Mentors can change your life if you know how to create and leverage mentorship experiences like entrepreneur Danielle Pierce learned to do over the years.

When Danielle got started things seemed really challenging because she had to wear all of the hats in her company; the graphic designer, the accountant the attorney and everything else. The missing piece is that you can accelerate your results significantly faster the minute you release control and stop trying to be “manager of the universe”. She spent 11 years trying to do everything herself and only realized that piece of advice during the last two years or so. Now she welcomes outside advice and collaborating with other people. Now her business life is fun and exciting as opposed to being just another job that needs to be done.

Get Uncomfortable and Take Action!

A great mentoring relationship isn’t the most comfortable relationship because it can push you in directions that you don’t want to be pushed in and create new experiences that you didn’t plan on. Because of that many people that say they want a mentor aren’t ready to take on the responsibility of that kind of relationship. When you’re ready to get uncomfortable and be vulnerable then you’re ready for new mentoring relationships!

Danielle’s current mentor found her. They went to high school together, lost touch, and then reconnected through Facebook. The relationship started with him giving her some advice here and there. She began applying that advice and getting new, successful results in her business. When he noticed that she was taking action and taking the relationship seriously it became a more formal mentoring relationship.

That’s a great tip for YOU! Mentors want to see that you’re doing more than just talking, they want to see you taking action. When you do that, you’re respecting the time that they invest in you and taking the relationship seriously.

How to Be Prepared for Successful Mentoring Relationships

As the mentee you must be ready to hear a lot of things that you don’t want to hear. You must be ready to admit that you’ve been doing things in not the most effective and efficient ways. You must be ready to put in a significant amount of work in a relatively short period of time. You need to be coachable. You cannot get advice and then ignore it and do things your own way. You must TRUST your mentors’ advice and take action in a way that goes along with their advice, not just the way you think that you should do it.

Listen In!

In this episode we talk about:

How to foster trust in your mentoring relationships
What you can do to become a better mentor
More ways to become a better mentee
Danielle’s first mentoring experience and why it was successful at the time
How to release control as a business owner
…and more great nuggets of advice!

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About The Guest

 

A graduate of the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, by way of the Chick Evans Caddie Scholarship, Danielle Pierce has an accounting degree which she has not utilized in over 12 years.  She began her entrepreneurial career after a sudden layoff from her corporate audit position. Danielle took this as a sign from the Heavens that she was meant to be a full time entrepreneur. Although she did look back a time or two (or three lol), she has held on to the reigns of entrepreneurship and never plans to let go.

Danielle’s online courses and group training programs (Real Estate Profit Lab), teach aspiring business owners  how to establish and grow profitable six figure enterprises within the real estate industry, outside of sales. Her current areas of specialization include the following: tax lien investing and managing bank owned properties.

Danielle is an author, highly regarded speaker, the founder of a highly specialized real estate consulting firm, and a member of the Forbes Real Estate Council.