Creating Confidence with Heather Monahan
#523 When to Push, When to Pivot, and When to Ask for Help with Heather
Wed, 21 May 2025
I’m doing something different this week! I’m bringing back the most powerful mic drop moments from three of my favorite solo episodes. In this episode, I talk about how I dealt with a massive challenge that cost me thousands, what happened when I realized I was being blocked from a seat at the table, and the lesson I learned at 5 AM when I finally asked for help. This is your reminder that you’re allowed to start messy, invest in yourself, get uncomfortable, and ask for support. In This Episode, You Will Learn What to do when you’re being blocked. The question I asked myself when everything felt overwhelming. Why asking for help isn’t weakness. The exact moment I stopped waiting for permission and pitched myself. The mindset shift that helped me stop doing it all alone. Resources + Links Join the Elite Mastermind HERE Sign up for a one-dollar-per-month trial period at shopify.com/monahan Download the CFO’s Guide to AI and Machine Learning at NetSuite.com/MONAHAN. Want to do more and spend less like Uber, 8x8, and Databricks Mosaic? Take a free test drive of OCI at oracle.com/MONAHAN. Get 10% off your first Mitopure order at timeline.com/CONFIDENCE. Get 15% off your first order when you use code CONFIDENCE15 at checkout at jennikayne.com. Call my digital clone at 201-897-2553! Visit heathermonahan.com 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 Follow Heather on Instagram & LinkedIn
Chapter 1: What are the key mic drop moments from previous episodes?
Hey, welcome back. I'm so excited to share this special episode with you, bringing back mic drop moments from three of your favorite solo episodes I've done. It's time to dream bigger, take bold action and trust that life is rigged in your favor.
You'll learn how faith forms the unshakable foundation for success, why going big and investing in yourself opens doors to new opportunities and how embracing uncertainty is a powerful catalyst for your growth. Plus you'll learn the direct connection between who you surround yourself with and what manifests
in your life i know this episode is going to get you pumped to take action and put in the reps to unlock your next level especially if you're afraid now let's dive in 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 i'm ready for my close-up
One of the things that I like to do on my birthday, I just mentioned, I just turned 47 years old. And anytime I have a birthday, I want to reflect on the past year, you know, what I'm proud of, what went well, potentially what could have gone differently, and then forecast and look out, okay, over that next year, what are the goals that I have? You know, what am I looking forward to?
And what things can I do better differently or do more of that work great? One of the things that I realized for me, and I don't know if you feel this way, is that I've noticed I am not a patient person. And the older I get, the more I notice it, right? So I stopped myself and started thinking back to what I first got into the radio business when I was 22 years old, right?
And I left the radio business when I was 43. So over 20 years in one industry. Obviously, after 20 years in an industry, you're going to be an expert. You're going to be incredibly well known. You're going to have tremendous contacts. Well, when I got fired, I started over as a first time author and then new to the speaking business and then new to the podcasting world.
I was a rookie in everything. Right. But I was so used to being the expert because I had been in media for so long that I never stopped to say to myself, wait a minute. you need to compare yourself to your 22-year-old version of yourself getting into radio.
So I don't know if you fall into that same category as someone who puts tremendous pressure on yourself, has no patience, and really doesn't give yourself that... runway that you may need to find success. So I know that for me, the past few years, since I got fired, I just have this tremendous, I have very high expectations for myself because I've achieved massive success in another industry.
However, I found I need to be, you know, good things take time, great things take even longer. And I'm starting to really see that firsthand. I want to explain to you how that is. So when I first got fired, the first thing I did was I wrote and self-published my first book, Confidence Creator. I had no idea what I was doing. None, zero, right?
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Chapter 2: How can faith serve as a foundation for success?
So, you know, whatever situation you're in that you're doubting that you're not moving fast enough, that maybe you're just not being patient enough with yourself. give yourself some grace because I'll tell you, I really am trying to find that for myself right now.
And as things move forward with my new book, overcome your villains and Harper Collins leadership, I'm learning so much more, which will not only set me up for more success this time, but for the next time moving forward. And I'm trying to liken it back to my career in media that I didn't start at 43 as a chief revenue officer. I started at 22 as an account executive, a sales rep, and it took,
years to build myself up to that level of success and knowledge and expertise. It didn't happen overnight. So please be patient with yourself. I hope that you see that I'm trying so hard. I'm trying to live it. It's not always easy because I would like things to happen faster. Wouldn't we all, right? We want success to happen overnight. But the reality is if success was easy, everyone,
would have it and I'm constantly reminding myself of that and I want you to remind yourself of that too. Success isn't always easy. You don't just fall into it.
It takes a lot of trial and error and over time you'll develop experience and then you'll develop expertise and then you'll start to have the contacts and know the hacks and know who to call and you can start seeing and getting ahead of challenges before they happen. So I've just had this really interesting week to reflect on
because of my birthday, because of going to Naples again and being with the board and reflecting on how I wasn't on the board and I had pitched myself for so long and I couldn't get on the board for that company. And now again, looking back, you can see how the dots connect looking back, but I can tell you for sure
Those days when I used to sit back in that media company, pitching myself and getting the run around, I had no idea what was going on other than to look at myself and think something might be wrong with me. And if you're in that situation, I challenge you to question that because I needed to question it for myself because I was enough. I was the right fit.
That company, that board, they were not the right fit for me. And I was being blocked. And just in case you are, pick your head up, start talking to people outside of your company, your opportunity, your industry, wherever you are, and realize it might not be you. It really might be them.
And that's why we all need to work on overcoming our villains, whether that villain is inside your own head or sitting across from you at the table at work or even at home.
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Chapter 3: What should you do when you feel blocked at work?
And so we have, every two weeks, we have a team meeting with HarperCollins to go over a variety of different things. This week, we were talking about our pre-order campaign and pre-launch and hitting the goals to sell 7,000 books before the book launches. And so... As you know, if you want someone to do something, you need to give them more value than you're asking for.
So right now, Amazon's running a sale on my book. It's $24.99. What I decided to do was put together a bonus bundle of offerings. My $299 confidence video course, my 30-day email accountability program to help you achieve your goals. the new Overcome Your Villains workbook that I created, the first chapter of the book.
And for people who want to join the launch team, they get Zoom meetings with me where I'm going to read chapters of the book and answer questions. And so I'm coming with all these offerings to get people to take action to buy the $24.99 book. And so I'm on the call with HarperCollins and it was crazy and very unexpected.
My point of contact said, Heather, I just want to let you know your website, overcomeyourvillains.com looks amazing. Your workbook's amazing. Your bonus bundle is worth $500 that you're offering people for free just for buying the book. It's amazing. She said, I have to tell you, it just it's so nice to work with someone that gets things done so quickly and follows direction so well.
She said, this is not the way it usually works. Usually it's not this seamless. I felt super proud, first of all, because I've been working so incredibly hard at this and it's not easy. Right. The amount of time going into this stuff is obscene. However, I'm super proud of what I'm creating and I'm so grateful to all the people who are pre-ordering.
If you have not pre-ordered yet, please go to overcomeyourvillains.com. You can buy the book from the links there and then download your $500 bonus bundle. Thank you, thank you, thank you. Okay. So I was really shocked and surprised about that call and did not expect it at all. However, every time I have a call with them, the list of things that I have to do grows and grows and grows.
However, I know if you don't put the hard work in, you will not get the results. And that is the bottom line. Everybody wants success, but people don't want to put the work in. And the darkest days are the ones that you need to grind through to see that breakthrough on the other side. And I am so committed to this. And definitely the last year has been so incredibly challenging.
But I will tell you that I see light at the end of the tunnel. I don't think it's a train. I think it's going to be great. And I'm pushing through these tough times now so we can have better times tomorrow. And I want you to do the same because you're worth it. Okay, so this is surreal. And I just noticed it.
That four years ago today, the announcement went out in the media industry that I had just been fired four years ago. And I put myself back in that day and remembering what it was like and how scared I was and how much anxiety I had about the unknown and just the fear of what would I do. And fast forward to now, I didn't know I'd self-publish and write my book, Confidence Creator.
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