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Whether i cook for you, i want you -- im feeding you, but we made the setting so that dad literally -- we were chatting and cooking and then id start talking to the camera and hes like -- he forgot we were on the set. i was like -- it was so cute. and then he started talking to the camera. yeah, mission accomplished. >> the only time there was a problem is when your dad had to get the orange -- hes like, wait. mika always -- >> yeah. >> thats what he does. >> so mary gives -- hes like, i have to...

Erupted. i think your book is really honest because you talk about how you just couldnt make yourself have this conversation about being undervalued until you felt so pushed it came out as kind of explosion for you. >> it did. i waited. joe and i both -- we started this show four years ago when we cut deals. he cut a pretty good deal for himself. i did not. i thought okay, maybe if i work really hard, the next one will be better, whats that? whats in the mindset there. we ended up having to work...

Past six months and i saw an extraordinary job. >> how can people help people in joplin and missouri? >> have a plan for your families. if theres a severe storm warning, secondly, people can give blood. especially if theyre in missouri. third, they can text the salvation army, or the red cross. there is a red cross in the ozarks. if you google red cross ozarks, you can get specific help down to that part of my state. >> you can also text red cross to 90999 to donate $10, or you can also give to ...

The proper recognition for putting important people on this show. >> what separates this show from every other show and a lot of other people get great gets, you get important people that other shows get. you have a man-woman thing going on, you have equal talent, youre a man and youre a woman and neither of you hide it. a lot of televisions is an adronlgny to men and women and thats not life. >> you dont think im adragnous. >> a lot of people like it because there was disparity. are you kidding...

Walking into my office and pounding the desk and saying they want more and i can remember the thousands of hours with men who didnt deserve it and saying, i want more. >> i agree. i run a little team and mo men come in not just for money but bigger assignments. >> i call it the bigger thing. bigger office. we need to be told how big -- >> mika, why? what is the reason? everybody sees it across the board. its there. >> what i found in writing this book and research ive done, theres a couple of th...

The thing about this program is youve actually got somebody you can pick up the phone and call and say, okay, my receipts this week havent been up to snuff, im paying out too much, what do i do? where do i go? thats critical. >> its critical. the commitment from goldman sachs and local partners is whats making the difference. i now have a marc morial i can go to. i can go to people from goldman sachs, loyd blankfein has sat and advised me how to improve my business and led to a differences in ou...

We had modules or accounting, finance, negotiating skills and marketing. negotiating was particularly important. mika, you know as a woman, we may not always know our value. that was my case in running the business. after the negotiations module, i was able to go toe-to-toe with clients and talk about the worth of myself and my business to those clients as a result, got new jobs and got more money and put people to work. >> its huge. >> anybody who has ever run ha small business has this moment....

Entitlement process, i want to be paid well, want to work well together. that has to change. women have to be a little jerkier. >> i regret thats the case. >> thats reality. >> i think they have to be able to do both and realize when that act isnt happening. i dont want them to have to be jerkier. >> may have to be more entitled. >> mika, i like what youre doing with this book, ripping a scab off, an important issue important not only for us and our daughters. what i would press you on when i re...

Deserve because men will. also when youre fired. i said this time and again. mayor bloomberg yesterday in his speech, underlined what happened when he got fired. mika and i had this discussion, when you got fires from cnbc. she cried, its all my fault, what did i do wrong. >> still dont know. >> when a man gets fired, the first thing he says walking out. mika says i have these pictures and crying, what am i going to do? man seriously, steam coming off the top of his head and he says, what i woul...

Is extraordinary, what women worldwide are facing and why theyre not engaging and why participation can make such a difference on the world stage. this is something norah, tina, mika, all of us, we have to take responsibility as a generation to do something about this. the womens movement is stalled. they are not moving forward, we are literally fighting the same battles of our mothers and grandmothers. if we dont wake up and start engaging, we will not like what we find. thats exactly what tina...