Hey, welcome back to New day Northwest.
We've all been through a lot in the
past few years and it's caused a
lot of people to reconsider what
they're doing professionally.
Well, having a mentor can help with that,
but how do you build or create
a mentor relationship?
I got some advice from business
coach and author Jason Rees.
The the the pandemic has changed
the workplace radically right?
You can now zoom is now commonplace,
so we have a lot more
opportunities than we have before,
and one thing mentor mentors do is mentors
kind of help expand our understanding
of what we're capable of doing.
So when you talk to a mentor,
you may understand that you may have
access to a different field or a
different career or a different job
that in the past you may have not
had access to because you thought
you were geographically limited.
Now professional mentor
is that somebody you pay.
Sometimes there are professional
mentor groups, but a lot of times when
people think mentor they're like OK.
I need the person on the top,
but the simple thing to way to think about
it is a mentor is simply simply somebody
who's done something you want to do,
so you can have lots of
different types of mentors.
It probably is someone in your
circle or your work who is
better at something than you are,
so you can actually learn things
from a lot of people around you.
It doesn't have to be the person at
the top at the top of the mountain.
I love that I love that you.
Are you call yourself a performance coach?
So my question to you is what
is the difference between say a
performance coach and a mentor?
Well, that's a great question.
Mentors are typically experts in strategy,
and they've done something
like the mentee wants to do.
Coaches, on the other hand,
are like a performance coach.
My specialty is mindset and
I am the performance coach.
I help in business and also life.
So basically coaches help the
person evolve and along the
journey through their challenges
and obstacles where the mentor.
Shows them what possible and gives them tips.
I love that. I think that's a
great distinction, so let's say,
for example, I said, hey Jason,
I want to move my career in this direction.
I want to work for let's say,
aerospace, technology.
What do I do?
Is that something that you
could help me go towards?
Absolutely right? So if there's some
excitement towards aerospace, right?
Because we all have guidance, right?
You have social conditioning in your brain
that tells you what you think you should do.
And then you also have excitement directing
you in a direction of your own life.
And when you start to follow that.
That's when the magic starts
to go and what coaching does,
it helps you get clarity on
what you think you should do.
What you really want to do,
and how to get out of your own way.
I love that is so important right?
Getting out of our own way?
Yes. So how do we go about
finding first a mentor,
but then also a performance coach
that is a right fit for us?
Because I imagine it's got
to be very like a good. Fit
yeah and well for mentors number one.
I would number one just like
shift your expectations like I'm
going to find a mentor right?
And then just you most likely already know
one and you've probably somebody who's
and and maybe one of your coworkers has
done something similar in the past, right?
One of your friends. So really,
just start to look at the people around
you who are doing things you want to do.
Number one for mentor.
That's the simplest way.
You can also go to like if you're you
can go to networking groups or BNI or
Chamber of Commerce and things like that.
Especially for small business.
That's a great way to find
mentors to find a coach.
I would say go to a coaching
program that sounds interesting.
You could Google coaching,
you know, Jason Rees coaching does.
Coaching those other companies
that do coaching,
but I would encourage you to follow
what's exciting and interesting to you
because there's different types of coaching.
There's life coaches.
There's health coaches.
There's real estate coaches and that
direction really is going to work when
you decide it's going to work right.
Absolutely, I feel like though I
would be much more comfortable
like approaching a performance.
I was just saying help,
I need you coach versus asking
someone to be my mentor.
Like how do you go about that?
I've actually had mentors asking
never happened, it just was a
natural progression in my career.
But how do you take that active role in ask
for a mentor? Yeah, yeah,
it's I think it happens more
organically than most people think
because I found that people default
to like they want the person up here.
But there's mentors right here.
And the real thing is,
like mentors are typically people
at higher levels of success usually.
Now they're usually happy to help people
who want to climb the ladder themselves,
so all you really have to do
is be present, be honest,
be respectful and and show some some
gratitude for their time and expertise,
and they're usually will start giving back.
I love that it really is such
a wonderful thing, you know.
Until recently I never thought I thought
who would want me to be there mentally?
You know, because you don't
think of yourself as that,
but how important is it for us who
are in our professional affairs
and have been there for a while?
To step out and be a mentor.
Well, I think mentoring is a great way,
it's it's it's another.
It's another level of growth, right?
Because that long as you're climbing
the mountain of your success you.
You're a rookie and then you get
better and then you get season.
Then you're a veteran.
And when you get to the level of
being able to contribute back,
it's actually an opportunity to expand again.
Because when you take time as a mentor
to slow down and help somebody else,
you get to do some self reflection
and usually that causes more
growth and acceleration.
As your impact grows,
life rewards you more, right?
That's what I found.
Great advice. Be a mentor today.