🙋🏼♀️Allow me to (re)introduce myself
with confidence
Dear Reader,
With so many NEW subscribers (thrilled!), it’s time to re-introduce myself.
Hi! Thank you for being here. My name is Liana and I started this newsletter as part of Monumental Me, the personal and professional development content platform and consultancy my partner Michele and I founded in 2021. Our goal was to curate and create high-quality professional development materials and make them accessible to all (aka FREE).*
I have a passion for lifelong learning and for lifting people up, personally and professionally. I would say this was a passion fueled over 20 years ago when I desperately needed some lifting - as an early Google employee, in my “dream job,” burning the candle at both ends, raising a very young family without family in a 500-mile radius to help, and observing front-row and center the inequities of corporate America (well, it started in France, and it’s a global thing, but more on that elsewhere). In fact, there is lots on all that in the archive HERE. Some in articles and photos and much in interviews with inspiring changemakers on the podcast. Go ahead, take a look. Dig deep! Scroll back to 2021. There’s some good stuff in there. Especially for those of you in your early to mid-career. (You can’t say we didn’t warn you if you explore the archives!)
For the newsletter, we originally promised to:
Provide you with simple prompts to move the needle as an individual changemaker and cheerleader of YOU
Help remove the roadblocks that are getting in your way
Introduce you to inspiring thinkers and doers in our community
Give you real tools to thrive in life and in work
Strive to make you smile
So that’s the past, and here’s the present.
I am relieved to see that we kept our promise.
And things evolve.
Today, I am super excited by our work Constructing Confidence. A new initiative co-created with Darri Stephens. And I encourage you to subscribe to that on Substack HERE.
Find out more
We all need to cultivate our confidence. I realized that much of what I talk about in my musings and nearly 100 interviews with changemakers and do’ers, is built on creating, identifying, and growing our confidence. Confidence is key!
It took me years to build my confidence, and some days I still need to look for it and reacquaint myself with the sometimes slippery feeling… an emotion… an attitude… a suit of armor? What can we call it? According to Darri, “Confidence is that elusive mindset that is challenged on a daily basis, whether we are young and still forming our identities or more mature and riding life’s ups and downs. Confidence can be an uphill battle whether by one’s self or in a group of peers.” She shares,
Research has shown that confidence is a fundamental habit of mind that leads to all types of personal and professional success, from social relationships to educational and career achievements.
You can hear more from Darri on the most recent Constructing Confidence drop.
Confidence is key
So we are bringing you some tools to enhance your confidence. And that’s what you will get when you follow our sister Substack for more. We started out with a focus on parents and educators in order to set our kids up for success. But confidence is relevant to all of us. It’s all connected. It’s all part of Monumental Me. And our suite of products expands to focus on adults for Constructing Confidence, so stay tuned.
Subscribe today to Constructing Confidence to check it out!
Thank you
🧡Liana