Heather Monahan shares how she went from a trailer to the c-suite and what she did when another woman was the villain in her story. Join Laura Gassner Otting as she hosts this episode of LGOtv with special guest, Heather Monahan – Confidence Creator, Villain Leapfrogger, Boss in Heels.
Timestamps
2:10 – Where did your confidence come from?
8:23 – “If I’m going to start out as a rookie, I’m going to start out as a rookie for myself. If I’m going to roll the dice on someone, I’m going to roll the dice on me.”
9:36 – “I used to be so frustrated because I’d go to board meetings with these great ideas only to be told I was too creative.”
12:30 – “I googled, ‘speaker fees.’”
16:35 – “I had so many things going, and so many of them failed.”
17:03 – “When you are a new entrepreneur, six months is a lifetime.”
19:18 – Tell us about that moment when you realized you had a villain that was getting in your way.
23:39 – “She held a big check and said, ‘If you sign this paper, you’re gonna get this check,’ and I pushed those papers back to her, I refused to sign it, I walked out, and I wrote a book about what had happened.”
26:00 – “I’ll never regret walking out. She was smirking and smiling, and I thought there was no way she was going to fire me…. but she made an emotional decision that day that cost her her business.”
29:30 – There are very few moments in our lives when we hold all the cards, and even fewer when we actually realize that we do.
35:50 – “You did this, and it worked. You did that, and it worked. That gives me confidence.”
37:02 – “If I put enough man-hours in and I have enough experiences to go to the points and that they worked AND I didn’t die, then that will give me confidence moving forward.”
40:35 – “We all have our own answers, we just have to start asking ourselves better questions, hold ourselves accountable, and take action.”
42:08 – How do you separate who is a villain and who is a hero?
48:00 – “Ask this question, ‘Is this person who is giving me advice right now- have they been where I want to go?’”
Links
https://heathermonahan.com/
https://www.instagram.com/heathermonahan/
https://www.facebook.com/heathermonahanofficial
https://twitter.com/_heathermonahan/
https://www.linkedin.com/in/theheathermonahan/
Confidence Creator Book
Washington Post Best Selling Author and Motivational Keynote Speaker, Laura Gassner Otting, inspires people to push past the doubt and indecision that keep great ideas in limbo because her presentations make listeners think bigger and accept greater challenges that reach beyond their limited scope of belief.
She delivers strategic thinking, well-honed wisdom, and perspective generated by decades of navigating change across the start-up, nonprofit, political, as well as philanthropic landscapes. Laura dares listeners to find their voice, and generate the confidence needed to tackle larger-than-life challenges. She leads them to seek new ways of leading, managing, and mentoring others.
