The Idea Climbing® Podcast

You probably know that social media has to be part of your marketing strategy. Jerome Myers believes that if you’re not on social right now you’re irrelevant. After building a $20 MM division at a construction company and having to layoff his teammates two years in a row, Jerome had enough and decided to become a full-time real estate entrepreneur.  He says that social media also helps with making new connections. If someone can follow you on social and “get to know you” when you meet or get on a phone or Zoom call you’ve already effectively qualified the other person as being worth speaking with.

Jerome has only been on LinkedIn for two years and he’s already accumulated over 10,000 followers.  Not an easy feat. He does point out that the number isn’t as important as the engagement. If you’re trying to build a following find your tribe of 100, then 1,000 and so on. Jerome advises showing up every day and engaging with OTHER people’s content and says not to only show up to talk about yourself. It’s better to have a smaller number of engaged followers than a larger number of followers without engagement.

Every day Jerome goes onto LinkedIn and comments on at least 18 of other people’s posts. For his own he posts one to three times every day. Rather than posting random pictures or information about his businesses he shares stories about his life and the lessons that he’s learned. He also advices to be authentic and always to be yourself. Jerome’s the same person at home as he is in the boardroom as he is on LinkedIn and so on.

To build an authentic following on LinkedIn you need to bring people along the know, like, trust journey. First the have to know you, that comes from commenting on their posts and vice versa. Then they might like you. When they really get to know and like you, they begin to trust you and that’s usually when they’ll work with you and/or refer business to you.

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During this episode we also discuss:

How to successfully move people along the know, like trust journey.

How to use problem solving to increase your client base.

How to get more meaningful comments and likes on your posts.

Why adding gratitude to your outreach efforts is important.

…and more golden nuggets of advice!

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About The Guest

Jerome Myers is the preeminent authority of dream realization. A believer that dreams can, and should be real, Jerome left corporate America when he realized that his role offered financial gain, but little significance. He is the founder and head coach of Myers Methods and has been featured in Business Insider and numerous podcasts.

After building a highly profitable division of a fortune 550 company, Jerome decided to leave the rat race to get away from what seemed to be the endless slew of layoffs. He has developed a system for exiting corporate America and creating a life of impact.

Today, he and his company help other apex performers find their calling and live every day on purpose by harnessing the power of his model for a Centered Life, what he calls “the Red Pill”. Jerome and his firms can guide any individual from a monotonous uninspiring existence to a life of fulfillment and impact

Recently I spoke with Frank King about topics ranging from chasing your dreams to entrepreneurship to suicide. Frank King is a Suicide Prevention speaker and Trainer was a writer for The Tonight Show for 20 years.

Frank decided to become a comedian while he was in the fourth grade. He told a joke in front of the entire class and they laughed, and the teacher said it was hysterical. He was hooked. After years in the drama club, he was left with no spoken lines and always being in the chorus. Then he discovered stand-up comedy. He realized stand-up comedy would allow him to write his own ticket because he could write his own act, secure his live gigs, and do whatever he wanted. He went on to win the school’s talent show his senior year.

Frank had a big idea and decided to run with it. Unfortunately, his first wife was against a comedy career and wanted Frank to go into the insurance industry instead. When Frank speaks to entrepreneurship classes or organizations he has a few key pieces of advice for them. The first on is if you have a big idea to start your own company share that idea with your significant other immediately. Look them square in the eye and say “I’m not kidding, this is what I’m going to do.  Are you in or are you out?” The second piece of advice for budding entrepreneurs is when you’re getting started don’t buy a new car or condo. Move back into your parent’s basement if you have to so you can keep your expenses as low as possible.

Another key piece of Frank’s journey is that he has a history of suicidal tendencies and depression, both run in his family. The disagreements in his marriage only added to his issues. At that point he decided to get divorced, quit his insurance job, and began to chase his dream to make a living in comedy.

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During our discussion we go on to talk about:

How Frank dealt with and still deals with depression and suicidal tendencies and why he now speaks about suicide prevention.

How Frank and his new girlfriend took a BIG chance and went on the road for 2,629 stand-up comedy nights in a row, which is just over seven years.

More advice about the correlation of stand-up comedy and entrepreneurship.

The rest of Frank’s story including booking $200,000 in corporate comedy gigs in one year to bankruptcy to bouncing back again and how he did it.

…and more golden nuggets of advice. (15:00)

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About The Guest

Frank King, Suicide Prevention speaker and Trainer was a writer for The Tonight Show for 20 years.

He’s fought a lifetime battle with Major Depressive Disorder and Chronic Suicidality, turning that long dark journey of the soul into five TEDx Talks and sharing his lifesaving insights on Mental Health Awareness with associations, corporations, and colleges.

Depression and suicide run in his family. He’s thought about killing himself more times than he can count.

A Motivational Public Speaker who uses his life lessons to start the conversation giving people permission to give voice to their feelings and experiences surrounding depression and suicide.

And doing it by coming out, as it were, and standing in his truth, and doing it with humor.

He believes that where there is humor there is hope, where there is laughter there is life, nobody dies laughing. The right person, at the right time, with the right information, can save a life.

Rory Prendergast and I recently discussed that predictable success is something that many people want and many people can experience. Rory Prendergast is author of The Game Changer Formula and a qualified coach. He has built and sold two multi-million-dollar businesses and skippered a boat across the Atlantic with no previous sailing experience. He now helps business owners achieve ambitious goals at high speed.

It took Rory years to put the big idea of predictable success together. Much of it came to him while he was sailing across the Atlantic Ocean without really knowing how to sail. He believes that we can all have predictable success – you just need to know where you’re going and start heading in that direction.

Rory’s formula for predictable success is: [ Predictable success = mindset + energy + accountabilityvision] He believes that everyone, yes everyone, can get those elements in place.

You Need To Have VISION

Vision is one of the first things that you need to figure out if you want to experience predictable success. You cannot get anywhere in life unless you have some kind of vision. The good news is that if you dig deep enough we ALL have some kind of vision. Once you tap into your vision you need to make it crystal clear and have love for it.

It starts with looking at where you spend your time. What are your friends like? What’s your relationship with your family? This isn’t something that you do in one afternoon. Rory suggests getting a notebook and writing in at as ideas and hunches come to you about your vision over time.

This is about your life’s work and Rory believes that your goals should come from that. The goals are smaller things and your vision is the big thing that’s going to get you out of bed every morning, even on the days that you don’t want to get up.

Leveraging The Stories of Your Life

People are only achieving a part of the success that they could achieve. You have a collection of stories in your head from all of the situations that you’ve experienced in your life. If you want to make good decisions in your life you need to rely on those stories. You can make better decisions today if you compare what you’re deciding to what you’re experienced.

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In this episode we also discuss:

More details about leveraging the stories of your life – even the ones that could hold you back.

How you can use your conscious mind to change your subconscious mind.

How to overcome procrastination.

The structure of learning and how to learn faster and create more success.

…And more golden nuggets of advice!

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About The Guest

So you want to lead your business quickly and confidently to its full potential but there's a problem:

As an ambitious business owner you contend with hundreds of competing priorities and demands. It’s a tide that pulls you off course, a little every day, making it difficult to keep yourself pointed in the right direction. You end up at sea without a compass.

I believe that everything you need to grow your business into one that lets you live a life you love is already right there. You just need a helping hand to extract it. I’ve been in your shoes, struggling with unclear goals and allowing my businesses to control me. I have developed a formula for Predictable success called The Game Changer Formula.

 

 

Learn more about Rory and predictable success at these links:

www.amazon.com/Game-Changer-Formula-Predictable-business/dp/B0863RRZBZ

https://roryprendergast.com/

Pat Helmers recently said to me that “Big ideas aren’t great, follow through is.” He grabbed my attention with that statement, and I had to learn more. That’s what we discussed on this episode. Pat is an international business consultant for technology start-ups, founder of the Sales Babble podcast and brings decades of experience to draw from which he shared during our conversation.

Many people think if they can just get that one big idea then they have it made. Unfortunately, more often than not, they discover that they can’t get traction with bringing their big idea to life. The reason is that there’s no follow through. They can’t get other people to come on board to help them. They don’t test the idea on potential customers and they end up getting stuck with a big idea that never sees the light of day. We discuss how to overcome all of those problems.

Entrepreneurship and Big Ideas

Pat says that real entrepreneurs try an idea and if it doesn’t work, they try another one. And other one. And other one. It’s failing fast and failing early to learn as fast as they can until – finally – they have a big idea that gets traction and comes to life.

Supposedly only one out of ten people have an entrepreneurial spirit. Once you consider that number only one out of ten of them will make it past five years. Half of them will be gone within a year. Those are scary numbers and that’s why most people won’t follow through and stick with it long enough to bring their big idea to life.

How Can You Have Success With Your Big Idea?

You have to dig into your competitive spirit. You have to find something that brings you joy. If your idea expresses who you are, what you’re about and how you can make the world a better place use that to power you and lift you up when you’re feeling down. It should bring a lot of value to your life. It should be fun learning. Fun facing challenges. It can be great to have total control and nobody can tell you what to do, you get to do it the way YOU want to do it. If you focus on those kinds of things, they can motivate you to move forward.

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In this episode we also discuss:

What you need to do before you spend a nickel promoting your product or service.

How to get other people to write great sales and marketing copy for you that will sell your big idea to the world.

How to enroll people around your big idea and build a team that will help you find success.

What makes a great mastermind group and how to build one.

The biggest problem with bringing a big idea to life and how to overcome it.

When to give up on your big idea (yes, sometimes you should).

…And more golden nuggets of advice.

About The Guest

 

Pat Helmers is the host of the award winning Sales Babble podcast that shares selling secrets for non-sellers. He's also the founder of Habanero Media, a podcast production company that helps B2B businesses create interview based podcasts that boost brand, authority, influence and trust. On the side he's a sales consultant for tech startups. When the weather is nice he golfs and attends to many DIY projects in the garden and home brewery.

Mentoring is an important part of the business world. But it’s only valuable if you know HOW to go about it. That’s what I discussed in this episode with Sande Golgart. Sande is the President at Zonez, He is a disruptive technology and business enthusiast. He is passionate about helping companies solve for their biggest issues.

Sometimes you find the most value in mentorship in retrospect. It’s that person that challenged you and held to accountable for achieving your goals. Those relationships can be the most rewarding, most fulfilling and the most helpful. Good mentors have your best interests in mind, sometimes It’s shown by tough love. Mentors might ask you tough questions. Those questions can make you grow faster than you would have without answering them.

Don’t Force Mentoring Relationships

Asking someone that you just met (or messaging them before meeting them) to be your mentor is like asking someone to marry you on your first date. It can be off putting. You should let them happen organically. Start with a phone call, take their advice, take action and then set up another call. If the relationship continues, great. If not, you got some advice and you’re better off than you were before those sessions.

Vicarious Mentoring

It’s about doing, not theory. Great mentoring experiences give you ways to take action and get new and hopefully better results. One  of Sande’s mentors was bestselling business author Jim Collins. When Sande reached out to him Jim replied by sending one of his books with suggested chapters to read and an outline for each of the chapters. This showed Sande that not every mentoring experience is in person.

Sande suggests sharing what advice you’re looking for and asking your network to recommend two books on the subject. You’ll often find the advice you need that way.

BEFORE You Search For Mentors

You’ll need to put some work in before you search for mentors. You’ll need to clearly define your problem, where you’re going and what your core values are. Then you’ll need to create a profile of the type of person that can most likely help you with that problem. Then you need to actively seek those people out. Mentors are going to be looking for you, but they’ll often help when asked. When you’re crystal clear about what and who you’re looking for those people will begin to show up in your life.

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In this episode we also discuss:

How to connect to your passion in life.

More ways to be ready for mentorship.

How to successfully collaborate with the people in your life.

How to ask for introductions to potential mentors.

About The Guest

Sande is the President at Zonez, He is a disruptive technology and business enthusiast. He is passionate about helping companies solve for their biggest issues. Prior to Zonez, Sande held the roles of Chief Sales Officer at Emagispace, Inc., SVP, Corporate Sales as well as Regional Vice President during his 16-year career at Regus, the world’s largest provider of flexible work space.

Golgart is often quoted on real estate issues and trends affecting businesses from start-ups to the Global 1000. He has been featured on Fox Business News, ABC News, Los Angeles Times, Sacramento Bee, Seattle Post Intelligencer, Puget Sound Business Journal and various other media outlets.

Golgart holds a Bachelors Degree in Business from the University of Colorado and studied post graduate Leadership at Stanford University.

Recently I had a conversation about sticking with what you’re good at and delegating the rest with Bill Bloom. Bill is an abundant thinker, delegator and lifetime income specialist.  He just released his latest book, "Money Habits For Success."

The first thing that he brought up is that he knows that he is a simplifier and not a multiplier. Simplifiers take things that are difficult to understand and make them easy to do and understand. Multipliers, sometimes called influencers, multiply ideas and other messages into the world.

He takes retirement planning and simplifies it for people. Bill isn’t in the business of taking an idea, a book launch and multiply that into the world. He DOES work with multipliers that will do that for him. That’s a great piece of advice for you: If you’re not a multiplier or influencer don’t try to be one. Find those people to work with and stick to what you’re best at. On a day to day basis he takes complex situations and makes them easier to understand.

Building The Right Team To Get Things Done

The first thing Bill brought up when I asked him about hiring teams was personality tests. He uses one to assess potential candidates to find out if there’s a place on his team for them based on their personality.

Bill then went on to discuss a book he recently launched. Because he’s a simplifier he doesn’t have a far reach on social media. He reached out to his multiplier friends and asked them to share the book on LinkedIn and other social media outlets. Delegating things that you’re not good at is so important – find the people that LOVE to do what you HATE to do.

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In this episode we also discuss:

How simplifiers and multipliers can collaborate.

Why you should be investing in yourself and how to do it.

The steps to successfully launching a book, pivoting your business or launching a new product or service.

How to find the people that you need to collaborate with.

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About The Guest

Bill Bloom is a husband, father, author, Retirement Income Certified Professional and a big soccer enthusiast.  Bill spends his time serving others by creating customized retirement income plans so that they can have purpose and clarity for his client's futures.  He also loves spending time with his wife, Jude, and his son, James.

Networking and business development are different things – you shouldn’t sell someone as soon as you meet them. That’s what I recently discussed with Steve Fretzin, who coaches and trains lawyers in modern-day business development skills, providing precise tips, fresh ideas, and actionable tasks that drive tangible results. Steve is also a three-time author, monthly contributor to the Chicago Daily Law Bulletin, and has his own podcast BE THAT LAWYER.

Steve defines networking as the act of developing relationships and strategic partnerships. He defines business development as the next stage where you take strategic partnerships and relationships and identify needs to solve problems and create the opportunity for a sale as a result. The new way to do business development is to ask questions, listen and walk someone through the process of making a buying decision based on the need to solve a problem vs. the old school sales method of trying to convince someone to do something.

Selling During The First Meeting?

Steve doesn’t recommend trying to sell somebody something during your first meeting. Consider your first meeting with someone an opportunity to learn about them. This means you make the first meeting all about them – not trying to sell yourself and your product or service. If you discover that you can’t solve their problem or give them what they need then try to refer them to someone else. It’s better to make a referral than to make an unqualified sale. If you discover that you can help them set up another meeting and present solutions that they can decide to buy or not to buy.

A Common Networking Mistake

One big mistake is networking for the sake of networking. You might be joining multiple groups and, without realizing it, be meeting with the wrong people for the wrong reasons. Rather than doing that you should define who you’re targeting as a potential client and who you’re targeting as a potential referral source. Then answer the question “Where are they?” Once you answer that question go to where they are instead of just randomly going to networking events.

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In this episode we also talk about:

How to create a profile for your ideal clients and referral sources.

How to successfully network during the pandemic.

The positive side of networking during the pandemic.

How to have successful virtual sales meetings.

…And other golden nuggets of wisdom!

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About The Guest

 

The host of the BE THAT LAWYER podcast, Steve has been featured in the Chicago Tribune, Crain’s, and Entrepreneur.com and has appeared on NBC News and WGN Radio. He has written three books on legal business development, is a regular contributor to the Chicago Daily Law Bulletin and has published articles in Attorney at Law magazine, the National Law Review, the American Bar Association and the Illinois State Bar Association.

There’s a lot of negativity in the world these days. It’s more important than ever to be happy and share happiness. In this episode I discussed HOW to be happy with Steven Lefkoff, the founder of Small Claims Academy, a business established during the pandemic in 2020 to empower individuals and businesses to perform as well as they can in small claims cases.

When it comes to building a business during the pandemic happiness is key. Simply put, people like happy people. When you’re happy your happiness rubs off onto other people and they want to be around you and, when all goes well, work with you because of the happiness that you’re exuding. This is important because no business can exist in a vacuum. You need to surround yourself with great people to grow.

How To Shift Gears Into Happiness

When you wake up in the morning you have a choice of how you’re going to approach that day. This isn’t a focus on your schedule for the day or the tasks that you’re going to accomplish. The focus is on answering this question: “Am I going to approach this day and be happy, or am I going to be miserable?” When you start happy you’re at least beginning the day in the way that you want to begin the day. Yes, things will go off the rails and bad things will happen. When bad things happen, you have the choice to focus on the bad things for an extended period of time OR to recalibrate.

You can take 30 seconds, close your eyes, take a deep breath and recalibrate by focusing on what IS going good in your life. In that moment you’re essentially starting over and choosing the path of happiness. It’s not difficult to do. The difficulty lies with remembering to do it – and then doing it.

If It Works For Children…

Steven has a daily practice with his children to help them start their day coming from a place of happiness. If it works for children, it will probably work for you! Steven’s children come downstairs around 6:45 in the morning in SOME kind of mood. Sometimes, unfortunately, they’re in a miserable mood. When this happens, Steven tells them to go back upstairs, get back into bed even if it’s for a short period of time, and start over. They’re instructed to come back downstairs with a smile on their face. When necessary this process repeats until his children choose to be happy instead of miserable.

That’ just one of the happiness practices that we spoke about in this episode. It doesn’t benefit anybody, including yourself and the people around you, to be miserable. It DOES benefit everybody you come into contact with throughout your day to be happy.

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In this episode we also talk about:

How to shift your emotional reactions to negative situations.

How to use the “Flip The Pancake” methodology to create more happiness in your life.

Steven’s story about how he started a business during the pandemic.

Why happiness leads to confidence for you and your clients.

Why YOU being happy is helpful to OTHER people.

…and more golden nuggets of advice!

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About The Guest

 

Steven Lefkoff is an attorney with a focus in helping people and business owners navigate the law in court without an attorney. Licensed in Georgia, Steven is the founder of Small Claims Academy, a business established in 2020 to empower litigants to perform as well as they can in their small claims case by providing individuals and businesses with products designed to help them navigate their state’s small claims court. Small Claims Academy's first product, Gavel (www.gavel.legal), is an online course to teach litigants the tips, tricks, and procedures of small claims courts.

Everyone is moving to Zoom for meetings and presentations and there are a LOT of mistakes that you can make. There are distracted learners, the ever-possible Zoom fatigue, multi-tasking and more that can destroy the effectiveness of virtual communication. The key is to know what NOT to do and what you SHOULD do instead.

That’s what I spoke about in this episode with Matthew Confer, who is the VP of Strategy at Abilitie, an experiential learning company based in Austin TX that does simulation based learning with organizations and universities in more than 30 countries around the world.

How Do You As A Leader Make Your Content More Interactive and Engaging?

Matt’s company schedules a LOT more breaks for virtual events than they do for in person events. They just make the breaks shorter in duration, usually five to ten minutes. Matt also lets virtual attendees know to expect more and shorter breaks in advance. Otherwise the attendees go into an hour-long virtual meeting expecting to be sitting for an hour and that is not a good expectation to have.

You can embrace the things in the virtual space that people usually look forward to during in person events. That helps to fight the dreaded “Zoom fatigue” that people are getting used to. Virtual events usually lose the networking benefits of live events – there aren’t the hallway conversations while you’re waiting in line to get food and coffee. To solve this problem Matt suggests scheduling virtual coffee breaks where you put small groups of people together in Zoom breakout rooms while they drink their coffee at home. This gives attendees the opportunity to meet new people.

How to Create Success Online Interactions and Successful Learning Experiences

There’s a BIG difference between active learning and passive learning. There’s a study that showed that learning that drives achievement and development shares two characteristics: It’s active and it’s collaborative. Whatever you do add activities to your virtual presentations, otherwise it’s too easy for participants to get distracted. It’s easy for participants to get disengaged when they’re only listening to you and looking at a screen. To make your virtual events collaborative you can assign teammates to groups or partners to individuals. This way they have people to interact with and bounce ideas off of.

You can also use Zoom’s whiteboard features, chat features, polling features and more. How can you use them? If you want to keep your presentations engaging you must keep people guessing. You want them to know that the next 30 or 60 minutes of your presentation isn’t just going to be content coming at them. You want them to know that at any time they could be asked to add something to the chat or that during the next five minutes a poll might be popping up asking them to answer a question. Setting this expectation helps keep participants from getting distracted with email, texts or any of the other things that they otherwise would be taking their attention away from your presentation.

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Is this episode we also discuss:

The three kinds of key interactions that you NEED to have in your virtual presentations.

How often you should meet virtually if you’re the leader of an internal team and what you should talk about.

How to know when to have structured virtual meetings and when to have freeform virtual meetings.

How to have engaging virtual mentorship conversations and what to talk about.

If you only do ONE thing to enhance your virtual conversations and meetings, what that ONE thing should be.

…and more golden nuggets of advice!

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About The Guest

Matthew Confer is the Vice President of Strategy at Abilitie, a Leadership Development company based in Austin, Texas that provides immersive business simulations to a global client base that includes over 50 members of the Fortune 500. In the past three years alone Abilitie’s leadership programs have been delivered to over 20,000 corporate professionals in more than 30 countries.

Matt hosts the Learn To Lead Podcast where he speaks with authors, professors, creatives, and business leaders about their leadership journey and how they are working to develop the leaders of tomorrow.

Matt has spoken on the topic of decision making at the TEDx Conference, and on the topic of leadership development at The Chief Learning Officer Exchange. His work has been featured by The Association For Talent Development and his recent articles have appeared in Training Industry Magazine.

Matt has facilitated simulation-based training in North America, Europe, Asia, and the Middle East for clients including Marriott Hotels, Coca-Cola, Nokia, and CBS. He began his career at Deloitte Consulting and holds an MBA from Boston University.

Mentorship is VERY much needed in the business world. You just need to know how to find mentors, engage with them and build successful relationships with them. That’s what I discussed in this episode with Matt Granados.

Matt is an international coach and trainer working with individuals and teams to increase bandwidth, increase motivation, and minimize stress.  This ranges from CEOs of billion-dollar companies to individuals trying to get back to where they want to be. Matt and his team have created programs for individuals to get the exact results they desire in all areas of life.

The first thing that Matt shares is that having a mentor is like going to a buffet, you don’t have to eat everything. When it comes to advice, pick what you like and take action with it while leaving behind the advice that doesn’t resonate with you. Why leave things behind? Because you’ll never find a perfect person who has all the answers. This means that you shouldn’t put your mentors on pedestals because if you do, they’ll fall down. Nobody can be everything to everyone. One caveat? You should be open minded when it comes to what you can learn from your mentors, even if it’s tough love that you might not want to hear.

How Do You Find Mentors?

With most of Matt’s mentor/mentee relationships there was never a formal agreement that they were in a mentoring relationship. That agreement wasn’t needed. How do you know when someone is your mentor? When they respond to your emails. When they take interest in what you’re doing. Then you’ll know that you have a mentor and that it happened organically.

A BIG mentoring tip: Don’t try to engage with someone to create a mentoring relationship just because that person is famous or successful. Seek out people that have done what you want to do so you can find out 1) is it really what you want to do, 2) how do they accomplished it, 3) what did they sacrifice to get there and 4) if you really want to do what they’ve done and, when needed, sacrifice what they’ve sacrificed to do what you think  you want to do.

How to Create Successful Mentoring Experiences

One day Matt’s wife pointed out to him that he didn’t have any physical goals – even though his company is all about vitality. So, he “accepted her challenge” and signed up for an Iron Man competition. The first thing Matt did was to find someone that completed an Iron Man in the World championship and got the person to coach him. The tip for you? Find people that have done what you want to do and have done it WELL. Then talk with them and ask them how they did it. If they share advice that you don’t necessarily agree with, prove them right instead of wrong. As Matt told me about his Iron Man mentor – who is Matt to say that someone’s wrong who has successfully done something that Matt wants to do?

Take your mentor’s advice, implement that advice, get a result, and then bring that result back to them. You’ll either: Share that you followed through with what they told you to do and didn’t get the right results – and then ask, “What else can I do?” Or you’ll share that you tried what they told you to do and succeeded and ask, “Now what do I need to do to get to the next level?”

Either way you’re on a mission to move beyond the results that you’re currently getting to get new, and better, results with the proper guidance.

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During the rest of this episode we discuss:

Why mentee should guide the relationship, not the mentor.

The four things that you need to come into a mentoring relationship ready to do.

When and why you should put mentoring relationships on pause or end them.

The sure-fire way to destroy a mentoring relationship and what NOT to do.

How to respect your mentor’s time AND get more of their time for calls.

…and more golden nuggets of advice!

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About The Guest

Over the last decade, Matt has tested, developed, and helped thousands of others implement an effective and easy to duplicate system that will help you build an unbreakable foundation for your life as well as motivate even the most unmotivated individuals in your life.

These techniques in versions such as keynotes, workshops, and individual coaching have been taught and implemented in organizations of all industries and sizes.  From Google Headquarters and Twitter to the United States Airforce and professional organizations all around the world. Matt has been able to teach these systems to thousands of individuals along with his team at Life Pulse, Inc.

Using these concepts Matt has been able to do the following

Along with speaking and coaching, Matt is also an author, featured columnist, and sought-after expert in the field of motivating others. With all the success Matt has experienced, most importantly, Matt is happily married to his wife and business partner (Maria) with two amazing kids (Natalie & Zach).  The drive behind Matt is his obsession to make sure no person's potential is wasted and that each person he comes in contact with, if they want, is able to experience their maximum level of success.