Confidence Classic: Lead With Realness, Not Perfection With Andrew Metz

Creating Confidence with Heather Monahan

Heather Monahan

Entrepreneurship, Education, Business, Self-improvement

4.8 • 1.1K Ratings

🗓️ 25 November 2025

⏱️ 36 minutes

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Summary

What if the missing ingredient in your leadership playbook is simply being real? In this episode, I talk to sales leader Andrew Metz about how vulnerability on LinkedIn, relentless front-line experience, and small-scale intimacy tactics (think lunches, micro Q&As, mentor pairings) turn average teams into high-performing ones. Andrew shares repeatable ways to build trust, scale connection, and grow leaders from the inside out. Get ready to learn new ways of showing up as a leader. In This Episode You Will Learn WHY showing vulnerability on LinkedIn creates recruitment and retention advantages. HOW to scale intimacy when you manage 20 or 100 people (small groups, lunches, live Q&As). SIMPLE ways to build confidence in new sellers (mentors, catch them doing something good). HOW to reframe imposter syndrome and use failure as a stepping stone. PRACTICAL rituals that changed a leader’s life (running, quitting alcohol, small daily habits). Check Out Our Sponsors: Shopify - Sign up for a one-dollar-per-month trial period at shopify.com/monahan Quince - Step into the holiday season with layers made to feel good and last from Quince. Go to quince.com/confidence Timeline - Get 10% off your first Mitopure order at timeline.com/CONFIDENCE. Northwest Registered Agent - protect your privacy, build your brand and get your complete business identity in just 10 clicks and 10 minutes! Visit https://www.northwestregisteredagent.com/confidencefree Resources + Links 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 Andrew on LinkedIn

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0:46.8	insurance.com. I actually think LinkedIn has created some level of intimacy with me and my sales team. So one thing I've
0:56.6	found that's been really interesting. And I don't see a lot of leaders in corporate America taking
1:01.3	risks on LinkedIn or being vulnerable. I think this comes back to insecurities is this shield of
1:08.1	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 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.
1:30.2	But no one's going to do it for you.
1:31.5	You've got to go do it for yourself.
1:32.8	I'm on this journey with me.
1:34.1	Each week when you join me, we are going to chase down our goals.
1:38.4	We overcome adversity and set you up for a better tomorrow.
1:42.6	I'm ready for my close-up.
1:44.8	Tell me, have you been enjoying these new bonus confidence classics episodes we've been
1:50.0	dropping on you every week?
1:51.1	We've literally hundreds of episodes for you to listen to.
1:54.0	So these bonuses are a great way to help you find the ones you may have already missed.
1:59.0	I hope you love this one as much as I do.
2:01.5	I'm so excited for you to hear what went down this week. As you know, every week we have
2:08.6	one guest a week and then we have our solo episode. If you haven't been checking out the
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