business School professor, Alison Wood Brooks. She also has a brand new book, Talk, which is all about the science of communication. And it summarizes one of the most popular courses at HBS that she created and teaches.
Now, Professor Brooks took time to come over from her Harvard Business School classroom over across the river in Cambridge to be here in our Boston studios for one reason. She's doing it for you. Now, to put this in context, if you were to even get into Harvard Business School, I know I probably couldn't, it would cost you over $100,000 a year to attend.
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