3 Signs You May Need a Business Mentor
When I first started my entrepreneurial journey at 22 I felt like I was on a tiny island with only myself and my whiteboard. I spent hours and days on end brainstorming to no avail, trying to fit 500 ideas into one concise idea and coming up short every time.
I knew I had an incredible idea and passion inside of me that deserved to be seen by the world, but I just couldn’t seem to get it out there.
I searched the internet tirelessly looking for an online business mentor to help me work through the mess of my brain, but I couldn’t find anyone who was offering what I needed. So I put my head down and figured it out myself. I launched and ran my first business for 5 years all through the knowledge and systems I created myself, but boy do I wish that past, lost version of myself furiously brainstorming on her whiteboard could have had someone holding her hand through it all.
That’s why I founded Soulistic Studio, to help others in the same position I had been in - extremely passionate but extremely lost - make sense of their ideas and finally launch them into the world.
If you’re also feeling a bit lost and a bit frustrated by feeling so lost, it may be time to hire a business mentor. Not one of those cheesy business coaches that will promise you a billion dollars in profit with no show for any businesses they’ve built before, but a real, hands on, down to earth business mentor who will sit in the suck with you, pull you out and help you push your ideas into the world.
1. You’re stuck in the never ending brainstorm cycle
Have you ever gotten stuck in the white board trap? That was me for months when I was starting my first business. I’d try to mind map my ideas and end up wanting to throw my pen across the room because how does one mind map a mind that makes no sense!? I had so many ideas and so many fears around these ideas that I would spend hours and days on end just brainstorming and brainstorming some more. And while brainstorming is, of course, necessary in the beginning stages of building a business, it’s easy to stay in that stage and over-analyze every little thing, unable to step back far enough from the ideas to actually make sense of them.
While working with clients, we utilize strategic brainstorming sessions that have guided framework to ensure the brainstorming has a purpose and is actually pushing us to your next stage in growing your business.
Being a recovering perfectionist, I also used to use brainstorming as a way to not have to move to the next step. Why wouldn’t I want to move to the next step of my business!? Because that was terrifying. Being the perfectionist I was, my business lived beautifully and perfectly in my mind, but actually putting it out there meant it would have the potential to not live up to the expectations I had created. I find this to be such a common thing amongst my fellow perfectionist clients, and having someone to gently say “hey I think it’s time we put these incredible ideas into action” is sometimes just the push they need to fully start embodying their badass business owner energy.
2. You have 500 ideas, but can’t figure out how to turn them into one concise business plan
Where are my ADHD, manifesting generator (human design lover over here) besties at?! If that’s you, then you probably get me on this. And even if that’s not you, and you just have a creative mind, you will also get me on this. Having enough ideas is never an issue. It’s having too many ideas that used to get me into trouble!
Have you ever gone to work on your business plan or brainstorm a digital product or group program and come out feeling even more lost than you were before because there are just too many ideas running around in your head? Or do you ever feel like you’re so multifaceted and want to bring all pieces of you into your brand but just can’t figure out a way to do that that doesn’t feel random? It’s hard when you’re living in the brain and body that’s so multi-passionate, multifaceted, and creative to get enough space from it all to create one concise idea that brings all of it together. That’s where a business mentor is hugely helpful. Being a bystander to your multiple ideas it’s easier as a mentor to go “hey, actually, this makes a ton of sense. Have you ever thought of framing your business, mission statement or ‘why’ like this to encompass it all?” OR, as a business mentor, it’s also easier to say “hey, this idea actually doesn’t flow with your mission statement we worked on and won’t hit home for your ideal client, let’s stick with that first idea.”
A business mentor keeps you grounded in the midst of all of your ideas to ensure the best ones make it into the world.
3. You just feel straight up confused and frustrated by that confusion
Ideal clients? Passive income? Social media growth? Marketing funnels? Man oh MAN there is a million and two things to think about and put into place to create a successful, profitable online business. If you’re feeling confused on what steps to take first or how to even take those steps, a business mentor gives you guidance and framework on how and when to complete each step to ensure your business is set up successfully.
Just because you’re confused on what steps to take, doesn’t mean you aren’t cut out for this. Do you have a hint of an idea? Do you have passion? Do you have a deep desire to work for yourself to create more freedom in your life? Then that’s truly all you need, friend! A business mentor fills in the gaps where ideas, passion and deep desires don’t quite cut it so that your business has a solid foundation to let those ideas, passions and deep desires bloom into something successful, profitable and joyful.
