In this YouTube monologue, Evan Carmichael answers a viewer’s question about launching a career in NLP, coaching, economics, and psychology. He emphasizes that the fastest route to success is to find a mentor who has already achieved the desired outcomes. Evan shares his own experience with a mentor named John who accelerated his biotech software business, illustrating how mentorship can shortcut years of trial‑and‑error. He advises the 17‑year‑old viewer—and any aspiring entrepreneur—to continue learning through books and videos, but to prioritize locating a proven coach, offering to work for free, and absorbing their processes, strategies, and mindset. The video concludes with a call for viewers to share their mentor experiences, like, and subscribe.
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Find a mentor. If you want to have success in whatever goal you have, you're trying to accomplish this big dream of yours, you want to get there, one of the fastest ways to do it is to find a mentor. Find somebody who's gone through it, who's done it already, who's achieved what you've achieved, who's figured out all the steps and who can guide you because they made all the mistakes. It may have taken them 20 years to get there, you could shortcut your path by that 20 years to 6 months. With the right mentor who can help give you the right direction. I got a great question from one of my YouTube viewers. Love you guys. Andy, who wrote in to say, hi Evan, my name is Andy. First, let me say that I love your videos. Thank you, Andy. They're great, and you are truly inspiring person. I'm 17 years old. Soon school will be over. After school, I want to start an NLP, neuro-linguistic programming, and coaching education. I want to study economics, psychology. Every day I'm spending time preparing myself for success. I read books, improve my skills. Get myself inspired by watching videos like yours. I think being an entrepreneur, for example, starting a coaching business, would be something that extremely fulfills me. My goal is not only to help people but to build something big, to make my life a masterpiece. I love this. I wanted to ask if there are any words of advice you could give me on the way. I really appreciate that. Greetings, Andy. Andy, I love your passion. I love your passion, and you're doing all the right things. You're reading the books, you're watching the videos, you're getting inspired, and you found something that you're passionate about. Which is amazing. Your next step, my best advice for you is go find a mentor, okay? Books are great, keep doing it. Keep watching the videos. If they're— if mine inspire you, great. Other people are talking about NLP, great. Keep learning. But if you want to shortcut your path to create the successful coaching practice, go find somebody who's already doing it, who you look up to, who you can learn from. When I had my first business, it was a software company. Biotech software, and what really helped my company take off was a guy named John, who was our mentor, who was my mentor. He helped line up deals. He helped me see where my business could go. He helped me negotiate. He helped teach me about how to run a company and to close deals. And, and I read all the books, and I learned from modeling success, and, and You know, YouTube wasn't a huge thing at that time, so I didn't have the videos to look at, but having his experience helped shortcut my path to success so dramatically. And if you want to start a coaching practice, you could try to figure it all out yourself. You could try to figure it out by reading books and by watching videos, and you might ask people like me questions on how to start it, and you might get some great answers. But the best help you're going to get is watching somebody who's done exactly what you want to do. Find whoever the best NLP coach is, hopefully somebody local in your area, and offer to work with them for free because you want an education, because the information they're going to give you in 3 months, 6 months, 1 year is more than, than you would get in 10 years of trying to do it yourself. Learn from the best. Offer to help out in whatever way you can. Get their vision, their guidance, their inspiration, the motivation. Learn how they started. Learn how they went from nothing to to having their first client, to building up this huge movement that they've created for themselves. Do that and you will shortcut your path. You're so young, you have the world ahead of you. I'm excited for the opportunities you're going to create for yourself and the changes you're going to make for this planet. Go find a mentor and believe. For those of you watching, I'd love to hear what you think. I'd love to hear if you found a mentor, if you're searching for a mentor. Leave it in the comments below. I'd love to hear from you. You like this video? Give it a thumbs up below. It makes me want to do more for you. And click on my face to subscribe to the channel, see more videos like this. Thank you so much. I'll see you soon.
