Same Mentor. 25 Years. 6 Months. 12 Days. What Happened?

About this episode

The episode explores the contrasting timelines of training in auto damage estimating under the same mentor.

My father-in-law Mark spent 25 years becoming one of the best auto damage estimators in the industry. He started as a painter, worked his way through body repair, estimating, shop management, and eventually became an independent appraiser. He trained me in 6 months. Two years ago a student named Ty went through our program in 12 days, then deployed to a hailstorm and trained under the same mentor. Same man. Completely different timelines. In this episode I unpack what that compression tells u...

People in this episode

Host: Chris Stanley

Topics covered

• mentorship
• auto damage estimating
• career development
• training
• industry experience

Keywords

• auto damage estimator
• mentorship
• training duration
• career paths
• independent appraiser