855 Make the Perfect Case for What You Want

This is Five Minute Friday. Kimberly Guilfoyle is an incredible woman and I had such a fun time connecting with her. For those that don't know, she currently serves as a co-host of Fox News the five and is part of a rotating panel on Fox News channels outnumbered. She also appears regularly on the O'Reilly Factor Hannity and other programs. And prior to the Fox News Channel, Guilfoyle served as a legal analyst for ABC News and was featured regularly on ABC's Good Morning America. She has covered major legal cases, including O.J. Simpson, Kobe Bryant and Michael Jackson. And before her career in broadcast television, she served as an assistant district attorney at the San Francisco and Los Angeles district attorneys offices.

Honestly, I think you have to be very, you know, very certain about what you want, your goals and your objectives. And even if you write these things down, I'm not even kidding you, put it down on paper and help like go through it. It's one thing I like to visualize and see like, okay, if I could create my, you know, perfect scenario, what would it be? And then you really like piecemeal go through and say, okay, these are the steps, these are the types of things I need to be doing, I should be doing in order to move towards the X. And I think about it like in a military way. There's a lot of friends that are special forces guys in Delta's, Braves, SEALs, and they talk about the target, moving on target and getting to the X, right? So when you think about it that way, I visualize it. I'm like, okay, what am I trying to get to? What's my objective? What's my mission objective? So then I map it out like that. But that's what they do, right? When they're trying to go on a mission, they practice, they go through it, they map it out, and they say the steps that they need to take in order for that to be achieved. And it's like that whether you're asking for a promotion, you're trying to get a job, anything like that. And for example, when I first was coming back and forth doing television appearances, I heard about a job that might be coming up at Court TV as an anchor. So I want to move from, let me just talk about the Michael Jackson or Kobe Bryant case to actually hosting a show. Well, they're not going to just hand that out to you. It's not like I had ever anchored television before. Right. But I thought, how hard can it be? There's got to be a first time. So how do I get somebody to let me do it? Right, right. So I can say I've done it. But anyway, so having done the television stuff, I found myself one day going to do Catherine Crier's show at Court TV. And it was in 2003, October 2003, when they had the big power outage for days in New York. Okay. So I was supposed to be there to do her show. All of a sudden, lights out, nobody can get a hold of cars, nothing. So I walk like 45 some miles. some odd blocks, yes and heels and get there to court TV show up just in case the lights go back on. So I whole perfect attendance thing. I was like, I just like flew out here from San Francisco. I got to go back tomorrow. Are you kidding me? I got to make this trip worth it. I got to make it count. So I showed up there. Everybody's gone, but I know the CEO is still there. Henry Schlieff was great business guy's done a lot of stuff. He's an investigation channel and discovering all kinds of things. And then he he was the king of Court TV back in the big time day with me, Nancy Grace, all the people were there. So I show up, I convince his secretary to let me go in to say hi. Go, Hey, I just want to say hi to Mr. Schlaff. I've got a flight back tomorrow. This may be my one chance. You know, when I'm able to meet him and say hi and say thank you for having me on his show, just take a couple seconds of his time, just wave and say hi. Fine, because I know I need to get in the door. So, and then I can do the ask. So I created that opening, got in, assistant, oh, hi, can I see him? Because I want to make a job pitch because, you know, it's kind of creepy. The lights are out and I would like to come in and frighten him. Yeah. So I decided to say hi and say thank you and put smiling bubbly. And I was already dressing the part. I was dressed in one of my nice little, like legal outfits ready to go. Fine. Got in there, had a conversation with him. He's enjoying the company because he's kind of stuck there and he can't leave. And I'm, you know, pleasant enough. Pleasant enough. So we're chatting and then he brings about Ricky Clayman, who is married to Bill Bratton and he was leaving to take the top, you know, cop job in Los Angeles at the time, leaving New York. So I said, Ricky's going to be leaving. Looks like Vinnie Politan needs a co-host. Why I've done all the research about Court TV, I knew their whole lineup inside and out, et cetera. I was always prepared. So I ended up making the pitch, telling them, listen, I think you don't need to look any further. Let's not waste anybody else's time. I'm everything you need. Full package, you know? I said, listen, I've tried to have profile cases. I'll have the respect of all. Know the viewers, I already have, you know, the variety from doing these cases. I'm L A D A's office. I'm San Francisco D A's office. You've got all these people who have never even worked at a prosecutor's office, but technically they're attorneys, you know, on the air, you know, feast your eyes on the real deal. Okay. So he was like, yeah, sounds good. He ended up, I'm like, listen, if you do not like, if I do not do a good job, if your numbers do not improve, you can have your money back.

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