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Speaker: Everyone dreams about living an uncommon life, but how we define that dream is very different for each of us. And for most, it's a lifelong pursuit. Welcome to the Uncommon Life Project podcast. We're going to introduce you to people who are living that life or enjoying the journey to get there. We're going to also give you some tools, tricks, and tips for starting or accelerating your own efforts to live an uncommon life.
Speaker: a life worth celebrating and savoring. Please welcome your hosts, Brian Dewhurst and Philip Ramsey. Welcome everybody to another episode of the Uncommon Life Project. I'm your host, Philip Ramsey. And I am Aaron Kramer. Hello and welcome. We got another simple step for you. We've been really enjoying doing these. These are quick, short bursts of something that you can do that are important to your own uncommon
Speaker: journey or your own financial journey or however you want to say that pursuing your passion. This one is really near and dear to me. It is mentorship. Powerful. Do you have a mentor in your life? So one, let's first define it. I think a mentor sees more, I would say
Speaker: something bigger than yourself sees more potential in you than you see in yourself and is willing to prove it to you. Yes. Invest the time, invest resources and help you prove to yourself that you have something bigger inside of you, have more potential than you ever thought possible that to be as a mentor in childhood.
Speaker: We know how important it is because what do we do? We always have coaches. We coach this, we coach that. Even your parents might even say like, hey, we're going to get a special specialist to help you with this. But as we get older and things start mattering more, it's like we don't even go to it at all. It's just like moving on. We got this.
Speaker: So I think there's the first thing is if you don't have a mentor in your life or if you ever have had a mentor, think about the growth that you've had in that specific place or time, and then see how powerful it can be now. Think about our problems that we have just on a day -to -day basis. To have somebody to walk through that with as a mentor to pour into you is priceless.
Speaker: So here's your application. If you don't have a mentor, get a mentor. Let's riff on it. Let's go. Aaron. Yeah. So I think mentors are amazing. I think mentors come in all sizes and forms, but like the biggest thing a mentor can do for you, like in the, this is where you need to be coachable, you know, like that's a good thing, but like they're there to call you out on your inauthentic behavior. Yeah. Like you think that you're like, you're like, I'm lined with my values. I had, this is what I'm doing.
Speaker: And I'm like, well, guess what, a mentor? And a mentor could be a friend, or it could be a coworker, but I call you, like, hey, I know that it's that you, like, you say you're doing this, but...
Speaker: you're failing here. All right. You're like, we all have blind spots. And so that not the truth. Yeah. So like having a mentor is a really good, like in my eyes as someone that's to see my blind spots. All right. That's good. Call me out on it. Right. And, and, and love me enough to like help me try to work through that. So here's something that I've always said. This is analogy. Everyone knows I love analogies, especially if you're a long time listener. I'm sorry. So
Speaker: It's like you are going to go walk up to the cutest girl in middle school and ask her to dance. And you have a huge booger in your nose or like coming out of your nose, right? And you come to your friend, you're like, listen, man, I'm going to go ask Susie to dance. And he doesn't tell you anything about your face and the booger. Oh, man.
Speaker: And you go up to Susie, rough ride, right? It's going to get ugly. Not only is it hard for this, but then you find out you have a booger. Like it's tragic. Okay. But a good mentor, a good friend is like, Hey, listen, I don't want to tell you this buddy, but you got a booger hanging out your nose. Like, yeah, I would rather be the one to tell you this than when it, when it matters most. And then, you know, like, or your zipper's down, whatever. Like it's not easy to have that conversation.
Speaker: But what I have found in my life, the people that I gravitate to most care enough about me to then tell me, hey, I have a booger hanging out your nose, or you have a booger hanging out your nose. Instead of telling you when it actually happens or past that. And you know that Johnny knew you had a booger going on. So there's a lot of questions. So for me, a mentor is exactly what you said. Hold you accountable and make sure that you're authentic to yourself. And when he sees that it isn't or she sees that you're not,
Speaker: calling you out in a loving way that says, I care enough about you to say this. Yeah. I love that. Yeah. We all need those people. We do. I have like a handful of them. Right. Like we're, I think we all do that with each other here at the, you know, at uncommon as a team because we love each other. It's like, call me out if I'm not doing something. Absolutely. But then like, I, I know it's fun when I became a professional and like in this business world,
Speaker: Like it really showed me like true friends because then they would would call me out. That's like right Hey, you said this but you're not doing it. It's like, oh my gosh I and I'm not gonna lie. There's times where I come home and I'm mad like absolutely mad for 48 hours not easy and I'm like, oh my gosh I'm going to the gym and then but I promise you what I would I do do I stand by is like I go back and say hey, man You're right. Thank you. Thank you, right?
Speaker: So you got to be humble and coachable to have a mentor. But I'm hopeful that this podcast will show you the power of it and will get you to draw an action item to go ask somebody to be your mentor. Yeah, go get somebody. See the power of it. And everybody loves helping people. There's nobody who's going to be like, no, I don't want to do that. They might ask you like, hey, what does this look like for you? I want to meet daily. Somebody might be like, I just don't have the time. But hopefully that's it.
Speaker: So, you've been listening to the Uncommon Life Project. I've been your host, Phillip Ramsey. And I'm Aaron Kremler. Thanks for tuning in. Until next time, go be in common. That's all for this episode of the Uncommon Life Project, brought to you by Uncommon Wealth Partners. Be sure to visit uncommonwealth .com to learn more about our services. Don't miss an episode as we introduce you to inspiring people who are actively pursuing an uncommon life.
