Confidence Classic: Why Your Energy Attracts Everything Into Your Life with Heather!

Hi, and welcome back.

I'm so excited you are back here with me today.

Okay.

We have a lot of new listeners lately I'm finding because I've been getting a lot of DMs, and I wanted to just reintroduce myself in case we haven't formally met.

I am Heather Monahan, and I'm so happy you're here.

For my ride or die OGs, please just indulge me a minute.

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So my background is I came up through corporate America and made it to the C-suite.

I was killing it in the media business for over 25 years.

And after 14 years at one company and being promoted three times and being named one of the most influential women in radio, I was suddenly fired.

And it was a crazy, unexpected turn [laughs] of events which in the moment sucked.

It was awful.

I don't know if you've ever been fired, but it is a major punch in the gut in the moment.

But like anything, you know, in time, you know, I have this perspective now that I can look back and say greatest gift I was ever given.

However, it was not a painless road, right, to get here.

But growth is not always easy.

We have to step into the uncomfortable, and in fact, maybe that's where the actual magic happens.

It is.

So that's what I've learned is, you know, stepping out.

I had an 18-month non-compete, non-solicit which meant I could not go to a competitor, I couldn't work in the media business for 18 months, and I couldn't hire any of my former employees for 18 months.

So basically, I had to start over somewhere as a rookie.

I had to start over as a beginner somewhere.

And somewhere along that way I figured out if I'm gonna start over as a beginner, why don't I just double down and roll the dice on me? And it wasn't like an epiphany I had by the way.

I didn't just wake up the next day and decide that.

That process actually took a while too because I was toggling back and forth between do I go back to a corporate environment in a new industry and try that or do I keep trying to go to work for myself? You know, I w- I was so uncertain and unclear.