Hey guys,
Looking to start coaching, my ideal clientele are either start up founders or finance professionals looking to either find the role for themselves or transition into leadership. With that being said I am just starting out. Any tips for coaches looking to start, I am currently in the building process, more than happy to answer any questions to gain more insight
Hello everyone,
I’m a 26-year-old woman from Germany looking for a mentor or practical advice on starting a business. I’m open to many paths...e-commerce, services, retail, or something digital. I mainly want to learn how experienced founders identify opportunities, make decisions, and start with limited resources.
I have a Bachelor’s degree in Business Education and am currently completing my Master’s. I’m the first person in my family to attend university, and I grew up in a low-income household without any entrepreneurial role models.
Since moving out at 18, I have worked in hospitality, retail, airport operations, delivery, and now Learning & Development at an international IT consulting company. I learn software quickly, communicate well in English and German, enjoy solving problems, and have experience creating learning content, videos, and documentation.
However, I have realized that corporate life is probably not the right long-term fit for me. I struggle with micromanagement, unclear responsibilities, and doing work where I cannot see a real connection to customers or outcomes. I would rather build something I genuinely care about and take responsibility for it.
I do not have much savings or a business network, but I am willing to learn, work hard, and contribute value. In exchange for guidance, I can help with research, content creation, communication, learning materials, documentation, or general admin/operations.
I’m not looking for someone to give me a business idea or guarantee success. Just honest advice from someone who has built a business before, ideally in Germany or Europe.
Thank you.
I’m 37 and looking for something I’ve realized fairly recently that I’ve never really had: a dependable older mentor or guide.
I grew up in an extremely isolated religious homeschool environment and, in a lot of important ways, essentially had to raise myself. I became very independent, capable, curious, and good at figuring things out because I had to be. What I didn’t get was much healthy modeling for relationships, trust, conflict, emotional regulation, friendship, or simply what it feels like to have a steady adult in your corner.
My family environment could also be emotionally volatile. As a kid I became very good at reading people’s moods, anticipating reactions, and adjusting myself to keep situations from escalating. Those skills helped me survive that environment, but as an adult they can turn into overanalysis, hyper-independence, difficulty trusting my own judgment, and feeling responsible for other people’s emotional states.
I’ve done years of therapy and have made a lot of progress. I’m not looking for another therapist, somebody to fix me, or someone to take responsibility for my life.
What I’m missing is something much more ordinary and human.
I don’t really have an older person I can call and say, “Here’s what I’m thinking. What am I missing?” Someone who has lived enough life to recognize when I’m reasoning well and when I’m tying myself into knots. Someone who can challenge me without humiliating me, teach me things I don’t know I don’t know, and occasionally give me something solid to stand on when I’m struggling to find perspective.
I also struggle with loneliness and social disconnection. I’ve spent so much of my life learning about people almost from the outside that I can understand complicated ideas more easily than I can sometimes understand where I belong among other people.
I’m tired of feeling like an alien watching humanity through the glass.
But this isn’t only about filling something I missed growing up.
I want to have a place in the larger theater of this world.
I want to be a force for good in it.
I don’t want to spend the rest of my life merely observing systems I think are unhealthy, talking about what could be different, fixing things around the edges, and then disappearing without having seriously participated.
I’m deeply troubled by how much modern life seems organized around profit, consumption, status, productivity, and economic growth while emotional maturity, community, curiosity, leisure, craftsmanship, wisdom, human connection, and genuine flourishing are treated almost as luxuries.
I don’t believe capitalism is the sole cause of everything wrong with human beings, and I’m not looking for someone to hand me another ideology to worship. But I do think we have built systems that can reward extraction over stewardship, competition over cooperation, obedience over curiosity, and accumulation over enoughness.
Sometimes I wonder how many forms of human life we’ve simply stopped imagining.
How many ways of living, learning, building community, raising children, creating things, sharing knowledge, caring for one another, exploring the world, and developing emotionally have become nearly invisible because so much of life has been reduced to earning, consuming, recovering from earning, and starting over again Monday morning.
I don’t want to exist beneath that machinery and complain about it forever.
I want to understand it well enough to push against the parts that diminish people and help build something better where I can.
I want to participate in ideas, projects, communities, institutions, science, education, communication, or whatever avenues eventually prove meaningful. I don’t yet know what form that contribution takes, and that’s part of why I’m looking for mentorship.
There are echelons of life and influence I simply haven’t experienced. Rooms I don’t know how to enter. People I don’t know how to meet. Opportunities I probably wouldn’t recognize. Entire domains of knowledge and human experience that were never available to me growing up.
And I’m realistic enough to understand that people rarely walk directly from the audience onto the stage and somehow know where to stand.
I suspect I need some time in the wings with someone who has already been out there.
Not someone who wants to manufacture me in their image. Not a guru. Not someone who needs followers.
Someone who can say, “I’ve been through this part. Come look at what I’ve learned.”
Someone who can introduce me to ideas, people, environments, disciplines, opportunities, and ways of thinking that I might spend another twenty years trying to discover alone.
I have no interest in simply inheriting someone else’s conclusions. I want my reasoning challenged. I want someone comfortable saying, “I think you’re wrong, and here’s why,” and then staying for the conversation.
I’m deeply interested in psychology, science, philosophy, history, human behavior, communication, relationships, critical thinking, belief formation, technology, culture, and basically anything that helps explain how people and societies actually work.
I don’t want religion, political indoctrination, a paid life coach, a guru, or someone who simply agrees with me.
Ideally this becomes an authentic friendship and mentorship rather than a transactional arrangement. Coffee, walking, building something, traveling, working on a project together, long conversations, learning from one another, whatever develops naturally.
And I don’t expect this to be one-directional. I have practical skills, curiosity, energy, life experience, and a willingness to work. I want to contribute too. I would hope that eventually the relationship becomes less “teacher and student” and more two human beings who genuinely value having one another in their lives.
I’m currently in Georgia, but geography is not much of a limitation for me. I’m mobile and would genuinely travel anywhere in the United States, or elsewhere in the world, for the opportunity to develop the right mentorship and human connection.
I’m not looking for an excuse to run away somewhere.
I’m looking for somewhere, and someone, that helps me finally move toward the larger life I keep sensing is possible.
If you’re someone who has accumulated wisdom without losing curiosity, who has participated meaningfully in the larger world and remembers what it felt like before you knew how to enter it, and who thinks a relationship like this could matter in both directions, I’d really like to hear from you.
A little about me: I’m an Air Force veteran, and have spent most of my adult life working with my hands and solving practical problems. I have more than a decade of automotive experience along with construction, electrical, plumbing, HVAC, welding, diagnostics, IT, and general repair work. I’ve lived all over the country, traveled through 49 states and abroad, and have rarely stayed rooted in one place for very long. I’m intensely curious, mechanically minded, comfortable teaching myself almost anything, and currently at a point in life where I have the freedom to travel or relocate for the right opportunity. I’m not starting from nothing. I’ve built a capable life on my own. I’m looking for the kind of experience, perspective, relationships, and guidance that might help me figure out what to build with it next.
I need a get money mentor can someone help me?
Serious inquiries only
Im probably older than alot of other people in here looking for some guidance but that's okay. I created a product to address an intricate problem I've observed after nearly 20 years in the same field - the issue is that no one I speak to (about buying it); seems interested/ bothered although they all give positive feedback.
I've been a mentor myself (in a different field) so I believe I have identified my own problem and what I need - clarity and someone to bounce ideas/ thoughts of.
I'm poured 100's of hours into this product so, before I scrap the whole thing, I would really appreciate someone giving me an hour to just put my straight
i want to start air bnb ab i have two options either rent out a semi furnished apartment in e11 with a partner and start working on it i also have my two own appartment near new airport UNIVERSITY TOWN which is beside Lahore tool plaza so suggest me what should i do and if anyone wana partner up tell me
Right now, all I have is skills, personality and mind set
I’m 33 a business analyst, musician and have spent a lot of time studying business and had 2 failed businesses.
My best strength is people, I’ve proven time and time again that I can walk into a room and leave the most popular and usually the secret is just caring and helping people.
Music for me has made me incredibly confident from street performing and incredibly creative in solution designing .
I’m sitting in my room now contemplating life, I’ve got 2 kids , going through a divorce, no money, but I have me, and I’ve invested a lot of time into me, I have all the ingredients for massive success, but nothing in the bank account and no hugely successful friends.
My hope for this post is to find someone who’s interested in investing their time into someone with huge potential (I don’t want this to come from a place of ego, I’d like you to chat with me and make your mind up about me yourself)
I’m not after anything from you other than guidance and your time. I need help building an empire, I need access to someone who’s done it, help me make me rich and I ll make you rich.
And when I’ve done it I promise to pay it forward and help someone else build theirs.
I have nothing to lose and everything to gain, I can’t wait to meet you,
J
Hi! I'm Eva im 22 from the UK. I'm looking to learn more about business. I know I should be asking this on LinkedIn but I'm quite shy so thought I'd do it on here to test the waters to begin with, I can also be more personal on here.
I'm incredibly smart and good at maths, I did maths a levels, I have a sociology degree, been working in retail/sales so I'm good at selling. If I'm being honest though, I have undiagnosed ADHD/autism I recently found out about and I feel very bored and drained in regular work and like I'm itching to do more. But because of my ADHD I really struggle to see how to start things. But once I get going, I love over achieving and hyper focus. A mentor is a great way for me to start learning.
I'd absolutely love it if anyone who is a successful business owner or knows alot about business is willing to teach me or have me as their intern. I know it's a big ask so I'm not expecting many replies but hopefully :)) thank you for listening
I’m not really sure where to post this, but I could really use some perspective from people who have been through something similar.
I was recently laid off from my job, and I obviously need to start looking for another one. The strange thing is that I know I’m capable, I have skills, I have things I want to achieve, and I’ve been ambitious and curious for most of my life. But right now, I cannot seem to make myself do anything.
I live with my boyfriend, and he goes to the office during the day. Once he leaves, the entire day feels incredibly long and boring. I find myself with hours and hours of empty time, and instead of using that time to work on my career or learn something, I often end up sleeping during the day for 5–6 hours just to escape the feeling of having such a long day ahead of me.
Then I wake up feeling horrible because I’ve wasted the day.
And the cycle repeats.
What scares me is that this doesn’t feel like the person I used to be. I used to have so much zeal. I genuinely enjoyed learning things, building things, chasing goals and figuring out what I wanted to do next. Now I have goals and ambitions in my head, but almost no drive to actually pursue them.
I know I need to apply for jobs, but even opening LinkedIn or working on applications feels exhausting. Sometimes I wonder if I actually don’t want to work anymore, or if I’m just so mentally stuck that I can’t get myself to want anything.
I also wonder how much my environment is contributing to this. When my boyfriend leaves for work, I’m basically alone at home for the entire day with no external structure. Maybe I’m not getting the same “kick” that comes from having somewhere to be, people around me, deadlines, etc.
I don’t want to stay like this. I know I have a lot of potential, and I want to get myself out of this zone.
I’m not looking for someone to tell me to “just be productive.” I’m genuinely trying to understand what’s happening to me and how I can start moving forward again.
I’ve done physical labor and IT most of my life, recently ran up “against it” and can’t find a path to rebuild.
They say surround yourself with people you’d like to emulate so I ran across this sub.
I’m a jack of all trades type, Physics major in college because I couldn’t commit to an engineering discipline, I spent a year quadrupling a Roth IRA in the 2000s, flipped houses through my own labor, very Gen X “figure it out” mentality.
Now I can’t figure it out and I have a 3yo so my stakes have raised.
I can’t even imagine an opportunity to pick myself up again but I see so many of you half my age popping in and out of fortunes so I’d be grateful to hear any outside advice that might change my direction.
I'm an executive-level business leader with a somewhat unusual background. I've built and run my own company, led marketing departments, managed teams and outside partners, worked directly with owners and executives, worked alongside technical teams, advised businesses, and spent a large part of my career solving problems that don't fit neatly into a single job description.
My experience spans strategy, business development, marketing, technology, team leadership, operations, positioning, growth, and more.
The problem is that my career history is unconventional, and traditional hiring systems don't handle unconventional very well.
I've found that when I actually get in front of an executive or business owner, the conversation is completely different from what happens when my résumé gets filtered through the normal process. People tend to see the breadth of what I can do, how I think, and the level at which I can operate.
So I'm trying something different.
I'm not asking anyone to hire me. I'm not looking for someone to vouch for me without knowing me. I'm looking for conversations.
If you're a founder, CEO, executive, business owner, or someone who works closely with people in those roles, I'd genuinely enjoy talking with you. I'm interested in hearing how you think about businesses, what problems you're dealing with, and whether there might be somewhere my experience could be useful.
I'm open to an executive role, consulting, advisory work, a fractional opportunity, or other ways I can put my experience to work and create meaningful value.
I'm at a point where I'd rather have a handful of meaningful conversations with the right people than send hundreds of applications into a system that may never give either side the opportunity to connect.
If you know someone you think I should talk to, I'd appreciate an introduction. And if you're someone who thinks we should talk, feel free to comment or send me a message.
I'm not looking for a favor.
I'm looking for a conversation.
I have been reading some of the posts here and would like to offer something fairly specific.
I am willing to mentor one person who is already building an AI product, an AI-enabled service or a business making serious use of AI.
I am not looking for someone who only has an idea and needs somebody else to build it. You do not need substantial revenue or a polished company, but you should have something I can see: a working product, prototype, service, early users, customer conversations or other credible evidence that you have begun.
My background spans more than 25 years in technology, operations, cybersecurity, transformation and organisational change. I co-founded and helped grow a technology services business to approximately 70 people across three continents. I now work through Almost Magic Tech Lab on AI strategy, governance, responsible adoption, agentic systems and the organisational questions that appear when AI moves beyond experimentation.
I may be useful if you are dealing with questions such as:
I am proposing a six-week, no-fee mentorship: three one-hour conversations, with a short written update before each one. We would agree on one meaningful problem to work on. You would remain responsible for the decisions and the work between conversations.
A few boundaries are important. I am not offering to build the product, provide unlimited consulting, find customers, make introductions on demand or fund the business. Mentorship does not imply employment, investment or partnership.
If we later discover genuine mutual fit, evidence and trust, I would be open to discussing a separate operating collaboration, advisory relationship or personal investment. There is no promise or expectation of that.
If you are interested, send me a short message covering:
A rough demo and an honest account of where things stand will tell me more than a polished pitch deck.
I've been looking for the right place to make such a request for a really long time. I'll try to keep this readable enough and on point.
I'm pretty young, probably most people don't expect to find teenagers around here. But I believe this is the best time to learn and be guided. I have my values and opinions on the world ( ill get more into them in dms, later ), the person I'd like to be, the kind of career and lifestyle I'd like to pursue, but my main issue lies in actually finding the best way to do this, what mistakes to avoid, what to learn, from where, even life and relationship advice and so on.
A little about me is that I'm 16, an artist and visionary. Or that's what I'm aiming for. One of the things I try to live by the most is being as open minded as possible, which would allow to learn and think freely without remaining stuck on certain ideologies.
As for what exactly I'd be looking for...well, first of all, someone with life experience. I would love to hear your story, what was missing in your life and how you managed to fill the gaps. About your dreams and whether or not you managed to achieve them. Maybe also about being too extreme in thinking and feeling sometimes and how to find inner peace/control such feelings.
Art wise, any kind of artist. If you published books, create short films, make illustrations, music; if you have a vision and a craft to teach, please do! Explain the whole process of getting into the industry, how, what kind of education you had, was it worth it? I'd also be more than happy to ask for advice on how to improve my painting techniques, movie shots, writing and much more.
I'm also very interested in the occult and religions, philosophy and theology. If you have studied anything in these fields, please recommend what exactly and how you applied all of this knowledge in your life or your art.
Besides building a better character, mindset and personality, I also have this desire for greatness that could only be expressed by changing the world. Every foolish youngling has, I believe, at some point, dreamt about this. I already have a plan that will be put in motion soon enough, but I'd still love guidance. I sadly don't have anyone in my life able to help with such things, most people here worry about insignificant material things. So you guys are my hope.
Also...I'd be lying if I said I'm not also looking for a friendship of some sorts or even more out of this. A muse, someone to to look up to. I know this relationship won't be fair so I promise to try to give anything of value that I own, back.
I'm sorry if I missed anything, do correct anything you might find wrong in my request or even post itself. Thank you for your time and I hope we can achieve something great together. Also really curious why you'd like to teach and guide someone in the first place?
Hello
I'm introverted, sensitive and a bit eccentric. I feel strongly about human rights and I have progressive values. I am a feminist. I love books, and I have a cat.
I am very intelligent, it’s my most noticeable quality, and I’m proud of that. Unfortunately, I am afraid I’m gonna waste my intelligence unless I get some guidance.
I’m not looking for someone who’s an entrepreneur entrepreneur and I don’t care about how much you have. I am not interested in startups, AI or computers in general. I am looking for a maker or an intellectual - ideally both. Someone creative, an academic, a writer, an analogue photographer, a professor, maybe even a doctor (I started med school, and I’m trying really hard to like medicine again).
I have many defects and I’ll mention some here so people can decide whether they are tolerable or not. I’m pessimistic, and I can fall victim to inertia - some call it depression. I cry easily. I’m demanding, skeptical, opinionated, combative, too honest and socially awkward.
I look reasonably good, if that matters. I am not looking for any kind of romantic or sexual relationship, though.
It feels childish but i am unable to be accountable to myseld and if someone senior genuinely feels they can be a my mentor and can make me accountable to them , please I need your help!
It's my First attempt and i want to make it last one too .
Hi, is there anybody who has enough space in their schedule to add me to a community, guidance, or any kinda support you guys can give so I can have someone to learn from and also feel a member of the community.
I am going through my ftmo demo trial and planning to move forward to a 100k paid trial if all goes well, which will *hopes high*
I have 1 year of paper trading exp, don't know any strategies yet, use RSI to plug in long or short, understand CFDs, no idea about futures but seems like almost everybody is talking about it.
Totally new to this space, lost all contact with the outer world since a year.
Zero circle, anybody wishes to extend a hand? I'd be more than grateful!
Any advices from you guys are welcome.
I’ve built businesses to seven figures, watched things go wrong, started again and learned more from the fuck-ups than the wins.
These days I genuinely enjoy helping people avoid some of the mistakes I made.
Got a business idea? Stuck on sales? Scared to start? Business growing and suddenly everything feels out of control?
I’ve got some free time for a couple of mentoring chats.
I've got about an hour free before the wife gets home 😂
If you're starting a business, stuck on an idea or just need someone to bounce shit off, hit me up.
Funny thing is I joined this community thinking I'd be the mentor.
Half the conversations I've had I've walked away feeling like the mentee.
That's probably been the best part.
Everyone knows something you don't.
So let's trade ideas, experiences and mistakes and see if we can help each other out.
DM me. I've got an hour 🤙
Hi everyone,
I'm writing because I'm feeling a bit lost and hoping to find someone who has been in a similar situation.
I have six years of experience in marketing. However, I have been unhappy for some time and now feel completely drained. I got into this field because I needed to earn money quickly (so I did an MA in Business Management), then, during the course, consumer behavior intrigued me; and lastly, I didn't have exposure to other paths.
I am really interested in political science and social anthropology. I want to study power structures, cultural evolution, societal changes, etc. Those topics seem worthwhile to me.
The problem is I have no academic background in this area. I've just started reading about it, but I'm not sure what I still need to learn.
I'm looking for:
a) A mentor who can help me figure out if a Master’s is an option for someone without a social science background. What should be my first step? While I am waiting to start my masters, how can I gain some experience, should I do certificate programs, etc?
b) I would also love to connect with individuals who are also transitioning from corporate work to academia or research.
I’m tired of feeling like I’m just moving money around. I want to do something that matters.
Thanks for reading.
Hi everyone,
I’m looking for someone who might be willing to mentor me in chemistry.
I’m 30 and currently teaching myself chemistry from the ground up because I’m preparing to study Biological Chemistry at university. My previous background is in nursing, so I have some biology and medical knowledge, but chemistry is currently my weakest foundation.
I’m especially interested in eventually moving toward biochemistry, molecular biology, and immuno-oncology research, so I want to build a genuinely strong understanding rather than just memorize enough to pass exams.
Right now I’m working through basic/general chemistry: atoms, bonding, moles, stoichiometry, energy, solutions, acids/bases, etc.
What I’m looking for is not someone to do my homework. I’d mainly appreciate a person I can occasionally:
- ask conceptual questions when I’m stuck,
- explain my reasoning to and have them point out where it breaks,
- get advice from about what I should learn next,
- discuss chemistry with,
- and occasionally have my understanding challenged.
I learn best when I understand why and how something works mechanistically, then practice problems afterward.
You definitely don't need to be a professor. Chemistry students, graduate students, researchers, teachers, or people who simply know the subject well are welcome.
If you're interested, please send me a message or comment below. I’d also be happy to hear suggestions for communities where finding this kind of mentorship might be easier.
Thanks!