You Can Mentor: A Christian Youth Mentoring Podcast

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Zach and Stephen both made professional transitions in the last year and both have found themselves in new leadership roles.  This week in part 2 of a 2-part series, they join forces on the podcast to discuss the last 6 of 12 lessons they've learned over the last year in their new leadership roles. Purchase the You Can Mentor book:  You Can Mentor: How to Impact Your Community, Fulfill the Great C...

Zach and Stephen both made professional transitions in the last year and both have found themselves in new leadership roles.  This week in part 1 of a 2-part series, they join forces on the podcast to discuss the first 6 of 12 lessons they've learned over the last year in their new leadership roles. Purchase the You Can Mentor book:  You Can Mentor: How to Impact Your Community, Fulfill the Great...

Zach's on the podcast this week with John Barnard from Middleman Ministries.  This week, they talk about how Middleman Ministries uses skateboarding and other projects to build relationships with their mentees as well as some powerful nuggets of truth about reaching kids. Reach out to John: john@middleman-ministries.org Check out Middleman Ministries: https://www.middleman-ministries.org Purchase...

Purchase the You Can Mentor book:  You Can Mentor: How to Impact Your Community, Fulfill the Great Commission, and Break Generational Curses youcanmentor.com  

Our editor, Josh Manning, jumps on the podcast this week with Stephen to talk through his mentoring journey.  He shares the impact mentoring has made on his life, how he came to work at Forerunner as an after school program coach, and some of the lessons he's learned in the last year.  Tune in to also hear about his favorite book in the Bible and how he believes it applies to mentoring. Need somet...

Derrick Sier joins Lt. Cubit in this week's episode to talk about the ways in which you can rebound the misses with your mentee.  They talk through the ways you can inspire, equip, and launch your mentee using the tools you've been giving them as you mentor them. Purchase Derrick's Book: My Life of Lists Purchase the You Can Mentor book:  You Can Mentor: How to Impact Your Community, Fulfill the G...

Josh Meadows flies solo this week to provide a word of encouragement for mentors, mentoring organizations, and anybody thinking about becoming a mentor.  The invitation is open.  What are you waiting for to step into it?\ Neighborhood Hope - https://neighborhoodhope.life/ Purchase the You Can Mentor book:  You Can Mentor: How to Impact Your Community, Fulfill the Great Commission, and Break Genera...

Dylan Pohl from Victory Project joins Zach this week to talk through how their organization approaches mentoring in Dayton, Ohio and how they use the idea of "undoing" in their mentoring process. Reach out to Victory Project:  https://www.victoryproject.org (937) 224-0880 Purchase the You Can Mentor book:  You Can Mentor: How to Impact Your Community, Fulfill the Great Commission, and Break Genera...

Les Thomas Sr. (B-Les) on the podcast this week with Lieutenant Wayland Cubit, sharing about the importance of hope in youth mentoring. https://www.instagram.com/oneminuteorles/ https://www.instagram.com/lesthomas.sr/ Purchase the You Can Mentor book:  You Can Mentor: How to Impact Your Community, Fulfill the Great Commission, and Break Generational Curses youcanmentor.com  

"The Great Commission isn't a calling to be discerned.  It's a command to be obeyed."  This quote was spoken by Hudson Taylor and is the epicenter of this week's episode.  Join Stephen and special guest Trog Trogdon in this powerful episode as they discuss the importance and the practicals of making disciples through mentoring. Kingdom Focus Coaching: http://kingdomfocus.life/ Connect with Trog: t...

God created us for specific purposes. We are here love God and love others. Teaching your mentee to serve leads them to see how they affect the relationships and environments God puts them in. Purchase the You Can Mentor book:  You Can Mentor: How to Impact Your Community, Fulfill the Great Commission, and Break Generational Curses youcanmentor.com  

The world is looking to define us. Our social media feeds, the things we buy, and the places we gather are increasingly forming our sense of identity. Lifelong followers of Jesus must learn to process and understand the contrast between God's story and the stories we are fed about what it means to be human. Mentors make space to encourage their mentees to think counter culturally. Purchase the You...

This week's episode continues the conversation on encouraging your mentees to be lifelong followers of Jesus.  Join Zach and Stephen as they discuss the importance and the practicals of immersing your mentee into your community as well as the fruit that can come from it. Purchase the You Can Mentor book:  You Can Mentor: How to Impact Your Community, Fulfill the Great Commission, and Break Generat...

Zach and Stephen start a new series this week on how to encourage your mentees into being a lifelong follower of Jesus.  This week, they discuss some practicals behind how to start a weekly church service within a mentoring organization and the fruit they saw from trying to do so at Forerunner Mentoring. Purchase the You Can Mentor book:  You Can Mentor: How to Impact Your Community, Fulfill the G...

This is the final week of the boundaries series.  This week, Beth and Stephen dig into why and when of a mentoring relationship needing to end.  They also discuss how to end it well when a mentoring relationship does need to end. Purchase the You Can Mentor book:  You Can Mentor: How to Impact Your Community, Fulfill the Great Commission, and Break Generational Curses youcanmentor.com  

This week is episode three of a four-week series on boundaries within youth mentoring relationships.  Join Beth and Stephen as they talk through the practicals of who, when, and why boundaries should be set in your mentoring relationship as well as your role in setting those boundaries. Purchase the You Can Mentor book:  You Can Mentor: How to Impact Your Community, Fulfill the Great Commission, a...

Join Beth and Stephen for the second episode of a four-part series around boundary issues within your mentoring relationship.  This week, they discuss the signs that you may be having a boundary issue in your relationship.  It's not the most joyful episode, but you can be comforted in knowing that if this is you, you are not alone.  Both Stephen and Beth (and a host of other mentors around the wor...

In the first episode of the new year, Beth and Stephen co-host the first episode in our new four-part series around boundaries.  Join them today as they discuss the "how" and "why" of four important boundaries every mentoring relationship needs to have. Purchase the You Can Mentor book:  You Can Mentor: How to Impact Your Community, Fulfill the Great Commission, and Break Generational Curses youca...

It's the final episode of 2021!  Zach and Stephen join forces and pontificate about the lessons they've learned in stepping into their new leadership roles this year: Stephen as Executive Director of Forerunner Mentoring and Zach into his role at The Mentoring Alliance in Waco.

How do we reflect God's heart as we engage in mentoring a kid?  Josh Meadows, one of our newer hosts, is joined by Ben Page to discuss how God's heart is reflected through the "Five P's": Pursuit, Presence, Provision, Protection, and Purpose. Find out more about I AM 24/7: https://www.iam247.org Find out more about Neighborhood Hope: https://neighborhoodhope.life Purchase the You Can Mentor book: ...

How do you correct behavior in a child with significant trauma in their past?  Lt. Wayland Cubit and his guest, Amber Given with the HALO Project discuss a revolutionary new technique for disciplining in an honoring way both to the mentor and the mentee.  FACT went through Trust-Based Relational Intervention (TBRI) training and now Lt. Cubit is partnering with Amber Given to discuss the practicals...

What happens when you have an older teen mentor a younger teen?  You'd think it would be a lot like the blind leading the blind, right?  In this week's episode, Linda Rubingh from New City Kids joins Zach to discuss why this model actually works, how her organization empowers at-risk teens to be role models, and how you can empower your mentee to do the same. Find out more about New City Kids: htt...

In this week’s episode, Lt. Wayland interviews Taylor Wood from FACT Mentoring as she shares about her first experience becoming a mentor in their program. Taylor later came to serve on staff with FACT and was tasked with recruiting, equipping, and matching mentors. Taylor is gifted in connecting and loving on kids while they walk through difficult circumstances. We hope her stories and wisdom enc...

Happy Thanksgiving!  Stephen is flying solo today to give a short episode (everyone here at the You Can Mentor HQ wants you to spend your free time with family today) on some practicals for how you can go about cultivating gratitude beyond just enforcing "please" and "thank you".  Let's press pause today and meditate on some things we're especially grateful for. Purchase the You Can Mentor book: ...