Second Readwith Mags OkaforSecond Readwith Mags OkaforThe words for the two asks that scare people most: more money from your boss, and more from the person you're texting. Plus every move on one page.
A 5% raise on $55,000 is $2,750 a year. The kit is $47.
7 PDFs. 198 pages and phone cards. 35 moves graded Solid, Shaky or Untested.
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Hello, I'm Mags. You've seen the clips: say this word and your boss can't refuse, wait three hours and they'll chase you. Plenty of you have told me what you think of them: This is FAR too simplistic.
You're right. When I read the studies behind raise advice and texting advice, the tricks mostly fell apart. What held up was plainer, and it was the same in both rooms. Say what you want, plainly, with a reason. Then stop and let them answer.
So this kit puts both tracks side by side, each with a playbook for the method and a script pack for the words. The raise track takes you into the meeting. The relationship track takes you from the first glance and the first text to the talk about where it's going. One sheet holds every move with its grade, so you know which ones to lean on.
The first number said out loud pulls the final number toward it. A 2025 review pooled 90 studies and more than 16,000 people. Most people wait for their boss to name a figure, and their boss names the usual yearly bump. Say yours first, with the source behind it, then go quiet.
"I was hoping we could talk about my salary. Whatever you think is fair, really."
"Roles like mine pay $61,000 to $68,000 here. I'm asking for $66,500." Then nothing.
Example figures. Source: Petrowsky, Schweinsberg and colleagues, 2025, Organizational Behavior and Human Decision Processes. The playbook shows how to build your range from public sources, and the Scripts have a line for each answer you might hear back.
How to Get Your Boss to Give You a Raise70 pages · the method13 chapters in three parts: read your boss, build the case, then the room and after. With the 12 mistakes, a troubleshooting table, a decision chart and blank sheets.
The Raise Scripts29 pages + 29 phone cards · the wordsThe booking email, the first sixty seconds, the number, 14 replies to no, a pressure tactics field card and three follow-up emails. Every line again in big type for your phone.
Make Them Choose You31 pages · the relationship method9 chapters from first glance to the commitment talk: looks, being familiar, the first message, showing you like them, conversation, hard to get, staying, the commitment talk and love bombing. Seven popular claims checked.
The Text Game25 pages · the relationship wordsEight stages from the first text to the kind ending, the message for each and why it works. Nine messages that backfire and a which-message-now chart.
Start Here and the Cheat Sheet13 pages + a print copy · the mapWhich file to open for your situation, a ten-day raise plan, the eight stages graded, how to spot the moves used on you, a week-long move log, and all 35 moves on one page.
35 moves, one page
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Second Read exists because I got tired of tips with a famous name stapled on and no study underneath. A claim doesn't become true because someone important supposedly said it. If the evidence is thin, I say so, even when the tip sounds good.
Nothing in this kit only works when the other person doesn't notice. No negging, no fake deadlines, no going cold on purpose. Where nobody has run the study, the move says Untested and I tell you why I'd still do it.
Five questions to answer on paper before any ask that matters, at work or at home. One printable page.
Every move here is something you can say to someone's face. The test in the kit is simple: would it still work if they noticed? A whole page shows the moves people use on you, so you can name them and answer calmly.
The kit gives you the words, the order and the evidence behind each move. Saying your number first is its best-tested move, and it makes a higher number more likely, not certain. The other person still gets their answer.
If it's the raise, the raise playbook, the Scripts and the phone cards are 128 of the 198 pages, and the sheet and log work for both. If it's the relationship, you get Make Them Choose You and the Text Game, 56 pages, plus Start Here, the cheat sheet and the log, and the raise words ready for the day you need them.
Right after checkout you download seven PDFs. They read on a phone, and the Raise Scripts phone cards are made for it: one line per screen. The cheat sheet and the log print on one page each.
All sales are final. This is a digital download you get right away, so we don't offer refunds. This doesn't affect any rights you have by law. The contents and inside pages above are here so you can check before buying.
The raise and the relationship, every move graded, the words ready.
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