Creating Confidence with Heather Monahan
Confidence Classic: Take The Risk & DARE To Fail! With Andrew Metz Sales Leader & VP Of Sales At Zywave
Wed, 18 Dec 2024
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Chapter 1: What role does vulnerability play in sales?
I actually think LinkedIn has created some level of intimacy with me and my sales team. So one thing I've found that's been really interesting, and I don't see a lot of leaders in corporate America taking risks on LinkedIn or being vulnerable. I think this comes back to insecurities is, this shield of I'm perfect kind of a thing.
And I've found as I've talked about alcohol use in corporate America, I've talked about being let go from an organization. I've talked about things that people maybe would go, I don't know if you should talk about that. And I've gained a lot of traction with kind of doing the opposite of what people have told me in some cases, because people feel like I'm a real person.
And at the end of the day, we write more of our own story than we realize, but no one's going to do it for you. You got to go do it for yourself.
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As you know, every week we have one guest a week, and then we have our solo episode. If you haven't been checking out the solo episodes, check them out. They are fire. It's just you and me hanging together. But today we have a new guest on the show, but it happened in a way that is so unique and different.
And as you know, I am always listening to the signs that are coming or the signals out there. And it was funny. I had put a post up on LinkedIn where I always am. If you're not on LinkedIn, follow me there. But I was on LinkedIn. I put a post up. I don't even remember what exactly it was. It was something about the podcast.
And all of a sudden, I had people commenting, hey, Heather, you need to interview Andrew. Hey, Heather, Andrew's got to be a guest on the show. And I've never had a group of different people advocate so strongly and aggressively for someone to be a guest on the show. They were listeners of the show, so they know the show. So I listen to the signs. I take the signals as direction.
And we've got Andrew Metz here today. Andrew, thanks for being here.
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Chapter 2: How can I tackle imposter syndrome?
There's also a voice inside of all of us that should encourage us to dampen that because when you get that imposter syndrome feeling, it really means you're out of your comfort zone. It means you're doing something you haven't done before. And usually when we're proud of an accomplishment or an experience we had, it was something that was uncomfortable initially. And we look back on it going,
hey, I wasn't sure if I could do it, but maybe I failed or maybe I succeeded. But either way, you got to give yourself credit for taking the shot.
Well, just your own journey, right? Starting out as someone jumping into the cold calling world, which PS, hey, I've been there as well. You know, I'm sure on day one, you weren't the best cold caller with the best closing rates, you know, out of everyone.
Of course. And that's part of it is having the thick skin to take the rejection and really being okay with failing. looking at failure as the opportunity to learn, right? The cliche is it's not what happens to us, it's how we respond. But that's true in a lot of cases. And sales is a good microcosm of life where you're gonna go scrape your knee a little bit and it's how do you react?
And are you gonna change your approach next time based upon what you learned? And from that, you build confidence from there to approach it differently the next time. And you also figure out that failure is not as scary as people think, right? People are embracing for, oh, God, how bad is it going to be or the rejection.
And once you find out that the show goes on the next day, it gives you a little more perspective to have more confidence to take more risks.
So true. It's like anything. The more times that you're at bat, the more comfortable you're going to get when you step into the batter's box. It is no different with failure, although I definitely had a very different opinion of it. you know, when I was back in quote unquote corporate America.
But I want to jump in a little bit more to the imposter syndrome to hear your thoughts on my experience with imposter syndrome was I remember I was advocating for myself to be promoted from executive vice president to chief revenue officer. And I remember thinking, am I even qualified for this? You know, I don't have a master's. I'm younger.
Back then I was younger than the other people at the C-suite level. I didn't have as many years experience in the company as they did. So I second guessed myself, but there's something probably from the competitive nature of who I am that pushes myself into these situations, even though I don't know if I'm qualified. So there was always that trepidation and fear.
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