Heather Monahan

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A fan messaged Barbara on the review.

What was it that you did not like about this book?

Shockingly, no reply.

When I shine my light, I've been confronted with haters.

And ironically, Confidence Creator is about owning your voice and being confident in who you are.

So for Barbara, I hope you actually read Confidence Creator today and begin to create confidence for yourself so you can own your one star rating or anything else for that matter, because it's yours and you should be confident in your opinions, even when they aren't with the crowd.

Own who you are and shine your light and you can and will when you create your own confidence.

Hoping this post inspires Barbara to read the book so she can own her profile and her voice, which I will applaud.

One star and all.

Rock your hashtag confidence creator.

That single post did things I never could have imagined.

It inspired people to go to Goodreads and flood my book with positive ratings and feedback.

Until this incident occurred, my strategy had been to ignore haters.

And frankly, that is usually the best approach.

But I discovered that it can pay off to selectively leverage negative reviews and comments left by haters and villains.

Calling out this hater ended up helping me.

Another time a hater came out of the woodwork to attack me happened when I posted a photo of me on social media with these words, I don't lose, I either win or I learn.

When I wrote the post, I had no idea that these words came from a Nelson Mandela quote.

I'd even Googled the quote before posting it to see if it was attributable to anyone specific.