Why are so many mentors free?
Simple answer
Because they are nice people.
Extended answer
- They genuinely enjoy helping.
- They want to share their experiences and help others learn from them. Sharing their experiences, wins and failures can truly change the trajectory of someone else’s path.
- It keeps them on their toes. No better way to sharpen your skills than to teach someone else!
- Speaking with up and coming businesses is fun and exciting!
- Growth Mentors have a growth mindset and are looking to learn in each and every situation- including mentoring sessions.
- They want to build up reviews. They know they can add value and help people, so why should they be at the bottom of the list?!
- It looks great on a resume
- When people Google their name, their GM profile is at the top of the results with (hopefully) glowing reviews.
- Social proof to show that they know their stuff
We also wrote about this on the blog: why these mentors are free (we asked 35 of them), and five reasons mentors do it for free.
Get the answer straight from them
But seriously, it just seems to good to be true 🤔
When was the last time you were publicly praised for something? It's a damn good feeling for a mentor when a review comes in from a mentee saying how great (aka smart) they are.
Ego for sure plays a role in this topic. If you are reading this portion of this FAQ, you've taken the time to look into this so I'd suggest scrolling reviews on a few mentor's profiles and you will then understand why they do it.
We have a channel that pipes in realtime-reviews so all of the feedback is visible to all of the community and mentors- praise in front of your peers is a strong motivator for ambitious folks (which all of our mentors are).
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