Creating Confidence with Heather Monahan
Jul 28, 2026 · 36 min · 17 segments
Are the people around you helping you grow or holding you back? In this episode, I share why removing negativity from your life is one of the most powerful decisions you can make. After attending an…
Okay, so if you've been with me week in and week out, you know that last week I had an incredible opportunity to go to a special private Maxwell Leadership John Maxwell event with 17 other people, and I had no idea what to expect.
So pause for a minute and think about, you know, obviously the person you're married to or in a relationship with is the most important because that person has the most influence on you day in and day out.
And then besides that person, the people you work with that you sp- spend a lot of time with or your closest friends, right? Those people impact the way you think, the opportunities that are presented to you, the doors that open or are not opened, and so much else.
Get people who are trying to hold you back out of your life and get around the rooms and the people that are ahead of you, that want to stretch you, that want to encourage you, that want to pour into you, and want to love on you.
And if you haven't met those people yet, I want you to know the best is yet to come.
There are better days ahead, and the minute you start removing the negative people, you make space for those positive people to show up.
So that journey for me started five years ago when I was fired, and I had been surrounded by some really negative people that wanted to hold me back, wanted me to play small, and did everything they could to try to make that happen.
What a blessing and gift it was to be fired and get thrust into a totally different space.
Suddenly, positive people started showing up for me, and it was like a domino effect over the last five years.
So many incredible people have shown up into my life that I didn't know even just a couple years ago.
One of them is my friend Jordan that actually got me connected to Maxwell Leadership and then got on this invite.
So I h- had one good friend that was going to be there at this event, and the funny thing is, and I think I told you this last week, for the last couple of years, I've been speaking at conferences all over, many virtual, now much more in person, but this was going to be the first time I was attending a conference, and I hadn't done that in years, right? I, it, it's so different to go into a venue in one way, one perspective, right? You're being paid to be there as a speaker.
You're all behind the scenes, and you're all, you know, coached up on, on what the goals are.
I, I didn't know the other 17 people in the room at all, and it was definitely, you know, exciting, I guess.
Okay, so if you've been with me week in and week out, you know that last week I had an incredible opportunity to go to a special private Maxwell Leadership John Maxwell event with 17 other people, and I had no idea what to expect.
So pause for a minute and think about, you know, obviously the person you're married to or in a relationship with is the most important because that person has the most influence on you day in and day out.
And then besides that person, the people you work with that you sp- spend a lot of time with or your closest friends, right? Those people impact the way you think, the opportunities that are presented to you, the doors that open or are not opened, and so much else.
Get people who are trying to hold you back out of your life and get around the rooms and the people that are ahead of you, that want to stretch you, that want to encourage you, that want to pour into you, and want to love on you.
And if you haven't met those people yet, I want you to know the best is yet to come.
There are better days ahead, and the minute you start removing the negative people, you make space for those positive people to show up.
So that journey for me started five years ago when I was fired, and I had been surrounded by some really negative people that wanted to hold me back, wanted me to play small, and did everything they could to try to make that happen.
What a blessing and gift it was to be fired and get thrust into a totally different space.
Suddenly, positive people started showing up for me, and it was like a domino effect over the last five years.
So many incredible people have shown up into my life that I didn't know even just a couple years ago.
One of them is my friend Jordan that actually got me connected to Maxwell Leadership and then got on this invite.
So I h- had one good friend that was going to be there at this event, and the funny thing is, and I think I told you this last week, for the last couple of years, I've been speaking at conferences all over, many virtual, now much more in person, but this was going to be the first time I was attending a conference, and I hadn't done that in years, right? I, it, it's so different to go into a venue in one way, one perspective, right? You're being paid to be there as a speaker.
You're all behind the scenes, and you're all, you know, coached up on, on what the goals are.
I, I didn't know the other 17 people in the room at all, and it was definitely, you know, exciting, I guess.
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