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This week, I was reminded of how wonderful it is to have my property buddies around me. Whether it’s a mentor, mastermind group, networking community, an accountability buddy or just a property pal to chat to...get one...get some.
They could make all the difference...
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This week, I was reminded of how wonderful it is to have my property buddies around me. Whether it’s a mentor, mastermind group, networking community, an accountability buddy or just a property pal to chat to...get one...get some.
They could make all the difference...
Property Chatter
Welcome to the property voice podcast helping you to navigate safely through the world of property investing, get the lowdown and updates, insights and outcomes on all matters property with a splash of entertainment along the way, the property voice, a voice to trust among the crowd. Now, let's get started with your host, Richard Brown.
Hello, and welcome to another episode of the property voice podcast. My name is Richard Brown. And as always, it's a pleasure to have you join me again on the show today. Well, have you had a dry January?
Some people won't have a clue what I'm talking about. But many of you will probably I've just completed dry January, I started actually before New Year's Eve, which is a bit silly, but I did that. And I thought yeah, it was good idea to have a little bit of a reset a bit of a detox talks about reset last time, obviously, you know, just have a bit of a healthy start to the year really. It's Monday and you know, tradition as tradition would have it be sat here with a glass of something in my hand as I'm talking to you. Well, indeed, I do have a glass of something in my hand. It's a GMT, but it's not a gin and tonic, it's a ginger liqueur, and tonic. So I'm going to carry on the dry spell, so to speak. Not forever. And yeah, I was trying to find out if there were a decent substitute alcoholic drinks, and I haven't found a decent one for wine just yet. So I might I might stick to the old ginger and tonic, or there's some there's some fairly nice, non alcoholic sort of beers around. So maybe that'll be okay. But I think I might have the odd glass of wine still. There we go. So anyway, and less of that, we're into February Now, second month of the year already. So hopefully, you participated to some extent, with the reset challenge. And if not my research, challenge your own personal reset challenge it you feel like for this year, difficult times, obviously knowing what to do you know what to predict. But hopefully, you've got a way forward, that's mapped out for you. And I was thinking to myself, what will I share with you this week, and then a couple of ideas, obviously, but I was trying to, you know, let it sort of mull over stew over in my mind what I would share with you. And you can probably tell just by the way, I'm talking that I haven't got anything scripted to say which you know, sometimes makes for a more fluid experience. Let's just say that. And I guess what, what I did want to talk to you today is the idea of having buddies around us in a word really buddies.
So just people around us who are sharing similar pathway journey, similar values, similar principles, similar outlook, really similar challenges. So I think very often, you know, I obviously use the term the one-percenters that were often wanting to be in the top 1% not necessarily pure financial terms. It's also a way of thinking, and, you know, an ethos if you like, or lifestyle or approach to life, you know, the idea of personal development and growth isn't for everyone, for example, wanting to run your own business in some shape, or form isn't for everyone, wanting to be a professional investor or developer isn't for everyone. So it is a minority sport. And being a minority sport, things can get a little bit Well, you know, lonely, at times, been isolated, and a little bit, you know, backed into the corner, so to speak occasionally.
So I wanted to talk about the idea of buddies. And it really the reason it came to mind is that I've had a few buddies recently who I've connected with of my own and it just made me realize and not just realize, but really appreciate having that camaraderie that support around me. And so, you know, I have a community of my own little inner circle, if you like, and I would say that I kind of facilitate or lead that community. I have occasionally I have these apprentice programs. By the way, there's another one about to launch soon. So if you're interested, you know, say so now, and then in many of those apprentices have gone on to join my mastermind community, which is kind of a rolling geek really, and I'd say 80% of the apprentices have gone into the mastermind community. And that's very much a given a get experience of having that I was having this conversation. Interestingly, with a buddy Oh, I really call them a bunch of them. I'm a potential mentor of my own. Earlier today, literally, and I would just don't want to give any anything away. But I was talking to Fairly senior person in the, let's say the property sector, generally speaking, I don't want to say too much. And, and really, the idea would be to try and you know, learn from that person, maybe they've got a little black book, which is bigger than my little book of contacts, maybe they can give some tips and pointers because they've gone down the path for a couple of decades or so more than me.
So I was having that conversation, but it was also making the point that it's a given again, and so maybe they would have the opportunity of giving to support myself and some other people, good people who've got some got a vision, but also to get because, you know, maybe they've got some objectives in life with weakened support, too. And I think that's important when you're talking about a mentoring relationship. It's a given a gap. So if you are being mentored, also consider what you could do to help your mentor. And in fact, if you are a mentor, look for ways in which your mentee can help you learn and grow and facilitate your own experience. I don't mean take advantage or anything like that, I literally mean, we can all learn from one another. So it's good to surround ourselves really with good people. So I was talking about that, in my community, I have people that I'm coach and facilitating and leading through programs and, and mastermind groups, from a peer to peer point of view, the people in the mastermind group have got each other, they've obviously got me.
So we get together, you know, to at least twice a month, because we have one main mastermind group and some we call them special interest groups. So, you know, people get together in in those groups, you know, so a couple of times that I say, Yeah, I meant a month. And, you know, to share what's going on to maybe the fact there was there was one member and noticed it started ducking out of a couple of meetings. And I thought to myself, well, where is she? I'm not gonna mention any names. But you know, just noticed that she kind of dipped out a couple of meetings, so kind of connected on and off, obviously, over the time, I'd spotted her absence. And she said she had a lot going on. And yeah, I knew that wasn't true. I'm sure it is true, but I knew wasn't the whole story. So the last time I missed the mastermind meeting, I thought Come on what's going on. And she basically said she wasn't in a great place. And she didn't feel that she had anything to contribute to give to the group right now, which is why she had ducked out of a meeting, my initial response was even more reason to be a part of it. He sometimes, you know, we was, you know, season of giving. And sometimes it's a Season Season of receiving, sometimes it's us who are making the contribution. And sometimes it's those who are receiving on the receiving end, if you like from other people. And if we're in a bit of a funk, I've actually used that where a few people they got one, if you're in a bit of a funk, as the Americans, I think would say, and I heard Serena Williams use that phrase.
So I'm quoting somebody of high talent. And if you're in a bit of a funk, and you don't know what to do, then it's really good to have someone that you can talk to. And that could be on an informal basis, it could be on a formal basis. So having some kind of accountability, buddy, or group is a really good idea. And but it doesn't have to be big, you know, big deal. You don't have to pay 1000s of pounds, have a big formal program, there's, you know, you can reach out to people on a casual basis. But I think when there's a joint commitment from the parties, it works the best. So in my own case, I have, when in fact, I'm looking for a mentor, to help me at the next phase of my own growth. I'm looking at a foundation now. So I need somebody to mentor me who's got that source of experience, you know, so multimillion-pound foundation. And that's, that's where I'm headed. So I kind of need that guidance, that input.
But equally, I've been in a mastermind community myself of what I call, like minded peers, you know, running businesses of a similar size, and perhaps a different emphasis that can bring in different ideas into into me. And equally, I've got a couple of property buddies, I call them literally, and you know, we can't get to get together now and again, obviously, don't get together physically, quite so much as we had been until recent times, but we have a call, we have a catch up, we swap notes. If there's something on our mind, hey, what would you do in this situation? And there's a massive, there's a lot of trust, there's a lot of integrity. And there's a lot of mutual respect between us in that context. So, you know, people who have fought you know, in in the arena, you know, Bernie brown talks about don't give me advice unless you're in the V arena. In fact, she doesn't say don't give me advice. She says. I'm not getting
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