Creating Confidence with Heather Monahan
Confidence Classic: Open Doors to MASSIVE OPPORTUNITIES and Radically Change Your Financial Future with Jason Tartick, Wall Street Journal Bestselling Author, Founder, and TV Personality
Tue, 04 Mar 2025
In This Episode You Will Learn About: How betting on yourself OPENS doors to BIG opportunities. Why listening to your INTUITION IS the key to life-changing decisions. What choosing SUCCESS over coasting REALLY LOOKS LIKE. Why starting tough conversations about MONEY IS a game-changer. What building your roadmap to SUCCESS DOES for your life. Resources: Website: https://www.jasontartick.com/ Listen to Trading Secrets Read The Restart Roadmap LinkedIn: @JasonTartick Instagram, Twitter/X, & YouTube: @Jason_Tartick Facebook: @tradingsecretspodcast 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. 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: What happens when you TRUST your instincts and take risks that align with who you are? Jason Tartick, host of Trading Secrets Podcast and best-selling author of “The Restart Roadmap,” BET on himself, leaving a secure corporate job to follow an uncertain path. And it paid off BIG. Instead of avoiding tough conversations, he dives right in because true success means being REAL with yourself. Jason’s story is a reminder to LISTEN to your gut, take control of your financial future, and create a life that’s both SUCCESSFUL and FULFILLING. Are you ready to do the same? If You Liked This Episode You Might Also Like These Episodes: #421: GO For It: Shattering Limits in Life & Business with Heather! #411: From Setbacks to BREAKTHROUGHS: Create Confidence In Any Situation With Heather! #402: Conflict into Connection: The Art of Effective Communication with Charles Duhigg Pulitzer Prize-winning Reporter & Bestselling Author
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No one really knows the truth, right? There's three sides to every story. One side, the other side, and the truth. And you can over-explain, over-explain, over-explain, and you still may never get the truth. And we see this in everything. We see it in business leaders. We see this in politics. We see it in everything.
And so all you can do is just carry yourself with who you are, character, and class, and be able to put your head to bed at night, and the rest will sort itself out. That's what I've tried to tell myself.
Come on this journey with me. Each week when you join me, we are going to chase down our goals, overcome I'm ready for my close-up. Hi, and welcome back. I'm so excited for you to be back with us again this week. Okay, this week, you guys are going to be hyped. I'm really excited. We have an amazing guest, Jason Tardik. Let me tell you a little bit about him, if you haven't heard about him.
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Chapter 2: Who is Jason Tartick and what is his story?
And if you haven't heard about him, you need to get on IG and start getting in the mix. All right, he's a Wall Street Journal bestselling author, renowned speaker, a finance expert, and you know I need that in my life. host of the hit podcast, Trading Secrets, and media powerhouse.
Jason has quickly become the go-to expert on business and financial affairs for a new generation and for anyone, frankly. This spring, Jason released his new book, Talk Money to Me. Oh my gosh, I can't wait to get into your newest book and also to get back into your restart roadmap, which I know everybody here is going to appreciate so much.
He was on The Bachelorette, like who goes from corporate America having an MBA in accounting and finance and executing over 150 million lending transactions to boomerang into The Bachelorette to start his own company and become incredibly successful as a Wall Street Journal bestselling author. And just like me, he's with HarperCollins now.
Guy is going to the next level, 15 million downloads and over 100 episodes reported so far on his podcast. podcast. He's killing it. One of Jason's biggest passions is encouraging financial transparency. That's new to me while educating others. His following is huge by the way. And that's how I found him was on Instagram.
I want you to check him out on Instagram to get his books, check out his podcast as he's teaching things that the world needs to learn about today. And I can't wait to hear how you started rewired talent management. Jason, just thank you so much for being here. We're excited to hear all of your wisdom today.
Let's go. Heather, thank you so much for that introduction. I feel fired up after that. And thank you for having me on.
What's so interesting, and I want to get into a lot of different things here because you can teach me and selfishly. That's why I love my podcast is I get to learn things that I need to know from my guests. But one of the things for everybody listening right now, we all know my story of getting fired from the C-suite and reinvention. Your story is more on your own volition.
However, you made a very, in my outsider opinion, risky decision to leave a very successful banking corporate America career to take a leap of faith. Can you talk to us a little bit about what that was like?
Yeah, I mean, one negotiating tactic I've always learned in my life is you never want to put someone in a predicament with an ultimatum, right? When they feel like they're backed against the corner, they then will just decide and you never know if the decision is going to be ultimately the path you want those people to go. Now, coincidentally enough, I was put in this ultimatum.
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Chapter 3: How did Jason Tartick transition from corporate America to reality TV?
And my employer and I didn't come out of my mouth. And my employer was just like, that's it. Like you have an option. Like you're living this social media life out there where your private world's out there. And you're also in this banking world. Make a decision. No more media, no more marketing, no more podcasts, no more branding or restart yourself with this bank.
And you're done and you're in banking. Fair. Well, I was pinned against the wall and I said, I'm going to restart myself outside the bank. And so ironically enough, one of the companies I started was called Restart Consulting. And my first book was called The Restart Roadmap. So that's a little bit about the predicament I was put in. That was back in 2019.
And here we are in 2024, still moving along strong.
Okay, so I'm so curious about this. The idea to make a leap of faith and go on a reality TV show, talk to us about like, how did you make that decision and why? Listen, now that I see the success people have built out of their brands, I'm cursing myself for not having done that 20 years ago. So I get it now. But when you're actually in the moment, I mean, don't you have a lot of fears around?
What if you look like a jackass on the show? What if they portray you badly? Is this stuff even real? Like, do you even get to choose? I mean, didn't you have those thoughts?
So a couple of things like you look at 18, 19, 20, 21, 22, 23, 24. This was seven years ago. So I also want to put this out there. The risk of making a move into social media and all that back seven years ago was a lot riskier than it is today. So it even it accentuates your question. Like, what the hell were you thinking? Now, when I went on the show.
The big thing I noticed is, and this gets into like a little bit of therapy work, but my whole entire life, one of the ways that I, a survival tactic for me was being a champion for the world around me and making sure the people I love most felt secure. People I love the most, mom and dad. So, you know, I was captain of the sports team. I was always did the right thing.
I never, ever got in trouble, ever, truly. And I got promoted. I was a yes guy. I just did what I did. And at 29, when I was offered to go on the bachelorette, you know, everyone in my world, parents and family and mentors in charge, what the fuck are you, what are you thinking? No, what are you talking about? And for me, it was the first time when I was like, my gut was like, I want to go.
I want to do this. And so it was one of the first times in a very long time that I made a decision for kind of filling my cup as opposed to everyone else's. And ironically enough, it was that small decision, that small crack that led to this little mini empire I have right now. So it was a high risk. But one thing I did when you talk about finance and just preparing is
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Chapter 4: What is the importance of listening to your intuition in career decisions?
And I think so often we're in this world where there's so much noise that we lose focus and get in touch with ourselves to understand what we want. And if we don't know what we want, how the hell are we going to find the compass for it? And so that's where I would start. Pay attention to what you're naturally doing. And as a result of that, that can be a blueprint for you moving forward.
I ask you to try to find your passion.
Jesus.
And I like the idea of writing it down. It's very similar to journaling, right? It's intentional journaling is basically what that is. And you can be real. You don't need to behave in a different way or make somebody else happy because it's only you hopefully that's reading this, unless you're my child. And yes, I have cracked into his journal occasionally. I feel like that's good parenting.
It was all good. Thank goodness. But you know, the thing is like you get real when you're alone with yourself, you don't need to impress anybody. And to Jason's point, when you're writing down, this is what I'm enjoying doing. How can I spend more time doing this? That's how you're really going to start figuring out what your true purpose is. and calling is.
And when you find that out, then you're fired up and excited to go to work every day. And that is a huge seismic difference, which I know I'm sure you felt this way that back when you were in banking and finance, do similar things that you're doing today, but a very different vehicle and platform you're doing it on. You look super successful. Everyone thinks you're super happy.
Everyone thinks you're killing it. But now looking at your life for the way that you're leading it now, I would imagine you're so much happier now that you're really following your true calling. Is that the case?
Yeah, I mean, I worked my ass off. Like, truly, I worked so hard. And part of my motivation to work so hard is the fact that I never want to go back to that. Like, I remember what that was like, the Sunday night scaries before work. I remember being in meetings miserable.
I remember all the brainpower and creativity and all the things that make me me, not being deployed, but me being put in the box to the expectations that I had to provide. And to me, I like my skin crawls a little bit thinking about that. And those are the reasons why I bust my tail the way I do.
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Chapter 5: How can writing a letter to your future self provide perspective?
Just continue to be the best version of you and leave an imprint on all like the beauty you believe in yourself. And those are some of the themes.
I love that. The other thing that pops into my mind is the things you're worrying about today are not going to matter. They're not going to matter now. It's crazy. But you know that. And thank you for giving us this practice because immediately I thought to myself of 80-year-olds. And the best example I can use as a woman at my age is that an 80-year-old would look at me and be like...
Stop beating yourself up for how you look. Start appreciating it. Because when they look back at pictures of themselves 30, 40 years ago, they're like, I was killed. I was like, I'm so impressed with myself. But it's smart to future cast yourself so that you can reflect back to say, I don't need to beat myself up. I don't need to be so concerned with everybody else's saying.
And to that point, the best way anyone's ever going to lose is the weight of other people's opinion of you. And that is total freedom when you start owning that and rocking it like an 80 year old. So thank you for that exercise. I think that's super powerful.
Yeah, I think something else too that I just read lately that connects to this is it's a speech by Jim Carrey. And he talks about how, you know, like how many thoughts we have in a day, right? We have like millions and millions of thoughts, just quick little things. And these thoughts dictate so many things in our life. They dictate fears and concern and anxiety.
They choose our direction, how we look, how we act, how we feel, how we talk, how we communicate, how we protect. And he's like, these thoughts though, if you think about it, What is a thought? It's a little bit of a philosophical deep dive, but what is a thought? Like, what actually is it?
And he took like a cup of coffee and he's like, this cup of coffee has more reality than any thought in my head. It's real. I could touch it. I could taste it. These thoughts aren't real. They're these fallacies we build. And the people that I love and the people I think about and the thoughts I'm having, they don't know these thoughts. They're all just these made-up things in our head.
And when you take a step outside... And just be like, it doesn't matter. It's not real yet. Just be you and do you. It puts in perspective that we can allow thoughts that have no existence, that a cup of coffee has more reality than the 999,000 thoughts we have in a day. But it's those thoughts that are shaping our decisions and behaviors. And we need to put that in perspective.
Oh, it's so good. And so serendipitous that you're bringing up Jim Carrey. It's so random. Last week, I was at an event in LA. And one of the exercises that they asked everybody to do is to write themselves a check from your future self, whatever it is. And I mean, they said, Jim Carrey did this. He wrote himself a check for $10 million when he got to LA wanting to be a successful actor.
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Chapter 6: What financial strategies can help you achieve your dreams?
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All right, let's get to, I had read a lot about your background and I thought it was interesting that you had this finance background because your personality to me, I think your personality is more like mine, like this is an outgoing extrovert. So I think similarly people will be in sales or in leadership or whatnot.
But to see that you started in finance, can you talk a little bit about what your father imparted on you when you were younger that got you on this path to begin with?
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