The Mentors

By Sergei & Vadim Revzin

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The Mentors follows twin brothers Vadim and Sergei Revzin as they seek to uncover how successful people build their businesses and careers from day one. Twice weekly, the brothers bring inspiring stories from entrepreneurs, artists, business leaders, and entertainers they meet in NYC, to tell never before heard stories of how people get started, even when they have nothing.


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Episode Date
How to Build Practical AI Skills Employers Actually Want
Nov 26, 2025
How freeCodeCamp Is Creating Thousands Of Programmers With Only 12 Employees
Feb 23, 2021
How An Engineer Turned Himself Into A Master Marketer And Successful Entrepreneur
Nov 18, 2020
What’s Next For The Mentors
Aug 31, 2020
How a SpaceX Engineer Launched a Rapidly Growing Consumer Health Startup
Aug 26, 2020
What You Should Learn Before Starting A Company
Aug 24, 2020
The Power of Small Actions and an update to The Story of A Homeless Neuroscientist
Aug 17, 2020
How To Impress Important People (Rebroadcast)
Aug 10, 2020
How To Have A Strong Sense Of Self Worth
Aug 03, 2020
The Story Of A Homeless Neuroscientist
Jul 27, 2020
How To Keep Pushing Even If You're Uncomfortable (Rebroadcast)
Jul 20, 2020
How Andrew Clark Turned A Small College Into A $120 Million Online Learning Public Company, Zovio
Jul 08, 2020
How Great Entrepreneurs Learn To Be Great Writers
Jul 06, 2020
The Fastest Way To Resolve Conflict
Jun 29, 2020
Why There’s No Growth Without Delegation
Jun 22, 2020
Why Starting Over In Your Career Can Be A Good Thing
Jun 15, 2020
How To Decide When You Have Too Many Options (Rebroadcast)
Jun 08, 2020
How Real Change Happens
Jun 01, 2020
Why Your Competition Matters Less Than You Think
May 25, 2020
Why We Need To Approach Our Careers Differently In Uncertain Times
May 18, 2020
From Running Three Companies At Once To Finding A Singular Passion With Michael Fenchel Of Paradox Ventures
May 13, 2020
How To Overcome Limiting Beliefs and Labels
May 11, 2020
How To Handle Self Doubt As An Entrepreneur
May 04, 2020
Should You Be Fundraising During The Pandemic?
Apr 26, 2020
How A College Dropout Ended Up Running A Sales Team At Google
Apr 20, 2020
How Darrell Silver Of Thinkful Taught Himself How To Build Companies Part II
Apr 15, 2020
Finding Focus During A Time Of Crisis
Apr 13, 2020
How Darrell Silver Of Thinkful Taught Himself How To Build Companies Part I
Apr 08, 2020
What Can Happen When You Set Audacious Goals
Apr 06, 2020
How to Get the Attention of Important People (Rebroadcast)
Apr 01, 2020
How Entrepreneurs Are Responding To The Crisis
Mar 30, 2020
Getting To Millions Of Users Through Word Of Mouth With Vu Van Of ELSA
Mar 25, 2020
What We're Working On During The Quarantine - Announcing School16
Mar 23, 2020
From A 7-Figure Event Business To A Global Leadership Training Company, With Claudia Chan of S.H.E. Summit Part II
Mar 18, 2020
Why It's The Perfect Time To Start A Company
Mar 16, 2020
From A 7-Figure Event Business To A Global Leadership Training Company, With Claudia Chan of S.H.E. Summit Part I
Mar 11, 2020
What Happened When Our Venue Canceled On The Morning Of Our Event
Mar 09, 2020
How To Build A Fashion Marketplace With Billions In Transactions, With Mona Bijoor
Mar 04, 2020
How To Get Influencers and Celebrities To Support Your Work, with Heneka Watkis-Porter
Mar 02, 2020
How To Tell Your Boss You’re Quitting (Rebroadcast)
Feb 26, 2020
How To Create An Unfair Advantage
Feb 24, 2020
Fundraising 201: When To Walk Away
Feb 19, 2020
Why Adversity Breeds Entrepreneurs
Feb 17, 2020
3 Questions Entrepreneurs Are Afraid To Ask Part II
Feb 12, 2020
How To Decide When You Have Too Many Options
Feb 10, 2020
How To Ask For Help (Rebroadcast)
Feb 05, 2020
How To Get Someone On Your Side When You’ve Made A Mistake
Feb 03, 2020
How One Experiment Uncovered A Huge Opportunity In Insurance With Natalie Gray of Cover
Jan 29, 2020
How To Know If You Found Your Calling
Jan 27, 2020
How To Get Press For Your Startup
Jan 22, 2020
How to Avoid Golden Handcuffs
Jan 20, 2020
How Ishveen Anand Is Scaling Sports Sponsorships For The Biggest Athletes In The World – Part II
Jan 15, 2020
The Virtue of Discipline and Empathy Learned In The South Korean Special Forces
Jan 13, 2020
How Ishveen Anand Is Scaling Sports Sponsorships For The Biggest Athletes In The World - Part I
Jan 08, 2020
The Secret To Greatness From Barcelona's Most Celebrated Architect
Jan 05, 2020
How To Capitalize On Your Failures (Rebroadcast)
Jan 01, 2020
Creating Your Own Daily Routines (Rebroadcast)
Dec 30, 2019
How To Make It In America (Rebroadcast)
Dec 25, 2019
Why Cheat Days Work
Dec 23, 2019
The Four Stages Of Becoming An Expert
Dec 18, 2019
How To Turn A No Into A Yes
Dec 16, 2019
Fundraising 101: Closing The Round
Dec 11, 2019
Can Empathy Be Learned?
Dec 09, 2019
Fundraising 101: The Investor Pitch
Dec 04, 2019
Jerry Seinfeld On Creativity And The Value Of Always Experimenting
Dec 02, 2019
Fundraising 101: Getting Investor Meetings
Nov 27, 2019
The Opportunity In Reversing The Flow
Nov 25, 2019
The Reality of Fundraising and How Most Entrepreneurs Get Capital (Rebroadcast)
Nov 20, 2019
Better Late Than Never
Nov 18, 2019
Fundraising 101: When To Approach Investors
Nov 13, 2019
How To Get On A National TV Show
Nov 11, 2019
The Art And Science Of Being Happy With Nataly Kogan Of Happier – Part II
Nov 06, 2019
How To Capitalize On Inspiration
Nov 04, 2019
The Art And Science Of Being Happy With Nataly Kogan Of Happier - Part I
Oct 30, 2019
How The Bullseye Framework Can Help You Choose A Marketing Strategy
Oct 28, 2019
The Systems And Habits Of Digital Marketers With Matt And Joe Of Evergreen Profits
Oct 23, 2019
How To Impress Important People
Oct 21, 2019
Negotiating Salaries, Speeding Tickets and Used Cars (Rebroadcast)
Oct 16, 2019
How A Team Of College Students Launched A Rocket Into Space
Oct 14, 2019
How To Turn Anyone Into An Ally
Oct 09, 2019
How To Choose Your Hero
Oct 07, 2019
Sales For Founders 101: Closing The Deal
Oct 02, 2019
How Quickly Things Can Change
Sep 30, 2019
Sales For Founders 101: Getting Meetings
Sep 25, 2019
The Power Of Now
Sep 23, 2019
Sales For Founders 101: Introduction
Sep 18, 2019
What's Wrong With Starting A Lifestyle Business?
Sep 16, 2019
How To Network Like A Pickup Artist (Rebroadcast)
Sep 11, 2019
How To Accelerate Your Career Like Kal Penn Of Harold And Kumar
Sep 09, 2019
Why The Future Of Mobile Payments Is In Audio With Rodney Williams Of LISNR, Part II
Sep 04, 2019
How To Define Your Own Success
Sep 02, 2019
Why The Future Of Mobile Payments Is In Audio With Rodney Williams Of LISNR, Part I
Aug 28, 2019
What Mindhunter And Watergate Taught Us About Being An Innovator
Aug 26, 2019
When To Seek Legal Help For Your Startup With David Postolski Of Gearhart Law
Aug 21, 2019
How To Use Your Existing Skills To Find Opportunities In A New Industry
Aug 19, 2019
Reducing Plastic Waste By Dominating The Sustainable Paper Straw Market, With The Founders Of SeaStraws
Aug 14, 2019
How To Know If It's Okay To Give Up On Your Idea
Aug 12, 2019
How To Build A Billion Dollar Company And Start All Over, With Nigel Eccles Of FanDuel And Flick – Part II
Aug 07, 2019
How To Become The One That Creates The Rules
Aug 05, 2019
How To Build A Billion Dollar Company And Start All Over, With Nigel Eccles Of FanDuel And Flick - Part I
Jul 31, 2019
The Power Of Saying Yes And Other Lessons From Improv Class
Jul 29, 2019
What We Learned From The Founder Of Draw Something
Jul 24, 2019
Stumbling Into Greatness
Jul 22, 2019
Becoming Unstuck – How To Finally Get Started (Rebroadcast)
Jul 17, 2019
How To Create Opportunities Like A Russian Oligarch
Jul 15, 2019
How A Food Scientist Invented A New Type Of Bread With Tristaun LeClaire of Simple Kneads
Jul 10, 2019
How To Stop Coming Up With Excuses
Jul 08, 2019
How This Award Winning Industrial Designer Is Reinventing Navigation, With Kevin Yoo Of WearWorks – Part II
Jul 03, 2019
How To Get Started In The Competitive Beauty Industry
Jul 01, 2019
How This Award Winning Industrial Designer Is Reinventing Navigation, With Kevin Yoo Of WearWorks - Part I
Jun 26, 2019
The Truck Driver That Retired On A Caribbean Island
Jun 24, 2019
3 Questions Entrepreneurs Are Afraid To Ask
Jun 19, 2019
The Inside Story of How Foursquare Was Started
Jun 17, 2019
How The CEO Of A Global PR Firm Got His Start, With James Wright Of Red Havas
Jun 12, 2019
You Don't Have To Be The Next David Letterman
Jun 10, 2019
Our First Assembly And Keeping The Attention Of 500 Eighth Graders
Jun 05, 2019
Chernobyl, The First Days After The Disaster
Jun 03, 2019
How Two Moms Bootstrapped A Children's Product To Millions, With The Co-CEOs of Slumberkins
May 29, 2019
Memorial Day And Our History With The Red Army
May 27, 2019
How To Start Solving The Student Debt Crisis, With David Chang Of Gradifi
May 22, 2019
What Happens After Shark Tank
May 20, 2019
From Field Sales At P&G To President At A Public Company, With Becky Frankiewicz Of ManpowerGroup
May 15, 2019
How To Talk To A Billionaire
May 12, 2019
From Introvert To CEO Of A Global 100 Law Firm With Andrew Glincher Of Nixon Peabody
May 08, 2019
What I Learned From Meeting RZA Of The Wu-Tang Clan
May 06, 2019
Starting A Gaming Company While Getting A PhD In Neuroscience At NYU, With Wayne Mackey of Statespace – Part II
May 01, 2019
How To Convince Other People That You’re Not Crazy
Apr 29, 2019
Starting A Gaming Company While Getting A PhD In Neuroscience At NYU, With Wayne Mackey of Statespace - Part I
Apr 24, 2019
How To Win A Nobel Prize
Apr 22, 2019
Building A Successful Travel App In A Competitive Market With Gillian Morris Of Hitlist – Part II
Apr 17, 2019
How To Get Past Embarrassing Public Moments
Apr 15, 2019
Building A Successful Travel App In A Competitive Market With Gillian Morris Of Hitlist - Part I
Apr 10, 2019
Why You Should Organize An Event
Apr 08, 2019
How Darius Baxter Built A 25 Person Non-Profit, GOODProjects, To End Gun Violence And Poverty In Washington
Apr 03, 2019
How This Founder Is Building The Netflix Of Africa
Apr 01, 2019
The Best Moments From 100 Episodes Of Our Show
Mar 27, 2019
What To Do When You Got 99 Problems
Mar 25, 2019
How To Pitch Anyone In 30 Seconds
Mar 20, 2019
How To Reach Your Big Vision By Listening To The Market
Mar 18, 2019
LeVar Burton and Alicia Levi - From Reading Rainbow to Partnering With RIF
Mar 13, 2019
Behind The Scenes Of The Mentors - Getting Great Guests
Mar 11, 2019
SXSW EDU: From 0 To 8,000 Attendees, With Founder Ron Reed
Mar 06, 2019
How To Get Motivated By Using Reframing And The Release Of Our Second Parody
Mar 04, 2019
Why World Champion Dancer Olga Nesterova Thinks Corporations Should Teach Their Employees To Dance
Feb 27, 2019
From A GMAT Prep Business To Running For President
Feb 25, 2019
Why Everything Is Negotiable
Feb 20, 2019
What We Learned From This 17 Year Old Entrepreneur
Feb 18, 2019
How Getting Bullied Made Us Stronger
Feb 13, 2019
The Importance Of Being Yourself And The Debut Of Our First Parody Song
Feb 11, 2019
How PathSpot Built A Hardware Business With Just A 3D Printed Prototype
Feb 06, 2019
How To Keep Pushing Even If You're Uncomfortable
Feb 04, 2019
How To Reduce Work Related Stress
Jan 30, 2019
How To Create Your Own Destiny
Jan 28, 2019
Lessons Learned From Two Weeks Of Talking To Customers
Jan 23, 2019
Getting 51 Meetings In 9 Days - Live Interview At A Bar
Jan 21, 2019
How Four Brothers Got A Deal On Shark Tank For Their Skincare Brand, Nardo's Natural
Jan 16, 2019
How To Get What You Want By Letting Others Win
Jan 14, 2019
Going From Employee To Entrepreneur With Author Steve Glaveski
Jan 09, 2019
Why Keeping Your Network Is More Important Than Growing It
Jan 07, 2019
How To Stick With Your New Year's Resolution
Jan 02, 2019
2018 Lessons From Our Top 5 Episodes
Dec 31, 2018
How Micah Brown Sold Two Companies And Started A Neuroscience Fund – Part II
Dec 26, 2018
How A Trend Can Become A Big Business
Dec 24, 2018
How Micah Brown Sold Two Companies And Started A Neuroscience Fund - Part I
Dec 19, 2018
Remembering Colin Kroll And How To Deal With The Struggles Of Entrepreneurship
Dec 17, 2018
How To Capitalize On Your Failures
Dec 12, 2018
Why We Spent $300 At A Russian Bathhouse
Dec 10, 2018
How To Think Big While Starting Small With Praful Mathur
Dec 05, 2018
What I Said When The CEO Of Sprint Picked Up The Phone
Dec 03, 2018
Can Entrepreneurship Be Learned?
Nov 28, 2018
What I Learned From The Mexican Drug Cartel
Nov 26, 2018
How To Ask For Help
Nov 21, 2018
Why I Didn't Start Instacart
Nov 19, 2018
Teespring's Meteoric Rise And What Happened After They Raised $65 Million, with Evan Stites-Clayton
Nov 14, 2018
5 Minute Pick Me Up - The Shark Tank Episode That Almost Never Aired
Nov 12, 2018
Becoming A Top 100 Comedy Podcaster With Jared Freid
Nov 07, 2018
5 Minute Pick Me Up - How You Can Build Entrepreneurial Skills Through Community Work
Nov 05, 2018
Growing An Alcohol Delivery Marketplace To 40 Cities With Lindsey Andrews Of Minibar Delivery
Oct 31, 2018
5 Minute Pick Me Up – How To Make Decisions Like A Fortune 500 CEO
Oct 29, 2018
The Three Books That Will Change Your Life
Oct 24, 2018
5 Minute Pick Me Up - The $30,000 Side Hustle
Oct 21, 2018
Becoming A Venture Capitalist With Diego Berrio
Oct 17, 2018
5 Minute Pick Me Up - The Making of Jackie Chan
Oct 14, 2018
From Trading Stocks To Building A Pet Care Startup, With Throw Me A Bone
Oct 10, 2018
5 Minute Pick Me Up - The Email That Got Us The Meeting
Oct 07, 2018
The Reality of Fundraising and How Most Entrepreneurs Get Capital
Oct 03, 2018
5 Minute Pick Me Up - Creating Your Own Daily Routines
Oct 01, 2018
The Importance Of Saying Fu*k It
Sep 26, 2018
5 Minute Pick Me Up - Update to Testing A New Idea Episode
Sep 24, 2018
Turning a Gelato Shop Into a 16 Store Franchise, With Frost Gelato
Sep 19, 2018
5 Minute Pick Me Up - The Case For Doing Door To Door Sales
Sep 17, 2018
How Kyle Bergman Sold 6 Figures In Sweatpant Overalls While Working Full Time And Going To School
Sep 12, 2018
5 Minute Pick Me Up - How I Met Daymond John
Sep 09, 2018
Negotiating Salaries, Speeding Tickets and Used Cars
Sep 05, 2018
5 Minute Pick Me Up - Testing A New Idea Part 1
Sep 04, 2018
How Food Period Built A Loyal Customer Base To Help Women Have Great Periods Naturally
Aug 29, 2018
5 Minute Pick Me Up - Starting a Revenue Generating Training Business in 3 Weeks
Aug 27, 2018
How Justin Dent Started A Multimillion Dollar Non-Profit While In College
Aug 22, 2018
5 Minute Pick Me Up - Sell Before You Build
Aug 20, 2018
How SoaPen Plans To Save 1 Million Children A Year, With Forbes 30 Under 30 Amanat Anand
Aug 15, 2018
5 Minute Pick Me Up – The Uber Driver Entrepreneur With A Fleet Of 12 Cars
Aug 14, 2018
How To Tell Your Boss You're Quitting
Aug 08, 2018
5 Minute Pick Me Up - Superior Auto Steam (Mack)
Aug 06, 2018
The Secret to Finding Big Opportunities, with Carey Smith of Big Ass Fans
Aug 01, 2018
How To Get Recognized On The Streets Of Philadelphia
Jul 25, 2018
How To Do What You Love In A Communist Country - Part III
Jul 18, 2018
What's The Point Of An Advisor And How Do You Find One?
Jul 11, 2018
How To Do What You Love In A Communist Country - Part II
Jul 04, 2018
Building a National Food Brand With No Investors, with Michael Levine
Jun 27, 2018
How to Land Major Distributors Like Whole Foods by Hustling Door to Door, with Adam Jones of Peloton
Jun 20, 2018
Turning a Hobby Into a Business, The Wandering Bear Coffee Story
Jun 13, 2018
How Julie Smolyansky of Lifeway Became CEO of a Public Company at 27
Jun 06, 2018
How to Quickly Test Any Business Idea Before You Launch
May 30, 2018
How to Do What You Love in a Communist Country - Part I
May 23, 2018
How Getting Fired Changed My Life
May 16, 2018
The Right Way to Outsource Your App Development, with Murtuza Kutub
May 09, 2018
Using Word of Mouth to Build a Million Dollar Shoe Brand, with Twin Sisters Jessica and Emily Leung
May 02, 2018
How Sufia Hossain Accidentally Made a Hot Sauce That's Now Sold All Over NYC
Apr 25, 2018
How Max Altschuler Grew SalesHacker From One Conference to a Media Company Serving Millions
Apr 18, 2018
How Bobby Thakkar Built a 6 Figure Business While in High School
Apr 11, 2018
How to Get the Attention of Important People
Apr 04, 2018
Public Speaking Techniques Used by Billionaires, Actors and Presidents
Mar 29, 2018
How to Start a Successful Coffee Shop in One of The Biggest Cities in The World
Mar 21, 2018
Launching Best Sellers, Going Viral, and Avoiding Burnout with Charlie Hoehn
Mar 14, 2018
How to Network Like a Pickup Artist
Mar 07, 2018
Building a Mission Driven E-commerce Brand and Breaking Into Retail with Mera McGrew
Feb 28, 2018
When Should I Quit My Job?
Feb 21, 2018
Building a 90 Million Dollar Business After 50, with Larry Petretti
Feb 14, 2018
Becoming Unstuck - How To Finally Get Started
Feb 07, 2018
World Champion Dancer Olga Nesterova, from the UN to the NBA Playoffs Halftime Show
Jan 31, 2018
Blockchain & Cryptocurrency: See Through The Noise, with Boris Revsin
Jan 23, 2018
Sadiq Samani - From College Dropout to Successful Entrepreneur & Standup Comedian
Jan 17, 2018
Negotiating Equity and Founder Breakups
Jan 04, 2018
Finding a Business Partner
Jan 04, 2018
How to Come Up With Good Business Ideas
Jan 04, 2018
The Mentors - Intro Episode
Jan 04, 2018