Negotiate Like Your Future Depends On It with Lynnette Khalfani-Cox, The Money Coach

Lynnette Khalfani-Cox is known to millions as "The Money Coach"—a New York Times bestselling author, award-winning journalist, and one of the most trusted voices in personal finance. Her journey from sharing bunk beds with four sisters in a two-bedroom apartment to building a multi-million dollar financial education empire is a masterclass in self-advocacy and strategic negotiation.

In this conversation, Lynnette reveals the moment that changed everything when it came to negotiations, pathways to landing dream jobs, and how layoffs can be catalysts for more success. Lynnette shares her framework for negotiating from strength rather than need and why she's now amplifying trusted voices to reach 10 million people through the Financial Influencer Network.

Key Topics:

1. Why employers expect you to negotiate—and what it signals when you don't

2. The power of admitting what you don't know while proving what you can deliver

3. How to negotiate from a position of strength instead of need or greed

4. The career-defining mistake of not getting agreements in writing

5. Transforming a corporate "baseball bat" layoff into entrepreneurial freedom

6. Why legacy is measured in lives touched, not accolades earned

7. Building wealth at scale by amplifying trusted voices through collaboration

8. The "each one teach one" approach to creating generational financial impact

Connect with Lynnette online:

Website: https://lynnettekhalfanicox.com/

LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/lynnettekhalfanicox/

Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/lynnettekhalfanicox/?hl=en

 

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