How do you go from a trailer to the c-suite, and what do you do when another woman is the villain in your 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/
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