Your office may look friendly, but behind every project, promo, and status meeting there’s an invisible game of power & influence. In 34 minutes Jean (ex‑Snap Head of Product) and Cherie (ex‑LinkedIn Senior PM) hand you the playbook of four “soft‑skills” that quietly decide who gets budget, who gets heard, who gets the raise, and who gets cut out.

🔑 What You’ll Learn

• Power Moves Framework for Listening → Executive Presence → Networking Allies → Win‑Win Negotiation

• The repeat‑back empathy hack that converts info into influence.

• Where to sit, speak, and shut‑up to project instant gravitas (table math is real).

• The “Orange Peel Deal” negotiation lesson to go from zero‑sum → 100 % win‑win.

• Cherie’s 30‑second cardio reset that flips stage‑fright into CEO‑level calm.

• How to recruit mentors without the cringe “Will you be my mentor?” ask

⏰ Timestamps

00:00  Welcome to Power & Influence 101 – “they might be using these tactics on you” ⚡

01:06  Skill #1: Listening with empathy – how to repeat back as a tool 👂

05:45  Meeting Exercise: speak last, summarize, then pivot to your idea 🗣️

07:35  Skill #2: Instant executive presence – where to sit, how to look & sound 🎤

10:18  Cherie’s anecdote + lesson as LinkedIn intern 💺

12:44  Nerves → Excitement Flip + 30‑sec cardio trick to steady your voice 🏃‍♀️

15:38  Skill #3: Building Cross‑Org Allies & Organic Mentors 🤝

22:53  Skill #4: Orange‑Peel Negotiation – turning zero‑sum fights into 100 % wins 🍊

29:43  How to implement these skills without feeling icky & wrap-up 🐯👯‍♀️

Follow so you don’t miss part 3, and drop a comment and rate us ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ on Spotify and Apple Podcasts.

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🐯👯‍♀️ Tiger Sisters — Your Silicon Valley & Wall Street Big Sisters

Decoding Money • Power • Love

✨ New episodes every Monday | Shorts all week  ✨

We turn Harvard and Stanford MBA case studies and hard‑won tech & finance lessons into frameworks you can use this week.

What you’ll get (and keep)

• 🚀 Ivy League Cheat Sheets in 30 min – no $250 K tuition required

• Recession‑Proof Personal Finance Rules – salary jumps, automated investing, psychology of money

• Networking Scripts that Work – emails/DMs behind Goldman offers, $100M+ deals, & Fortune 500 partnerships

• Exclusive Sit‑downs with billionaire investors, unicorn founders, & media powerhouses

• Mindset & Life Design Resets – growth mindset drills minus the pricey career coach

• Wellness • Fashion • Habit Hacks that survive 12‑hour workdays, travel, and fun

• ⬇️ Free Templates & Worksheets linked in episodes

Why trust us?

• Cherie Brooke Luo – 100 M+ views demystifying big tech, finance, entrepreneurship, & MBA life

• Jean Luo – ex‑Goldman, ex‑Snapchat exec, 50+ AI patents, startup investor & advisor

• Together – 4 Ivy degrees • built billion‑dollar product lines • two startups – translated into plain English so anyone can level‑up.

👉 Follow and rate us 5 ⭐️ on Spotify & Apple Podcasts!

Share this channel with your friends & let’s level up together.

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💛 LET'S CONNECT:

~ CHERIE ~

🤳🏻 Instagram – https://www.instagram.com/cherie.brooke

📱 TikTok – https://www.tiktok.com/@cherie.brooke

✍🏻 My Substack – https://cherieluo.substack.com/

👩🏻‍💻 LinkedIn – https://www.linkedin.com/in/cherie-luo/

~ JEAN ~

🤳🏻 Instagram – https://www.instagram.com/jeanluo_/

👩🏻‍💻 LinkedIn – https://www.linkedin.com/in/jeanluo

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