Confidence Classic: Believe In Yourself When Everyone Else Says No with Jamie Kern Lim, Founder of IT Cosmetics

Creating Confidence with Heather Monahan

Heather Monahan

Entrepreneurship, Education, Business, Self-improvement

4.8 • 1.1K Ratings

🗓️ 7 October 2025

⏱️ 60 minutes

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Summary

How many times have you been told “no” when your gut was screaming “yes”? In this episode, I’m bringing back a conversation with my friend and inspiration, Jamie Kern Lima, the founder of IT Cosmetics. Jamie shares how she went from building a company in her living room to selling it to L’Oréal for $1.2 billion, becoming the first female CEO in L’Oréal’s 100+ year history. We talk about how to stop letting other people’s opinions drown out your own intuition, how to keep moving forward when the doors keep slamming shut, and how to root for yourself even when no one else does. In This Episode, You Will Learn Why you must turn down the volume on critics and tune into your intuition. The “microphone” tool to protect your energy and choose whose voice you amplify. Why setbacks are often your setup for something bigger. The visualization practice Jamie used before her life-changing QVC pitch. Why rejection can be “God’s protection” and how to trust it. How to believe in yourself even when the world tells you no. Resources + Links Visit Jamie’s website: ⁠https://jamiekernlima.com/⁠ Get your copy of Jamie’s ⁠Believe It⁠ HERE! Get your FREE 95 PG Action Plan HERE! Sign up for a one-dollar-per-month trial period at shopify.com/monahan Download the CFO’s Guide to AI and Machine Learning at NetSuite.com/MONAHAN. Want to do more and spend less like Uber, 8x8, and Databricks Mosaic? Take a free test drive of OCI at oracle.com/MONAHAN. Get 10% off your first Mitopure order at timeline.com/CONFIDENCE. Get 15% off your first order when you use code CONFIDENCE15 at checkout at jennikayne.com. Call my digital clone at 201-897-2553! Visit heathermonahan.com Sign up for my mailing list: heathermonahan.com/mailing-list/ Overcome Your Villains is Available NOW! Order here: https://overcomeyourvillains.com If you haven't yet, get my first book Confidence Creator Follow Heather on Instagram & LinkedIn Jamie on Facebook & Instagram

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0:00.0	Every time I got rejected, yes, it hurt. There were nights I cried myself to sleep with the covers over my head, woke up hoping it was a dream. It wasn't, didn't know what I was going to do. Like, it sucks and it hurts. But in business, to the people that rejected me, they must have thought I was crazy because they would literally reject me sometimes in the most painful way. I would end the phone call like,
0:21.4	okay, well, it is going to be a yes one day. And so I'm so excited that when your customers
0:26.6	get to experience it cosmetics, it's going to be life changing. Come on this journey with me. Each
0:31.0	week when you join me, we are going to chase down our goals. We overcome adversity and set you up
0:37.2	for a better tomorrow.
0:38.6	I'm ready for my close-up.
0:41.5	Tell me, have you been enjoying these new bonus confidence classics episodes we've been dropping on you
0:47.3	every week? We've literally hundreds of episodes for you to listen to. So these bonuses are a great
0:52.3	way to help you find the ones you may have already missed.
0:55.6	I hope you love this one as much as I do. Hi and welcome back. I'm so excited. You're back here
1:01.5	with me again this week. So a lot is happening. It's really been very exciting and makes me super
1:09.0	hopeful that I have my first in-person speaking engagement in one
1:16.6	year. Every single speaking engagement I've had over the past year has been virtual. And what's
1:22.1	funny is literally it's one year ago right now, you know, approximately one year ago that I was the
1:27.0	keynote speaker
1:28.0	for a financial conference in Miami at the Intercontinental in Miami. It was so crazy. It was the
1:35.7	first time I ever did a financial conference and it was interesting to say to least, but it actually
1:40.5	went great. But that's so sad that it's a year ago, right? And I love being on site.
1:45.6	I love being in person with people. I definitely am an extrovert. I definitely like to be around people.
1:52.6	Right now, pretty much the only thing that I do on the regular that's around people is I take this
1:58.4	socially distant spin class on a roof.
2:01.4	And just that is super exciting.
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