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Welcome to the Art of Charm. I'm your host, Jordan Harbinger. Today we're talking with my friend, Sean Blanchard.

From crack baby to author, speaker, and mentorship specialist, he has succeeded in spite of his upbringing and managed to evolve into an upstanding gentleman and an inspirational leader to many.

Today we're going to talk about how we find mentors, a systematic approach to leveraging mentorship, and why mentorship is not about making rock stars, but making people better than they would have been without you.

I thought the show was really interesting. We did it in person here in Detroit.

And while I was there, he got calls from both of his brothers, both in prison, one in state, and one in federal, and a city councilwoman making sure he was ready for a celebrity basketball game.

So he really does have one foot in both worlds. Enjoy this one with Sean Blanchard. And with that, welcome to the Art of Charm.

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We may not have all the answers, but we definitely have all the right questions. All right, here's Sean Blanchard.

So even right before we start, you're getting a message from your oldest brother. That's in, is it federal prison?

Right, he's in federal prison.

And he's asking you to grab his car and he's asking you to move some stuff. So you're going to the University of Michigan.

You're already a little bit different than everybody. And you're growing up in this really kind of weird, unusual way that not a lot of people can maybe identify with.

Yeah, definitely.

How does that affect you? Because it seems like you got one foot in all this mess that you grew up in, and you've got another foot.

You're looking maybe looking forward in a different direction, but it seems like it would weigh you down.

Well, you know what? It's kind of like this a lot of times, even as we ask some questions here about growing up and different things of that nature.

What you realize is that, you know, when you're in a particular environment, you know, know anything else, it's just Tuesday.

It's just Tuesday, yeah.

Yeah.

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