14 min
Ep 340: How to Grow and Make Yourself Better The Leadership Stack Podcast
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Sean: One of the things that asked the most, especially in my live events or on my AMA's online, is how do I ask mentors for their time? How do I ask them to mentor me? When you mentioned investing in meaningful relationships, it's kind of like the same approach, right? Where you go to a person, just hit them up. What are your thoughts on that? How do you do it? Yeah.
Craig: Look, I'll share a quick story with your audience. It's probably the biggest lesson that changed my life. It's how I got my first mentor, and it happened through extreme gratitude and generosity. Now, what happened there? Like, a lot of people, do things with this "I'll do this for you if you do this for me," type of expectation and that can work. And I'm not against that. But what happened to me when I started off my business career, I was approached by a professional basketball team. They're on TV every week, and I said, Hey, would you be interested in sponsoring me? And again, business alchemy comes out of me. Then I said, Well, I don't really have the money to be a sponsor, but if you have a raffle, maybe I can give you 10-12 months' memberships, which were about fifteen hundred dollars each, and you can raffle and make fifteen thousand dollars. How would that go? And I would be extremely grateful.”
Craig: So what happened there was the time went on a lady comes in. She was a player's wife and she goes, "Oh, thank you for the twelve months membership. I'm going to give you basketball tickets to watch my husband play this week." And I put the eight basketball tickets in my drawer. Now, a week goes by and a young family comes into my gym, they love the gym and they're all signing up.
Craig: And I just pull the basketball tickets out and I give it to the family now that I didn't know who they were or anything. But what happened was this guy was a really, really highly successful businessman and he comes back into my gym on Monday and he says, "Craig, that was extremely generous of you. We've got a corporate box at the football. You know, the where you get 50000 people into the games to network with like twelve guests. You can be my guest this way." Now, this guy is not only a dear friend of mine, but he took me under his wing as a twenty-two-year-old. He taught me how to invest in property. He taught me how to, which is where I made my most money now. He taught me how to navigate finance through the global financial crisis. He's helped me when I've invested in private companies. For the last 20 years, he's been a constant go-to person for me. Now, if I didn't use those basketball tickets, who's to say that he would have ever invited me to his corporate box the next day.
Craig: The point is, sometimes to get your foot in the door, you nearly need to go over and above the call of duty to get in front of that person. And now last year, I interviewed people like Dr. John Demartini, Michael Lane, who's the founder of Success Resources, who's running events with Tony Robbins, the biggest business coach in the world Brad Childers with over a thousand franchises, you know, guys that were worth hundreds of millions of dollars.
Craig: Just one thing, too. Like, I read about this in my book as well, if you want to grow and evolve to be the best version of yourself, the thing that you need to do is continue to increase your human capital. And what I mean by that is to join groups with people that are doing something a bit better than you and they can help you rise up. But when you start rising up, one of the best things that you can do is reach down and help pull someone out.
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Sean: One of the things that asked the most, especially in my live events or on my AMA's online, is how do I ask mentors for their time? How do I ask them to mentor me? When you mentioned investing in meaningful relationships, it's kind of like the same approach, right? Where you go to a person, just hit them up. What are your thoughts on that? How do you do it? Yeah.
Craig: Look, I'll share a quick story with your audience. It's probably the biggest lesson that changed my life. It's how I got my first mentor, and it happened through extreme gratitude and generosity. Now, what happened there? Like, a lot of people, do things with this "I'll do this for you if you do this for me," type of expectation and that can work. And I'm not against that. But what happened to me when I started off my business career, I was approached by a professional basketball team. They're on TV every week, and I said, Hey, would you be interested in sponsoring me? And again, business alchemy comes out of me. Then I said, Well, I don't really have the money to be a sponsor, but if you have a raffle, maybe I can give you 10-12 months' memberships, which were about fifteen hundred dollars each, and you can raffle and make fifteen thousand dollars. How would that go? And I would be extremely grateful.”
Craig: So what happened there was the time went on a lady comes in. She was a player's wife and she goes, "Oh, thank you for the twelve months membership. I'm going to give you basketball tickets to watch my husband play this week." And I put the eight basketball tickets in my drawer. Now, a week goes by and a young family comes into my gym, they love the gym and they're all signing up.
Craig: And I just pull the basketball tickets out and I give it to the family now that I didn't know who they were or anything. But what happened was this guy was a really, really highly successful businessman and he comes back into my gym on Monday and he says, "Craig, that was extremely generous of you. We've got a corporate box at the football. You know, the where you get 50000 people into the games to network with like twelve guests. You can be my guest this way." Now, this guy is not only a dear friend of mine, but he took me under his wing as a twenty-two-year-old. He taught me how to invest in property. He taught me how to, which is where I made my most money now. He taught me how to navigate finance through the global financial crisis. He's helped me when I've invested in private companies. For the last 20 years, he's been a constant go-to person for me. Now, if I didn't use those basketball tickets, who's to say that he would have ever invited me to his corporate box the next day.
Craig: The point is, sometimes to get your foot in the door, you nearly need to go over and above the call of duty to get in front of that person. And now last year, I interviewed people like Dr. John Demartini, Michael Lane, who's the founder of Success Resources, who's running events with Tony Robbins, the biggest business coach in the world Brad Childers with over a thousand franchises, you know, guys that were worth hundreds of millions of dollars.
Craig: Just one thing, too. Like, I read about this in my book as well, if you want to grow and evolve to be the best version of yourself, the thing that you need to do is continue to increase your human capital. And what I mean by that is to join groups with people that are doing something a bit better than you and they can help you rise up. But when you start rising up, one of the best things that you can do is reach down and help pull someone out.
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14 min