A short YouTube monologue (by Mark Evans DM) advising listeners to clarify what they need from a mentor before hiring one and to maintain multiple mentors for different domains. The speaker emphasizes identifying the single biggest lever you need help with and gives examples of having separate mentors for finance, real estate, business growth, sales, M&A law, and tax.
I don't think you should ever hire a mentor until you know what you need a mentor at. I see too many people hiring the wrong mentors. They're not bad people. It's just you got to ask yourself, what am I looking for in a mentor? Am I looking for a relationship mentor? Am I looking for just a transactional mentor? Am I looking for a mentor to teach me a specific strategy or tactic in business? The truth is you should have multiple mentors. I have seven different mentors. I have financial mentors, real estate mentors, business growth mentors. I have business development sales mentors. I have M and A attorney mentors. I have tax advisor mentor. I mean, I have many different mentors that I'm paying every single week to or month to help me become better. You don't start off like that. But you gotta ask yourself, what's the number one lever I need help with today?
