Aug 25, 2026 · 54 min · 13 segments
Mick Hunt - USA Today bestselling author, host of Mick Unplugged, and founder who sold his first insurance agency for $17 million three years after starting it from scratch - sits down to talk about…
Mick HuntGuest
Matt EbertHost
When it comes to leadership, the title of your book indicates, you know, you don't always have an example to follow.
Did mentors come to you by pure coincidence? Did you seek them out? Cause I've heard you refer to quite a few mentors.
So, um, maybe help, help me help the audience understand how, how did you go about finding the right mentors for you?
It's one of my pillars, right? Um, In order to go places you want to go, in order to get to things that you want to get to and accomplish those things, you want the shortcuts of others, right? So I'm always selective of...
what do I need in this moment? What do I need for the future to be the best version of myself? And so that's where mentorship came into.
So, you know, I just talked about Mark Vitale, who was my very first mentor in business, who taught me, you know, how to say yes to things, how to scale a business.
And then folks like a Damon John, a Chris Voss, a Robert Irvine, I sought them out because I, they were doing things that I wanted to accomplish.
You know, they all had books that I read and I wanted to get deeper insights into some of the strategies in a book.
And so- My first time meeting Damon, he was speaking at an event that I was actually speaking at, and I wanted to pick his brain backstage, and I just asked him a couple of questions.
And he said, you know what? I don't know you personally, but if the things that you're saying and the way you ask these questions are true, I want to be a part of what you're doing.
Robert Irvine said, I went to a book signing that he had, and I wanted him to sign a particular page in the book that struck me.
And Chris Voss, the things that he does with the Black Swan Group, just from negotiation and tactful empathy.
The people that you think would never talk to you, I promise you, the reason they have these mastermind groups, the reason that they have these courses that they do or these access programs is because they do want to be available to you.
When it comes to leadership, the title of your book indicates, you know, you don't always have an example to follow.
Did mentors come to you by pure coincidence? Did you seek them out? Cause I've heard you refer to quite a few mentors.
So, um, maybe help, help me help the audience understand how, how did you go about finding the right mentors for you?
It's one of my pillars, right? Um, In order to go places you want to go, in order to get to things that you want to get to and accomplish those things, you want the shortcuts of others, right? So I'm always selective of...
what do I need in this moment? What do I need for the future to be the best version of myself? And so that's where mentorship came into.
So, you know, I just talked about Mark Vitale, who was my very first mentor in business, who taught me, you know, how to say yes to things, how to scale a business.
And then folks like a Damon John, a Chris Voss, a Robert Irvine, I sought them out because I, they were doing things that I wanted to accomplish.
You know, they all had books that I read and I wanted to get deeper insights into some of the strategies in a book.
And so- My first time meeting Damon, he was speaking at an event that I was actually speaking at, and I wanted to pick his brain backstage, and I just asked him a couple of questions.
And he said, you know what? I don't know you personally, but if the things that you're saying and the way you ask these questions are true, I want to be a part of what you're doing.
Robert Irvine said, I went to a book signing that he had, and I wanted him to sign a particular page in the book that struck me.
And Chris Voss, the things that he does with the Black Swan Group, just from negotiation and tactful empathy.
The people that you think would never talk to you, I promise you, the reason they have these mastermind groups, the reason that they have these courses that they do or these access programs is because they do want to be available to you.
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