Creating Confidence with Heather Monahan
#493: DUMP the GRIND: Stop Hustling & START WINNING with Tracy Holland, Founder, Investor, Board Member, & Entrepreneur
Tue, 11 Feb 2025
In This Episode You Will Learn About: Recognizing that hustling harder is a MYTH. Tackling decision fatigue HEAD-ON. Transform self-doubt into UNSTOPPABLE CONFIDENCE and GROWTH by being your authentic self. Your NETWORK is your NET WORTH Why you must take imperfect actions. Resources: Join the InnerFifth Waitlist: https://innerfifth.com/elite-membership/ Listen to the Potential to Powerhouse Podcast LinkedIn: @tracyholland Facebook: @tracy.m.holland.7 Instagram: @tracy_holland_mindset Get 50% off your first box plus free shipping at factormeals.com/confidence50off with code confidence50off. Get 10% off your first Mitopure order at timeline.com/CONFIDENCE. Download the CFO’s Guide to AI and Machine Learning at NetSuite.com/MONAHAN Head to AirDoctorPro.com and use promo code CONFIDENCE to get UP TO $300 off today Sign up for a one-dollar-per-month trial period at shopify.com/monahan Cancel unwanted subscriptions and reach your financial goals faster at RocketMoney.com/CONFIDENCE. Call my digital clone at 201-897-2553! Visit heathermonahan.com Reach out to me on Instagram & LinkedIn Sign up for my mailing list: heathermonahan.com/mailing-list/ Overcome Your Villains is Available NOW! Order here: https://overcomeyourvillains.com If you haven't yet, get my first book, Confidence Creator Show Notes: Are you ready to SHATTER the myth of the endless grind? My conversation with powerhouse entrepreneur Tracy Holland completely flipped the script on success. Hustling harder isn’t the answer—REAL POWER comes from stepping back, trusting your intuition, and investing in the future you DESERVE. Tracy’s insights on decision fatigue were a game-changer—it’s not about getting stuck in the “what ifs,” it’s about taking BOLD action, learning as you go, and moving FORWARD with confidence. And if you’re craving this kind of NEXT-LEVEL growth, you need to be in the room with us at Inner Fifth’s exclusive IRL event on March 7th in Los Angeles. If you’re serious about LEVELING UP, apply now at InnerFifth.com/march-7 because 2025 is the year we OWN OUR GREATNESS! If You Liked This Episode, You Might Also Like These Episodes: #425: The Secret To Leaving When You Aren't Valued with Heather! #421: GO For It: Shattering Limits in Life & Business with Heather! #411: From Setbacks to BREAKTHROUGHS: Create Confidence In Any Situation With Heather!
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We need to almost exhaust ourselves from that indecision wrestling to make a decision to move on. And once I made the decision... I write it down and I'm like, good, bad or ugly, I'm going. And I go because I'd rather be 80% right than 100% wrong. And sitting in indecision is never going to lead you to a good outcome.
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I'm ready for my close-up.
Well, welcome back. I'm so excited you are back here with us this week. I can't wait for you to meet our guest today. She is my dear friend. Tracy Holland is a founder, investor, board member, and entrepreneur who is an authority on beauty and wellness. Heck yeah. With a global track record of incubating and launching brands. She's a beast.
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Chapter 2: Who is Tracy Holland and what are her achievements?
Tracy has dedicated her career to creating new brands and success stories by spotlighting innovation, amplifying authentic and celebrity voices in beauty and personal care, and nurturing promising talent, especially other female entrepreneurs.
Most recently, Tracy's passion around women entrepreneurs and powerhouse women leaders was her inspiration for two initiatives, Potential to Powerhouse Podcasts on Success Secrets of Women, and Inner Fifth, an invite-only membership for elite female entrepreneurs. And we are going to get into that today.
Tracy Holland is also a founder, executive chairman of Goodwill Brands, a multi-brand, multi-category investor and operating model making both minority and majority investments into consumer-focused, founder-led brands. Tracy, thank you so much for being here with us today. Yo, yo, such a pleasure.
Guys, for everyone listening, Tracy has found massive financial success in business for a number of different reasons. But one of the coolest things about Tracy is that when you go to her house, she is just like the most normal person down to earth. You would never know she had two cents to rub together. Tracy, that's one of the things I just love so much about you. Thank you.
I love that. We have to stay true to who we are. You know what? Being an entrepreneur is hard enough. And with all the pomp and circumstance at the end of the day, as you know, anything can come and go as fast as it comes, it can go. And you have to be true to yourself and be authentic and love who you are and walk in value. Otherwise people think you're a dork and I don't want to be a dork.
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Chapter 3: Why is hustling harder considered a myth?
You have so much knowledge that you can drop on everyone. And again, back to what I was just talking about, who you really are. You're just such a real person. And I know that one of the things that's important to you is always teaching, sharing, and helping to elevate others. I was hoping that we could start today diving right in to the burnout trap, why hustle harder is a lie.
And you know, we live in such a culture where So many people with these big personal brands and multimillion dollar businesses are amplifying that message. Hustle harder, work more. What's your take on this burnout trap and the hustle harder being alive?
OK, so here's my question for you and those listening. is there is this belief. I think my parents told me this, but I would be curious if you remember where you first heard this. The belief is the harder you work, the more successful you are. So 24 seven, seven days a week, I started seven. I go to bed at 10. I just grind it out.
And there's this belief that there's a correlation between how hard you work and how much money you make. Do you remember where you first heard that? My whole life. That's been my reality. That's all I've ever known. Totally.
But the reality is, do you know that if you threw that idea out the window and you decided instead of working hard, I'm going to step out and I'm going to make a list of the top 10 most influential people that I know who know, like, and trust me. Who are the top 10 most influential people I know? And I am going to come up with an intention for how to create wealth for myself.
And I'm going to reach out and have a meeting with all 10 of those people over the next two weeks versus I'm going to wake up at seven and sit in front of my computer until 10 o'clock at night, grinding out work. I would be so curious and challenge anyone listening to try
spending two weeks doing the grind, two weeks doing the top 10 most influential list outreach with intention and find out what brings you most amount of revenue and the most amount of income and opportunity at the end of that two week period.
It sounds like you're sharing this from a place of experience. Have you done this yourself before?
I did. My last company, as it was going into being sold, I was so restless, Heather, because I didn't know where to go. I was used to working 24-7. And when you're in a sale process and they're actually just doing due diligence on your business, you actually have to go find something else to go do. Okay.
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Chapter 4: How can networking transform your career?
I'm closing on this opportunity. I'm just buying this company. I just saw this new AI thing that I'm integrating into my business and I'm now doing X, Y, and Z. It literally Heather blew my mind. to be around people who are more elevated, more successful, more wealthy, more sophisticated in areas that I hadn't been exposed to. And all of a sudden it cracked my world open.
And I thought, oh my God, how could I have been so heads down over the last couple of months? I'm glad I got this thing to the finish line, but my perspective on things are too myopic. I am not seeing the big picture and I've got to figure out how to pull myself out and up and make time to invest in my future self instead of being so grinding on my current situation.
You always share with me, it's not the how, it's the who. So I appreciate that that's what you're really highlighting for us right now. It's like finding these people who've done the things that we wanna do and are running at a higher level. It's so, so important to surround ourselves with people ahead of us.
But one of the things that I'm thinking about hearing you share this is I'm remembering your grind and your come up. You were breastfeeding, doing presentations and pitches. Like you were so in the grind, you were in the hustle harder. Teresa, when is it the right time to hustle harder and when is it the right time to take a step back and say, okay, I need to invest in my future self?
I think there's a must requirement to your future self, which is to carve out a certain amount of time per week, per month to only work on your future self. There is a lie that exists that says hustling harder gets you more money or hustling harder gets you more success.
And all I can say is once we're in that mode and believe me, you and I have both weighted tables and the way you made the most amount of money was not how many tables you had. It was how much quality relationship you had with each of your customers. And then they would whip out a 50 or whip out 100 and say, hey, thank you so much. I had the best time. Here's a tip. 100 bucks.
I'm like, yes, this is it. And I think just that is an example of what I mean. It's not grinding it out and just throwing people their food or getting people their to-dos or getting those emails, grinding it out.
It is taking time every single week to speak to your future self by meeting with other people who are more successful and can do it differently than you do and look at the perspective on it. I absolutely think it's the best ROI you could have.
One of the things that I hear from a lot of people is they're going to say, yeah, I get that for you, Heather. I get that for Tracy, because you guys have this network. But a lot of people struggle or they identify that they don't have people who are ahead of them in their circle or they don't know who to tap.
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Chapter 5: What is Inner Fifth and how can it benefit female entrepreneurs?
Factor podcast to get 50% off your first box plus free shipping. That's factor podcast at factor meals.com slash factor podcast to get 50% off plus free shipping on your first box. Oh my gosh. I have been blown away by the women you have introduced me to inside of Inner Fifth. And it's interesting. And I know you know this.
So often being an entrepreneur, one of the things I miss about corporate America is you don't have these massive teams of thousands of people surrounding you. It's lonely. And it can be really isolating when you're working on your business heads down to have
a community like Inner Fifth is such a godsend because everyone can relate to the struggles that you have, even though their business might be very different than yours. They felt isolated. They felt lonely. They felt all the same things that you're feeling. And it's just such a nice, there's a lot of comfort in that, you know, that struggle's real and we're all in it together.
For sure. And guys, the reality is there are only three ways to change and completely pull yourself out of habit and have a completely different perspective from one day to the next. And there are these three. And it's science-based, science-backed. Number one, reading. When you read and your brain reads something, your eyes move left to right on a page.
You can rewrite your brain and your synapses and how they're processing and the information they're taking in. And you can make an impact on how you think, feel and behave based on reading. Number two is through the people you meet and spending time with your circle of influence. Okay, so this isn't like your neighbor and people you say hi to. It's your five closest peeps.
You've got to really inventory that and decide, are these people raising me up or pulling me down? Are they teaching me something new or are they trying to stop me out? And number three is trauma, like a sudden horrible event. And nobody wants that way to learn. I don't. I'm not opting for that. I would rather take the reading or the people. Right.
But the third way of having a completely momentous shift is having something happen to you one day that completely pulls the rug out and your entire way of being has to shift in order to process and move forward. So I encourage those who are listening, who are saying, I'm stuck. I'm frustrated. I can't get past this place. My mindset right now on this issue sucks and I can't get myself out of it.
I'm in a rut. Inner fifth is the answer to that. As someone who really needed it myself, which is why we created it.
It's literally game changing and the transformations that I've seen from some of the women, even just in the short time, you know, over the last six months that watching the evolution and the confidence soar through some of these women, just from the connections, the support and that I don't even know what the word is.
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Chapter 6: How can changing your circle of influence change your life?
And the more he spoke, the more I realized the whole thing is I'm so different from him that I'm going to bring a totally different perspective and value prop to these people that they haven't experienced yet. And suddenly I was able to see myself with those rose colored glasses and say, I'm scared to death.
I don't know that I deserve to be teaching at Harvard, but I'm going to go and I'm going to give it my all. And what I learned from that experience was I was so incredibly different than the professor that I was working with that. It was great value for the students, even though I was like an unconventional teacher for them.
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Don't you also give yourself a ton of credit to know that at the end of the day, guys, what I just heard you say and what this reminds me of so much is we have these preconceived beliefs about ourselves or ourselves in the world or what we know and whether other people may know a lot more than we do.
And we preemptively jump in with thoughts around that when people are looking at us thinking that about us. They're looking at us going, look at that superstar. You know, even with you saying to me, I come to your house, you're so normal.
You would never know how much success it's because the perception of the success has already built up a point of view about me or my lifestyle or the people that I am in everyone and people walk in and they're all like nervous or they're anxious. It's like that feeling where you're going in for an interview and
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