About Business and Well-Being/Life Mentoring

Q. What is the difference between a mentor and a coach?

A. Coaching is a dimension of mentoring and not the other way around.  A coach is task and performance-focused toward specific goals. A mentor has a developmental focus. Two different perspectives and ways they work with you. A competent coach and mentor have the same desire to help you grow and become a better leader, performer, and human.

We build competencies in business ownership and leadership. We are immersed in the process as you implement and tweak new skill sets. Mentors teach new skills as the learner implements new ways of leading. An effective mentor knows when a client needs support, encouragement, and a nudge to grow.

We work to develop an underlying friendship over time based on trust, accountability, and mutual understanding that both of our best interest is being considered in a relationship. Our relationship is not transactional. We equally shift as we grow to understand one another and share our learnings.

We improve how we communicate and connect with others by learning what it feels like to be in healthy relationships and get our needs met. It is so gratifying to have clients become friends and improve all of their relationships as a result. To become great at anything it takes practice and lots of do-overs and perseverance. We learn by taking risks, getting feedback, and making mistakes. We have room for do-overs. Progress not perfection is our motto.

WeMentor by building a resilient mindset and discussing your well-being openly. We address your immediate needs, shore up business development gaps, expand relational literacy, and build upon your entrepreneurial leadership skillsets with short-term value-based goals and a long-term perspective. We address all aspects of one’s life and business.

We do complex things by creating the time for heart conversations as our relationship evolves and changes.  You don’t have to guess or wonder what is happening. We share our insights. We use our influence to share power through a collaborative learning process as you expand and increase your ability to relate in healthy ways as you lead and mentor others. Courage is built one layer or block at a time.

“Even a 10% increase in relational literacy can improve all of your relatings,” says Melanie Joy, Ph.D.

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Join your peers to become relationally literate and learn the mindset, heart space, and skillsets of innovators and entrepreneurial leaders changing the world for the better.

Q. How do I know I have the right mentor?

A. “The undistinguished teacher/mentor/parent tells.

The good teacher/mentor/parent explains.

The great teacher/mentor/parent demonstrates, collaborates, and inspires.” -Nancy A. Meyer, M.A.

Through the mentoring process, you will be empowered to feel more deeply to think, act, and lead more clearly and effectively. We invest in your evolutional leadership journey, not control it or have control over you. You are in charge of your journey. We look to you to assert self-leadership and take charge of all aspects of your life and how you lead.

We collaborate with you to set strategic value-based goals, help you overcome barriers as you evolve and innovate, and sort out what you feel you need to learn. We inspire you to live your values by becoming skilled in practicing integrity and honoring dignity in every interaction while building upon your business acumen. Nancy calls this Dual Innovation Leadership because you redefine how you lead while redesigning your business. We encourage bravery by helping you do the heart things.

Nancy is exceptionally skilled at exploring opportunities and fetching workable ideas to make them real. She can help you understand how you lead and become more profitable in your venture.

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Our mission is to be part of the change you wish to make in the world. We lead by expanding an entrepreneurial leader’s capacity to lead. We mentor by collaborating with you to co-create a plan. We role model equality, inclusion, healthy relating, resiliency, wealth creation, and accountability. We value wholehearted living and leading (compassion, courage, and grounded confidence). 

When WeMentor, you design an integrated life and an interdependent future:

  • As a Resilient Leader/Innovator,
  • As a Competent Business Owner/Practitioner,
  • As a Mentor/Role Model, and 
  • As a Spiritual Being and Self-Leadership Master!

Q. Why do I need a mentor?

A. Great leaders hire skilled mentors and coaches to gain the following skill set required in Self-Leadership Mastery. Why? We need feedback and insight to acquire a less attached view of ourselves. We need “relational literacy,” according to Dr. Melanie Joy, “the understanding of and ability to practice healthy ways of relating – is essential for personal, social, and ecological transformation.”

According to developmental psychologist Susanne Cook-Greuter, only 3% of people have mastered the art of observing and managing themselves. We are not taught relational literacy. We can increase that percentage with your collaborations and training with competent mentors. We can practice integrity and honor one’s dignity in every interaction. We can expand our consciousness and be more present.

Suppose that isn’t convincing enough for you to hire a coach or mentor. How about this sobering fact? “While the path to building a great company is narrow, there are many ways to succumb to catastrophic decline and failure.” —Jim Collins (2020, Beyond Entrepreneurship 2.0: Turning Your Business into an Enduring Great Company, p. 169). 

Great mentors guide you along the narrow path to building an enduring legacy. They can encourage swimming in the middle of a river flowing with the current instead of trying to swim upstream. Or, as actor and producer Michael Douglas put it, “a great mentor can save you a lot of pain.” Learning relational literacy and simultaneously expanding your business acumen with a mentor can help you increase the odds of building a healthy legacy worth passing on. Isn’t that something worth pondering?

Q. How much does it cost to reach self-leadership mastery, boost one's business acumen, and build an enduring legacy?

A. It depends on your goals, project timelines, and the pace of how you evolve. Evolving leaders learn that being resilient leaders is inevitable. They are eager to invest in self-leadership development and build business competencies because they know it is part of the innovation process and builds confidence grounded in reality. 

Nancy works with you on the length of time and the pacing. Think in terms of years and phases, not months. Nancy has many resources and will help you find other mentors.

The interest in finding a mentor begins with a nudge or an internal desire you have to change something.

The need for mentoring can also arise from a crisis forced upon us, like responding to the coronavirus pandemic and its variants from 2020 to 2023. The global shutdown was the crisis that forced us to change our lives and how we do business. We needed to respond immediately and creatively to generate cash and adapt to the changing needs of our clients or end users. We start the mentoring process where innovation begins, with you and your curiosity.

Mentoring Options:

One-on-one strategic mentoring sessions range from $300/session to $3,000/month, or more, depending on goals and project timelines. 

WeMentor LABs. Together we figure out the best LAB for you of the three LABs offered with an investment of $60 to $295 monthly.

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Q. How do I know I have the right mentor?

Q. What qualities do I look for in an effective mentor and how long do mentoring relationships last?

A. Entrepreneurship and business ownership are quite an unexpected self-discovery journey at every turning point. Consider learning from many mentors your entire life. One criterion in picking your next mentor could be considering someone one or two years from where you want to be.

You will know intuitively when it is time to transition to a new mentor or take a break. Some mentors become lifelong friends. 

Effective mentors foster long-term change, expand your awareness, offer wisdom, constructive feedback, and insight. They have a purpose and are invested in helping you realize goals through accountability, education, and clarity of purpose.

An effective mentor inspires you to understand and own your history instead of outrunning it. Imagine uncovering new things about yourself that you can bring forward through your venture. You get to co-create your future with new tactics, tools, and strategies for massive implementation and action to realize an evolving vision for your business and life—simple, intentional steps day after day.

Q. What are the next steps?

A. You can take these steps:

    1. Join our WeMentor Self-Leadership Community. Start by subscribing to WeMentor Mondays With Nancy PODCAST, HERE!
    2. Due Diligence: Who is Nancy? Find out HERE!
    3. Why is Nancy doing a podcast? Listen HERE!
    4. Scroll down this page. Explore three WeMentor LAB options.
    5. Schedule a One-on-One Mentoring Session with Nancy.

Would you like to take charge of the path you are on to create an enduring legacy?

  • You can redefine how you lead while redesigning your business (Dual Innovation Leadership). We’ll show you how.
  • WeMentor LAB interviews are taking place NOW!

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WeMentor Mission

Our mission is to be part of the change we want to make in the world. We lead with unconditional love and harmony in money matters, relationships, and mentoring others as they evolve with their businesses. We role model equality, justice, healthy relating, financial responsibility, and accountability. When WeMentor, you design an integrated life and an interdependent future: * As a Resilient Leader/Innovator, * As a Competent Business Owner/Practitioner, * As a Mentor/Role Model, and * As a Spiritual Being/Master of Self-Leadership!

3 Types of LABs and One-On-One Strategic Mentoring Sessions

WHY WeMentor

We collaborate with you to do what will work for YOU in redefining how you lead as you redesign your business! We start with where you are, whether turning around a financial crisis, growing to the next level, or somewhere in between. We address your immediate needs, shore up business development gaps, expand relational literacy, and build upon your entrepreneurial leadership skillsets with a short-term results orientation and a long-term perspective.

Nancy founded WeMentor, inc. in 1992 to change the leadership in this country by mentoring a concept she developed called Dual Innovation Leadership. The ability to evolve how you lead as you redesign your business model. Now it is in vogue to address your emotional needs while leading others. Brave leaders take charge of how they evolve and learn how to respond to the unpredictable nature of business ownership by innovating on purpose. Nancy is exceptionally skilled at exploring opportunities and fettering workable ideas to bring into reality.

We know that Dual Innovation Leadership works from the inside out! You can redefine how you lead as you redesign your business. We have mentored thousands of business owners in various industries as they evolve and reach their aspirations. WE are here to co-create a mentoring process where you can take charge of how you innovate as you consciously create a new future and realize your dreams. Let’s get started. 

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Our Mission

Our mission is to be part of the change you wish to make in the world. We lead by expanding an entrepreneurial leader's capacity to lead. We mentor by collaborating with you to co-create a plan. We role model equality, inclusion, healthy relating, resiliency, wealth creation, and accountability. We value wholehearted living and leading (compassion, courage, and grounded confidence). When WeMentor, you design an integrated life and an interdependent future: *As a Resilient Leader/Innovator, *As a Competent Business Owner/Practitioner, *As a Mentor/Role Model, and *As a Spiritual Being and Self-Leadership Master!

On Options

One-on-One Strategic Mentoring Sessions

Great leaders hire skilled mentors and coaches to gain the following skillset required in Self-Leadership Mastery and life success. Why? We need feedback and insight to acquire a less attached view of ourselves. We co-create a success plan that will work for you as you evolve as a leader and redesign your business. An introduction to Dual Innovation Leadership where you evolve how you lead while redesigning your business. We do what works.

Dual Innovation Leadership LAB

An explorers' path to redefine how we lead while redesigning our businesses. Nancy calls this Dual Innovation Leadership. Become the leader you envision yourself to be in a group setting with other business owners.

Self-Leadership Mastery LAB

Learn, practice, and assert self-leadership mastery on the ascent to a higher plane of consciousness and innovation; a WeMentor Conscious Intuitive Leader and Mentor. Create resiliency within yourself and your venture. Each LAB starts with where you are as a solopreneur, president, CEO, or another type of small business owner in an executive role.

WeMeditate and Do Yoga with Nancy LAB

To broaden your human capacity for awareness, resiliency, innovation, and focus. Actively integrate your mind, body, and breath with a regular practice you can sustain over time. Mindfulness yoga and meditation are for e-v-e-r-y-b-o-d-y, including you! Join your peers. Click on the heading to sign-up.

More About WeMentor LABs

On Options

Dual Innovation Leadership LAB

Length: 1 year Frequency and Duration: Bi-weekly, 1.5 hours for each session
Expected Dual Innovation Leadership LAB Outcomes:  
You can recover from trauma, distractions, habits, thoughtlessness, confusion, pointlessness, helplessness, overwork, stress, and suffering in our weekly yoga lab. We facilitate the integration of the brain, mind, and body (mind body). Yoga can give you access to parts worth exploring and eventually befriending, especially if you have exercised extreme measures to survive. Twenty-plus weeks of yoga can change the trajectory of your life and business. Sign-Up HERE * Practicing Dual Innovation Leadership * Adaptability in addressing concerns as they surface. * Grounded confidence in self-leadership and how you lead and mentor others. * Foster constructive change and deepen relationship connections. * Increased awareness when you make decisions deliberately. * Improved competency in managing, mentoring, and growing your business. * Expanded business and leadership acumen. * Improved response time when solving problems. * Confidence in solving ongoing issues inherent in business ownership and entrepreneurial growth. * Depth of knowing your unique way of innovating and generating money. * Practice an interdependent work culture that evolves, innovates together, accountable to each other and the team, productive, healthy and profitable teamwork, and can explore sustaining over time. * Know how to live your core values and get back on track quickly when you find you are not practicing core values. * Increased business acumen. * Understand the 8-areas of well-being and know how to meet universal needs.

One-on-One Strategic Mentoring Sessions

Length: 1.5-hour to 3-hour strategy sessions Frequency and Duration:  Weekly, bi-weekly, or monthly sessions are co-created and tailored with you—a collaborative mentoring approach. We clarify your leadership goals and aspirations, even if they are unclear.  Purpose: WeMentor to facilitate your growth redefining how you lead while redesigning your business. We co-create a strategic mentoring process that will work for you! We encourage and reinforce practicing new skills as you learn them and play and experiment with new leadership methods. We co-create a success plan that will work for you as you evolve as a leader and redesign your business.

Self-Leadership Mastery LAB

Length: 12 months Frequency & Duration: Bi-weekly (24 sessions, 2.0 hours each) Purpose: Learn, practice, and assert self-leadership mastery on the ascent to a higher plane of consciousness; a WeMentor Conscious Intuitive Leader and Mentor evolve how they lead while redesigning their businesses.  Each LAB starts with where you are as a solopreneur, president, CEO, or another type of small business owner in an executive role. Dual Innovation Leadership Outcomes: * Create a more resilient and profitable work culture. 
* Learn eight areas of your Well-Being and leadership development. We have an instrument to measure where you are so we can tailor your learning experience. * Meet needs more consciously.
* Healthier relating. * Curiosity to do the hard stuff embedded in resilient leadership and mentoring. * Self-Compassion and increased ability to have compassion toward others. * Grounded self-confidence.
* Healthy motivation. * Improved decision-making. * Clarity of past, present, and future. * Increased business acumen. * Expanded awareness of invisible beliefs that hold us back from becoming resilient leaders and mentors. * Emerge as a leader and mentor who can confidently build a legacy worth passing on.

WeMeditate and Do Yoga with Nancy LAB

Length: 60-Minute Virtual Sessions Frequency: Weekly (Tuesdays 8:00 to 9:00 a.m. CT) Broaden your human capacity for awareness, resiliency, intention, and gratitude. You can recover from trauma, distractions, habits, thoughtlessness, confusion, pointlessness, helplessness, overwork, stress, and suffering! Here are a few responses from yoga students' healing trauma: "My emotions feel more powerful. Maybe it's just that I can recognize them now." "I now see choices, multiple paths. I can decide, and I can choose my life; it doesn't have to be repeated or be experienced like a child." "I can move my body and be in my body in a safe place and without hurting myself/getting hurt." "I trust my body and feel stronger emotionally and mentally. I dare to create healthier relationships." Actively integrate your mind, body, and breath with regular practice you can sustain over time. Mindfulness yoga and meditation are for e-v-e-r-y-b-o-d-y! Your body is in the present moment. Get your mind in the present moment, too. Join Nancy Tuesdays from 8:00 a.m. to 9:00 a.m. (CT).                Sign-Up HERE

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