Creating Confidence with Heather Monahan - Start Thinking BIGGER With Heather! Episode 206

Episode Date: April 6, 2022

In This Episode You Will Learn About:  Setting big goals   Letting your fears encourage you  Leaving doubt behind Resources: Overcome Your Villains is Available NOW! Order here: https://overcomeyourvillains.com  If you haven't yet, get my first book Confidence Creator Sign up for the FREE Power Of Positive Summit   You can always write me your questions at heathermonahan.com and I’ll answer them on the show!  Show Notes:  Things can change in an INSTANT, and you never know what life may bring your way! When you can dream big, your accomplishments can become even BIGGER too. Now is the time to step into your fears! Ultimately fear is a choice, and I want you to see fear as a green light that means GO, and go faster. With everything in the news this week I wanted to read you a chapter from my book, Confidence Creator, to inspire you to not let ANYONE bring you down. Don’t worry about others' negativity, because in the end, we all view the world differently based on our own experiences!  Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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Each week when you join me, you're going to chase down our goals, overcome adversity and set you up for a better tomorrow. I'm ready for my close time. Hi, and welcome back. I'm so glad you're back here with me today. Okay, so let's get into it. First, while I want to tell you, I'm super excited that I am speaking

at the virtual event for John Gordon and the Positive University Positive Summit. So check out PowerOfPositiveSummit.com. I will link in the show notes as well and get ready April 6th through the 10th, which is this week if you're hearing it when this show just dropped. You're gonna hear 30 leading experts sharing strategies

on how to stay positive, overcome challenges, and make a greater difference. Okay, listen to who's speaking with me. John Gordon, Sean McVeigh, the head coach of the Super Bowl Champion LA Rams, Ed Mylett, Jamie Kern Lima, Jay Glazer, Valerie Burton, Inky Johnson, Damien Lillard, Steve Weatherford, Steven Covey, Ben Newman, Damon West.

I mean, it's great. This lineup is insane. Oh, and Heather Monahan. Now, again, check it out. It's free power of positive summit.com, register now, and you get four days of incredible speakers filling you up with positive tips, tricks, and strategies. Okay, so what's cool here? Well, I want to share it with you because I want, if you're interested, I want you to get access, but I also want to share it from the standpoint of, you know,

two years ago, I didn't know John Gordon. You've heard him, he was on the show. If you haven't heard that episode, go back and listen. He's incredible. He's light years ahead of me, right? He's been in the speaking game and author game for a lot longer than I have, and he's killing it. He's in New York Times bestselling author.

He's always top five keynote speaker in the world. Right, I'm a little bit further back. I think I was 24. Hello, coming for you, John Gordon. But anyhow, so he's where I want to be. Right, but two years ago, I didn't even know him. I was introduced to him through David Nurse. David Nurse had been a guest on my show.

We headed off, exchange cell phone numbers, would text and help each other. We were both launching a book around the same time. And one day he said, you need to talk to my friend, John. And he connected me to John. John introduced me to his wife. I helped his wife get a little bit of confidence to launch her podcast, which is amazing. She's an amazing line up of guests.

She actually had me on. But anyways, I'm sharing this story with you to let you know, things can change in an instant, right? Two years ago, I didn't know any of these people. Now, because John and I have become friends, I'm literally speaking with 30 of the most prestigious speakers in the country at his event. And two years ago, I didn't know him, right? So start showing up, start thinking bigger, start stepping into fear. PS, at the beginning of the pandemic, I didn't even know what virtual speaking was, or if I would be good at it, or would I ever get paid to speak virtually now, just a couple of

years later, everything is completely different. I still am booked constantly for virtual speaking events. The pay might not be as good as in person, but it's still really good, and I don't have to leave the house so I'm here with my son instead of on a flight. So there's pros and cons to all of it. The point is things are always changing. The people that you meet, the opportunities

that are ahead of you, step into the fear. Fear is a choice, right? I choose to see fear as a green light that means go and go faster faster and I hope you're coming with me. You never know who you're going to meet today or tomorrow that's completely going to change the trajectory of your life. Someone like John Gordon is one of those people.

I feel really proud when I'm looking at this website, PowerOfPositiveSummit.com, and I'm going through the 2022 speaker lineup and I see my mug up there with the head coach of the Super Bowl champion Rams and Jamie Kern Lima and John and Ed and it's just it's so crazy. Things can change really fast. So often we're saying to ourselves, oh, you know, it's going to take time and I'm here to tell you, yeah, sometimes it will take time, but not always. So move fast, break things, walk up to people you don't know, ask for things when you're

not sure if you're going to get a yes or a no, because a closed mouth never gets fed. Okay, so that was my exciting moment that I wanted to share with you about this event. Super excited. Again, I'll put the link in the show notes. It's April 6th through the 10th. It's online. It's going to be incredible. I'll be watching it for sure. And I'm super proud to be a part of it. And I can't believe two years ago,

I never would have fathomed. I'd have this opportunity. Life moves fast. OK, so a lot going on this week. And something, I'm sure everybody saw the Will Smith Oscars thing, right? And so not to be to dead horse because it's all anyone's been talking about recently, but I did want to share I have a different perspective than most people on it. I have a different perspective than my son

that's for sure. And here's why everybody sees situations and experiences through the lens of their life, right? Through the lens of what's happened in their life and how they feel about circumstances because of the good or the bad or the challenges that they faced. Makes sense, right? So someone who has had a wonderful life their whole life and a lot of encouragement, positivity, see something like that, they're probably thinking, this person's crazy conversely. If somebody's been in situations where they face tons of adversity,

fighting, backlash, challenges, they're probably thinking, okay, I kind of get it, right? You feel differently based upon the lens you see things through. So, to give a little context, if you've read my books, Confidence Creator, and overcome your villains, you already know I've faced tremendous amount of aversey sexual harassment being roasted at work.

I mean, awful things abuse bad, bad things, right? So again, that shapes a person. I'm different because of it. I think in many ways, I'm different because of it. I think in many ways I'm incredibly stronger than most people because of the challenges I faced along the way. So in a lot of ways, it's worked out almost advantageous to me because there's nothing that's going to keep me down, right? So the next time you're facing adversity, choose to see it as, this is my strength training moment that's going to help springboard me to that next level

That's how I choose to see it for sure However, when a situation like the Will Smith Chris Rock situation goes down I sit back, you know, and this is gonna be different than you. Please don't judge me for it I'm gonna explain why I see it differently when I saw it I almost started crying. I was almost crying because I felt I was almost crying because I felt for Jada Pinkett Smith so happy for her that someone was defending her, so fearlessly and aggressively because in my life, again, it relates back to the and stick up for me and have my back. In fact, so many times it was the opposite. People would say, quietly to me, I'm your champion. I'm with you.

I'm so behind you. But in the moments when the spotlight was on and everybody was watching and something really crappy happened to me, they'd shrink back into a corner in the darkness. And so when I saw him just leap up and defend her, I thought, oh my gosh, I wish I had had people. I'm not for hitting, by the way, I'm not anti-violence for sure. And I don't agree with how it was all handled, but it was just the idea that he had her back.

Right, and I want you to be with people who have your back. I want to be with people who have my back. And it's funny for a long time in my life, whether it was personal relationships or at work, I was allowing myself to be with people who have my back. And it's funny for a long time in my life, whether it was personal relationships or at work, I was allowing myself to be with people who truly didn't have my back. They were in my circle, they would say the right things, but they weren't really right or die in my corner.

Right? And I grew accustomed to that being normal. I saw it as normal, like it was okay. So when I have these moments of clarity, like when I watched the Oscars replay, I wanna be with people who don't hit people, but who jump up to defend me immediately, who don't shrink back into the darkness and just wanna disappear,

because they know there could be backlash if you stand up for someone else. I wanna be with someone who really has my back. I wanna be around people who really have my back and I want that for you. Okay, so when I saw the whole thing, I told my son, I said, you know what? I know it was awful that he hit Chris Rock. That's, you know, terrible and crazy. However, I really loved that he took up for his wife that he defended her publicly knowing there would be backlash. But not caring,

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was a roast. That was my first year at the company awards night, so I had no idea what I was in for, but I was warned about an employee named Tommy who would roast other employees. By the way, I changed his name. I didn't know Tommy, and I couldn't imagine why he would attack me, so I didn't think much of it. Being the youngest member of the leadership team, I was both excited and a little nervous about the event, but I showed up smiling.

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I wished in that moment when he was roasting me that I had raised my hands and said, this isn't appropriate, I'd really like you to stop. Right, I wish that just because nobody else was standing up for me, I wished I had stood up for myself. That's number one, I didn't. I smiled and tried to pretend it was funny, even though it was so painful for me to sit there.

And then when I removed myself from the situation, I thought there were all these people that are supposedly my champions in there. Not one of them stood up for me. Not one of them said, all right, enough. She's new. Don't get into how she looks. Like that's this crazy.

Not one. People will reveal themselves to you. Red flags are not red flags. Those are deal-breakers. And when I look back at that situation and look back at those people that all faded into the dark that night that weren't my champions, I saw the red flags, but I looked beyond it. I should have seen. It was a deal-breaker. So if you're around people who are showing you, that's kind of a red flag that no one spoke up or really didn't have my back or allows toxic situations to go on,

I'm here to tell you, listen to yourself. You are right and find yourself a different and a better situation because there are places out there that you will find champions that people will have your back. And while you might not see the Will Smith situation similar to the way that I see it, I hope that you can open your mind to that idea that we all see things through our own past experiences, and that really shapes the way how we feel and view current situations.

I'm trying to keep my mind open to, and that there was a lot that was so wrong with that and I do get the other perspective and the other side on it. But I can't deny that because of my past experiences, I also saw it in a nice way to see somebody supported publicly. Okay, so hopefully you have overcome your villains, leveraging my three-step process to overcome your villains in the book, back, beliefs, action, and knowledge, right? Overcome those villains and get yourselves surrounded by people who aren't just in your circle, but are definitely in your corner too.

Okay, so if you heard last week's episode, it was with Chris Harder, it was so good, please sign up for his text program, guys, it's free. I signed up for it in weeks, plain, how you can sign up for his text program, guys. It's free. I signed up for it in week's plane. How you can sign up for it in the episode. It's really just a daily positive message from him all around abundance and choosing to see money and wealth differently. I never thought I had an issue with how I saw money because I love money. I love spending money.

I love making money. But I had to open my eyes to I had this preconceived notion and I learned this from Chris that it took X amount of years to, you know, slowly increase well and that you only get money in certain ways. And the more I've embraced that money can come to me easily, frequently, and from so many different places past relationships, work that I did, or investments that I made years ago, people that I had met that I had forgotten about opportunities that I had worked on

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I'm really challenging myself to see that situation differently and to see my relationship with money differently and to see that I can be abundant and it doesn't have to be so hard. Right? Just because it was hard for a really long time doesn't mean that it needs to be anymore. So I'm choosing to shift my perspective around money. I'm choosing to shift my perspective around things being really hard and choosing to embrace this idea that I can be in the flow of life. I'm doing great work. I'm helping other people.

I'm showing up as that best real flawed version of me day in and day out. And because of that, I'm proud of who I am and opportunities. I'm creating values so opportunities should be showing up for me too. It shouldn't be as hard as it used to be. And I want that for you. I still want things to be easier for you.

I want you to be in the flow. And I want you to see that doors of abundance will always open when you are doing good and showing up as that real true version of you. You know, life is about finding joy and finding passion and purpose and excitement in every day and things to be grateful for. That's what I'm focusing on. That's what I hope you are focusing on and working on too. Okay, so there were two questions that came in. I want to answer them right quick. Let's see what the first one was.

Always guys, if you have a question, go to HeatherMonahan.com. You can leave the question there for me or you can go on any of my social media channels. I'm at HeatherMonahan and send me a message and I will answer them here. Hey Heather, I hope all is well. I'm thrilled to share with you that I finally accepted

a role as a mini CEO with a company in Morocco. I'm starting in May as a very successful person, such as yourself, what advice would you give someone like me? Okay, so anytime you start a new role, it's so cool. It's kind of like being a new kid at a high school, right? You can show up as any version of yourself as you want. So be intentional about that, right? You want to show up as the most powerful true version of you. If you were wearing a proverbial mask in your past, you don't need to bring that along. Think to yourself, who am I really?

You know, own your positive pieces of you and the flawed pieces and go in there with an open mind. You know, one of the things I've learned from leadership and leading teams is you want to listen a lot more than dictate when you first arrive at a new company, right, because you have to understand what does success look like to the people that are there? What is the process?

Who are the people? What are the drivers? How do they evaluate success? What are the key performance indicators? What are the challenges? Where are the breakdowns? Where are the drivers? How do they evaluate success? You know, what are the key performance indicators? What are the challenges? Where are the breakdowns? Where are the opportunities? What are the products?

There's so much you need to understand that it isn't your job to come and start dictating how people should be doing things. It is your job to go in and learn how things are being done. So you can start connecting those dots from your unique perspective and seeing where things can improve

and how holes can be filled and how, you know, if people need to be elevated or trained on the team or even replaced, you know, understand as much as possible first. Don't come in trying to make changes, come in trying to understand. Be who you really are, own your voice, own your mistakes,

Sarah Blakely had her every Friday meeting, it was her oops meeting at Spanx, multi-billion dollar company, she killed it, and in that meeting each Friday, she would celebrate the mistakes people on the team made and the mistakes she made each week because she wanted her team innovating. So don't be the leader that shows up saying,

yeah, I want you to innovate, but no surprises. And don't let me down. And don't miss this. I've worked for someone like that. That doesn't exist, right? If you want to innovate, you've got to celebrate the challenges, celebrate the flaws, celebrate the fails, and make it fun.

So you create a culture around you that's celebrating it too. Lead by example. Okay, then I got another note asking me about writing a book and what advice do I have about writing a book. Here's the thing, just start. Don't overthink it. You don't need to be anointed and author.

I'm anointing you right now. You've been anointed. Start writing, right? That's the biggest roadblock for people is I've got to get the right strategy and it's got to be perfect. That's fear. Fear is a choice. I choose to see fear as a green light that means go and go faster. Start writing. I just started writing, having no idea what I would write about on my first book and about two weeks in, I started understanding what I was writing about. I was writing a confidence roadmap for somebody who didn't have confidence like I had an earlier in my life. So just sit

down and start writing and pretty soon you'll get clear on what it is that you're writing about. The most important action step you can take is to take action now, don't wait until tomorrow. You're gonna say I should have started this five years ago. Well that might have been the best time, the right time is today. Don't wait any longer. Start writing. That's the most important thing. And once you've got a ton of content down, find a great editor. Those are the two most important steps that you need to take when you self-publish and write your first book. Start writing now. Get a bunch written down. Get a great editor. And then you're need to get a partner. I use scribe media to help me self-publish, and then you're done.

It took me five months. It doesn't need to be a long artist process. You just need to begin. Like anything, done will always be better than perfect. Ready will always be a lie and successful people trust themselves to figure it out along the way

when they don't know how to do it. This is your message to get going now. Take action today. Make it messy. Make it good. Until next week, I can't wait to see you back here again. And for anyone that shares this show, tag me on social media, and you can win either the audible version of confidence creator or the Google Play version of overcome your villains

that I narrated both of them. And this is my contest for you. The first 20 people that share on social media and tag me, I will send you a DM with a link to get your free version of either competence creator or overcome your villains. Yes, I narrated and I can't wait to hear what you think. Thank you for being here. Grateful for you. Check out John Gordon's Positive Summit. Link will be in the

show notes below. If you didn't hear Chris Harder's episode from a week ago, go back and check it out. It's so worth getting into his texting program. I'm grateful for you. Repose this episode, tag me and you're getting my audiobook. Until next week, keep creating your confidence. You don't stop and look around once in a while. You can miss it. I'm on this journey with me. At a time when change is constant and we are pulled in far too many directions, we need a way to stay present to life

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