Locking In Your Number

Before we begin, let's set you up properly. Find a comfortable position, either sitting upright in a chair with your feet flat on the floor, or lying down — whichever feels most natural to you right now. Let your hands rest gently on your lap or at your sides. You don't need to do anything with them. Just let them be still. In a moment, I'll ask you to close your eyes, but not just yet. This session uses a direct hypnotic approach, which means I won't spend a long time asking you to relax before we begin. Instead, I'll guide you straight into a focused, receptive state using clear, confident language. This is normal and intentional. You may notice your mind wanting to analyze what's happening — that's fine. You don't need to switch it off. The part of you that needs to receive these suggestions will receive them regardless. This session is designed specifically to help you anchor a clear, unwavering sense of your own value before your equity negotiation. Through hypnosis, we'll lock in that number — not just intellectually, but in your body, your voice, and your instincts — so that when Monday arrives, you don't undercut yourself. You simply say what you're worth and hold the line. A quick note on safety: this session is for personal development and is not a substitute for legal, financial, or psychological advice. If at any point you need to return to full awareness, simply open your eyes and you will be completely alert. Now, settle in. Rest your hands. And when you're ready, let your eyes close.

Your eyes are closed now, and already something is shifting. You can feel it, can't you? That quiet, focused stillness that comes just before everything clicks into place. You've been rehearsing this negotiation in your head, and every time you get close to the number — the real number — something pulls you back. Not today. Today we lock it in. I want you to press your palms together in front of you now. Go ahead. Press them firmly together, fingers pointing upward, and feel the pressure between them. [5 second pause] Notice how real that pressure is. How solid. How undeniable. [6 second pause] Now, as you hold your hands pressed together, I want you to feel that same quality — that solidity, that realness — beginning to spread through your entire sense of your own value. [7 second pause] Your worth is just as real as the pressure between your palms. It cannot be argued away. It cannot be softened. It is simply true. [8 second pause] Now, on the count of three, you're going to release your hands, let them drop naturally to your lap, and as they fall, you'll go ten times deeper into this focused, receptive state. Ready. One. [3 second pause] Two. [3 second pause] Three. Release. [8 second pause] That's right. Deeper now. Much deeper. [10 second pause] Your body is still. Your mind is clear. And you are exactly where you need to be.

I want you to imagine a room. Not a boardroom, not a negotiating table — not yet. This is your room. [7 second pause] It's a private space that exists only inside you, and it looks however it needs to look for you to feel completely at ease and completely powerful at the same time. [8 second pause] Maybe it has high ceilings and good light. Maybe it's quiet, with the kind of silence that feels earned rather than empty. [9 second pause] Whatever it looks like, notice one thing about this room: at the center of it, there is a table. And on that table, there is a single piece of paper. [8 second pause] You walk toward it slowly. [7 second pause] You're not in a hurry. You don't need to be. [8 second pause] You reach the table and you look down at the paper. And on it, written clearly and without hesitation, is a number. Your number. The equity split that reflects what you have actually built, what you have actually risked, what you have actually contributed. [10 second pause] You don't flinch when you see it. [7 second pause] There's no voice in your head telling you it's too much. [8 second pause] There's just recognition. A quiet, settled, bone-deep recognition that says: yes. That's it. That's right. That's mine. [12 second pause] You pick up the paper and hold it. Feel the weight of it — light in your hands, but solid in your chest. [9 second pause] This number belongs to you. It always has.

And now I'm going to count down from ten to one, and with each number, you go deeper into this knowing. Deeper into the certainty of your own value. Not tense. Not rigid. Just clear. Ten. [10 second pause] Sinking into it. [8 second pause] Nine. [9 second pause] The number is real. [8 second pause] Eight. [10 second pause] No one can talk you out of what you know. [9 second pause] Seven. [10 second pause] Deeper still. [8 second pause] Six. [10 second pause] Your body knows this truth now. [9 second pause] Five. [10 second pause] Halfway down, and already you feel it — that unshakeable quality. [10 second pause] Four. [10 second pause] Like bedrock beneath your feet. [9 second pause] Three. [10 second pause] The number is locked. [9 second pause] Two. [10 second pause] Almost there. [8 second pause] One. [15 second pause] Deep. Still. Certain. [15 second pause] This is where you live now, in this negotiation. In this knowing. [12 second pause]

And from this deep, clear place, let these truths settle into you — not as instructions, but as things you already know and are simply remembering now. [8 second pause] You know your number. You have always known it. The hesitation you felt before was never about the number being wrong — it was a habit. A reflex. And habits can change in an instant. This is that instant. [12 second pause] When you walk into that room on Monday, you walk in as the person who built something real. Every late night, every decision made under pressure, every problem solved when no one else could solve it — all of that lives in your body as evidence. You don't need to recite it. You don't need to justify it. You simply carry it. [12 second pause] When you say your number out loud, your voice will be steady. Not loud. Not aggressive. Steady. The way a person speaks when they are telling the truth about something obvious. [10 second pause] You will not round down at the last second. You will not soften the number with an apology or a qualifier. You will say it cleanly, and then you will let the silence do its work. Because silence after a true statement is not awkward — it is powerful. [12 second pause] If your co-founder pushes back, you will not panic. You will feel a kind of calm curiosity instead — as if you're watching the negotiation from a place of quiet authority. You already know what you need. The conversation is simply the path to getting there. [12 second pause] And here is something important, something your unconscious mind is absorbing right now at a level deeper than thought: undercutting yourself is no longer available to you. It is not that you're forcing yourself to hold firm. It is that the reflex to shrink has simply been replaced. In its place is something solid. Something that sounds like: this is what I'm worth, and I know it. [15 second pause] You are not asking for a favor. You are not making a request that could be denied without consequence. You are stating a fact about the value you bring — and you are giving your co-founder the opportunity to recognize that fact alongside you. [12 second pause]

Now, I want you to let your mind drift forward to Monday morning. [8 second pause] You wake up and you feel different. Not nervous in the way you've been nervous before. There's a kind of alertness — a readiness. Like an athlete who has already done the training and just needs to show up and perform. [10 second pause] You get ready. You move through your morning. And the number is with you the whole time — not as something you're gripping tightly, but as something that's simply part of you now. Like your name. Like the sound of your own voice. [12 second pause] You walk into the meeting. You sit down. You look your co-founder in the eye, and there is something in your presence that is different today. A settledness. A groundedness that they can feel even before you speak. [10 second pause] The conversation begins. And when the moment comes — when it's time to put your number on the table — you feel something interesting happen. Instead of the familiar pull to soften it, to hedge it, to make it smaller so it's easier to say, you feel the opposite. A quiet push forward. A voice inside you that says: say it. Say the real one. [10 second pause] And you do. [12 second pause] You say it clearly. You say it without a tremor. And then you wait. [8 second pause] And in that waiting, you are not afraid. You are present. You are grounded. You are the person who built something worth fighting for, and you know it all the way down. [15 second pause] However the conversation unfolds from there, you hold your line. Not with stubbornness, but with clarity. Because clarity is harder to argue with than stubbornness. Clarity says: I've thought about this, I know what I'm worth, and I'm not here to negotiate against myself. [12 second pause]

In a moment, I'm going to count up from one to five, and with each number, you'll return to full, bright, waking awareness — carrying everything from this session with you. Not as a memory to recall, but as a knowing that lives in you now. One. [5 second pause] Beginning to return. Awareness gently rising. [6 second pause] Two. [5 second pause] Feeling the weight of your body, the solidity of where you're sitting or lying. [6 second pause] Three. [5 second pause] Halfway back. Your mind is clear, sharp, and ready. [6 second pause] Four. [4 second pause] Almost fully here. Take a slow breath in. [5 second pause] And five. [4 second pause] Eyes open when you're ready. Fully awake. Fully present. Fully yourself.

Take a moment before you move. [6 second pause] Notice how you feel. There may be a steadiness in your chest that wasn't there before. A quiet confidence that doesn't need to announce itself. That's the work settling in. [8 second pause] Between now and Monday, you don't need to rehearse the number obsessively. You don't need to psych yourself up or run through arguments in your head. The number is already locked. Your unconscious mind has it. Your body has it. When the moment comes, it will simply be there — clean, clear, and yours. [10 second pause] If you ever feel the old pull to shrink, just press your palms together for a moment — even briefly, even subtly — and let that physical memory remind you: solid. Real. Undeniable. Just like your worth. [8 second pause] You built something. You showed up when it was hard. You are not asking for more than you deserve — you are asking for exactly what you deserve. And that is not a negotiation. That is a statement of fact. [8 second pause] Go into Monday knowing that. And know that this session will continue working in the background, reinforcing your clarity every time you think about that room, that table, that conversation. [6 second pause] You've got this. You always did. Now you know it too.