Creating Confidence with Heather Monahan
Confidence Classic: How To Stay Grounded When Everything Feels Uncertain with Heather!
09 Jun 2026
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Chapter 1: How can perspective change your view on stress?
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Chapter 2: What lessons did moving teach about letting go?
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Chapter 3: What did preparing for Dr. Phil reveal about control?
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Okay, so it's been a crazy week.
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Chapter 4: How can connecting before correcting improve leadership?
And you know, it's interesting. I was reminded this week, how everything can change so quickly, the things that you think are a big deal, really aren't. And gaining perspective is so incredibly powerful. It didn't come in the greatest way this week, right? Sometimes you can have these moments that are incredible, like when my condo closed and I couldn't believe it was actually happening.
I was so happy, right? That was like this incredible moment that changed my life. But there are other moments like with the hurricane this past week that change so many people's lives, you know, across the entire state of Florida and even beyond Florida. So a couple of things I wanted to say about that.
Number one, give yourself some perspective, whatever it is that you're freaking out about right now, because I know most of us have a worried about the economy, the negativity in the world, maybe bullying that your kid's dealing with at school, or bad grades, or not enough money, or you don't like your job, or who knows what it is, you're mad at your spouse.
We all have our own challenges, but when these big moments happen, that are potentially life-changing and life-changing for so many people, not in a great way for most people, you know, it's a really powerful seismic shift.
Chapter 5: Why do we often overestimate how much others think about us?
So here's where my mind is at with this thing. If you've been with me for a while, you know that in the past couple of weeks, I've moved, which has been crazy and exciting, and I'm so blessed and so lucky and so grateful, right? This is one of those amazing, thank you, God moments I prayed for this for the past year, more than a year. And I'm so grateful it came to fruition and so thankful.
So that's been great. But obviously, with any type of big move, you know, after 17 years living somewhere, I had tons of stuff to go through and purge. And a lot of it was emotional and sad, kind of reliving choices that I've made that I'm not...
you know, happy with now that I'm saying, gosh, in hindsight, I should have made that choice so much sooner or, right, just trying to learn from the past 17 years while I lived in that condo and reflecting on things, which is super powerful and helps you with self-awareness. So wherever you are, you don't have to move to do that, right?
I shouldn't have waited that long to go through everything in my house. I should have done that as an exercise once a year. However, I am far from perfect and I'm gonna give myself some grace. I hadn't, right?
Chapter 6: How can focusing on gratitude help in tough times?
So anyhow, it ended up being this emotional, interesting experience where I decided to get rid and purge anything that did not bring me joy. And so if I looked at a piece of paper, an old letter, a card, a vase from someone, a gift, if it didn't bring me joy, it was out, which meant so much went out.
crazy amount went out, which I'm so grateful for now that I'm in my new place and I don't have this stuff that's weighing me down, connecting me to a past that isn't my life anymore. Right. So totally encourage you to do the same. I thought that was such great advice. You know, if something doesn't bring you joy, let it go, let go of it and move on and find the things that do bring you joy.
So I went through this whole emotional move and I'd been exhausted just because moving is exhausting and, you know, losing things, not being able to find things, unpacking, whatever. And then I got this great opportunity simultaneously to go on the Dr. Phil show, which meant I had to find someone to take care of my son.
Literally overnight, I had to jump on a plane, go for a couple of days out to L.A., not knowing what I'm walking into yet again. Just take a chance and go for it and see what happens, which I'm sure you're listening to this and you're thinking, oh, Heather, come on, it's going to be great. Here's the thing that sometimes people don't understand.
When you just take a chance, like it's not planned for, it's not prepped, you don't have a lot of information. You never know how you're going to be portrayed when you do TV because you sign your life over to them.
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Chapter 7: Why is faith and surrender important in creating peace?
Literally, you sign a piece of paper that says they can edit it any way they want. They can use any footage they find of you anywhere, right? And stitch it together any way they want. So you're just taking this chance that it's going to work out and you're just trusting that this is meant for you. The way that I looked at it
I remember another moment like this was when I got the Steve Harvey show and I was, I was nervous, right? I was the only person going on the show that had difference of opinions because the producer told me that, that I was the one that kind of stuck out and thought differently than the people that were going to be on the show with me. So I knew I was kind of going to be singled out as different.
I also didn't realize everyone was personal friends with Steve Harvey, but me, I had never met him before. Right. But these are the things like you just jump on a plane and take a chance and say, hey, if I have the opportunity to help someone or help people to see something or bring a different viewpoint or vantage point to something, then that's what I'm here on Earth to do. Right.
I'm here to shed a light on things and.
and bring my unique perspective to the table because i think it's really valuable right i think everybody has a lot of value but if your heart's in the right place and you're trying to do good i believe you need to take those leaps of faith and chances now listen it has not always worked out flawlessly and perfectly for me as you know if you've been with me for a while there's definitely a lot of bumps on the way
But we're going to find out about Dr. Phil this week because I did get a call, just so you know, you're probably listening to this on Wednesday.
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Chapter 8: How can you apply these lessons to lead your team effectively?
The show is live on Thursday. So if you're hearing this on Wednesday, first week of October, yes, the Dr. Phil episode that I'm on is coming out on Thursday. I have no idea why. what you're gonna see, because I haven't seen it. And everyone keeps saying to me, oh, I'm sure you killed it. It doesn't matter. Let me just tell you this.
It doesn't matter if you think you did great when someone asked you a question. You don't know how things will be edited. You don't know how things are gonna be framed up, right? There's a possibility it could be framed up as I was a victim in the workplace, which is not my angle at all. I shared that with the producer. I don't want it set up that way.
But you have to turn over control to everybody else. So I don't know. I hope it comes out great. I do know this. These are the things that I go back to. If you're able to help one person, then you did your job, right? Yeah, it was a bit of a hassle being the first week that I moved and displacing my child and not unpacking and not setting up FPNL and internet and whatever.
I mean, there were some issues around it, but we made it work. And I hope...
so much that it all works out for the best but anyways these are the things that I had been worrying about right was like unpacking and changing my address and figuring out you know getting furniture because I don't have enough furniture for this place and should I you know jump the shark and start ordering things or like just putting all this pressure on myself that's you know
And I'm doing so much around moving. I'm not working enough right now. And my pipeline is going to dry up. And OK, cut to two huge brands reached out to me during this time to hire me for speaking engagements for fourth quarter, which is amazing and totally unexpected and massive audiences. One of them is 16,000 people. Huge brand.
Can't wait to tell you who that is once I sign a deal, which hopefully is happening this week. And the other one's an even bigger brand, not as large an audience, but like one of the
top five brands in the country so super good things right like these are things that if I had known a year ago where I'd be sitting right now I would be overwhelmed with joy but in the moment right things can get overwhelming and you're like not you haven't slept a lot and and you're discombobulated and and nervous and It can seem overwhelming.
That's the moment we need to pause and say, okay, the me from one year ago, the me from five years ago, right when I got fired, I would have been on the floor crying. I would have been so excited to know that five years from now, I'd be in a new place with my son. My son would be thriving in school. The pandemic would be behind us. Speaking business would be back. Live events would be back.
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