Mentoring: Reaching Your God-Given Potential, Part 1
Dr. James Dobson's Family Talk
Dr. James Dobson
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🗓️ 26 January 2026
⏱️ 26 minutes
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Summary
On today’s edition of Family Talk, Dr. James Dobson sits down with Bobb Biehl for a classic conversation about the life-changing power of mentoring relationships.
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome everyone to Family Talk. It's a ministry of the James Dobson Family Institute, supported by listeners just like you. |
| 0:08.1 | I'm Dr. James Dobson, and I'm thrilled that you've joined us. |
| 0:18.7 | Well, welcome to Family Talk. I'm Roger Marsh. Have you ever wished someone would come |
| 0:23.6 | alongside you, someone who truly believes in your potential and wants to help you succeed? Or maybe |
| 0:29.3 | you're on the other side of that equation, hoping to pour your wisdom and experience into someone |
| 0:34.0 | younger. Well, on today's edition of Dr. James Dobson's family talk, we're bringing |
| 0:38.7 | you a classic conversation from our archives about the life-changing practice of mentoring. |
| 0:44.3 | Our guest is Bob Beale, founder of Master Planning Group International. For nearly five decades, |
| 0:49.9 | Bob has consulted with over 500 senior executives and invested an estimated 50,000 hours in one-on-one |
| 0:56.9 | mentoring sessions. His book, Mentoring, How to Find a Mentor and How to Become One, |
| 1:02.1 | has helped countless people experience the power of these transformative relationships. |
| 1:06.9 | In this timeless conversation, Dr. James Dobson and Bob Beale explore what mentoring really is, |
| 1:13.1 | why it matters, and how you can either find a mentor or become one. Here now is Dr. Dobson. |
| 1:23.2 | Bob Beale is with us today. Bob has been here a number of times before. He has written a book on mentoring. |
| 1:30.4 | In fact, the title of it is mentoring how to find a mentor and how to become one. |
| 1:35.8 | And Bob came here and we did a program with him on the original version of this. |
| 1:42.3 | Bob, it has now been expanded and brought up to date, |
| 1:48.3 | and you've got it in its fourth printing. It's in its fourth printing. And when I first |
| 1:54.1 | started writing on mentoring in 92, I was the only one I think that seemed to me that was interested. |
| 2:00.5 | Howie Hendricks and I were writing on it some. |
| 2:03.0 | But today it seems like everyone is interested in it because it's a topic who has come of life, come of season. |
| 2:09.7 | And people have watched people like Eddie Harwood and Jim Dobson relating over the years and seeing the impact that has and saying what an incredible |
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