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Maya Brennan

Founder · B2B SaaS

30 min

From the booking form

"Tripled the ad budget, got 1.5x the customers. Why?"

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Why mentors keep showing up

Morgan SchofieldHead of Growth · Akord

"The quality of your life is the quality of your questions. Most of mentorship isn't telling people what to do, it's asking the right one."

Peter Murphy LewisFractional CMO · Strategic Pete Consulting

"I came in as a mentee, skilled up fast, then told the founder I wanted to pay back everything I got. Mentoring is how I do that."

Nicolas MoulinEmail Marketer · Seven to One

"Even though I'm the mentor, I walk away with ideas of my own. It's a genuine exchange, never a one-way thing, and a win for both of us."

Tim CakirFounder & Chief AI Officer · AI Operator

"The second someone realizes what AI can really do, I see the light bulb go on, their eyes start shining, and it gives me so much hope."

Jacob BrainAgency Operator & Advisor · Self-Employed

"I get as much as I give. Talking with people who just started gives me this fresh perspective, novel ideas I can carry back into a bigger agency."

Dimitris FarmakisFounder & Principal Consultant · Self-Employed

"I didn't have that level of support when I was ramping up, so I had to learn the hard way. For me, mentoring is literally about giving back."

Vas DaskalakisStartup Builder & Advisor · Africa.ai

"A mentor I met by chance is the entire reason I became a founder. Getting to be on the giving end of that now is a real privilege."

Will SopranoProduct, SEO & Content Consultant

"What I love most is hearing people's ideas. I get to be a sounding board for someone in the thick of it, then add value and walk away."

Kosta PanagouliasBootstrapped 2x SaaS Founder · Jobtable

"Speaking to founders in the grindstone puts me right back to starting out. If you've got experience to share, it's a shame to keep it bottled in."

Mariana RacasanProduct Marketing Consultant

"The calls I love are where a founder just wants to know if they're doing okay. I've been in their shoes, so I get to sit in it with them."

Michael TaylorPrompt Engineer & Growth Marketer · Vexpower

"People treat mentorship like charity. I don't. It's selfish: you get just as much out of these calls as the mentee, and it has to go both ways."

Tina LouiseFractional CMO

"After twenty years of people helping me, I wanted to give back. The reward is spotting in minutes the thing a founder has sat next to for years."

John KilmerFounder, ValiCor US & Emotional Intelligence Expert · ValiCor US

"GrowthMentor is where I give my time, my skills, even my failures, so someone gets an edge and might not walk the same hard path I did."

Ammarah AhmedFounder & Lead Strategist · Precision Consulting

"I had more fun on these calls than at my day job, so I booked the mentors who'd built consultancies and used everything they told me to build mine."

62,000+

Sessions completed

~5%

Of applicants make it in

4.8/5

Average session rating

Flexible scheduling

Set your hours, cap your weekly load, sync to your calendar, and pause with one toggle. The platform handles the rest.

Meet new people

A 3,000-person community of operators you'd never have crossed paths with.

Stay sharp

Talk to operators across industries every week and see what's actually working in growth right now.

The mentor high

Walk off a call remembering how much you actually know, and the mentee feedback to prove it.

What this is

A quick word on what GrowthMentor actually is

We're a community of vetted practitioners who take 1:1 video calls with founders, marketers, and product folks. No retainers. No long engagements. No "let's hop on a quick call" turning into a six-month commitment.

Members pay a flat monthly fee for unlimited access. Mentors set their availability and accept the calls they want. We've been doing it since 2018. 62,000+ sessions and counting.

The mentees come from everywhere. Solo founders who built something and don't know what to do next. First marketing hires panicking about Meta. Fractionals sanity-checking a client account. PMs three weeks out from a new role. They book a 30-minute call, you show up, you help them think.

You bring the experience.
We bring the people who need it.

The time question

About time. Let's be honest.

The #1 thing people worry about before signing up is that mentoring will eat their calendar. The #2 thing they worry about is the opposite, that they'll feel guilty for not giving enough.

Both worries are real. Both go away pretty quickly once you actually start.

There's no call requirement. None. You're not committing to a number of calls per week, per month, or per quarter. You can do four calls in a week, then zero for the next two months, then come back in March because you've got time again. Nobody's tracking you. Nobody's going to send you a passive-aggressive "we miss you" email. You come and go as you want.

It works because the platform is designed for people with real jobs and real lives. You set your availability. The calendar sync hides you when you're busy. There's a one-toggle "I'm out" switch for vacations, launches, parental leave, or just bad weeks. You can cap how many calls you'll take in a week so you're not buried. You can change all of it whenever, no notice required.

If a week comes when you can't do it, you can't do it. That's fine. The mentees who needed help that week will book someone else. The platform's got 750+ people on it for a reason.

Show up when you want. Don't show up when you don't. That's the whole deal.

Settings · Availability

"I'm out" switch

Profile hidden until you flip it back

Weekly call cap

So a busy week can't bury you

2 / week

Calendar sync

Anything marked busy auto-blocks

Connected

Change any of it whenever. No notice required.

The reviews

What happens after you start

Most mentors come in thinking the same thing: I want to give back. And that part's real. The reviews you'll start getting are the kind of thing you'd screenshot and save for a bad day.

62,000+ sessions booked, 4.8 out of 5 average.

vanessa kosasih
6 Sep 2021
Dani is definitely the sweetest, loveliest mentor out there! She has a special knack for providing guidance in a very kind and comforting manner! My session with her was for developing a growth mindset, and I dare to say that the things she shared and taught me ended up a game-changer after just my first session. If you are willing to do the work and listen to her, I believe you too can start seeing changes in your life. The most crucial impact she has had on me is probably the ability to believe in myself more especially when faced with tough circumstances. When we had our first call, it just so happened that an unfortunate event occured a day prior which left me very shaken and almost diminished my self-confidence. After my call with her, I was energized and rebounded from the whole incident pretty quickly!
Manu Jeffrey
22 Sep 2025
The session was really practical and exactly what I needed at this stage. The mentor helped clarify how to identify and approach the right clients and shared concrete tips and scripts for effective cold calling. What I found most valuable was the focus on improving conversion from first call to demo with very actionable techniques I can start using right away. I left with more confidence, a clear structure for my outreach, and specific next steps to refine our sales process. On top of that, I also gained a clearer idea of how to set the right tone during calls, how to follow up effectively, and which potential clients I should focus on.
Janet Lee
16 Jun 2026
Farzad took a different approach than most and really dug into the mindset and personal side of running a business, not just the tactics. He asked great questions and helped me connect some dots I hadn't thought about before. Felt genuinely heard and understood. Walked away with a lot to think about and some real clarity on what to prioritize next. Would definitely recommend and book again!

The reviews stack up on your profile over time. They're public. They're searchable. Your name on Google increasingly leads people to that page. It becomes one of those long-term assets you didn't plan for.

We also fly mentors to Greece once they hit 100 reviews. It's called Midas rank. We're not making it up.

The mentor high

The mentor high is a real thing

We didn't make this up. Our mentors did.

You get off a call and you're buzzing. You used your brain in a way you haven't all week. You remembered things you'd forgotten you knew. You watched someone go from stuck to clear in 30 minutes, and you were the reason.

It sounds small until you've felt it. And then you want it again.

The community

You'll meet people you wouldn't have met otherwise

This is the one that surprises people. They join to mentor mentees, and end up valuing the other mentors more.

You'll be in a Slack community with 3,000+ growth, product, and marketing folks. The mentors-only channel is its own thing: peer-level conversations, hard questions, shared playbooks, the occasional rant about a client. You can also book calls with OTHER mentors as a mentee. That part is free with your mentor status, and it's one of the most-used features on the platform.

The friendships people make here are weirdly real. We host meetups in New York, Singapore, Sydney, London, San Francisco, Barcelona, and a handful of other cities. People fly in for them. They've become a thing.

Members smiling at the Corktown Taphouse meetup

Four members smiling with name tags at a meetup

A group selfie at an outdoor GrowthMentor meetup

Members in GrowthMentor t-shirts at a Greek taverna dinner

Members raising a glass on a Singapore rooftop

Members smiling at a candlelit pub dinner

Staying sharp

You'll see what's actually happening in growth right now

If you've been at one company or in one consulting niche for a while, you've probably noticed your view of the market getting narrower. You see what your clients see, or what your team sees, and that's it.

Mentoring fixes that fast.

In any given week, you might talk to

A solo founder vibe-coding her way into a niche B2B tool.
A CMO inheriting a six-figure ad budget at a Series B.
A fractional pricing her first retainer.

The session topics rotate weekly. Last month it was a lot of GTM and ICP work. Six months ago it was AI tooling. Whatever's hot in the world lands in your inbox.

It keeps you sharp in a way that's hard to replicate. One mentor described it as "mental gymnastics." Another called it "business therapy." You stop seeing your industry as your industry and start seeing patterns across all of them.

The long game

You might meet the next person you build something with

This one we don't promise, but it happens enough that it's worth mentioning.

People meet on a session, click, stay in touch. Sometimes the mentee hires the mentor. Sometimes they collaborate on something later. We've had mentors find their next co-founder on the platform. We've had freelance gigs, full-time roles, advisory positions, and entire businesses come out of conversations that started as 30-minute calls.

We don't take a cut of anything that happens after a session. If you end up working with someone, that's between you. We just like hearing about it — and sometimes we get it on the record.

A mentor and his mentee became co-founders
Harri Thomas & Vito Margiotta · Co-founders of Elephants, met on GrowthMentor
Passing the Torch · Ep. 5 · Watch on YouTube

A mentor built a six-figure business with his mentee
Etan Efrati & Jack Zerby · Co-founders of Design for Decks, met on GrowthMentor
Passing the Torch · Ep. 1 · Watch on YouTube

A founder hired his mentor after one call
Morgan Schofield · Helped a founder on a call, became his marketing director
Passing the Torch · Ep. 6 · Watch on YouTube

Who gets in

The kind of people we're looking for

Honestly? People we'd want to grab coffee with. The vetting process is rigorous on the experience side (5+ years in your area, real receipts, the kind of work history that holds up), but the call with Jessica matters just as much. Maybe more.

The community has a specific feel to it. Warm. Generous. Smart-people-talking-to-smart-people, with the egos checked at the door. We've protected that vibe carefully since 2018, and the only way to keep it is to actually meet every person before they get in.

Fewer than 5% of applicants make it through. That's not gatekeeping. It's how the room stays this good.

So beyond the resume stuff, the mentors who do well here tend to be:

The kind of person who listens before they answer
Comfortable saying "I don't know" or "here's what I'd try"
Genuinely curious about other people's problems
Doesn't need to be the smartest one in the room
Reads the room (some mentees want hard pushback, others need a softer landing)
Generous by default

If you've ever been in a conversation where you helped someone untangle something and walked away energized instead of drained, you already know what we mean.

Here's how it works.

It's three steps.

Application 1/4

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Fill in the application form.

Takes less than 5 minutes. The form asks about your background and what you'd want to mentor on. This is the technical side: we're checking that the experience is real, the work checks out, and there's a fit between what you know and what mentees on the platform are asking for.

Intro call · 20–30 min

Jessica - Co-Founder & COO

A call with Jessica.

20-30 minutes. This is the co-founder. This is the softer side. We've been doing one-on-one calls with every single mentor since 2018, and we have no plans to stop.

We want to know why you're applying, what you're hoping to get out of it, and whether the vibe lines up. Most of these calls feel less like an interview and more like a getting-to-know-you chat.

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Build your profile and go live.

If both of those go well, you set up your profile, list your availability, and the platform starts routing matched mentees your way. You accept the calls you want. You decline the ones that aren't a fit. That's it.

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FAQ

What people ask before they apply.

Yes. No minimums, no contracts, no quotas. Mentees request calls, they land in your inbox, and you take the ones you want when you want them. Calls tend to be one or two a week at most, usually 30 minutes. Your calendar stays yours.

Absolutely. Pause or hide your profile any time with one click, and switch it back on whenever you're ready. Plenty of mentors go quiet for a few weeks and pick right back up. Totally normal.

Every request comes to your inbox and you decide: accept, decline, or suggest a different time. You're only ever saying yes to the conversations that interest you.

Yes. You pick your topics, and mentees get matched to you based on what you actually do (through search filters and AI matching). So the requests that reach you are already in your wheelhouse.

Mentees are paying community members, so they've got skin in the game. They're serious, they show up, and they come with real questions. The mix is roughly half founders at all stages, a third marketers, and the rest product managers, UX designers, and other growth folks. Go-to-market is the most requested topic right now.

Yes, and it's one of the perks. Your mentor membership is free and includes full member access, so you can book calls as a mentee whenever you want. Nice way to see both sides and keep learning yourself.

Sometimes, yes. There's a no-pitching rule, so you can't offer your services unprompted (keeps the calls genuine). But if a mentee brings it up and wants to hire you or work together longer term, that's completely fair game. Honestly, it happens more than you'd expect.

Most mentors give their time for free, and that give-first spirit is pretty much the whole culture here (95% of calls booked across the platform are free). Once you've got 3 reviews you can set a rate, up to $99 an hour, and up to $200 after 10 reviews. Whether you ever charge is entirely up to you. Learn more about give-first

One last thing

If you've been doing this work long enough that you've forgotten how much you actually know, mentoring is the cure.

If the vibe sounds right, apply.

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