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Creating Confidence with Heather Monahan

#13: The Positives We Can Take From It with JT McCormick

Creating Confidence with Heather Monahan

Heather Monahan

Entrepreneurship, Education, Business, Self-improvement

4.81.1K Ratings

🗓️ 30 July 2019

⏱️ 79 minutes

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Summary

JT McCormick is the President and CEO of Scribe Media, a publishing company that helps you write, publish and market your book. The company has worked with more than 1,000 authors and Entrepreneur Magazine recently ranked Scribe’s as having the Top Company Culture in America. He was previously the President of Headspring Software, which he helped grow to a multimillion-dollar, 100-plus person company that was repeatedly ranked as one of the best places to work in all of Texas and the author of "I Got There: How I Overcame Racism, Poverty, and Abuse to Achieve the American Dream" where he talks of poverty, starting with his career cleaning toilets and eventually becoming the President of multiple companies. JT has mentored at-risk youth in the juvenile justice system, as well as youth in low economic communities. JT’s work has been featured on CNBC, Entrepreneur, Forbes, Inc, and many others. He lives in Austin, Texas, with his wife, Megan, and their four children, Ava, age 5, Jaxon, age 4, Elle age 2, and Jace, 5 months. And thank you to today's sponsors: Pluto TV = Cut the cord and download Pluto.TV on whatever device you stream on Review this podcast on Apple Podcast using this link and when you DM me the screenshot, I buy you my $299 video course as a thank you! My book Confidence Creator is available now! If you are looking for more tips you can download my free E-book at my website and thank you! DM your questions for the show Instagram | Facebook | Twitter | LinkedIn See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0

Thank you're for listening to this Podcast One production available on Apple Podcasts and Podcast One.

0:07.8

Each week when you join me here, Podcast One, you are going to chase down our goals, overcome adversity, and set you up for a better tomorrow.

0:17.0

That's or no secret.

0:18.0

Come on this journey with me.

0:20.0

Hi, and Wight. Hi and welcome

0:25.0

today I'm so excited that you're joining me again today and today I wanted to share

0:38.4

the story of how I came to write a book and how I actually executed and did it because I get a lot of questions about writing a book and I have to tell you that writing a book was never

0:46.4

something that I had thought about that I ever thought I was going to do.

0:52.1

You know when you're young you're put into these different lanes. I was

0:55.0

always the social one or the sales one.

0:59.0

I certainly was not the literary one or the writer. I certainly was not the literary one or the writer and I I still can't I think it's

1:06.7

surreal that I have a book out so it just goes to show that if I was able to write a

1:11.0

book absolutely anyone can.

1:14.5

And that means you, if you want to.

1:16.7

But I believe that everyone has a story and it's really,

1:20.6

it's important to share your story and it's something that you'll have forever.

1:25.8

So and it's a lot easier than what people try to make it out to be after going

1:31.2

through the experience and not knowing what I was doing and being

1:34.2

scared and and not knowing if anyone would like it or if I'd sell any copies you know there was

1:38.9

so much fear that crept in for me and I've just realized that for a long time in my life I was

1:46.8

stuck in the familiar, right? People will say, you know, get comfortable with uncomfortable or I wasn't comfortable in my old job back in

1:58.4

corporate America. I was being treated badly. I was being bullied and harassed by a nasty villain and that was

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