Q Wealth Partners presents
Episode
063
9.3.2026

Fotini Iconomopoulos

I HIT THE BASELINE

She was offered the promotion everyone wanted. She said no.

Fotini Iconomopoulos negotiates for a living — training buyers and sellers at some of the largest companies in the world, then writing the book on it. In this conversation she takes apart what she was chasing at twenty-five, what she stopped chasing, and the one line she can now say out loud that most successful people can’t: I’ve hit the baseline.We get into the immigrant kid who negotiated her way out of the house, the promotion she turned down, why self-control beats money at the table, and what she’s setting aside now that isn’t for her.🎯

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🎯 IN THIS EPISODE:

  • ‍0:00 The bar nobody told her to choose
  • ‍0:23 The negotiator: growing up in a loud Greek house
  • ‍4:03 What the restaurant counter actually taught her
  • ‍5:24 The deal she made with her dad about tuition
  • ‍7:10 The fire in the belly — and what was underneath it
  • ‍8:07 Learning to stop and celebrate
  • ‍10:44 Turning down head of the Americas
  • ‍11:30 The training that produced a one-sentence mission
  • ‍14:08 “You deserve to be in that room”
  • ‍19:45 Selling leather jackets at 17
  • ‍20:57 “Money was freedom”
  • ‍22:16 Filotimo — the Greek word English doesn’t have
  • ‍25:20 The three ways she works, and the one she won’t
  • ‍28:55 The jump, and the people who caught her
  • ‍32:35 Empathy is not agreement
  • ‍35:02 What negotiation actually is (and what Hollywood sold you)
  • ‍36:58 Control, self-control, and why money isn’t the lever
  • ‍38:02 Learning the pause button
  • ‍41:33 Say less: why thinking and talking at once is dangerous
  • ‍46:51 Why the iron fist stopped working
  • ‍50:34 Being read by strangers
  • ‍52:31 What makes a happy life
  • ‍57:03 Hitting the baseline
  • ‍58:27 The fund she’s building for her nieces
  • ‍59:47 One ingredient: curiosity
  • ‍1:00:12 The front porch letter

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📚 ABOUT FOTINI

Fotini Iconomopoulos is a negotiation and communication expert, keynote speaker, and the author of Say Less, Get More. She has spent more than two decades coaching executives through high-stakes deals and has taught negotiation at the MBA level. She is based in Toronto.

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💬 “It doesn’t matter how much money you have, because if you run your mouth off, you can pay me all the money in the world and I don’t want to work with you.” — Fotini Iconomopoulos [37:17]

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