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So today I'm joined by Stephen Gillen, and he is the CEO and executive producer of Shooting Stars Events. Recently, he was nominated by the UKs peace ambassador for the 2020 'Sunhak' International Peace Prize. Nathaniel Schooler 0:39 Stephen Gillen is a globally successful entrepreneur, Stephen Gillen is an award-winning international public speaker and film-maker. He is a successful author, director, and producer. His documentaries have been viewed in over 140 countries worldwide. There has been wide global media coverage on his work and life journey. On the 29th May 2019, Stephen had the great privilege of being nominated by the UK Peace Ambassador for the ‘Sunhak’ International peace prize and works closely on many innovative, global & humanitarian initiatives. One of these is on the board of UniPharma, a global pharmaceutical company which is the exclusive producer/distributor of a new revolutionary medical device, whom Stephen is also Ambassador, that is set to alleviate the suffering of and save hundreds of thousands of lives worldwide in the open wound industry. So we're going to talk about mentoring to start with welcome, Stephen. WARNING — AI Transcriptions Below May Cause Grammatically Correct People Serious Stress and Lack of Sleep! Stephen Gillen 0:44 Hi. Hi. Hi, Nathaniel. Thank you for having me. Yeah. It's a great joy. My pleasure. Nathaniel Schooler 0:50 My pleasure. So where do you start with mentoring? I mean, this is, let's start at the beginning, right? Because there's a bit of confusion, isn't there between mentoring, tutoring, coaching, and that kind of thing? So how would you distinguish between mentors, coaches, and advisors as well? Because they're sort of interlinked? Stephen Gillen 1:12 Yes. I mean, that is a great place to start, you know, is to get the specifics of this, and what is the difference? You know, because this translates really into everything that we do as people in the exchanges and the communication that we have, really, but the roles for this are quite defined. And they're quite specific, you know, in the sense that a mentor really is a long term kind of expert, who would school support and pass on knowledge and expertise to the protege or mentoring in a specific subject. So that would be there. Whereas a coach is more short term and more loosely based array of different stuff, which would be brought into that arena. Nathaniel Schooler 1:57 Okay. So a coach would be more sort of someone who would come into your life and help you get over a specific problem that you might have. Where a mentor is someone more kind of longer term on the whole? That's right. Stephen Gillen 2:11 Yeah, that would be the way to look at it. Nathaniel Schooler 2:13 I've personally, I've had all sorts of different coaches over the years, and, from people who sort of specialize in neuro linguistic programming, you know, all sorts of different people to help me to kind of evolve as an individual, you know what I mean? And it's amazing, the kind of problems that you seem to just absorb in your brain that stop you from achieving things, they just hit you, you know. Stephen Gillen 2:43 Yeah, I mean, look, this is a fascinating subject. And, you know, I have wonderful, wonderful stories about there, in, you know, in the sense, I mean, on my entrepreneurial journey, years ago, I've been, I'm drawn to one story of one of my first mentors. Now, you know, he was aged 40 at the time, you know, and it sold his scaffold in company, him and his partner at the time for 13 million pounds. So they had 50. So this was someone who really done it at a really, you know, early age, and there was a really wonderful person, obviously, very shrewd, and business, you know, and when I walked through that door using years ago, he, you know, he, he, he looked at me, you know, we had a few exchanges, and he said, Stephen, okay, I only want you to change one thing. I said, Okay.