Love Your Story

The Mentor – We’re all in this Together Welcome to the Love Your Story podcast. You are tuned in for episode 100, and today we are talking about the third story archetype (the third one I’ve tackled on the podcast) – the Mentor.  Joseph Campbell, in his book https://www.amazon.com/Thousand-Faces-Collected-Joseph-Campbell/dp/1577315936/&tag=mythcreants-20 (The Hero of a Thousand Faces), claimed that the most popular stories over millennia and across cultures, share a specific formula- the hero’s journeHero’s hero’s Journey has a specific plot structure, but it also has a repeating cast of characters, known as character archetypes. Archetypes tell us the role a character plays in the story – for instance, the hero is one of the archetypes, the threshold guardian that talked about in episode 72 is another, and the Herald that we talked about in episode 93 is yet another example. The archetype we’re talking about today is the MENTOR.  You’ll want to tune in today because nobody does this thing cal