295: The Mentor “X” Factor
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For weeks in 1987, Rick Astley’s song, “Never Gonna Give You Up” topped the charts in 25+ countries. It also won most major awards that year and dominated MTV and radio request lines.
It had heavy competition. That same year, we were all doing Kylie Minogue’s “Loco-motion” or cranking up the volume on Whitney Houston’s “I Wanna Dance with Somebody.” And while for Minogue and Houston, these songs were just a taste of many wins, the same could not be said for Mr. Astley.
So, what’s the difference between years, even decades of success, versus being a one-hit-wonder?
Well, I have some bad news… OK, are you braced and ready?
You’ll never crack the code. Sorry. Take it from someone who’s been there before, even when you think you have the winning formula, you cannot go to sleep. As the last few years have demonstrated, everything can change on a dime; a lesson we continue to learn as we head into 2023.
There’s no question that our modern society undervalues the mentorship experience. It glorifies DIY tutorials, floods us with “self-made” messaging, demands a smooth trajectory, and rewards the concept that we should (somehow) have all the answers already, or else we’re doing it wrong.
And although this “X” factor is often unspoken about in business, mentorship is immeasurably valuable, with a profound ripple effect. So, to close out our business and mentorship pod, it’s only fitting that I reveal the immense impact some of my mentors have made in my life.
What You’ll Learn in this Episode:
- The three Ps of mentorship
- Building your “business muscles”
- How to maximize the mentorship experience
- Benefit from someone else’s mistakes
- The Sandy Sparkle
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Full Episode Transcript:
Hello,
it is 03:00 am in New York, 9:00 am in Johannesburg, and 9:00 pm in Bangkok. Welcome to IN TRANSIT with Sundae Bean. And I’m actually really IN TRANSIT right now as I sit in a temporary apartment as we just landed in Switzerland. And in addition to being in transition, I am on a mission to help you adapt and succeed through any life transition.
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Alright, so let’s get started. Today’s episode is around business and mentorship. So if you’ve been listening to this Bean Pod, you’ve already had a glimpse of some important mentors in my life and the life of others. That makes me think about this quote, from Warren Buffett. He says, “It’s good to learn from your mistakes, but it’s better to learn from other people’s mistakes.” And I think in my case especially, when it comes around mentorship and coaching, I am the other people because I have made mistakes and I am the first person to share about them so others can learn.
So, the more mistakes I make the better you benefit from because you won’t have to make them like I did. This is the third part of a three-part series on mentorship and I’m really excited to come on the mic and talk with you about it today because I’ve had mentors in my life for decades. And they have truly helped me keep focus, keep the quality of what I do, has kept me in business and truly help me enjoy my experience. So and if you know my work, you know I am all about straight talk. And in my community The Hub, I just talked about The Unspoken, the things that aren’t said that need to be said, that our only thought. And one of the things I want to do is shed light on what’s unspoken in business and that’s also what mentors can help you do. So if you didn’t catch that series inside the IN TRANSIT Hub in my Facebook Community, go ahead and check that out because I gave some straight talk on what’s unspoken. We’ll touch on that a little bit here as well in addition to diving deep into mentorship.
Now, let me start with the unspoken in business. There’s a lot that we don’t talk about that I wish people did more of, and I definitely do share those truths inside, my Global Coach Coalition community<span style="font-weight: 40
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