Thursday morning
One man. One coffee. The conversation nobody else has with you.
Thirty minutes at a coffee shop. Your mentor asks how you're actually doing. Not “fine” — actually.
Sometimes you talk about the week's topic. Sometimes you talk about the fight with your girlfriend. Sometimes you just sit. The mentor doesn't have an agenda. He has a relationship with you.
This is the relationship. The group is the brotherhood. The mentor is the man who knows your name, your story, and your next hard thing.
Most young men don't have a single older man in their life who asks how they're really doing — and waits for the real answer. Your mentor is that man. He's not your therapist. He's not your dad. He's the guy who's been where you are and chose to walk back and walk alongside you.
Honesty. That's it.
Not performance. Not having your life together. Not saying what you think he wants to hear. The best mentor meetings are the ones where you stop editing yourself. Your mentor can handle whatever you bring to the table — that's why he was trained for this.
“My mentor is the first older man who ever asked me what I actually wanted out of life — and then sat there while I figured out I didn't know.”
Every mentee gets paired with a trained, vetted man who chose to show up for the next generation.
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