Creating Confidence with Heather Monahan - #374: How I Get Through Tough Times & Find My Happiness with Heather!

Episode Date: November 15, 2023

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I'm on this journey with me. Each week when you join me, we are going to chase down our goals. Overcome adversity and set you up for a better tomorrow. That's a no-speed journey. I'm ready for my close time. Hi, and welcome back. I'm so glad you're back here with me this week.

Okay, so it's the end of the year, and it's an interesting time, right? Because a lot of people are super excited for the holidays. Some people get really stressed out for the holidays. I'll tell you, being completely vulnerable with you. This is definitely a little bit of a trying time for me. If you've been with me, you're probably up to speed on this already.

I lived in South Beach for 17, no, 18 years. I don't even know. I owned a condo there for 18 years. Never thought about moving until all of a sudden, I sold my condo and moved. And I decided I wanted to rent for a year because I didn't know if I had liked the new area. I ended up loving where I live so much so.

I just wanted to renew the lease and stay, cut to. The owner did not feel the same way. She actually wants to sell the place I live. So suddenly I found myself looking for some roles to live. Well, I have not found the ideal situation yet, so I just kept saying to myself, you know, you'll see the signs, Heather, trust that the right opportunity will present itself, just like it did last time. All will work out. All will be well. And I truly believe that. However, my son is a huge holiday guy.

Huge, right? Like, once everything decorated is all in all holidays all the time. And so it's super important for me to provide an environment like that for him. The one thing he asked me was, mom, please don't have us moving around the holidays. Well guess what? That looks like maybe the case for us right now. And so I didn't even realize it. It's been stressing me out.

However, it's first world problems. Of course, we're going to find somewhere to live, and it's going to work out great. And everything will be fine. But that interim period where you don't know what the outcome is going to be, you know it's going to impact your kid in some ways in a negative way, because it's going to be around the holidays.

And maybe I'm not gonna have the tree up when I normally would, you know, all these like little first world problems. It's been draining me and I didn't really, I guess I didn't think it wasn't like I threw my back out or there was some horrible thing happening, right? I'm really ill. That way I would understand it is draining and upsetting.

But this is something that I guess I just didn't notice. I haven't been sleeping great, which cut too. If you are not sleeping great, forget it. Everything kind of just falls apart from there, right? Because then you don't look your best. You don't have the energy you typically would have. You don't have that spring in your staff, right? Like, there's such a domino effect.

Oh, gosh, getting great sleep is priority number one. And so all these little things were kind of adding up. I wasn't recognizing it. And finally last week I started noticing, I'm off. I'm just not, I don't have my energy this evening. Like I'm not as excited as I typically am. And I'm telling you this because I think sometimes people see other people and think,

oh, they're always positive. They always have it together. Everything's always going seamlessly. I'm here to tell you that is not my case. That is not true. Frankly, it's not true for anyone. It's definitely not true for me. So I don't know.

I've just been on this a couple of weeks, not sleeping great. I've been worried about the situation. Typically, there's a situation ahead of me that I say, okay, I identify a challenge. I see the timeline. I'm gonna get ahead of it, I'm gonna take massive action, but this isn't one of those things because we wanna stay in the building that we're in.

Part of it is having to wait and see what becomes available, and you can't control that. You can't knock somebody out of their condo or force them to rent to you. Sometimes you have to wait, and for me, waiting and being patient is not my superpower, right? How about you?

I don't know. It's definitely a challenge. And what's funny is yesterday, I was in church, where obsessed my son and I with our church and our pastors amazing. And he was talking about it's the eight-year anniversary of the church.

And he sat us down and talked about how he and his wife had started the church eight years earlier in his apartment with a vision. Just a simple vision he had never knowing if it would come to fruition. And then he walked us all through what's transpired and what's happened over the last eight years, which is nothing short of incredible, right?

By the way, however, in any one moment it doesn't seem incredible, but when you connect it all together, it's massive and it's what they've done is just, it's unbelievable. However, he shared with us how many times he's had to wait. He's had this vision and just had to sit with it that he did the work, he planted the seeds,

he found the right people, but then things would come to a halt. And he even shared with us that right now, but then things would come to a halt. And he even shared with us that right now they're trying to build a new location and they just didn't get approved again. And so he was so frustrated and upset. And I so felt his pain and I want to share it with you today because again on the outside looking in, he could have left it at how incredible they've done in eight years because it is incredible that they sat with a vision, had no idea how it was going to come eight years, because it is incredible that they sat with a vision, had no idea how it was gonna come to fruition,

and truly have above and beyond surpass that vision in eight years, and helped so many people raise millions of dollars, impacted lives, our building of fourth church. Now, like, it's incredible what they've done. It's a huge movement, far exceeding, I bet whatever vision I initially they had. But he shared that yet again this week, he just had another major disappointment and

found out that yet again, he was going to have to wait on something he worked so hard for and knew was coming to not only be a vision, but materialize. And it didn't. And just how discouraging that can be. but the key is to pray about it, to let go, let God, and wait. And when your vision is worth a wait, it will all be worth it in the end. So I guess it was comforting for me in some ways to hear that, to know that I'm not alone.

So I want you to know, you're not alone if you've been waiting for something and you don't have that answer yet. Keep the faith, keep doing the next right thing. And sometimes the next right thing. And sometimes the next right thing, maybe it's just going for a run, maybe it's meditating, maybe it's helping someone else, having nothing to do with that thing you're waiting on. And I will tell you, that's one of my keys for sure, as last week was going and I just started realizing,

wow, I'm drained, I'm not feeling like myself, I'm tired. Oh, wow, this whole moving thing and not knowing where I'm going to put my son is starting to stress me out. And it's sucking energy out of me. Okay, this is a problem. I've got to find a solution here. When I realized that, I thought, you know what, I don't have a solution for that today. Maybe I just need to go help somebody else.

And so, wouldn't you know I got to my website HeatherMonahand.com, you can always inquire about anything working with me, having me speak, whatever at the website that day, I received an email to my website in inquiry, and it was a teacher, and he's so sweet and wrote the nicest kindest thing to me about his kids and it was elementary school. And I'd never spoken for an elementary school at this point when I received this note. And the youngest I'd ever spoken for was high school. And that was, gosh, that was interesting.

It's not what you would think it would be. These kids don't say a word. They don't give you much to work with because they're so concerned when everybody else thinks about them. So it was just a bizarre experience the last time I spoke for younger kids. And this time it was fifth graders.

And so I'm thinking, oh gosh, I don't know how I could add value to fifth graders, right? I don't know. But I saw that the man, it was pretty clear. He was asking me to do a pro bono. He described some of the challenging situations that these kids have. And it tugged on my heart, and I just thought to myself, you know what, I might not be able to fix my problem right now, but maybe there's something I could do to bring

light or positivity or inspire these kids in some small way. I have no idea, because I had never spoken for young children as I mentioned before. However, I am a mother, and I have raised a child through that age. And so I thought I could tell some stories and share some things that worked for him. And maybe they could help somebody in this class. And so anyhow, I ended up, I said, yes, I got on a call at the guy. I said, and you know what, let's do it this week,

because I was leaving for a board meeting and I was going to be gone for a couple of days. And I just thought, let's just get this done. I don't want to pile up more things on my list of to-do that, you know, I'm going to be gone for a couple of days and I just thought, let's just get this done. I don't want to pile up more things on my list of to-do that, you know, I'm going to have to figure out when I get back and just do it this week. So we said, all right, let's do it. And I found out from him about the kids what challenges

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I get it. We're all so busy and spinning in circles. But I also know that when I make time to help others, I feel better about me. So selfishly, even though I'm doing something like pro bono speaking and not charging, I feel better about who I am after. And it's funny because I speak for incredible

companies. I'm speaking for incredible, huge company today. I'm so grateful. And they pay me a lot of money to do it and really value my expertise and abilities. And I'm so grateful for that. Without them, I wouldn't be able to do the pro bono work. However, I will say, doing that speech for these fifth graders meant more to me than, gosh, any speech I can think of, you know, over the last year, it really, I had a hard time keeping it together. I wanted to cry. I just, I could see how excited, how special they felt. Like, what a small thing for me to make time, whatever it was an hour on Zoom, and to see how it could impact others.

So what small thing could you do that could impact others, that selfishly is gonna let you feel so much better about yourself? Because I promise you, there's some way you can add value that can make a difference in somebody's life that's gonna make you feel really great about who you are.

Okay, so then I got this feedback from the teacher after, which I just put up on my website actually, because I'm so flippin' proud of it. It meant so much to me. It says, Heather and all caps with all these excavation points, that was perfect. Thank you so much. The kids couldn't stop raving about you.

How kind you are, how passionate, how contagious your excitement is, how inviting you are, it was great. One of the kids even said, you can tell she really cares how they're truly thank you. They were so touched by that. Okay, so bottom line is this, I got this amazing feedback from the fifth graders. Look how happy I am about it. I got amazing feedback from fifth graders and I'm going crazy. Get it together, Monahan. Okay, so I just felt so grateful, so touched. I was so emotional and it just reminded me, yes, things are not perfect in my life right now, far from it.

And sometimes it feels really hard. And sometimes I handle it well and sometimes I don't. Right? Sometimes I'm not sleeping at night and I'm exhausted and I'm stressed out and worrying. And then other days I'm in church and feeling super grateful and so appreciative for all that I have. And I'm trying to, you know, give back and do right and help others.

So like you in some moments, things are going great. Other moments are not. But one of the keys I found is super helpful is making time to help others. It really does make you feel better. And now I have that review to read on the moments when I'm not feeling so great when things, you know, when you hit a rough patch because we're all going to do it. So put those reviews, put those feedback notes and moments of kindness into a file called fan love. That's what I do. And anytime I'm having a tough day, I go look at it and just remind myself, hey, there are great people out there and you make a difference and you matter and you can help others. And when you step into that and own that, gosh, it's just like,

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I really wanted to be on the board of directors at that company. And I would pitch myself all the time at Nazim, right? I knew in my heart of heart. I'm like, I should have a seat at that table. Well, number one, there's so few women on board seats that's disgusting in our country. But I knew I warranted one, not only because I was a woman, but because I had such in-depth knowledge of the company, the marketplace, the industry were in. I had a unique perspective because I was in the marketplace.

I was doing the work. I was executing. I was leading the team. And I had been doing it for so long. I knew I could add value. And I knew that board needed my voice. There was way too many old white men sitting at that table who were disconnected from the day-to-day of that business. And I knew that if I could get a seat at

that table, I could help impact the shareholders in a really incredible way. I was so passionate about it and I was so sure. Cut to. I never got the nod. And I'd always get the run around, oh, how the hell are you doing so great and what you're, you know, we don't want to distract you. Or yeah, great idea. We'll bring that up next time. Oh, how the hell are you doing so great? And what you're, you know, we don't want to distract you. Or yeah, great idea. We'll bring that up next time. Sure, next quarter we'll reevaluate. It was just a run around. I was getting blown off.

And the more I would get blown off, the more frustrated I would get. The more frustrated I would get, the more impacted my confidence. Because I was allowing someone to brush me off, blow me off. When I knew I deserve more, I knew I deserved to see at that table.

Well, wouldn't you know, cut to now that that woman ended up getting promoted and she ended up firing me. I realized she was blocking me all these years, but I didn't know it at the time. I should have left that company years earlier. I would be years ahead of where I am today, had I done that.

So live and learn, right? When your gut's telling you something's wrong, listen to your intuition, you know. You know what's right, you know what's wrong. I knew I was getting the run around, but I allowed it to continue to go on. Well, cut to, I started my own company as you know in 2018, and things were going great.

I had a new book out, Confidence Creator, a Trump Trump for number one on the business biography list. Yeah, yeah. I googled how to sell books, and it said, speak, and I was speaking all over the country. I delivered my TEDx. That got promoted to TED. I interviewed Sarah Blakely live on stage in front of thousands

of people. That one, incredibly well, like my speaking business was taking off. And then the pandemic hit, and everything stopped overnight. And that's when I launched my coaching program. Wouldn't you know one of the individuals who was in my coaching program actually had reached out to me because he wanted to mentor me, but I had flipped him a link to say no, I have a coaching program if you want to get in, get in. And he taught me a great lesson, which is anyone can switch between being the

mentor or being the mentee. the most talented and confident people can. You should be able to allow yourself to be coached or to be the coach in any moment. And so he was humble enough to say, okay, I'll come into your coaching program. And he did. We developed a great friendship over the years. And wouldn't you know what he was actually doing in some ways was interviewing me for a seat on the board of the company he was the CFO of. And over time, he let me know that. And then over time, he let me meet the CEO. And then over time, he let me meet the other board members.

And then over time, I was nominated to that board. And now I'm on the board of health and corporation. And I'm so grateful for that opportunity. So after all these years back in the old days that I wanted to be on the board, I knew I wanted to do that job. I was pushing and pushing and pushing. I was getting the run around and crickets that never happened. I walked up from that table where nobody wanted me

and a table found me that is full of people who are excited for me to be there. And so anyway, last week was our board dinner, our board meeting, and it was such an incredible event, and it went so well, and I'm so grateful for the people that I get to sit on the board with, and the work that we do is incredible. Well, I got to ride back with my friend, and he's a board member as well, and we were talking about how we had met as well. And we were talking about how we had met years prior and how much our relationship has changed over the last few years and how close we are now and what great friends we

are and now that we've served together on this board for almost three years. It's incredible. And the difference and the changes we've seen and the impact in this company and how excited we are for the future, the best is yet to come because it is. And we were laughing about how it all started. And then he made a comment to me and he said, you know, you've positioned yourself to be one of the most valuable board members that we have, Heather. I was so grateful for that compliment number one. Number two, I didn't see myself that way. I see myself as adding value for sure. I work really hard to make sure I do that and help any way that I can, but I also see the other board members.

And what was funny is I always saw the value and maybe you see yourself this way. Like we see how we add value. Other people see you through a lens that could be a little bit different. And I always see the value add that I can bring to the table around sales and sales leadership. And that's, you know, what I did for 25 years. For him, he said, yes, it's great. And we so appreciate that you bring that unique perspective to our board. He said, but also the people that you introduce us to.

My network was the thing of value to him, which I really took for granted. So you may be missing a really important part of the value other C and U. Be open to be open to putting those rose colored glasses on because I certainly did. My friend George basically gave me his rose colored glasses and I looked in the mirror with them on and thought, wow, I don't need to be one dimension. I don't need to be just one thing. Maybe there's many different ways that you add value and you're just not seeing it from that perspective right now. Put on the rose colored glasses that somebody else sees you through and you're going to enjoy

the view a lot more. So I was super grateful for that perspective that he gave me for that compliment that he gave me. I received it with gratitude, and it just wild how much things can change when you're sitting at the right table. Surround yourself with people that encourage you and are champions for you, not that wanna hold you back.

Life is far too short for that. And this year is almost over. So if you don't wanna find yourself stuck in the same place you are right now, choose to make a difference, choose to invest in yourself, choose to get rid of negative people, choose to surround yourself with people who are all about going to that next level. I, of course, am going to suggest my masterclass December 2nd, click the link and show us below. Check out the site, look at the reviews, it's a 100% money back guarantee,

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