In this episode of The Deal Maker Podcast, I, Liam J. Ryan, am joined by Matthew Jeffery to explore the transformative power of mentorship. We dive into how strategic guidance from experienced individuals has been crucial in turning financial losses into significant gains and accelerating personal growth and success. For anyone from the disillusioned 9-5 worker to seasoned investors looking to expand their portfolios, this discussion unveils the importance of not navigating your path alone.
Are you tired of hitting professional plateaus or feeling stuck in your entrepreneurial journey? We discuss the key benefits of engaging with mentors who can offer not just knowledge but also accountability. Learn how to choose the right mentor who aligns with your personal and professional aspirations and why investing in this relationship could be your most crucial step toward achieving your goals.
Tune in to gain practical insights on leveraging mentorship to fast-track your journey to financial independence and professional fulfilment. Whether you’re just stepping into the world of investment or looking to scale your existing portfolio, this episode is packed with actionable advice to help you leap to new heights.
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KEY TAKEAWAYS
- Find a mentor that you connect with and who has achieved the results you want to achieve.
- Invest in yourself and your development by working with a mentor, even if it seems expensive, as it will be more costly not to do so.
- Commit to the process and take action on the guidance provided by your mentor, as the success depends on your willingness to do the work.
- Schedule time in your daily routine to learn from your mentor, such as listening to educational content during your commute or workout.
FULL TRANSCRIPT
There is one thing, one thing that I truly believe has made the difference in my life and got me to 100k profit 10 years ago, when I had lost everything, minus 392,000 pounds with the liquidation figure, I was in the worst place financially. I was in the worst place, physically and mentally, but there is one thing that has made all the difference and continues to make the difference, and we’re going to do a deep dive on this. Now write this down everyone that is the power of mentorship. So I’ll tell you some of the biggest mistakes people make. Number one is they feel they can do it all on their own. And yes, of course, you can get to a certain level, and you might be able to get X number of buildings, but I was certain business. But for almost everyone, they have the big loss. It’s been a journey over a number of years for me to be here. At this point, I’m really proud to be here. But you know, it comes with the school of hard knocks, and let’s unpick it a bit. I mean, what we learn in school doesn’t necessarily apply. Welcome to the deal maker podcast with myself, Matthew J your host, Best Selling Author and mentor for fulfillment. And I am here with the man that this is all about, Liam. Ryan, wow. And today’s topic, Liam is going to be the quickest way to 100k profit. Wow, yeah. And the reason we’ve called it that is because there is one thing, one thing that I truly believe has made the difference in my life and got me to 100k profit 10 years ago, when I had lost everything, minus 392,000 pounds, was the liquidation figure. I was in the worst place financially. I was in the worst place physically and mentally. But there is one thing that has made all the difference and continues to make the difference, and we’re going to do a deep dive on this. Now write this down everyone that is the power of mentorship if you want to go from where you are now and make an extra 100k 200k a million pound, 10 million pounds, yeah, the fastest way to do that is by having a fantastic mentor.
You can’t learn if you don’t know you need to learn because you don’t know it yourself. So who do you learn from those that know, yeah, exactly, and getting around good people, you know, mentorship and education. For me, I am so excited about, you know, for the last 10 years, the more you unlearn, the more you earn. You know, that’s it, the more you unlearn, and then you have to learn new skills, yeah, and you need to believe in yourself. And you know, it’s really difficult for people to walk the path on their own, and they make big mistakes. So I’ll tell you some of the biggest mistakes people make. Number one is they feel they can do it all on their own. And yes, of course, you can get to a certain level, and you might be able to get X number of deals or grow a certain business, but for almost everyone, they have the big loss, and it only gets them so far. Okay? Also, they read lots and lots of books, watch lots and lots of YouTubes, and then think they can go do it on themselves. I’ve met a lot of people that read a lot of books. They’re much smarter than me, but their skin because what’s missing is the hand holding the accountability that’s going to help someone have that map and go from where we are to where we need to go. Every single mentoring session that I’ve had in the last 10 years, and I’ve invested hundreds of 1000s of pounds into mentoring and advanced training, every single course, every single session, every single mastermind, every single mentorship day that I’ve been on, I have walked away with a golden nugget or a plan or a change that has led me to where I am today. And I believe it’s been a similar experience for you, right?
I was literally about to say, it’s partly your fault because you there’s been times when you really kicked my ass. Let’s be frank about it. It’s, it’s been a journey over a number of years, you know, for me to be here at this point and really proud to be here. But you know, it comes with the school of hard knocks. And let’s unpick it a bit. I mean, what we learn in school doesn’t necessarily apply, yeah, you know, it’d be interesting to actually talk about this, because what do you look for in a mentor? So I’ve been your mentor for a good number of years now. Exactly. So why did you choose me? Why did you invest 10s of 1000s of pounds in me to be your mentor? And that might give some people some guidance as to what to look for in a mentor. I think this is really important. That’s a really easy one to answer for me, because it was the the personality it was I felt I looked at a number of options, and in meeting you, I felt a connection that. There was a real person, humble person, who has been through it and is paying it forward. And that just really connected with me. And as you know, that’s very much what I’m about and what I’m doing. We have different tangents, because obviously, like the industries that we work in, but it was just having is really important. You’ve got to feel a connection to that person. You can’t have a mentor that you don’t like, or can’t sit down and have a meal with. You know, it’s got to be a human to human interaction. Yeah, I think that’s key. Because one of my first mentors, someone called Rob, I invested 25,000 pounds in him, and I did that because, yeah, fundamentally I liked him, yeah, and I trusted him. And I also saw that he was getting great results. And I was like, Well, if I just stick with him, yeah, and I get him to guide me, yeah, and I take myself out of the equation, what I think I know I’m not going to act on. And for the first time in my life, I’m actually going to take direction from someone that’s further ahead, yeah, and they’ve got the results that I’ve now got, then surely I’m going to get something similar. Yeah, and that was my experience. Now, there were times where my mentor told me some things that I really didn’t like, and I had to go against the grain and get comfortable being uncomfortable. And there were times where I really didn’t want to do the thing he asked me to do, but I did it anyway. I’ll give you an example. 10 years ago, there was no way you would have seen me anywhere online on social media. Yeah, I didn’t have a Facebook account. Didn’t want to be on Facebook, yeah, and my mentor was huge on social media, and he said, if I want to raise joint venture funding and build a brand and get the things I’m doing. I don’t necessarily have to be online, but it’s going to fast track my results? Sure. And he said, Do you want to fast track results? I said, Yes. He said, Well, you need to start building a presence online. And I remember putting some posts out, and I was really scared, and I was really nervous, and I worried what people were going to think of me, and what if I get trolled, and what about this, and what about that, and friends and family members, and am I going to be an idiot and make myself look stupid? But I did it anyway. I did one post, I did two posts, I did three posts. He started to build some traction, then he got me to do my first ever live video, and I’m Oh, my goodness, Facebook Live. And I actually did that from a hotel room in Budapest on my brother’s stag weekend, because I told the world I was going to do it, and I went live at four o’clock in the hotel, sharing with how I raised joint venture funding, and that live blew up off the back end of these posts. I then got a Facebook message from a guy called Phil who said, Liam, I’ve been watching you, right? I’m like, oh my goodness, I’ve got a stalker. He said, I love what you guys are doing at assets for life. Can we chat? Right? I call him up and meet him. A week later, he gives me 750,000 pounds, and we use that money to go and do a commercial conversion, give the money back to the investors. Do a second, they’ll give it back. And that money is now in Maidenhead, where we’re building 26 flats in a commercial space. And I was like, oh my goodness, this stuff works. Ever since then, I’ve become Mr. Facebook, and you can’t get rid of me, so you never quite know what’s on the other side. But I’m so thankful that my mentor held my hand through that process, because I wouldn’t now own the UK’s leading property business and wealth training company if I didn’t understand the power, and I’m used. This is just one example of hundreds of examples where my mentor has told me to do something and it’s had a positive impact. So when you think, or when you say, or when you hear someone say, oh, that’s expensive. Well, it’s going to be more expensive not to do it. Yeah. And we’re also talking about comfort zone. I mean, you referenced it there a couple of times, and my experiences of what you’re just explaining so for the audience is in my snowboarding career, I would did a lot of coaching, and that was incredibly rewarding, personally, to see people develop. But for my own personal development, I only rode with better riders. Yeah, that’s great, you know, because those are the guys and girls that go, yeah, you can hit that hit, or hit that jump or do this flat land freestyle, and you’ve you. You know, you’re questioning yourself. You’re like, oh, I can’t, you know, I can’t ride as well as X, Y or Z. And then you put yourself in that position, get through it, and all of a sudden, wham, O and, you know, years later, I’ve got a tally of 450 plus people, yeah, who are in have had incredible coaching experiences on and off mountain,
yeah? And I think that’s so, so valuable, what you’re sharing. You’ve got different types of mentors. You know, I’ve got many mentors. You can have coaches, yeah? You can have, you know, for example, my I invest into my health, so I have a personal trainer. Sure that’s a mentor. Yeah, I invest around 12,000 pounds into that service a year, 1000 pounds a month. It’s one of the best things I do. I’ve got a nutritionist. I check in with him every week. That’s a form of a mentor. You can have mentors for sporting events, yeah, you can have mentors for social media. You can have business mentors. And I do feel it’s important to have different mentors helping you with different things. Yes, find that one person initially that’s doing the strategy and getting the result that you want. So for example, property, in your case, as a great mentor, you’re a mentor now, and you help people that are struggling with themselves
how to break through, yeah, just to level up. Yeah. So if you’re watching this now, and you’re listening to this, and you’re breaking through, and you’re not breaking through, and you’re feeling down and out and burnt out, and you want to literally break through, then you’re going to be the guy to help them do
that, right? Yeah, absolutely. And you know, I’m a product of what you’ve been through and then what you created as well. So again, it comes full circle, doesn’t it? And it’s about having that experience and being able to pay it forward. Yeah, so passing it on.
Where can you find mentors? Well, they’re everywhere. Yeah, you have to be careful. There’s a lot of noise right now. Every man and his dog wants to be an influencer, absolutely you have to be careful. So I’m going to give some people some words of wisdom, and I’m going to give you a checklist now as to what to check for. Okay, number one, make sure your mentor is someone that you like, and you share the same values and the same vision. This is important. Make sure your mentor has got mentors, so they’re investing into themselves. Number three, make sure they have done the thing that they they are talking about. So you can go and check if they were property investor or how many companies have they got? How many properties have they got? What’s their rental income. How many businesses have they got? So make sure that they are doing the thing that you want to do, and then go and binge watch a whole load of their stuff and go and see them and hang out with them and go to their free events and have conversations with them. Go initially on their advanced training course, if they have one, yeah, and slowly build that relationship, and just make sure that you are on the same page expectation. See, here’s the thing, a lot of people pay mentors money, and then they expect the mentor to do all the work. Yeah, I don’t do the work for you. I just tell you what to do, and show you how to do it, and give you encouragement and open the doors the connections to make it happen, yeah, you have to go and do the work, which means showing up for sessions. I actually had a mentor about seven years ago in the crypto space, okay, and I paid 15,000 pounds for this, and I got no results, right? No result whatsoever. I actually bought a load of alt coins, and I actually ended up losing another 10,000 pounds. Is it the fault of my mentor, or did I not follow the process? Yeah, let me tell you what I definitely didn’t do. I didn’t turn up for sessions, I didn’t ask for help, I didn’t follow the system he shared with me, and that is why it didn’t work today. One of my mentors is I have an investing mentor who’s showed me again how to invest into crypto, how to build my ISIS for my children, how to manage my fund. And again, I’ve paid him money. And it is working because I’m doing the work. I’m following the system, yeah, and it’s the same with my graduates in property. It will work if you work it, and it will be the same for your guys. Absolutely,
you’ve you’ve got to commit. It’s discipline, commitment and follow it through, yeah? And we talked about action in other episodes as well, but that word is going to keep cropping up when we have conversations and action, right? Yeah, take the action. This is really important. So. You know, I’ve
got multiple businesses, eight figures a year. Yeah, there’s 80 odd people under my management. You know, 50 full time members of staff, part time staff, business partners, mentors, probably around 80 people.
I got a wife, I got four kids. I like to travel the world, and recently, I’ve been doing some mentoring around trading and becoming a trader in the stock market, and it’s been incredible. So when do I get time to do that? Well, I go to the gym, and I’ll do half an hour of cardio, for example, just a slow walk and I’ll listen to the modules online, and I’ll listen at two times speed, yeah, so for 30 minutes on the treadmill, I’m listening to 60 minutes of education. I’ll listen in the car. I won’t have the radio on. I will perhaps get up earlier. I will schedule time in my breaks or lunches, or at the end of the day, yeah, to then do the study, there is always time to do the study. If the thing you’re being mentored on is high up on your value ladder, yeah, this is important. Well, I think that says it all, doesn’t it? Yeah, you’ve got to take the action and you’ve got to see the value. Yeah, and I love mentoring people now. There’s nothing better than seeing someone like yourself, over the last three years, transform, build a brand, going out there, working with great clients. You’ve got your first advanced training coming up in a few months. You’re on stage tomorrow. You know, inspiring and motivating business owners, I now get to travel the world, have great friendships, build people’s lives just by helping them through the steps that I have taken. It is hugely rewarding. You should get paid to the value that you bring. Yes, I get paid for it. Yes, my business is profitable because of it, and that’s also absolutely fine, because when you pay you pay attention
Absolutely yeah, invest in yourself. Invest in I love that. Invest in yourself and not not tomorrow, today. Yeah, awesome. Take the action. So remember to hit like and subscribe for the podcast. It’s episodes there to go back over, soak up and move forwards. Wow, brilliant man. Hey, honestly, check this guy out. It’s been incredible doing these. This like mini series. We’ve shot five podcasts, each of them with a different topic. So make sure you go and check all of those out. There’s some really great stuff coming up in the next few weeks and months. Life is looking great. It can look great for you as well if you take the massive action. So I really hope in this podcast and the ones we’ve done together, you’ve got some incredible golden nuggets. And if we can do it, you can do it. So hey, go back to Episode One now binge listen to a whole load of this stuff. Believe in yourself. Get rid of the negativity. Get yourself a mentor, either us or someone out there.
Yeah, and you can do it. Yeah, excellent. I’ve got nothing more to add to that. Really. Thumbs up. Thanks for tuning in love you guys, and I’ll see you in the next episode.
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