The Chris Voss Show - The Chris Voss Show Podcast – Base Camp: The Complete Guide to Mentoring by Martin Kidd

Episode Date: April 27, 2025

Base Camp: The Complete Guide to Mentoring by Martin Kidd Amazon.com Base Camp is a "how-to" book. It is written as a light, non-academic look at how one become a mentor and why. It includes an opportunity for reflection, preparation, action, and reaction. From the opening page that outlines the ideal reader, to the final page that completes the mentoring process, there are suggestions and anecdotes designed to make the potential mentor understand the rationale and process that makes up the mentoring relationship. Mentoring is more than just a chat in the corridor. It is achieved successfully only with a combination of self-awareness, vulnerability, trust, and respect without judgement on the part of the mentor. This book helps to unlock these characteristics. The target market includes an international and multi-disciplinary audience: I have tried to make the information relevant to all professions where professional support is necessary, across any geographical boundaries.

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to Mentoring out November 29th 2024 by Martin Kidd. We're gonna get into some of the details of the stories and how he can help you live a better life and some of the advice that he's going to give to us there. He is a father, grandfather and husband. He's a physiotherapist with 40 years of experience supporting others through various stages in life and career path. He's an actor and a singer, a writer and producer and a colleague and traveler. He and his wife, Andrea, reside in the deep south of New Zealand, having lived and worked across the country of Australia, UK, and USA. Welcome to the show, Martin.

How are you? Martin Lowe Great. Thank you. Thanks for having me, Chris. Chris Lowe Thanks for coming as well. We certainly appreciate it. Give us your dot coms. We're on the internet.

So you want people to find you out? Martin Lowe Well, we need for you to access a book on Amazon, on Ex Libris and Barnes and Noble. Those are our websites. Sorry, and at this point I'm developing a website which is not up and running yet. That will be something that will be available at some stage soon. Cool. Do you want to, do you know the website.com URL yet? No, I don't. No.

Okay. All right. So watch for that. We'll have a link for it on the Chris Voss show if you want to update in the future. The, so give us 30,000 over you. What's in your new book base camp, the complete guide to mentoring. It's around the whole, the whole perspective of relationships. And so mentoring is providing support for people in a non-judgmental, compassionate, protected, confidential way. providing support for people in a non-judgmental, compassionate, protected, confidential way. And we have to do that through our life, all the way from when we're kids, we are mentored,

and we actually provide mentoring for people all the way through our lives. I'm still being mentored by other people. And it's really understanding and unpacking what those relationships look like. Now the basis of that is understanding yourself. So if you know who you are, where you're from, what's your background, where do your values hang, then you're going to be much better at making a reasonable go at supporting somebody else.

Because if you understand yourself, you're more likely to understand where they're coming from. And it's the face in the mirror. One of the chapters is called the face in the mirror. So that's a very interesting thing we have to do in understanding ourselves as mentors is who are we? Where do we come from? I come from New Zealand, which is a colonial country.

I guess the US is colonial as well, when you think about it. Ours is a little more recent. And where had my people come from? What do they bring to my background to help me understand why I really like routine, why I love to hang out in the garden, why do I love my family, where does my faith come from, why do I have a good sense of what's right and what's wrong. Now all of those are intrinsic to you because of what's come before you.

Understand that and then you can start building your relationship with those around you who you have to support. Yeah. So, taking, what was the reason you wrote the book? What was the motivation behind it? I've seen mentoring done really badly, Chris, and I guess I think it's incumbent on us to share our experiences as we get a little older. And I certainly had a lot that I wanted to share so that those who choose to be mentors have a framework upon which they can base their relationship with the person that they're mentoring, not badly, put it that way. It's certainly been a long journey for me.

I've had hundreds of physiotherapy students, lots of early career colleagues. It sharpened and focused my ideas about mentoring, believe it or not, when I became a grandfather because my daughter and son-in-law, as first-time parents, needed a lot more support, I think, than what we had anticipated might be. And what does that look like? And I don't know if you're a grandfather Chris, but you know, you've got to do that sort of thing non-judgmentally too, don't you?

That's for sure. Yep. I mean, you know, I mean, you know, kids gotta have a little bit of room to bounce around and learn stuff with. They sure do. Yeah. All that good stuff. So tell us about yourself. I mean, you know, kids got to have a little bit of room to bounce around and learn stuff with. They sure do.

Yeah. So tell us about yourself. How did you grow up or some of the influence you had and what got you into these fields? I've grown up throughout New Zealand. My father was a priest, an Anglican or Episcopalian priest. And so three or four years, we upstaged and moved on to another parish if you like. He then moved into a more permanent role in the hospital as a chaplain and so we were able to put down routes through my high school and university years living up in the main

city of the biggest city in New Zealand, Auckland. I then went off to a physiotherapy school and we traveled pretty much straight away so my wife and I had children young and took our toddlers with us to Newcastle. We then went and lived in Michigan for a year. Had a wonderful time there up in the northern Midwest and then came back home to New Zealand where I've worked for myself in the private setting in other words you know self-employed. I've worked for myself in the private setting, in other words, self-employed. I've worked in a hospital setting, I've worked at the university as an academic, and so I've got a broad reaching remit, I guess, to provide a little bit of advice around all of those contexts of life, let alone having three children and two grandchildren at the moment.

Well congratulations. Yeah, so we've moved a lot, we've had to make a lot of adjustments and look at what support systems needed to be put in place for us to survive. For example, when we were in the UK, we lived with a three-year-old and a one-year-old. We lived in six different places in the space of 12 months. So we just kind of took them with us. And as long as they had crayons and a bit of paper, they were sweet.

It's really building up, we're drawing on those experiences, I guess, Chris, to be able to say, okay, I've got a broad range of experience of life in different countries, in different contexts of living, in different contexts of working. And trying to think to myself, well, how can I share that with other people? Because I think, as I said, as experienced humans, I think it is incumbent on us to share our experiences with others. Definitely, definitely. And so you have inside the book, the complete guide to how

to do it, how to, how to mentor people, how to get them. Thanks to our audience for tuning in. Order of the book where refined books are sold. It is called Basecamp, the complete guide to mentoring out November 29th, 2024 by Martin Kidd. Thanks to our audience for tuning in. Go to Goodreads.com, Fortress, Chris Voss, LinkedIn.com, Fortress, Chris Voss. Chris Voss won the TikTok and all those crazy places in the internet. Be good to each other. Stay safe. We'll see you next time.