Creating Confidence with Heather Monahan
Confidence Classic: The Art of CONNECTION (Why Serving First Changes Everything) with Jordan Montgomery
24 Dec 2025
Chapter 1: Why is serving others essential for building connections?
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Chapter 2: How does promoting others enhance your influence?
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connecting people are connected people. Like if you want to get more connected, start connecting. And I think you connect people to people. I also think you connect people to opportunities. The best connectors that I know are always trying to connect people to people and people to opportunities.
Chapter 3: What role does serving without expectation play in creating trust?
I think if you ask yourself a question every Monday or once a week, it's like, okay, who can I promote this week? Who can I connect this week? And who can I serve this week? I think over time you wake up in a world where you created so much impact, but you've also created a ton of opportunity and you have all these relationships.
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Chapter 4: Why do the best opportunities often arise years later?
Hi, and welcome back. I'm so excited for you to meet my guest this week. Wait a minute, you've met him before. This is Jordan Montgomery. He's the owner of Montgomery Company's highly regarded performance coach, keynote speaker, whose clients include businesses, executives, sales organizations, and entrepreneurs.
From a small town in Iowa to a dominant force in the performance coaching industry, Jordan travels the country speaking and coaching executives at Fortune 500 companies, professional athletes, and salespeople. In addition to his work speaking and coaching, Jordan is an accomplished business leader who has managed top performing sales teams in the financial services industry.
He resides in Tippin, Iowa with his wife, Ashley, his son, McCoy. I thought it was Mac. Wait, have I been calling your baby the wrong name all this time?
Chapter 5: How can you transition from a brochure to a brand?
And his three daughters, Audrey, Claire, and Olivia. When he's not writing, coaching, or speaking, Jordan spends time with his family and enjoys the outdoors. He is a lover of sports and all things Iowa Hawkeyes. Jordan, thanks for coming back on the show.
Heather, thank you for having me. And you know what? I just appreciate your friendship. You've just been such a dear friend. And so it's fun when you get a podcast with someone that you just genuinely want to catch up with and hang out with anyway. So fun that we get to hang out.
Chapter 6: What weekly questions can help expand your influence?
And you've been such a good friend to me and Ashley. And we just appreciate you.
Oh my gosh, sadly, we don't get to record all of our conversations for the podcast. We would have much better ratings. All right, but listen, here's what I want to get into today. You shocked me. Okay, guys, listening. First of all, I met Jordan. Jordan and I met through David Nurse, who another guest on the show connected us.
oh my gosh, a while ago now, back when people didn't see people in real life.
Chapter 7: Why is specificity crucial for meaningful connections?
So we got to know each other and establish a friendship over the computer, never having met in real life. And then just a couple of months ago, we finally ripped the Band-Aid, met in real life. I didn't know if you were going to be four foot tall or six foot tall. I didn't know what to expect. And I was so excited.
if you guys haven't been going to in-person events like now is the time to do it it is pure magic getting to be with people after a couple of years of this isolation but you know getting to hang out with you in real life i thought i was going there doing you some big favor because i'm such a social media influencer or whatever and i'm like oh that's so nice to me this is literally what i guys this is so embarrassing that i tell you my true story like this but
I'm really thinking to myself, oh, I'm so nice. I love Jordan. He's such a great friend. Love Ashley.
Chapter 8: How does proximity to the right people affect your results?
Love their family. Do anything for them. They want me to go to this event. Yes, I will go. Never having been to a Maxwell anything in my life. Didn't know what to expect. Walked in there and literally...
Guys, and I've already said this, I was blown away by John Maxwell's event, Maxwell leadership team, by him, by Jordan, by the crew we got to run with for the time we were out there, the incredible people, the men with the vulnerability, crying in the room, talking about how much they love their wives, talking about God and business. I've never, ever been a part of something like that.
Literally changed me forever and just elevated the bar on my expectations for people and reminded me, Power and proximity is a real thing. It can change your life and the people you surround yourself with, not only on your day to day, but also on who you choose to go hang with, even for an event can be game changing. So I just want to say I'm so thankful that you got me there.
You invited me there and I'm the lucky one. So how do you get invited to these things?
First off, shout out, yeah, Maxwell Leadership, John Maxwell, and shout out Chad Johnson. It was kind of his idea. I mean, so I was having a conversation with Chad, who's the right hand to John, has been chief of staff with John for a long time, dear friend of both of ours now, Chad Johnson. And we were talking about John pouring into the next generation of leaders.
And so the behind the scenes on that one is Chad said, well, what if we invited some leaders to a Maxwell Leadership event to pour into the next generation? But here's what's so cool about John Maxwell. Instead of that being a way to generate more revenue and like sell tickets and get more people to buy and increase revenue, John extended an invite via Chad.
They found a sponsor to pay for us to be there. And we're going to run it back again and do the same thing all over again and August and you're going to be there and I'm going to be there and it's going to be great. So I think there's an abundance. There's an attitude of an abundance with John and their team. How do I get to be there? I don't know. I feel lucky to just to know Chad Johnson.
You're so good. We're going to talk today about connections and building relationships. You're so good at adding value to people. I don't know that I deserve to be in that room. I don't know that I deserve to know John or Chad. I just try to be intentional about adding value where I can. And sometimes I can add value, sometimes I can't. But where I can add value, I want to be intentional.
And so I think that's just an echo. Like those opportunities are an echo of the value that you provide. And sometimes the echo is big and sometimes it's small. But I think if you live in a way that you're serving, you're adding value, I think those things just kind of naturally happen to people who are focused on adding value to others. And you do that so well.
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