Not everyone gets a mentor. Not everyone gets someone to show them how life, work, or success really works. So every other Tuesday we do the next best thing.
Take It From a Mentor finds remarkable people and remarkable ideas. Entrepreneurs, athletes, authors, philosophers, films, documentaries and history. We uncover what makes them effective, then turn it into practical ideas you can use. Borrow the world's best ideas and make them yours.
Every episode ends the same way: with advice worth stealing.
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Confidence Solved with Aristotle and The Kings Speech
He was never meant to be king. Then his brother walked away from the throne and left a man with a lifelong stammer to lead a nation into war. What actually got him through it wasn't confidence, it was a philosopher who'd worked out where courage really comes from two thousand three hundred years earlier. One story, one sentence, and the answer to the question everyone secretly asks. Advice worth stealing, every other Tuesday.
15 Jul 2026
Andy Wilman: The Man Behind Top Gear and Clarkson's Farm
How does one man make a global hit out of cars, then do it again with sheep? The answer isn't Jeremy Clarkson. Meet Andy Wilman, the school friend who rebuilt Top Gear from a dead show into the most watched factual programme on the planet and stayed out of shot the whole time.
In this episode Dan pulls seven lessons from how Wilman works:
Sell the people, not the product. Make them feel something, don't just tell them something. Leave the rough edges in. Give it time. Treat the obstacles as the game. Build something people talk about. And build a team of people who aren't like you.
Plus the deeper point behind them all: why your best mentor might not be famous at all. They might be the person behind the scenes that everyone else walks straight past.
Mentioned in this episode: Mr Wilman's Motoring Adventure (https://www.amazon.se/Mr-Wilmans-Motoring-Adventure-Clarkson/dp/0241788951)by Andy Wilman, Top Gear, Clarkson's Farm.
If this episode made you think of someone, send it to them with a note that says thought of you. That's how mentorship travels.
Take It From a Mentor is made byhttps://tenmentors.com/https://tenmentors.com/ (https://tenmentors.com/), the home of mentoring music: (https://tenmentors.com/ten-mentors-music/)original albums built to mentor you through the inner critic, collaboration, and the challenges work throws at you. We make mentoring tools for the people every workplace depends on and every workplace often overlooks. If someone on your team deserves a mentor, that's what the Ten Mentors box is for. Find it at tenmentors.com (https://tenmentors.com/).
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2 Jun 2026
The Emotions We Inherit from Family
What kind of home did you grow up in? It's a question most people have never been properly asked. And yet the answer to it shapes almost everything. How you handle conflict. How you receive love. How you speak to yourself when things go wrong. How much you trust people. How comfortable you are with success. How you show up in relationships and at work and in the quiet moments when nobody is watching.
In this episode Dan talks about inherited misery. Not inherited money and not inherited success. Inherited emotional pain. The kind that gets passed down through families without anyone meaning to, from one generation to the next, until somebody finally notices it and decides to do something about it.
Because a lot of people are walking around with reactions they don't fully understand, patterns that keep repeating, a voice in their head that was never really theirs to begin with. And they think that's just who they are. But a lot of the time it isn't who they are. It's what they were handed before they were old enough to question it.
Dan shares his own story honestly. Growing up with a mother in survival mode, a home filled with criticism and emotional chaos, and the long slow process of understanding the chain before finally deciding to break it. From burning pages of anger and resentment in the garden to doing the real work of therapy, self reflection and choosing differently, this is a conversation about what healing actually looks like when it isn't dramatic or clean or instant.
It also goes into how inherited misery follows you out the door. Into the relationships that feel uncomfortably familiar. Into the workplace patterns that look like personality but are actually survival responses still running long after the danger has passed. And into the complicated question of what you do with the people who caused it, who are usually not monsters but wounded human beings who never got the help they needed either.
This episode won't tell you your family was perfect and it won't tell you to cut everyone off. It will ask you to look clearly at what you were handed, understand it as human rather than purely personal, and consider the most powerful thing anyone from a difficult background can ever do. Decide that the pain stops travelling through them.
One emotionally healthy person can change the direction of an entire family line. This episode is for anyone ready to be that person.
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