Episode 318: TMBA318: Mentors – The Good, the Bad and the Ugly
Tropical MBA: Entrepreneurship & Founder Lifestyle
Dan Andrews; Ian Schoen
4.9 • 527 Ratings
🗓️ 7 January 2016
⏱️ 37 minutes
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http://www.tropicalmba.com/mentor/ On today's episode Dan and Ian are going to explore the most powerful, and potentially toxic relationship in entrepreneurship; the relationship between a mentor and a mentee. We're doing so by speaking with Tim Conley, a Dynamite Circle member who has quite a bit of experience in these types of relationships. We'll be talking about how to seek out a mentor, what makes a successful mentor, and how these relationships evolve over time,
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| 0:00.0 | When I say mentor, what I mean is someone in the field that you want to excel at who has been there before, |
| 0:08.2 | they see promise in you and then they offer to help you. They see what you're doing and they see |
| 0:14.3 | that you have the kind of ambition. Maybe they see their younger self in you. |
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| 0:31.3 | globe seeking to grow better, more profitable, location independent businesses. |
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| 0:51.2 | I'm going to start this episode with a quote that I read on my seventh favorite website, |
| 0:56.7 | Facebook.com. It was written by Taylor Pearson, our friend, and the author of The End of Jobs. |
| 1:02.3 | He was talking about why I was moving to New York City. And here was his quote about it. He said, |
| 1:06.3 | My most successful life and career strategy, hands down to to date has been one, identify a geographic |
| 1:14.1 | place with a high density of cool people doing interesting things that I don't fully understand, |
| 1:20.0 | but feel like would open up new interesting possibilities for me. And two, move there. |
| 1:26.1 | Just like that. Just like that. And I think this is interesting. A lot of times when you read about success or talk about it, people say, well, there's a lot of things you could be doing. You could be exercising. You could be eating well. You could be identifying your top three and most important tasks of the next day, the night before you go to bed. You could be going to more networking meetings. You know what I mean? It's like there's kind of this top 10 list galore about all these things you could be doing. |
| 1:46.9 | But Taylor is saying, look, this one thing had the biggest impact. And I love his strategy. And today's |
| 1:53.0 | episode is about a similar, simple strategy. And it's just this. Find someone you want to be like |
| 1:59.3 | and go be of value to them. This is what we call |
| 2:02.4 | an entrepreneurial circles finding a mentor. And it's an extremely powerful strategy, but it's not so |
| 2:10.1 | easy to execute. Dan, this is a very complex relationship. And so we're going to talk about some of the |
| 2:15.6 | complexities of this kind of relationships. But already in your description of what we're going to talk about some of the complexities of this kind of relationships. |
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