April 11, 2024 • 24 mins
Have you ever questioned the impact a mentor can have on your path to success? Well, buckle up as Dr. Jason Wiggins, our Motivational Gen Z and Millennial Expert, joins me to unravel the threads of mentorship that weave through our personal and professional lives. In an engaging narrative, we explore the dual roles of being a mentor and a mentee, sharing stories that bring to light the profound effects these relationships have on our growth. From personal blunders to Shohei Ohtani's financial missteps, we dissect the nuances of seeking guidance with a critical eye. This episode is your roadmap to navigating advice and making choices that resonate with your values.
As we step into the limelight of the digital age, where actions are magnified and legacies are defined, Dr. Wiggins and I discuss the weight of our digital footprints. We examine how the essence of mentorship extends beyond counsel to embodying a life lived with intention, and how the decisions we make today can shape the stories told about us tomorrow. Workplace mentorship takes center stage as we propose strategies that align individual ambitions with team triumphs, transforming the very meaning of success. Tune in to a conversation that promises not only to enlighten but also to inspire you to craft a legacy worth leaving.
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
Hello friends, welcome to your Motivational Gen
Z and Millennial Expert Podcast.
I am your host, my name is DrJason Wiggins and thank you very
much for being here.
Well, let's get our heads rightand get started.
Today, I want to thankeverybody for your listenership
(00:21):
and I appreciate you very much,and if you'd like, feel free to
email me and leave me comments,you can email me at jason at
genzandmillennialexpertcom, andI'll provide you prompt feedback
, as we appreciate everythingthat you have to say and any
words of wisdom.
(00:41):
So thank you again very much.
Today, we're going to talk abouta cool topic that I think goes
unnoticed sometimes, but itmakes such an impact within our
personal and professional lives.
It's about mentorship.
Mentorship is a give and take.
(01:01):
We can either be mentors or wecan be mentees, or we can be
both, depending on who we areand who are mentoring and who
are being menteed by.
So the key fact is what ismentoring?
Mentoring is the ability toprovide feedback and organize
(01:24):
thoughts about how it's best todo something to others, where
you may have had experiences,you've experienced hardship,
you've had great things thathave happened to you, and you
can share these words of wisdomto others that either they
haven't experienced it yet, orthey're going through a rough
time in their life and reallyneed somebody to provide that
(01:50):
extra push, that extramotivation, and that's where not
only are you helping them butyou can feel good about making a
positive impact.
So that is why mentorship is soimportant.
But just like being a mentor,being a mentee is just as
(02:12):
important, because we can allbenefit from others' experience,
and that's like leadershipthat's in our jobs, that's in
our friendship.
Believe it or not, everybodyhas the ability to make a
studious listener, and thatmeans being a studious listener
(02:51):
when you're being mentored isnot necessarily believing
everything that is said.
Sometimes, taking it with agrain of salt is the best course
of action.
Now, if the individual istrusted at the highest, most
authority and you feel 100%confident, then you can go ahead
(03:13):
and take their feedback as lawand utilize it.
But what's important, if you'renot 100% sure, know, peel the
onion back when you're receivingthat mentorship and think about
is this the right thing to do?
Is this prevalent to me?
My life Is it work,professional or personal?
(03:38):
And yet then you take thatfeedback and go okay, this is
how I can utilize it to helpimpact my life in a positive way
, as we're talking aboutmentorships and mentees, I was a
mentee back when I was in highschool.
I was a young athlete, I wasplaying football and our coach
(04:02):
he had mentioned you know, maybeI might have missed verbatim of
exactly what he said, but hebasically mentioned if you want
to get bigger, stronger, eat raweggs and drink vegetable oil
You're laughing Vegetable oilthat'll clog your arteries.
Well, at 17, 18 years old, Ididn't know any difference.
(04:26):
So I started doing the raw eggs, but I also added drinking
straight Western oil out of abottle.
And for anybody that's everdone that, well, you probably
haven't done that.
Because I was listening tosomething that I thought was
true, but I didn't peel theonion back to really determine
(04:49):
myself is is this healthy for me?
So drinking western oil was nothealthy.
It can really make an impact onyour health and it was not a
smart move.
Why?
Because I know that thefootball coach had a good reason
why he was mentioning it and Ijust probably took him wrong at
(05:12):
what he said, and that is why,with the thoughts he had were
good.
But I have to peel the onionback sometimes to realize that,
ok, not everything thateverybody tells you is true, and
some of it may be greatfeedback, but at the same time,
it's very important to realizeokay, this is something that may
(05:38):
not seem quite right.
That's where you question it.
And that goes the same thing forfinancial aspect and all the
different aspects of life.
For example, let's talk about afigure right now
internationally Shohei Itani.
He had a translator that wasalso his best friend, providing
(06:01):
him advice, and he was actuallytaking money from his account.
His name was Ipay and he wasstealing money from Shohei Itani
, a famous baseball player,stealing from his account and
paying off gambling debts.
And, at the same time, shoheiItani may seem a little bit
(06:24):
naive because he didn't checkhis checking account, his
statements and, sure enough, atthe end there was about $16
million that was ciphered out ofShohei Itani's bank account.
Now, any normal individual wecannot relate to $16 million
being taken out of our accountbut if you're making $40 million
(06:47):
a year on endorsements and youhave handlers that may have a
real impact on what you're doing, they tell you things and you
believe them at verbatim, thenthat naivety could be something
that is a real issue.
Then that naivety could besomething that is a real issue,
while Shohei Natani is a victimof a theft, but he is also.
(07:11):
He's also, you know, he wasnaive to the fact, so therefore
he needs to take fullresponsibility for understanding
.
These are my finances, this iswhat I'm in control of, and
something like this should notever happen again.
Therefore, the moral of thestory is no matter who is
(07:35):
impacting your life, as a mentorand as a mentee, we need to
take that information and decideand decipher what is real, what
is not, and take that and useit for the better good of
wherever we're going to utilizethat information, and that is
(07:58):
why mentorship is so important.
Think about young boys, younggirls that are having a rough
life and so they havementorships from a Big Brothers
or Big Sisters type of program,and you would expect that those
individuals would have an impactthat was nothing but a good
(08:21):
impact, but not everybody hasthe best intentions when they
are mentoring, and that is why,just because it seems like
people are doing a good deed, itdoesn't always reflect on the
end result, and so, therefore,think about somebody in your
(08:42):
life that you would consider amentor, is it financially,
professionally, personally, afriend, a family member, whoever
it may be the family member,whoever it may be.
Think about the impact thatthey have had on your life.
Would you consider the impactgood?
(09:09):
Generally, most of us that havetrusted people in our life are
going to say, yes, this personhas made a great impact and I
feel very, very good about whatthey tell me Great.
We can only all be so lucky tohave key individuals in our life
that, ultimately, they wantwhat's best for us.
As Gen Z and millennials, wehave to realize that there is so
(09:35):
much information out there thatis available in order to
curtail our thoughts, tosideline our ideas, in order to
bring us the result that we want.
And that's why, as we take thatadvice and a grain of salt and
(09:56):
realize that the impact can besometimes immeasurable or
measurable, but the reality ofit is is, if we focus on the end
result, the end result of wherewe want to go, we don't have to
rely on somebody's 100%assurance that things are going
(10:21):
to be right.
It's where we have to take aleap of faith from our own
knowledge, our own expertise andinformation that has been
filtered from our mentors, inorder to provide that roadmap
for our future success in ourprofessional and personal life.
(10:47):
Think of sports in general.
Think of all the influence outthere.
There's a recent basketballplayer.
If you follow the NationalBasketball Association, he might
receive a lifetime ban frombasketball, where he makes
millions of dollars as a benchplayer that comes off the bench
(11:09):
and helps his team win games.
He placed prop bets on the teamthat he plays for and now he is
at risk of being permanentlybanned because of outside
influences.
I can only guess, without beingin the same room and
(11:31):
knowledgeable, that he's hadpoor influences on his life.
I don't know if he had familyfriends.
What he was trying to help out.
Whatever the case is, he bet ona game or games where he was
involved in the final outcomeand, as everybody knows, you
(11:53):
cannot have an impact on thespedding world when you're
playing in the same game.
Why?
Because it's cheating, it'staking the integrity out of the
game, and that's the thing inlife in general for people that
provide bad influence.
Think about Martha Stewart's inthe financial scandal for
(12:15):
stocks and insider trading.
The information, again, greed,outside information can play
such a pivotal role in theoutcome of what we do, and that
is why, again, I think it'simportant to surround ourselves
(12:38):
with good people who have ourbest interest at heart, that
realize that we have the abilityto succeed with the right
mentorship.
Gen Z and millennials are themost intelligent generations of
all the time.
Why?
Because we have moreinformation at the hands of the
(13:01):
fingertips knowing what's right,knowing what's wrong, having
that instant gratification, thatinstant information.
But that instant information canalso be a detriment.
Think of all the eyes oneverything that we do in our
life.
We have videos, we have cameras, we have everything that can
(13:22):
see all our moves, no matterwhere we are.
And that is scary, folks.
I can think of when I wasyounger and I did things that I
shouldn't have done.
Did I get caught?
No, but if we were in today'ssociety, I would have not only
been caught, but I would havehad a significant impact on my
(13:47):
life due to poor decisions.
Knowing you can be caught viacamera, via all the different
ways to view on the things thatwe do on a daily basis, it's
easy to get caught.
That's why we have to be somuch more aware of our
(14:09):
surroundings.
Our surroundings can dictateour future growth.
If we make one bad mistake, wesay one wrong thing on social
media, we do something that isquestionable.
Not only will it haunt us for ashort term, it will haunt us
for a lifetime, and that's why,as those who were born beyond
(14:36):
1980, as those who were bornbeyond 1980, you've been either
in the digital tech world allyour life, you've grown up in it
, or you've adopted it.
I mean, the reality is is it'sdifficult to grow up in a
society where every single stepyou take is being watched.
(14:59):
Now, does that seem a little bitparanoid?
It's not meant to be.
It's meant to protect.
It's meant to watch what you do, because if you don't watch
what you do, these things cantake a forever lasting impact on
what you do.
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That's why it's best, asmentors and mentees, to do the
right thing, sometimes thehardest thing to do.
Out there is the right thing.
But when you do the right thingand you do it to the best of
your ability and you'restraightforward with the
information and you say, okay,if you go this route, this is
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what's going to happen, if youdecide to go this route, then
this consequence or action couldhappen, and that is why it's
always best to know all yourinformation.
Know what deck of cards you'replaying with.
Have you ever heard that term,know what deck of cards you're
playing with, because whenyou're dealt cards, that's what
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you have.
When you're dealt instances inlife, that's what you have.
We can make or break our livesby the actions, actionables,
expectations or guidance that wehave.
We can make an impact that willbe forever lasting on our
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legacy as fathers, sons,co-workers, professional, and
that is why it's so important.
Sometimes the hardest thing todo in life is the thing that we
need to do because it's right,because it's the right thing to
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do Live your life like it's theright way to do it.
Why?
Because if you grow up tryingto take shortcuts, or
professionally you takeshortcuts, or personally you
take shortcuts these are notshortcuts.
Why?
Because for every singleshortcut that we encounter, it's
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just another way to dosomething wrong.
Sidetrack the right way.
Then you are going to be on theright track, personally and
professionally.
I always like to say we have onelife to live.
By cheating, by takingshortcuts, by not doing the
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right thing, by not being theright mentor, by not listening
to the things that we need to doin life to make the right
decisions, those are the things,those are the resources that we
need to pay attention to.
We need to pay attention to theright, relevant information
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that will impact your life,impact your success, impact what
resources that you utilize toperform at the highest level
within your life.
Living your life, living mylife.
The only one way we can do itit's doing things the right way,
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making those hard decisions,providing that great feedback to
others to help them succeed intheir life, to help push them to
the next level.
At the end, all we have is ourmental makeup and our legacy.
Body functions will go, healthwill go, people will pass away.
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All those things will happen ina lifetime and one day, as
morbid as it sounds, we won'twake up one day.
That's why you have to cherishevery single day of your life
and live it to the best of yourability.
Hold your loved ones close toyou, you know, make sure that
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you don't fight with others anddon't hold grudges.
Think about living your lifeand how would you live it on
your last day.
And that is how you become agreat mentor, a great mentee by
listening to others, sharingexperiences, collaborating,
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making others better around you.
For example, if you work withinan organization, the number one
goal that I like to share is dowhat makes your boss look good.
If you make your boss look good, he knows that you have his
priorities at your best taskability, meaning you will do
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what it takes to ensure that thetasks that are successful are
regarding making his job, makinghim look good overall, and that
is the goal of my job in everyday.
Well, people say wait a minute.
Isn't the goal to ensureprofitability, increase top line
(20:26):
growth, reduce expenses, buildteams?
Of course, but you're doing allthat when you put the first
goal at hand, and that is makingyour boss look good, and that
boss one day could be yourmentor.
He could be the one that takesyou from your current position
(20:49):
and promotes you.
It could be with that company.
He could move to a differentcompany.
You could get promoted there aswell.
Who knows company?
You can move to a differentcompany.
You can get promoted there aswell.
Who knows?
So many great things can happenwhen you have the right
mentorship, when you listen toit, when you take that feedback
and you utilize the aspects thatare important and that you deem
(21:09):
necessary for improvement, andthen you take that information
and you pass it along.
And then you take thatinformation and you pass it
along.
You help others and that's howwe become better individuals in
life.
As we like to mention in eachepisode, this is a motivating
episode and aspect of everythingwe do.
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As Gen Z and millennials, youhave the power to create success
by taking that information fromyour mentor and elevating
yourself, elevating your message, elevating your job duties.
Find ways to help yourorganization succeed.
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By doing that, you will makeyour boss look good, you will
look good and it will help youcreate an identity and a path
towards future success withineither your current organization
or another one, because,remember, either way, you are
learning and utilizing resourcesthat are going to be impactful
(22:18):
for you moving forward.
The things you learn today arethe same resources you're going
to use tomorrow in a new role,in a promotional role, and
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collaborating those messages andtaking those to others and
providing valuable feedback thatis helpful, that has the
person's interest, their bestinterest at heart, has the
person's interest, their bestinterest at heart, and then you
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will reap the rewards by one dayknowing that you helped move
somebody's message and or theiroverall experiences to other
next levels.
I've had great mentors.
I've had ones as I mentioned.
They were great, but you haveto peel the onion back to get
the right message.
As always, I want to thank mylisteners.
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You're amazing.
I appreciate you.
So, again, this is a weeklypodcast.
Sometimes we are not able toalways be on cue within our week
, due to life, due to work, butthis is my passion, this is my
hobby, this is what I love to do, so when I have the chance to
(23:44):
provide a meaningful messagethat can be impactful, that can
help you progress, because thispodcast is about motivating and
helping Gen Z and Millennialswithin the workplace and
personally.
So, thank you, take care andwe'll see you next time.
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Bye-bye.
Hello friends, welcome to your Motivational Gen
Z and Millennial Expert Podcast.
I am your host, my name is DrJason Wiggins and thank you very
much for being here.
Well, let's get our heads rightand get started.
Today, I want to thankeverybody for your listenership
(00:21):
and I appreciate you very much,and if you'd like, feel free to
email me and leave me comments,you can email me at jason at
genzandmillennialexpertcom, andI'll provide you prompt feedback
, as we appreciate everythingthat you have to say and any
words of wisdom.
(00:41):
So thank you again very much.
Today, we're going to talk abouta cool topic that I think goes
unnoticed sometimes, but itmakes such an impact within our
personal and professional lives.
It's about mentorship.
Mentorship is a give and take.
(01:01):
We can either be mentors or wecan be mentees, or we can be
both, depending on who we areand who are mentoring and who
are being menteed by.
So the key fact is what ismentoring?
Mentoring is the ability toprovide feedback and organize
(01:24):
thoughts about how it's best todo something to others, where
you may have had experiences,you've experienced hardship,
you've had great things thathave happened to you, and you
can share these words of wisdomto others that either they
haven't experienced it yet, orthey're going through a rough
time in their life and reallyneed somebody to provide that
(01:50):
extra push, that extramotivation, and that's where not
only are you helping them butyou can feel good about making a
positive impact.
So that is why mentorship is soimportant.
But just like being a mentor,being a mentee is just as
(02:12):
important, because we can allbenefit from others' experience,
and that's like leadershipthat's in our jobs, that's in
our friendship.
Believe it or not, everybodyhas the ability to make a
studious listener, and thatmeans being a studious listener
(02:51):
when you're being mentored isnot necessarily believing
everything that is said.
Sometimes, taking it with agrain of salt is the best course
of action.
Now, if the individual istrusted at the highest, most
authority and you feel 100%confident, then you can go ahead
(03:13):
and take their feedback as lawand utilize it.
But what's important, if you'renot 100% sure, know, peel the
onion back when you're receivingthat mentorship and think about
is this the right thing to do?
Is this prevalent to me?
My life Is it work,professional or personal?
(03:38):
And yet then you take thatfeedback and go okay, this is
how I can utilize it to helpimpact my life in a positive way
, as we're talking aboutmentorships and mentees, I was a
mentee back when I was in highschool.
I was a young athlete, I wasplaying football and our coach
(04:02):
he had mentioned you know, maybeI might have missed verbatim of
exactly what he said, but hebasically mentioned if you want
to get bigger, stronger, eat raweggs and drink vegetable oil
You're laughing Vegetable oilthat'll clog your arteries.
Well, at 17, 18 years old, Ididn't know any difference.
(04:26):
So I started doing the raw eggs, but I also added drinking
straight Western oil out of abottle.
And for anybody that's everdone that, well, you probably
haven't done that.
Because I was listening tosomething that I thought was
true, but I didn't peel theonion back to really determine
(04:49):
myself is is this healthy for me?
So drinking western oil was nothealthy.
It can really make an impact onyour health and it was not a
smart move.
Why?
Because I know that thefootball coach had a good reason
why he was mentioning it and Ijust probably took him wrong at
(05:12):
what he said, and that is why,with the thoughts he had were
good.
But I have to peel the onionback sometimes to realize that,
ok, not everything thateverybody tells you is true, and
some of it may be greatfeedback, but at the same time,
it's very important to realizeokay, this is something that may
(05:38):
not seem quite right.
That's where you question it.
And that goes the same thing forfinancial aspect and all the
different aspects of life.
For example, let's talk about afigure right now
internationally Shohei Itani.
He had a translator that wasalso his best friend, providing
(06:01):
him advice, and he was actuallytaking money from his account.
His name was Ipay and he wasstealing money from Shohei Itani
, a famous baseball player,stealing from his account and
paying off gambling debts.
And, at the same time, shoheiItani may seem a little bit
(06:24):
naive because he didn't checkhis checking account, his
statements and, sure enough, atthe end there was about $16
million that was ciphered out ofShohei Itani's bank account.
Now, any normal individual wecannot relate to $16 million
being taken out of our accountbut if you're making $40 million
(06:47):
a year on endorsements and youhave handlers that may have a
real impact on what you're doing, they tell you things and you
believe them at verbatim, thenthat naivety could be something
that is a real issue.
Then that naivety could besomething that is a real issue,
while Shohei Natani is a victimof a theft, but he is also.
(07:11):
He's also, you know, he wasnaive to the fact, so therefore
he needs to take fullresponsibility for understanding
.
These are my finances, this iswhat I'm in control of, and
something like this should notever happen again.
Therefore, the moral of thestory is no matter who is
(07:35):
impacting your life, as a mentorand as a mentee, we need to
take that information and decideand decipher what is real, what
is not, and take that and useit for the better good of
wherever we're going to utilizethat information, and that is
(07:58):
why mentorship is so important.
Think about young boys, younggirls that are having a rough
life and so they havementorships from a Big Brothers
or Big Sisters type of program,and you would expect that those
individuals would have an impactthat was nothing but a good
(08:21):
impact, but not everybody hasthe best intentions when they
are mentoring, and that is why,just because it seems like
people are doing a good deed, itdoesn't always reflect on the
end result, and so, therefore,think about somebody in your
(08:42):
life that you would consider amentor, is it financially,
professionally, personally, afriend, a family member, whoever
it may be the family member,whoever it may be.
Think about the impact thatthey have had on your life.
Would you consider the impactgood?
(09:09):
Generally, most of us that havetrusted people in our life are
going to say, yes, this personhas made a great impact and I
feel very, very good about whatthey tell me Great.
We can only all be so lucky tohave key individuals in our life
that, ultimately, they wantwhat's best for us.
As Gen Z and millennials, wehave to realize that there is so
(09:35):
much information out there thatis available in order to
curtail our thoughts, tosideline our ideas, in order to
bring us the result that we want.
And that's why, as we take thatadvice and a grain of salt and
(09:56):
realize that the impact can besometimes immeasurable or
measurable, but the reality ofit is is, if we focus on the end
result, the end result of wherewe want to go, we don't have to
rely on somebody's 100%assurance that things are going
(10:21):
to be right.
It's where we have to take aleap of faith from our own
knowledge, our own expertise andinformation that has been
filtered from our mentors, inorder to provide that roadmap
for our future success in ourprofessional and personal life.
(10:47):
Think of sports in general.
Think of all the influence outthere.
There's a recent basketballplayer.
If you follow the NationalBasketball Association, he might
receive a lifetime ban frombasketball, where he makes
millions of dollars as a benchplayer that comes off the bench
(11:09):
and helps his team win games.
He placed prop bets on the teamthat he plays for and now he is
at risk of being permanentlybanned because of outside
influences.
I can only guess, without beingin the same room and
(11:31):
knowledgeable, that he's hadpoor influences on his life.
I don't know if he had familyfriends.
What he was trying to help out.
Whatever the case is, he bet ona game or games where he was
involved in the final outcomeand, as everybody knows, you
(11:53):
cannot have an impact on thespedding world when you're
playing in the same game.
Why?
Because it's cheating, it'staking the integrity out of the
game, and that's the thing inlife in general for people that
provide bad influence.
Think about Martha Stewart's inthe financial scandal for
(12:15):
stocks and insider trading.
The information, again, greed,outside information can play
such a pivotal role in theoutcome of what we do, and that
is why, again, I think it'simportant to surround ourselves
(12:38):
with good people who have ourbest interest at heart, that
realize that we have the abilityto succeed with the right
mentorship.
Gen Z and millennials are themost intelligent generations of
all the time.
Why?
Because we have moreinformation at the hands of the
(13:01):
fingertips knowing what's right,knowing what's wrong, having
that instant gratification, thatinstant information.
But that instant information canalso be a detriment.
Think of all the eyes oneverything that we do in our
life.
We have videos, we have cameras, we have everything that can
(13:22):
see all our moves, no matterwhere we are.
And that is scary, folks.
I can think of when I wasyounger and I did things that I
shouldn't have done.
Did I get caught?
No, but if we were in today'ssociety, I would have not only
been caught, but I would havehad a significant impact on my
(13:47):
life due to poor decisions.
Knowing you can be caught viacamera, via all the different
ways to view on the things thatwe do on a daily basis, it's
easy to get caught.
That's why we have to be somuch more aware of our
(14:09):
surroundings.
Our surroundings can dictateour future growth.
If we make one bad mistake, wesay one wrong thing on social
media, we do something that isquestionable.
Not only will it haunt us for ashort term, it will haunt us
for a lifetime, and that's why,as those who were born beyond
(14:36):
1980, as those who were bornbeyond 1980, you've been either
in the digital tech world allyour life, you've grown up in it
, or you've adopted it.
I mean, the reality is is it'sdifficult to grow up in a
society where every single stepyou take is being watched.
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Now, does that seem a little bitparanoid?
It's not meant to be.
It's meant to protect.
It's meant to watch what you do, because if you don't watch
what you do, these things cantake a forever lasting impact on
what you do.
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That's why it's best, asmentors and mentees, to do the
right thing, sometimes thehardest thing to do.
Out there is the right thing.
But when you do the right thingand you do it to the best of
your ability and you'restraightforward with the
information and you say, okay,if you go this route, this is
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what's going to happen, if youdecide to go this route, then
this consequence or action couldhappen, and that is why it's
always best to know all yourinformation.
Know what deck of cards you'replaying with.
Have you ever heard that term,know what deck of cards you're
playing with, because whenyou're dealt cards, that's what
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you have.
When you're dealt instances inlife, that's what you have.
We can make or break our livesby the actions, actionables,
expectations or guidance that wehave.
We can make an impact that willbe forever lasting on our
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legacy as fathers, sons,co-workers, professional, and
that is why it's so important.
Sometimes the hardest thing todo in life is the thing that we
need to do because it's right,because it's the right thing to
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do Live your life like it's theright way to do it.
Why?
Because if you grow up tryingto take shortcuts, or
professionally you takeshortcuts, or personally you
take shortcuts these are notshortcuts.
Why?
Because for every singleshortcut that we encounter, it's
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just another way to dosomething wrong.
Sidetrack the right way.
Then you are going to be on theright track, personally and
professionally.
I always like to say we have onelife to live.
By cheating, by takingshortcuts, by not doing the
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right thing, by not being theright mentor, by not listening
to the things that we need to doin life to make the right
decisions, those are the things,those are the resources that we
need to pay attention to.
We need to pay attention to theright, relevant information
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that will impact your life,impact your success, impact what
resources that you utilize toperform at the highest level
within your life.
Living your life, living mylife.
The only one way we can do itit's doing things the right way,
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making those hard decisions,providing that great feedback to
others to help them succeed intheir life, to help push them to
the next level.
At the end, all we have is ourmental makeup and our legacy.
Body functions will go, healthwill go, people will pass away.
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All those things will happen ina lifetime and one day, as
morbid as it sounds, we won'twake up one day.
That's why you have to cherishevery single day of your life
and live it to the best of yourability.
Hold your loved ones close toyou, you know, make sure that
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you don't fight with others anddon't hold grudges.
Think about living your lifeand how would you live it on
your last day.
And that is how you become agreat mentor, a great mentee by
listening to others, sharingexperiences, collaborating,
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making others better around you.
For example, if you work withinan organization, the number one
goal that I like to share is dowhat makes your boss look good.
If you make your boss look good, he knows that you have his
priorities at your best taskability, meaning you will do
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what it takes to ensure that thetasks that are successful are
regarding making his job, makinghim look good overall, and that
is the goal of my job in everyday.
Well, people say wait a minute.
Isn't the goal to ensureprofitability, increase top line
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growth, reduce expenses, buildteams?
Of course, but you're doing allthat when you put the first
goal at hand, and that is makingyour boss look good, and that
boss one day could be yourmentor.
He could be the one that takesyou from your current position
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and promotes you.
It could be with that company.
He could move to a differentcompany.
You could get promoted there aswell.
Who knows company?
You can move to a differentcompany.
You can get promoted there aswell.
Who knows?
So many great things can happenwhen you have the right
mentorship, when you listen toit, when you take that feedback
and you utilize the aspects thatare important and that you deem
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necessary for improvement, andthen you take that information
and you pass it along.
And then you take thatinformation and you pass it
along.
You help others and that's howwe become better individuals in
life.
As we like to mention in eachepisode, this is a motivating
episode and aspect of everythingwe do.
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As Gen Z and millennials, youhave the power to create success
by taking that information fromyour mentor and elevating
yourself, elevating your message, elevating your job duties.
Find ways to help yourorganization succeed.
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By doing that, you will makeyour boss look good, you will
look good and it will help youcreate an identity and a path
towards future success withineither your current organization
or another one, because,remember, either way, you are
learning and utilizing resourcesthat are going to be impactful
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for you moving forward.
The things you learn today arethe same resources you're going
to use tomorrow in a new role,in a promotional role, and
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collaborating those messages andtaking those to others and
providing valuable feedback thatis helpful, that has the
person's interest, their bestinterest at heart, has the
person's interest, their bestinterest at heart, and then you
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will reap the rewards by one dayknowing that you helped move
somebody's message and or theiroverall experiences to other
next levels.
I've had great mentors.
I've had ones as I mentioned.
They were great, but you haveto peel the onion back to get
the right message.
As always, I want to thank mylisteners.
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You're amazing.
I appreciate you.
So, again, this is a weeklypodcast.
Sometimes we are not able toalways be on cue within our week
, due to life, due to work, butthis is my passion, this is my
hobby, this is what I love to do, so when I have the chance to
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provide a meaningful messagethat can be impactful, that can
help you progress, because thispodcast is about motivating and
helping Gen Z and Millennialswithin the workplace and
personally.
So, thank you, take care andwe'll see you next time.
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Bye-bye.
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