Creating Confidence with Heather Monahan
Confidence Classic: How to Train Your Brain for Unlimited Success with John Assaraf
17 Feb 2026
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Chapter 1: What is the main topic discussed in this episode?
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There isn't a person alive that's afraid of public speaking. Nobody's afraid of public speaking. They're afraid of what might happen if they speak in public and they're embarrassed, ashamed, ridiculed, judged, rejected, accepted. That's what they're actually moving away from. Well, what if I shared with you that in that nanosecond,
The chemicals that are released will only last in your body for 90 seconds if you just stay present and focused on releasing the energy, the energy in motion. Think about it. Chemicals are released in your blood. It changes the vibrational dynamics.
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Chapter 2: What fears do people really have about public speaking?
And then that's what drives behavior. And so if I'm in a high emotional energetic arc, I actually want to move towards what it is that I want to achieve. But if I'm in a low emotional arc, I want to move away from it because it requires energy and my brain doesn't want to expend energy. So those are some of the neuromechanics of what we're dealing with.
And I don't want this to be a neuroscience course, but we all have way more control, you know, of what's going on between our ears.
And that's really what drives, you know, what we do or don't do.
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Chapter 3: What is the 90-second rule for managing stress and anxiety?
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I love that you shared the importance or how our brain works around different times of the day. Because when you were talking about working out, if I don't get my workout in the morning and I love working out, it is not happening. I've had situations where work called for me to, you know, there wasn't a window to work out. And I will say to myself repeatedly, you're going to work out tonight.
You're going to. And for whatever reason, well, now you're explaining why I don't pull the trigger. And I know that about myself. Same when you're talking about time of day and different things that may come up that need our thinking or problem solving. If my son asks me to find some random thing that he needs to find in the house and it's at 730 at night when he gets home from practice,
I never can pull the trigger and figure it out and find it. I'm like, ask me again tomorrow morning at 630 a.m. when we wake up. I can find it in three minutes. And he always says, I'm just not asking you to solve big problems anymore, mom, at night, because it truly just doesn't seem possible. And it's helpful to understand, OK, just take a hard pass on that in the future.
And let's jump into these hard things when the morning is definitely the time for me. I'm with you.
For you, now there's other people who are going to listen or watch this and go, oh my God, mornings, I'm a basket case. I can't even feed myself in the morning. Finding the coffee pot is hard. I used to be married to a wonderful woman who used to believe that if God wanted her to see the sun, he would have it rise at noon.
She would stay up till two o'clock in the morning and she would get more done from 9 p.m. to two o'clock than she did before noon every day because she didn't want to get out of bed till 10, 11, 12 o'clock. And her natural cycle for her And we had a polar opposite schedules, you know, naturally. And we had to see if it would work. And it created some challenges in our former relationship.
And my wife now, who I've been married to and together with for 20 plus years, is an early riser like I am. She goes from like 6.30 till 8.30. I go from about 6 till 10. And we have the same types of schedules. So it really is important to know your own rhythm and not try to change it if it's hard, right? Like not everybody needs to wake up or can wake up at 5.30, but some people have to.
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