Quick Take
- Narration: Julie Solomon narrates her own work with the practiced ease of someone who has been having this conversation on her podcast for years, accessible, relatable, and genuinely invested in the material.
- Themes: origin stories and self-worth, boundary-setting, pitching and negotiation confidence
- Mood: Encouraging and direct, built for women who are tired of being told to simply be themselves
- Verdict: A self-narrated guide from the host of The Influencer Podcast that earns its actionable reputation through specific exercises and a refusal to paper over the hard parts of self-development.
I picked up Get What You Want on a recommendation from someone who said the subtitle tells you everything you need to know: it is specifically for people who think getting what they want is impossible. That framing is not rhetorical. Julie Solomon means it literally, and the book’s design reflects that orientation from the first chapter. She is not writing for people who already believe they deserve the things they are pursuing. She is writing for people in the grip of the conviction that they fundamentally do not.
Solomon is the host of The Influencer Podcast, a business coach, and self-described former sufferer of the exact self-limiting patterns she addresses here. The decision to narrate her own book is clearly correct. Her voice carries an intimacy that professional narration would have flattened. She sounds like someone sitting across from you at a kitchen table, not someone performing inspiration at a distance. Reviewers consistently describe this quality as authentic, and that authenticity is doing real structural work. The material she covers is vulnerable enough that a cooler delivery would have drained the credibility from it.
The Origin Story Framework
The book’s conceptual centerpiece is what Solomon calls origin stories: the formative narratives about worth, possibility, and identity that most of us inherited before we had the critical faculties to interrogate them. Her argument is not new. The beliefs that limit us were installed before we could consent to them. But Solomon’s approach to them is more operational than philosophical. She is not primarily interested in helping readers understand where their limiting beliefs came from. She is interested in helping them build replacement narratives that actually function under pressure.
The exercises at the end of each chapter are the most concrete expression of this operational focus. Rather than leaving the reader with an insight and a feeling, Solomon asks them to do something. To articulate the specific story they have been running about a particular area of their life, to name the evidence that contradicts it, to draft a different version and practice it. The companion PDF extends this further. One reviewer specifically describes using these exercises as a pivot point in restructuring their small business approach. That is not a casual endorsement. It suggests the material has application beyond its most obvious use case of personal confidence work.
The Pitching and Negotiation Section
Solomon’s background as a media personality and business coach gives her particular authority in the pitching and negotiation material, which is the book’s most practically specific section. Her guidance on how to communicate your value, how to price yourself, and how to hold your position when someone pushes back is informed by real experience rather than business-book theory. The specificity here distinguishes Get What You Want from the broader self-empowerment genre, where negotiation advice tends to be either too abstract to use or too tactical to be memorable. Solomon’s version threads that needle reasonably well.
The boundary-setting chapter is less distinctive but no less useful. The advice itself is sound. What elevates it slightly above the category average is Solomon’s insistence on connecting boundary work to the origin stories section. She argues that most people fail at boundaries not because they do not know how to say no but because they do not believe they are allowed to. That is a meaningful diagnostic distinction, and it shapes the guidance that follows in ways that make it more immediately usable.
Where the Self-Help Register Shows
Get What You Want is more honest about its genre limitations than most books in the space, but it is not immune to them. The opening chapters, where Solomon establishes her own vulnerability and the reader’s shared experience of self-doubt, occupy more real estate than strictly necessary. A listener who is already convinced of her sincerity and just wants the techniques will feel the pacing drag slightly in those sections. The payoff is real, but patience is required to get there.
At just under four and a half hours, the book is appropriately compact. Solomon does not have room for deep theory, and she does not attempt it. The result is a focused listen that can be completed in a single session and returned to selectively by chapter. The companion PDF with worksheets and templates extends the practical value beyond the audio itself.
Who Should Listen, Who Should Skip
Strong recommendation for women in the professional or entrepreneurial world who are specifically struggling with self-advocacy: pitching, negotiating, claiming credit for their work, asking for what they want directly. Solomon’s combination of vulnerability and practical technique makes this more immediately usable than most titles in the confidence genre.
Less suited for listeners looking for cultural analysis, deep psychological exploration, or a book that examines the structural obstacles facing women rather than the internal ones. Solomon is working at the level of individual behavior change, not systemic critique. Both matter; this one focuses on what you can control today.
Frequently Asked Questions
Is Get What You Want primarily for entrepreneurs and online business owners, or does it apply to corporate environments?
The content applies broadly. Solomon’s background is in online business and influencer marketing, which colors some of her examples, but the core material on origin stories, self-worth, boundary-setting, and negotiation is written for women in any professional context.
What does the companion PDF add to the audiobook experience?
It extends the chapter exercises, providing worksheets and templates for applying Solomon’s frameworks. For a book this action-oriented, the companion material is a genuine addition rather than a formality. The exercises in the audio version are strengthened by having a physical format to work through them in.
How does Julie Solomon’s self-narration compare to her podcast delivery style?
Very similar, which is both the strength and the limitation. Listeners who already follow The Influencer Podcast will find the audiobook feels like a premium extended episode. Those new to Solomon will encounter a voice that is immediately warm and personal but designed for a listener who already trusts her register.
Is there overlap between Get What You Want and Fearless Female Leadership, or do they cover different ground?
Some overlap in themes, imposter syndrome, self-advocacy, boundary-setting, but the approach differs significantly. Solomon is more personal and memoir-inflected, grounding everything in her own experience. Allolding’s book is more structured around discrete strategies with less personal narrative. The two complement each other well for readers who want both a psychological and a tactical treatment.
