ITL149: The Difference Between Coaching and Mentoring
In the Loop with Andy Andrews
Matt Lempert
4.9 • 614 Ratings
🗓️ 6 September 2014
⏱️ 17 minutes
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Summary
On this week’s episode, I address a listener question on the distinction between coaching and mentoring.
The question we received is, “What are the differences between coaching and mentoring, and does the distinction really matter?”
- I think the distinction does matter, at least financially.
- Mentoring is less in your face, and it’s a little more guidance oriented.
- When a specific relationship is outlined and you have a detailed goal, you are getting into the coaching area.
I’ve been mentored by people that don’t know it and people who are already dead.
- George Washington Carver and Joshua Chamberlain have been mentors for me — people who have been written about or have a large volume of work that I can follow.
- The length of time is a defining feature. I could coach you for 15 minutes, but mentoring is an ongoing process.
A buddy of mine a few years ago told me that his mom left him some money, and he was thinking about hiring a person he knows as a financial planner.
- I asked how much money the financial planner made, and he said it was a lot like himself.
- Wouldn’t you want someone with a higher level of financial success to guide the results you are after?
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Transcript
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| 0:00.0 | You're listening to In the Loop, a unique opportunity to see life from a different perspective |
| 0:06.5 | with New York Times bestselling author, Andy Andrews. Now here's your host, David Loy. |
| 0:13.0 | Hi and welcome to In the Loop with Andy Andrews. I'm your host, David Loy, and I am lucky enough |
| 0:18.8 | to be sitting across the table today. David Lloyd from Andy Andrews. |
| 0:23.4 | Andy, you get to look at my face today. Yes, I do. Oh my gosh. Normally you're just staring at a |
| 0:29.7 | screen. We're both staring at screens. I love doing this though when I am actually here in Nashville. |
| 0:36.3 | Yes. And we love having. Franklin, wherever we are. Franklin, yes. To me, it's Nashville. It's basically all the same. Yeah. Right. That's why I say I'm from Dallas. Tennessee, it's all, yeah, it's all Nashville. Dallas, it's Nashville. Oh, that's, I was, I always say I was born in Dallas, but I grew up north of Dallas, |
| 0:56.9 | but everybody from Dallas says, I'm from Dallas. |
| 0:59.9 | That's not the same. |
| 1:01.0 | Not the people in Fort Worth. |
| 1:02.8 | Well, that's true. |
| 1:03.6 | Boy, they don't. |
| 1:04.8 | You can say to those people, so, do you like living in Dallas? |
| 1:09.2 | I don't live in Dallas. |
| 1:10.4 | I live in Fort Worth. |
| 1:12.1 | It's like, okay, I'm sorry. |
| 1:15.1 | Is that the same in Orange Beach? |
| 1:17.2 | Oh, yeah, it is. |
| 1:18.1 | I do the same thing. |
| 1:19.3 | Because I'll say, I live right on the Florida, Alabama line, far south as you can go. |
| 1:24.7 | And they go, oh, you live in Gulf Shores. |
| 1:26.3 | No, I live in Orange Beach. |
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