Confidence Classic: Step Into Your Power and Break Free from Self-Imposed Limits with Iman Oubou

Creating Confidence with Heather Monahan

Heather Monahan

Entrepreneurship, Education, Business, Self-improvement

4.8 • 1.1K Ratings

🗓️ 22 October 2025

⏱️ 36 minutes

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Summary

What happens when chasing empowerment leaves you feeling disempowered? In this episode, I sit down with entrepreneur, scientist, and former Miss New York US Iman Oubou to talk about the self-imposed limits that keep high-achievers stuck. Iman shares how investor bias pushed her into victim mode, how she rebuilt from the inside out, and why true confidence comes from self-awareness, not outside validation. Get ready to learn how to balance authenticity & adaptability, and reclaim your power. In This Episode You Will Learn How to RECLAIM your POWER when rooms won’t give it to you. Ways to balance LIKABILITY vs. RESPECT without losing yourself. How to use your FEMININITY and MASCULINITY as intentional LEADERSHIP tools. The difference between your AUTHENTIC SELF and your ADAPTIVE SELF. How to separate REPUTATION from “what will people THINK” anxiety. The SELF-AWARENESS practices that build emotional maturity and lasting confidence. Resources + Links Grab your copy of Iman’s The Glass Ledge 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 Iman on Instagram & LinkedIn

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0:00.0	I had never really explored my own relationship with power until I was in a position of not
0:05.0	having any power at all. And that's with these investor meetings. And so at that point, for me,
0:10.3	instead of actually taken a step back during those meetings or after those meetings and figuring
0:14.5	out what went wrong and how can I claim that power back, I played the victim and realized,
0:19.4	okay, there's nothing I can do. Instead of me taking
0:22.2	control of the role I play in changing my circumstances, I dwelled more and more and more into
0:28.7	becoming more of a victim as opposed to a change agent in my own life. Let's make sure that you
0:34.1	know and you're self-aware of your own relationship with each of these themes.
0:38.3	Come on this journey with me. Each week when you join me, we are going to chase down our goals.
0:44.1	We'll overcome adversity and set you up for a better tomorrow.
0:47.5	I'm ready for my close-up. Tell me, have you been enjoying these new bonus confidence classics episodes we've been dropping on you every week?
0:56.8	We've literally hundreds of episodes for you to listen to.
0:59.8	So these bonuses are a great way to help you find the ones you may have already missed.
1:04.7	I hope you love this one as much as I do.
1:07.3	Hi, and welcome back.
1:08.8	I'm so excited for you today.
1:10.8	It's so rare I have one of my real friends on the show.
1:14.1	But today, Amman Ubu, she's an American entrepreneur, author, published scientists, and National Beauty Pageant winner.
1:21.7	We're going to get into that.
1:22.7	So if you're cringing right now, don't.
1:24.8	She won the title of Miss New York, United States and second runner-up at the 2015 Miss United States pageant. Amman was awarded the Women's Advocate of the Year Award in 2019 in Dubai and has been featured in Harper's Bazaar, Cosmopolitan, Forbes, Fortune, Vogue, everything. She's founder of Sway Media, leading publishing platform aimed at championing female thought
1:46.0	leadership by providing access to editorial and writing support as well as a supportive community
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