{"type":"rich","version":"1.0","provider_name":"Transistor","provider_url":"https://transistor.fm","author_name":"Blood & Rain","title":"Blood & Rain Episode 54: “Every man must be mentored.”","html":"","width":"100%","height":180,"duration":1098,"description":"How can you trailblaze, if no one has shown you where the wilderness begins?\r\n\r\nWhy would you go through what is known without a mentor?\r\n\r\n“I needed to learn it the hard way.”\r\n\r\nHow would you know if there was no one to tell you whether that mantra was truth or illusion in your latest use of it?\r\n\r\nTo the self-deprecating, they feel unworthy of such a service. Yet mentoring served the mentor as much as the student. \r\n\r\nTo the loner, the prospect of a mentor can be terrifying, as a distorted view of autonomy can be shattered. \r\n\r\nSome have a will to carry them on their own to where they aim to go, but much of that energy could have been channeled to go even further had it been guided by a mentor. \r\n\r\nEvery man needs that mentor. \r\n\r\nThe Blood & Rain Podcast\r\n\r\nEpisode 54\r\n\r\nEvery man must be Mentored.","thumbnail_url":"https://img.transistorcdn.com/u6hl8fuwwB18Aywm2kAv2kp28Yj8htMvLszwTACyDnM/rs:fill:0:0:1/w:400/h:400/q:60/mb:500000/aHR0cHM6Ly9pbWct/dXBsb2FkLXByb2R1/Y3Rpb24udHJhbnNp/c3Rvci5mbS9zaG93/LzIxNzE3LzE2MjI3/NzQ5ODktYXJ0d29y/ay5qcGc.webp","thumbnail_width":300,"thumbnail_height":300}