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🗓️ 18 November 2025
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In this "Lessons" episode, Scott Miller, 6x bestselling author, breaks down the true essence of mentorship and why the best mentors lead with humility, openness, and lived experience. He explores how real guidance comes from sharing failures as honestly as successes, why clear intent and boundaries make mentor-mentee relationships stronger, and how wisdom—not authority—creates meaningful growth. Miller also highlights the importance of seeking different mentors for different areas of life, using their perspectives to reveal blind spots, expand thinking, and accelerate your personal and professional development.
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| 0:00.0 | How's the business going? |
| 0:01.1 | We're busier than ever, but struggling to get the staff we need. Recruiting can be such a distraction. We gave Job Centre Plus a try, and they've really helped us out. Really? Yeah. It was dead easy. We got our own employer advisor, Julie, who helped advertise our jobs, shortlisted candidates for us and letters interview at the Job Centre. We've hired some great people, and Job Centre Plus really took the hassle out of it, And there was no fee. |
| 0:23.0 | Brilliant. That's straight on my to-do list. you at the job center. We've hired some great people and Job Center Plus really took the hassle |
| 0:21.1 | out of it and there was no fee. Brilliant. That's straight on my to-do list. Find out more at |
| 0:25.9 | business.gov.com.uk slash recruit. Eligibility criteria apply. In this lessons episode, explore |
| 0:31.9 | the real purpose of mentorship and why meaningful guidance stems from wisdom rather than authority. |
| 0:37.0 | Discover how great mentors share failures as openly as successes. |
| 0:40.6 | Understand how clear intent and healthy boundaries strengthen learning relationships |
| 0:44.0 | and uncover how seeking diverse mentors across life domains |
| 0:47.3 | reveals blind spots and accelerates growth. |
| 1:02.7 | I'm excited to break down some of the things that you've learned that you transpose into this into this book. |
| 1:03.7 | Mentors. |
| 1:04.7 | Mentors, people always speak about mentors, mentorship, why it's so important. |
| 1:09.4 | What is a mentor? Well, a mentor is different things |
| 1:13.5 | with different people. Sometimes it's formal. Like, will you be my mentor? Will you mentor me on this |
| 1:19.1 | Six Sigma process? Sometimes it's informal. It's someone that's just, you know, friended up. They've |
| 1:24.8 | friended someone who is more accomplished, wiser, smarter. But I think a mentor is |
| 1:29.6 | someone who is abundant, who has wisdom to share with someone else. Not an ego to try to turn them |
| 1:37.8 | into a mini version of you, but someone who has an abundance mentality that wants to share not just their successes, |
| 1:45.3 | but their failures and messes. |
| 1:47.1 | I don't know about you, but I learned more about having a successful marriage from those who are divorced. |
| 1:51.9 | I learn more as an entrepreneur growing my business from those who've had bankruptcies |
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