Harley Finkelstein

And then looking at who's really good at that and ask them specifically to help you with that narrow category as opposed to being a lot more broad.

The other thing that happens is that there's a timeliness to these mentors, meaning someone that was your mentor.

I don't know if you've ever had any business coaches or any coaches in your life.

So I think I have a great coach in my life right now.

It's probably my third or fourth coach that I've had.

One of the things I think about coaching business coaches in particular is.

At some point, you end up hearing a lot of the same stories or lessons or tools, meaning they have this wonderful toolbox.

And part of what you're paying them to be your coach is for them to open their toolbox and show you all their tools and you can adopt some of them for yourself.

But eventually, you've seen the entire toolbox.

And that's a really good time.

And it's not a negative thing.

It's not a criticism.

It's a really good time to sort of move on to the next coach.

The same thing goes with mentors.

That I don't think, with very few exception, there's probably not going to be any one mentor that's going to be your life mentor in perpetuity.

Because ultimately, you are going to change.

They're going to change.

You're

But one of the things that Lindsay and I did before we got married was we began to look at the couples we knew, most of them meaningfully older than us, and say, who do we think has a really good relationship, a really good marriage?

How can we kind of emulate that?