Delusional thing thinking, maybe one day that could be me. And i have children and a husband and a mortgage, and he has a model. And the my boys. Oh, my gosh. Taking pictures. Those are my boys could have been me. All right. Its a big day for the grammywinning rockers. Announced a u. S. Tour and new music. Get to hear. Since were smack in the middle of Breast Cancer awareness month, introduce to you an incredible wife and mom who hoda got to treat a day of peak power surprises. Youll fall in love with erin. We can all learn lessons from her, plus sent our girl out to the streets of new york to convince people to give her a dollar. Okay. First of all, i mean of course. Donna whatever she asked for. I would give her 50. Tips to be persuasive. Look at all the men. So ovi. Obvi. You want a 5 . Here the a 5, and starring with tea leonie in a hit series. And i follow instagram and twitter. I watch where you go. Always surrounded by happy kids. Where have you been . Whats been going on . People thought i left the today show. I have not. What . Who thought that. Well, some twitter action. Twitter. Just some of my twitter fans. Exactly. Probably not fan, but, anyway, i have a new nbc show called give. Its really, really fun. Its a lot like some of the things you do for the today show. We get to give deserving gelt get to, some of the previews, done it with Blair Underwood with international for not for profits. Give back. Extreme makeover. Bop in, wait. By the way, did you know that you needed a van . Heres a van okay. Its so wait a minute. And what is Blair Underwood like . Blair underwood is so materialistic. So lovely. A philanthropist and asked me this summer to host this with him. Calm you on the phone . No. More of an email in are the waed by a phone. I dont really have people. Henrys my person. More importantly, while i was gone by dearest puppy louise turns one. Thats her. Look, a little flabbergasted with flamingos on her head. Mila how old is mila . 3 1 2. Planned that florida mingo party. A lot hour is a lot of fun. Because ive been gone so much, thank goodness for face time. Henry face books me all the time. Im in a cab. Ky see your friend, i point itten 0 the cab driver. A long, lonely life. Can i see your friend . Me in an airport. Who are are the flight attendant. This is mommy the friend, or like in a hotel. The concierge. This is thank god. So jimmy fallon was on last night. Now, he did this thing on Haunted Houses. Are you a Haunted House fan . Not really. I mean, i like to be scared but i dont like to be scared to where theyre always touching you . Jump out, yank on you. Jimmy challenged kevin hart, whom we love. Go through a Haunted House with him. Check it out. Hey, jimmy, look. Ah oh [ screaming ] [ laughter ] oh, [ bleep ]. Oh [ bleep ] hey, jimmy yo, im fine. [ scream ] is it over . Listen, if you guys watched this, man, at any point it looked like i was crazed. Im an actor. Just acting. Im out. Im out. Happy halloween, dude. Why dont you go [ bleep ], jimmy. Oh, i actually that, i would go in one with kevin hart and jimmy fallon. I would do anything with kevin hart. Dont you think theyre such fun . Yes. Year and there was a lot of beeping, which i didnt love. What do you mean . You cuss kind of. You cant help. When somebody scares you, did you hear all that beeping . Oh. Im afraid something will happen on the air, ill guess scared and that word would come out and that would be the end of it. Byebye lets hope heres a question for you. Think about your best friend in the world. Has your best friend or best friend, ever seen you naked . So daily mail spoke are more prudish. More embarrassed to take off clothes in front of friends. Ages 48 to 60 and dont dress in front of each other and said the experience they do decided to go ahead and try . Dressed in front of each other. And said it was liberating. Do you do it . Yes. Im basically a nudist. Im a nudist. I walk around my apartment, my babysitters like close the blinds the man across sees you. Pretty, but i will say there was a good moment when, and this may be a tmi. Ive been away too long, unfiltered where i showed my csection scars to other friends with csections scars but mines the worst. But made me feel better that theirs werent great either. Sometimes you dont realize how bad until you see other stuff. Is this odd or does everyone have weirdness like that . Me into a wet suit. She was nothing on . Ant natalies so teeny. She was looking at me, like a little bit, like, wow. And just in regions of hanging she doesnt have. No hanging . Nothing hanging. And hanging that didnt used to be there. A friend of mine broke her hand and needed to get into her spanx and told her tuesday, get those spanx and put them on me. They dont fit. And the husband grabbing the spanx up with the i cant tell you who. Yanked them up. Im telling you, you need a bigger size. Shes like, no. These are right. The best part, you just said over the rolls. Yes. We all have rolls. We all do. I do. But do you get you know, you dont like to guess naked . I dont. Im not comfortable at all, because im that girl, but i ive gotten also more comfortable in front of certain friends. Some of my friends dont care. Karen never gets changed in front of anybody. Neither do i. Im in the bathroom. Out in a second. Come out, were totally dressed. Some of my other friends of looser and you find yourself doing doing it. Do i care . Its one of those weird things. Im not. From asking for a raise to calling Customer Service, we have secrets to get you what you skills with total . . . Bill assumed it was a costume party. Bill assumed his mayo was the best choice. Assume nothing. Unlike hellmanns regular mayo, kraft Olive Oil Mayo has half the fat and still has great flavor. No wonder it tastes so good. . . Our craftsmen begin each day. Perfectly seasoning our Hillshire Farm smoked sausage. 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I was wondering if you had a dollar . Just one. Just one. Unless you want to give me 2 . 5 . Thank you. I dont have a dollar. Hows your day going. Cool. You guys look like you have a dollar. Thank you so much i need a dollar, a dollar, a . Thats what i need . You got a dollar, dollar. Can i sing with you . . . Im sorry to interrupt your game. I will give you chess advice, if you give me a dollar. Sure. How to play . Like, the move. Do you happen to have a dollar. You do . Do you mind giving it to me . Youd rather not. Thats fine. Thank you so much. I really appreciate it. Five minutes. Do you lap to have a dollar . Does anyone have a dollar . One dollar . Four quarters . You have a dollar. Thank you, thank you so much i really need a dollar. The clock is ticking. Thank you so much. I really appreciate it. Thank you. Thank you bam [ laughter ] donna got by the way, pointing out donna g t dollars back to the people who gave them to her. Of course she did. How can we all be persuasive in our own life. I cant believe how good donna was. Here to help you whether on the phone with Customer Service, trying to get promoted at work, megan murphy, executive director of Good Housekeeping magazine. And 11 people skills to get you everything you want, the author. Hi, guys. I will say growing up my parents used to say, you cant right . For sure. Maybe not everything, but you can get a lot of what you want if you do it right. Go through some things. Certain everyday things we all go through and the art of persuasion helps. Lets pretend youre on the phone with Customer Service. Like, i was yesterday with a cable company. Like yesterday, on hold an hour and 36 minutes after getting disconnected at an hour and seven. Lets pretend you kept asking for the and your blood boiling. In a situation like that. With Customer Service. Whats one to do . I didnt do it right. Obviously. Counterintuitive. Getting what you want, listening and expressing empathy for the other person. In the Customer Service example, these guys are yelled at all day long. Yeah. Constantly. Yeah. If you get on and actually say, you know what . I know what your job is like. It must be so tough getting you must be so, so frustrated. Theyll be like, yeah, yeah, i am. Get them off the script and relate to them like a human being. Sometimes as simple as saying, good morning. How are you doing . My name is megan. So its not robot to robot but person positive tern. Yeah. An example, my sons birthday present came on time. Im upset. Talking to the Customer Service, do you have kids . Imagine the disappointment he felt when i didnt have that by the time i was on that call i had Free Shipping and 20 often. By the way, too bad we didnt have this conversation yesterday . I know. I would have been happy. Could have been 30 minutes. Talk about friends. Social settings. A lot of times we want our friends to go along with what we want to do. Its important to make them feel good, even if you disagree with their idea. Say their recommending yoga, and you want to do spinning. You could say, you know what . Yogas a great idea. I love it. Yeah. Oh, yeah. I hear you. Excellent, however however, i really had my heart set on spinning, maybe hit them up with some data. Do your research. Come to the table and say, you know what . Spinning burns 450 calories an hour. I ate this big, giant meal. Were going to eat this big meal afterward. Do the big calorie burn and do yoga tomorrow. More stress reducing, et cetera presenting something can change everything. Get to promotion. A lot of people going in and wanting one and want to be persuasive in that department. You need to be confident, sure of yourself, what else do you have to do . Managing up. It basically means, managing your manager. Managing your boss, and all along the way, making sure your boss feels really, really good about you, and that you understand what motivates them. For instance, if you have a really good idea, you might let them think its their idea. Let them get credit for your idea. Because you want them to feel like a superstar so they want to promote you. Yeah. I think also be aware of your energy. I say have your cab light on. Be open to possibilities. Yes. Be open to that promotion. If you go in like that, you cant are convincing if youre energy isnt up. I saw you at the gym yesterday, hoda. You were jamming out on the bike. I was. I got on the treadmill and ran faster because your energy was con ka fire. Thats true. Youre right. In all scenarios. Absolutely. Positive energy is totally contagious and so is negative energy. Watch that. True. Thanks. Happy friday. Already in one hit tv series and another on the way. Cant wait. Sitting down with us, right after this. What . 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I love on the show its just that crazy and we get to play out real life basically, and its been really fun for us doing it now. Were on our tenth episode now and it gets more and more intense. So, yeah. Were having a great time. You have such a cool life, by the way. First of all, your gorgeous, second of all do all of thez things discussed and fun reading in the note when you were a little girl, i think in middle school, you sang a song. I think it was in a talent show. I did. A talent show. Whatas his eye is on the sparrow. From the music sister act. You happened to star in. Yes. And isnt it weird how life mark as crazy circle . When you were little, always want to be in theater . I was shy at first, got to say. My mom and grandmother used to make me sing in church all the time and i hated it, but then i started to love that. I started to love being up in front of people. You did . Yeah. Such a young age. Kids are judgmental, a crazy middle school. 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