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Michelle 'Mace' Curran

👤 Speaker
771 total appearances

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Creating Confidence with Heather Monahan
Confidence Classic: NEVER Let Imposter Syndrome Hold You Back with Michelle “Mace” Curran Former Fighter Pilot & Founder of Upside Down Dreams

It was a couple of weeks later and I had... a big financial institution reach out and they're like, Hey, our wealth management branch, the leaders of our wealth management branch are having a small quarterly meeting with 20 of them next week. In like six days, we want you to fly there and speak to them.

Creating Confidence with Heather Monahan
Confidence Classic: NEVER Let Imposter Syndrome Hold You Back with Michelle “Mace” Curran Former Fighter Pilot & Founder of Upside Down Dreams

And I was like, in my head, they were all like six-year-old dudes in suits that were all going to be like, who is this girl talking to us? That is not what it was like at all. But I had one of those distinct moments that I talked about before where I'm like, you will make a bold choice. And I got off the call and I was like, I was in this office and I was here by myself. And I was like, holy crap.

Creating Confidence with Heather Monahan
Confidence Classic: NEVER Let Imposter Syndrome Hold You Back with Michelle “Mace” Curran Former Fighter Pilot & Founder of Upside Down Dreams

And I was like, in my head, they were all like six-year-old dudes in suits that were all going to be like, who is this girl talking to us? That is not what it was like at all. But I had one of those distinct moments that I talked about before where I'm like, you will make a bold choice. And I got off the call and I was like, I was in this office and I was here by myself. And I was like, holy crap.

Creating Confidence with Heather Monahan
Confidence Classic: NEVER Let Imposter Syndrome Hold You Back with Michelle “Mace” Curran Former Fighter Pilot & Founder of Upside Down Dreams

And I was like, in my head, they were all like six-year-old dudes in suits that were all going to be like, who is this girl talking to us? That is not what it was like at all. But I had one of those distinct moments that I talked about before where I'm like, you will make a bold choice. And I got off the call and I was like, I was in this office and I was here by myself. And I was like, holy crap.

Creating Confidence with Heather Monahan
Confidence Classic: NEVER Let Imposter Syndrome Hold You Back with Michelle “Mace” Curran Former Fighter Pilot & Founder of Upside Down Dreams

Am I ready? I was talking out loud to myself. Am I ready for this? And then I was like, they're willing to pay me a full fee to fly me there next week. I'm not doing anything else. Like I have a couple of calls I can move. Why would I say no to this opportunity? Right.

Creating Confidence with Heather Monahan
Confidence Classic: NEVER Let Imposter Syndrome Hold You Back with Michelle “Mace” Curran Former Fighter Pilot & Founder of Upside Down Dreams

Am I ready? I was talking out loud to myself. Am I ready for this? And then I was like, they're willing to pay me a full fee to fly me there next week. I'm not doing anything else. Like I have a couple of calls I can move. Why would I say no to this opportunity? Right.

Creating Confidence with Heather Monahan
Confidence Classic: NEVER Let Imposter Syndrome Hold You Back with Michelle “Mace” Curran Former Fighter Pilot & Founder of Upside Down Dreams

Am I ready? I was talking out loud to myself. Am I ready for this? And then I was like, they're willing to pay me a full fee to fly me there next week. I'm not doing anything else. Like I have a couple of calls I can move. Why would I say no to this opportunity? Right.

Creating Confidence with Heather Monahan
Confidence Classic: NEVER Let Imposter Syndrome Hold You Back with Michelle “Mace” Curran Former Fighter Pilot & Founder of Upside Down Dreams

Because my initial reaction had been that anxiety where I was like, oh my gosh, this is, I am not good enough yet to speak to this audience. This is high stakes. They're paying a lot of money. Like, what if I don't deliver? It went awesome. And I've stayed in touch with a bunch of the people that I met there. It was just such a great group. It was a great experience.

Creating Confidence with Heather Monahan
Confidence Classic: NEVER Let Imposter Syndrome Hold You Back with Michelle “Mace” Curran Former Fighter Pilot & Founder of Upside Down Dreams

Because my initial reaction had been that anxiety where I was like, oh my gosh, this is, I am not good enough yet to speak to this audience. This is high stakes. They're paying a lot of money. Like, what if I don't deliver? It went awesome. And I've stayed in touch with a bunch of the people that I met there. It was just such a great group. It was a great experience.

Creating Confidence with Heather Monahan
Confidence Classic: NEVER Let Imposter Syndrome Hold You Back with Michelle “Mace” Curran Former Fighter Pilot & Founder of Upside Down Dreams

Because my initial reaction had been that anxiety where I was like, oh my gosh, this is, I am not good enough yet to speak to this audience. This is high stakes. They're paying a lot of money. Like, what if I don't deliver? It went awesome. And I've stayed in touch with a bunch of the people that I met there. It was just such a great group. It was a great experience.

Creating Confidence with Heather Monahan
Confidence Classic: NEVER Let Imposter Syndrome Hold You Back with Michelle “Mace” Curran Former Fighter Pilot & Founder of Upside Down Dreams

And I was like, I am reminded again. to not get in my own head because I could have totally said, no, it's only a week away. I'm not available and sabotage myself. I considered doing that.

Creating Confidence with Heather Monahan
Confidence Classic: NEVER Let Imposter Syndrome Hold You Back with Michelle “Mace” Curran Former Fighter Pilot & Founder of Upside Down Dreams

And I was like, I am reminded again. to not get in my own head because I could have totally said, no, it's only a week away. I'm not available and sabotage myself. I considered doing that.

Creating Confidence with Heather Monahan
Confidence Classic: NEVER Let Imposter Syndrome Hold You Back with Michelle “Mace” Curran Former Fighter Pilot & Founder of Upside Down Dreams

And I was like, I am reminded again. to not get in my own head because I could have totally said, no, it's only a week away. I'm not available and sabotage myself. I considered doing that.

Creating Confidence with Heather Monahan
Confidence Classic: NEVER Let Imposter Syndrome Hold You Back with Michelle “Mace” Curran Former Fighter Pilot & Founder of Upside Down Dreams

Well, I'm so proud you made the bold choice. You're inspiring me to make the bold choice today and every day. And hopefully for everybody listening, Michelle, how can people get in contact with you, keep up with you and join you on this journey?

Creating Confidence with Heather Monahan
Confidence Classic: NEVER Let Imposter Syndrome Hold You Back with Michelle “Mace” Curran Former Fighter Pilot & Founder of Upside Down Dreams

Well, I'm so proud you made the bold choice. You're inspiring me to make the bold choice today and every day. And hopefully for everybody listening, Michelle, how can people get in contact with you, keep up with you and join you on this journey?

Creating Confidence with Heather Monahan
Confidence Classic: NEVER Let Imposter Syndrome Hold You Back with Michelle “Mace” Curran Former Fighter Pilot & Founder of Upside Down Dreams

Well, I'm so proud you made the bold choice. You're inspiring me to make the bold choice today and every day. And hopefully for everybody listening, Michelle, how can people get in contact with you, keep up with you and join you on this journey?

Creating Confidence with Heather Monahan
Confidence Classic: NEVER Let Imposter Syndrome Hold You Back with Michelle “Mace” Curran Former Fighter Pilot & Founder of Upside Down Dreams

So I put out quite a bit of content on both Instagram and on LinkedIn. I've grown a decent little tribe of people on Instagram, which is Mace, my call sign, underscore current, my last name. I put a lot of jet videos out, cockpit videos. So if they scroll back a little bit, they can ride along on a whole bunch of different flights because there's probably over 100 videos on there.

Creating Confidence with Heather Monahan
Confidence Classic: NEVER Let Imposter Syndrome Hold You Back with Michelle “Mace” Curran Former Fighter Pilot & Founder of Upside Down Dreams

So I put out quite a bit of content on both Instagram and on LinkedIn. I've grown a decent little tribe of people on Instagram, which is Mace, my call sign, underscore current, my last name. I put a lot of jet videos out, cockpit videos. So if they scroll back a little bit, they can ride along on a whole bunch of different flights because there's probably over 100 videos on there.

Creating Confidence with Heather Monahan
Confidence Classic: NEVER Let Imposter Syndrome Hold You Back with Michelle “Mace” Curran Former Fighter Pilot & Founder of Upside Down Dreams

So I put out quite a bit of content on both Instagram and on LinkedIn. I've grown a decent little tribe of people on Instagram, which is Mace, my call sign, underscore current, my last name. I put a lot of jet videos out, cockpit videos. So if they scroll back a little bit, they can ride along on a whole bunch of different flights because there's probably over 100 videos on there.

Creating Confidence with Heather Monahan
Confidence Classic: NEVER Let Imposter Syndrome Hold You Back with Michelle “Mace” Curran Former Fighter Pilot & Founder of Upside Down Dreams

And then as I jumped into the entrepreneurship world, LinkedIn, I post almost every day there. It's just Michelle Mace Kern. So my call sign and quotes in the middle. And I talk about a lot of the stuff we talked about today, imposter syndrome, trust. I put a lot of cool visuals with it, cockpit videos. And we talk about trust, different videos from my career, from mountaineering.