S5E60: How Joining a Mastermind Creates Clarity

The Mentee Podcast

A Mastermind is an event for a small group of intentional individuals seeking to upgrade their lives and take “living the good life” to a whole new level. It helps bring clarity and leaves a significant impact on your point of view in life.

Vadim Makhlis, a renowned entrepreneur, joins me to discuss what compelled him to attend a Mastermind and what he learned there. How will joining a Mastermind help you become wiser? Listen to this podcast to find out.

Here are some power takeaways from today’s conversation:

• A Mastermind can leave a significant impact
• Find clarity if you feel lost
• Consider what you did and did not do
• We grow into the conversations around us
• Human connections are best made face-to-face

Episode Highlights

[1:02] Introduction to the Mastermind

Wyatt and Vadim met at the second Mastermind. Vadim returned for the second because the first had made such an impression on him. He'd been keeping an eye on Geoff because he was the host of The Mentee at the time.

[2:50] Why Vadim attended

Vadim had left the automotive industry to start another company that was only loosely related to the industry, but he found it “numbingly dull.” He felt a little lost after leaving a job that compensated him well.

He began to listen to Geoff and attempted to find his way. Then Geoff said something about the Mastermind that Vadim knew he needed.

[4:38 ] Money concerns

Vadim hesitated to join a Mastermind because of his finances, but a Mastermind was worth the price. What he learned made him his money back and more over the last five years.

[7:16] A Mastermind forms small, intimate connections

Vadim believes everything is better done face-to-face, if and when appropriate and possible. That is how you make human connections.

Many of these connections have brought Vadim tremendous value over the years. We grow into the conversations around us.

Notable quotes from the Episode:

[5:42] “I look back on the things that I applied, and then I looked back on those things I didn't apply. And how both of those things have made me money and whatever else over the last five years.”

[7:18] “There was a lot of value in the things that I didn't apply, and then came to see the wisdom of what I had learned but didn't apply, and then applied it the next time.”

[8:39] “Anything that's done is done better face to face… You just make human connections that way.”

Resources Mentioned:

Connect with Wyatt Graves: LinkedIn | Website

The Mentee Podcast: Website | Apple | Spotify

Join the Mentorship Mastermind Community and sign up for the Live Mastermind Event

Connect with Vadim Makhlis: Website | LinkedIn

About Vadim

Vadim Makhlis owns Monadnock Ford and is a partner at Shoreline Hyundai and Shoreline CDJR. Vadim has a lot of outstanding awards in his portfolio, including the 2014 Buick Mark of Excellence Award for Prime Buick GMC, General Manager, and the 2015 Mercedes-Benz Best of the Best Award for MB Hanover, General Manager.

To know more about Vadim's work, visit his website and contact him through his LinkedIn.