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- Yes.
- [Audience Member] A question for you.
It's actually close to what you started with today.
- Yes.
- [Dan] Was it helpful?
- [Audience members] Yes. - [Dan] Yes?
- So when looking for a mentor--
- [Dan] Yes.
- Let's say we take you out of the picture.
- [Dan] Yeah.
- All right, how do you know if they're
in this just to be a guru and sell you shit
or if they're actually are able to help you?
- Mm, you don't. You don't.
It's like how do you know let's say,
any single people in the room?
Okay, a couple people.
Now how do you know when you go
on a date that that's gonna be the one?
You just don't know but you would find out pretty quickly.
You would find out pretty quickly.
You look at their stuff, you connect with them.
Are they being helpful?
Are they actually helping you, right?
And you can see well you know, yeah, it is helpful
then you know you can continue the relationship.
The good thing about this type of relationship
versus a marriage, it doesn't work you can stop any time.
You can stop calling them,
you can stop asking them questions.
So I think it's not being afraid just to ask and say,
like just today it's interesting.
Today I just finished an interview with
a gentleman called Dale for my podcast,
just before I came here and he is a
very successful zero entrepreneur,
company doing about 50, 60 million dollars a year,
raised about a hundred million dollars, and
at the end of the interview I said
hey, you know, Dale can I ask you some stuff?
Can I hire you?
Can you be my mentor?
He said, "Well, you know, Dan I'm quite busy
but if you need help, yeah sure I'll be your mentor."
I just asked.
I said I'm more than happy to pay you.
I pay my mentors.
Don't feel like it's not so much that
your mentor doesn't need your money.
You understand that.
But paying them it's some skin in the game
and they know you're serious.
It's just like I have probably
now, 12, a dozen entrepreneurs.
They pay me a thousand bucks a month
for an hour of my time every month.
A thousand bucks an hour, you know.
I don't need the fucking money.
But if they pay the one thousand bucks,
I know that they are serious and
that they're gonna implement what I teach them.
That's fine, that's totally fine.
So I do that a little bit in my spare time but that's
what I mean, don't be afraid to invest in your mentor.
I buy my mentor gifts.
It's like my mentor, Dan Pena,
70th birthday I sent him a nice gift.
How can you expect your mentor to invest in the relationship
when you don't even spend the time
and effort in the relationship.
It makes no sense.
You want them to help you.
You want them to help you grow.
You want them to help you succeed.
But what have you done for them?
What have you shown? Nothing.
They don't need anything from you.
And I'm always very humble, very grateful.
All my mentors, I always thank them.
I appreciate what they have done because
it is because of what they have helped me to do.
So that's what I would say, don't be afraid.
You will know.
But all you can do is ask and do it, yeah.
Just like Dale, I was offering Dale,
I said Dale I'm more than happy to pay you this and that
and he said, "Yeah, sure."
He doesn't need my money.
I said whatever you want.
How much per hour or whatever arrangement you need.
I just say I'll be happy to pay for that
because he's doing something that I want to do.
He's playing a bigger game.
I'm in the tens of millions, he's the hundreds of millions.
I want to play that game.
We think alike, we share the same,
if you listen to the interview
you feel like it's coming from me.
That's how much we're alike.
I said this is a guy I wanna learn from.
Okay?
So we'll wrap it up, thank you very much.
- [Man] Thank you.
- Yeah, I'll stick around if you have any questions.
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