Gregory Diehl

I’m Gregory Diehl, a business and personal development author with more than ten years of global mentorship and coaching experience. One of my latest books, The Heroic and Exceptional Minority: A Guide to Mythological Self-Awareness and Growth, addresses challenges to personal growth and lifestyle faced by people who don’t fit into society’s narrative and mold. Another, Everyone Is an Entrepreneur, helps ordinary people embrace personal and economic freedom by learning to see the world entrepreneurially.

My mentorship is unique, direct, and powerful. I am not shy about diving deep into the realms of philosophical discussions, starting engaging debates, asking insightful questions, and fostering critical thinking and active participation to help my clients discover who they are and embody their values better. My goal is to provide a stimulating environment where people can be guided and challenged into profound new levels of personal growth.

I know that developing as a person goes beyond pumping yourself up with platitudes and generic advice—it involves understanding yourself at the deepest possible level. You have to learn to express and embody what matters most to you. That is the tactical guidance I promise you. Beyond aspects of your personal development, we will cover specific areas of goals and limitations you find most interesting or meaningful. I tailor the content of our sessions to ability, age, personal background, and preferences.

I have more than ten years of coaching and mentorship experience in several countries around the world, including East Asia, Eastern Europe, and South America. I am World Coach Institute certified and incredibly well-read on psychology and the development of personality. The way we think, communicate, and define ourselves is my passion. I like to work with clients who have reached an intermediate or advanced state of personal growth and want to break through to higher levels but feel frustrated that few coaches and mentors can help them excel further.

As I see it, the point of mentorship is to circumvent the same mistakes the mentor has already made in the pursuit of their own personal development – except to the extent that those mistakes would teach the mentee something of value. The outcome is that those who are in a position to learn are spared wasted time, energy, and suffering that otherwise would have been expended in the pursuit of their own development. They get where they are going faster, and they ascend to higher peaks of their own identities as a result of the tools and beneficial influence bestowed by the mentor.

A mentor or guide does not merely help someone get their life onto the track they think it ought to be on. They encourage them to consider if the road itself is the one they want to take at all. They help the student determine where they are, where they ought to be going, and how they might best arrive there.

A mentor works first on developing an individual's emotional capacity, which in turn opens them up to a wider range of experiences and the wisdom that will come from them. A mentor prepares others for the weight of deeper understanding, but they do not magically bestow this understanding. Those who lack emotional maturity will not know how to integrate their experiences, derive meaningful lessons from them, and change their lives accordingly. The mentor helps them become a version of themselves that will go on to accomplish with ease for all their remaining life experiences.

The goal of the mentor is to obsolete themselves and render their own services superfluous as the student grows capable of filling this function in their own life.

I specialize in mentoring people to overcome the blindspots and limitations of their cultural conditioning. Cultural conditioning is the set of circumstances that forms your unconscious expectations about how the world works and how you ought to act within it. Those who think they have no cultural conditioning are the most conditioned of all because they are blind to how they have been shaped to perceive and behave.

My mentorship is about making the unconscious within individuals conscious so that they can make rational choices about what lessons to derive from their experiences – what behaviors and values to hold onto because they actually serve a purpose in authentic self-expression and personal development.