You Can Mentor: A Christian Youth Mentoring Podcast

In this episode, Zach shares an exciting update for the You Can Mentor podcast! The show, which started four years ago with co-founder Stephen Murray, has been dedicated to helping faith-based mentoring organizations collaborate, grow, and equip themselves with best practices. Over time, they’ve created 264 podcast episodes, a series of books, and hosted the National Christian Mentoring Gathering.
Looking ahead, the podcast is shifting gears with a new focus on quality over quantity. Zach explains that, while the podcast will still feature some familiar voices, the goal is to bring in the most valuable guests—experts in the mentoring field—who can provide listeners with practical tools and insights.

This season will also see a new episode schedule: bi-weekly episodes focusing on expert guests who can share mentoring tools to help organizations thrive. Zach also acknowledges that they’ve interviewed many of their contacts over the past few years, so re-interviews might be coming soon to catch up on what’s new with past guests.

The podcast will continue to provide resources like consulting, coaching, and downloads to support faith-based mentoring ministries. Zach encourages listeners to reach out with any questions, guest suggestions, or ideas for future episodes.

As always, the You Can Mentor team is committed to equipping and encouraging listeners to serve kids from hard places and their families. Zach wraps up by expressing love and support for all the listeners in their mentoring journey.

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What is You Can Mentor: A Christian Youth Mentoring Podcast?

You Can Mentor is a network that equips and encourages mentors and mentoring leaders through resources and relationships to love God, love others, and make disciples in their own community. We want to see Christian mentors thrive.

We want to hear from you! Send any mentoring questions to hello@youcanmentor.com, and we'll answer them on our podcast. We want to help you become the best possible mentor you can be. Also, if you are a mentoring organization, church, or non-profit, connect with us to join our mentoring network or to be spotlighted on our show.

Please find out more at www.youcanmentor.com or find us on social media. You will find more resources on our website to help equip and encourage mentors. We have downloadable resources, cohort opportunities, and an opportunity to build relationships with other Christian mentoring leaders.

Speaker 1:

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Speaker 1:

You can mentor.

Speaker 2:

What up, You can mentor audience? Hey. It's your man, Zach, here with a You can mentor update. Don't worry. Everything's fine, guys.

Speaker 2:

Everything's fine. I promise. But, hey, I did wanna share with you something that we are gonna start doing for, this next season. So we started the You Can Mentor podcast about four years ago. It was Stephen Murray and I.

Speaker 2:

Stephen's the executive director of Forerunner Mentoring up in Dallas. We just had a vision, right, to help faith based mentoring nonprofits collaborate, get equipped with best practices, get encouraged through relationship. We just wanted to hear from people who were doing the thing, right, who were mentoring kids from hard places in the name of Jesus, and it has been amazing. We have met some super cool people. We have learned about some fantastic organizations.

Speaker 2:

We have created, books. We've got 264 podcasts. We have the National Christian Mentoring Gathering that's happening in Colorado Springs here in a couple weeks. I mean, there have been some really cool things that have gone on with You Can Mentor. And so if you don't know about any of those things, hop on our website and check out I mean, we've got downloads.

Speaker 2:

We've got consulting. We've got coaching. Anything we can do to help you as a mentoring, faith based nonprofit, or ministry thrive, we can help out with. But we have decided to go for this next season at least, kinda test it out, see what's up, more quality over quantity. And so I have really been interested in just finding the the most valuable guests possible.

Speaker 2:

And so we've been fortunate enough to get into some really cool spaces and meet some really cool people that are doing some fantastic things. We've gotten in contact with some authors and, some people who have, you know, kind of a kind of a big following. And so, I am going to focus more on those and, kinda change up the rhythm some. John and I are still gonna hop on every once in a while. There's talks of me and Stephen Murray even hopping back on every once in a while.

Speaker 2:

But yeah. But if I'm being totally honest with you, we've, I don't wanna say that we have run out of guess. But, yeah, I'm I think we've interviewed almost everyone that we know. And so we we might even go back and try to reinterview people. Hey.

Speaker 2:

It's been three or four years years since we've heard from you. What's new? But yeah. But for this next season, we are gonna go to every other week, and we are going to focus in on some people who are kinda experts in their field, experts in their area to try to add some mentoring tools into your tool belt. So, everything's great.

Speaker 2:

We are still rocking and rolling, but that is gonna be our focus for the time being. So if you have any questions or comments, please feel free to reach out to us on social media or Zach,zach,@YouCanMentor.com. If you have any ideas of guests or possible topics that we can talk about, please feel free to reach out to me as well. But just know that all is well, but we are making that switch. So we sure do love you.

Speaker 2:

We are for you. We wanna see the Lord continue to use you to serve and mentor and disciple kids from hard places and their families. And we're here for we're here for you. Right? We wanna equip you with best practices, encourage you through relationships, so that you can do ministry for the long haul, because we love you, we're for you, and we believe in what you're doing.

Speaker 2:

So you can mentor. Know that. Believe that. And, holler if we can help. Serve in any way.

Speaker 2:

We love you. See y'all.

Speaker 1:

Thanks for tuning in to the You Can Mentor podcast. Give us that five star rating and share this podcast with your mentoring friends. Learn more at youcanmentor.com. Thank you.