If you want a promotion, speak up and ask for it. You have to advocate for yourself. If you don't, nobody will. That's how you get ahead in the business world. Never waste a chance to move up the ladder. This is the type of advice you'd get from a mentor, parent, business book or overly assertive friend.

Feeling as though he was being overlooked, my guest Dan Richardson, took the bull by the horns and seized an opportunity to ask for a promotion.What the people behind all this advice neglect to tell you is the toll that it takes on you mentally and physically.