053: Shortcut to success – Mentorship!

This episode we explore mentorships. We dive into why we would need them, how to identify how they can best help us and where to find them. Inside the lab we talk more about scripts to reach out to mentors and also how to get a virtual mentor of anyone on the planet that you’d like to be mentored by. Learn more instead the lab at www.livebiglab.com Join our free facebook group atwww.TheArtofLivingBig.com music by ben sound. com Transcription Hi I’m Betsy Pake, I’m a reinvention strategist, an NLP coach, author and speaker, but really, I feel like I just worked with people all over the country to help them be happier and to help them have a little bit more ease in their life. Today I hope to do the same for you. Thanks for listening, now let’s go live big. Hey everybody! Welcome to the show. I want to talk with you today about a shortcut to success. Now, I know you’re probably thinking like, ‘‘Betsy there are no shortcuts to success’’ and, although I agree with you, I will say that success lives close. You’ve probably heard that before. But, it does! People that have been successful know the path and there is a proven way to have things happen, and if you can find somebody that can show you that path, then your odds of success go up, as well as the timeframe can actually become shorter because you have somebody guiding you. Now, mentorship is what we’re going to talk about today. And so you’ve probably heard about having a mentor before, but I’m going to bet that you haven’t ever acted on it. Like you’ve heard the benefits of having a mentor or you thought like ‘‘I really need a mentor’’ or ‘‘it would be nice to have somebody help me’’. But you’ve never taken the steps to actually actively go out and try to find somebody to help you. And so, in this episode here we’re going to talk about mentors and what they really do. We’re going to talk about how they decide if you even really need one and what you need one before. I’m going to tell you how to find them, what to say when you’re trying to get them to mentor you and, inside the lab I’m going to provide you some sample emails and just some scripts of how to go about this as well as a trick of something that I have used to get some of the most incredible mentors on the planet. I know that’s pretty big right? But I’m going to talk to you more about virtual mentors, inside the lab it’s a really incredible process that I have used to dive deep and get inside somebody’s head that is someone I have watched from a far. Somebody that’s in the public eye and I thought ‘’If I could just sit down with them, how incredible this would be?’’ and so I’m going to go into that process inside the lab. So, if you want to join us in the lab you can go to www.livebiglab.com or you can just text ‘‘LIVEBIG’’ (one word) to 444-999. Okay? Alright, so let’s get into it. So, what are mentors actually do? Right, so you’ve probably heard of mentors, what do they actually do? There’s a really good quote by John Crosby and it says mentors are a brain to pick, and ear to listen, and a push in the right direction. And I really love that because it really is somebody that they even go to, that you can rely on, that as you’re working through, whatever it is let’s say you’ve got a business you’re trying to build and you find someone that has built a business, and you’re able to go to them and say ‘‘have you experienced this?’’, or ‘‘this thing is happening to me and I’m just really struggling’’ and chances are they have seen it or felt that same thing and they can give you some really great feedback based on experience. So, mentors can be critical to your success and just to close the gap between where you are right now and where you want to go. Now, some really amazing people that you’ve probably looked up to have use mentors and talked about mentorship. I mean,