Nashville teens, college students, young adults and professionals can work with a Blackburn mentor entirely by video. Our team is based in Los Angeles. Each client has one dedicated mentor, sessions in Central time weekly or several times a week, and text and phone contact between sessions.
A city that keeps getting bigger
Nashville has changed quickly. New neighborhoods, new towers downtown, new employers in healthcare and business, and a steady stream of people moving in from other states. For young adults, that means opportunity and competition. For families, it often means rising costs, longer drives and a city that feels different from the one they knew.
Growth also means a lot of newcomers. Many young adults arrive without family nearby, and many teens are starting over at new schools in Williamson, Rutherford or Sumner County after a parent’s move.
Making a creative career work
People come to Nashville to write songs, play, record, produce, manage and build careers in music and entertainment. Those careers are real, and they rarely follow a straight line. Most involve day jobs, irregular income and late nights. A mentor helps creatives build the structure underneath the work:
- A weekly schedule that protects writing or practice time around a day job
- A budget for uneven income, with a cushion for slow months
- Concrete goals for the next quarter, such as finishing songs, booking shows or reaching out to collaborators
- Sleep, health and relationships that hold up around late gigs
Mentors are not managers or agents. They are the person who keeps you moving on your own plan. See accountability coaching.
Williamson County and Green Hills teens
Families in Brentwood, Franklin, Green Hills, Belle Meade and Forest Hills often have students in demanding public and independent schools with full schedules of sports, music, church activities and service. High school mentoring focuses on organization, follow-through and confidence. A parent or guardian joins the intro call and receives regular progress updates. Mentors are not tutors or admissions counselors.
College students in a college-heavy city
Nashville is home to many colleges and universities, so it is full of students, including plenty from out of state. Some thrive right away. Others find the mix of freedom, a lively downtown and new responsibility hard to manage. College mentoring helps with weekly planning, class attendance, using campus resources and making decisions about majors, internships and summer plans.
A note on nightlife
Downtown and Broadway draw visitors from all over the country, and the nightlife is part of the city’s identity. For a young adult who lives here, it can become a default weekend, every weekend. A mentor helps a client decide what they want their weeks to look like and build habits that support it. For clients who are in recovery, we offer support for people in recovery as one of our specialties, alongside their existing care. If drinking, substance use, anxiety or depression is becoming a problem, a licensed professional is the right step. In a crisis, call or text 988.
Session times for a Nashville week
Nashville is two hours ahead of Los Angeles. A 4:00 pm Central session after school is 2:00 pm for your mentor, and a 7:00 pm session after work is 5:00 pm Pacific. Sessions are 30 or 60 minutes on a weekly or monthly plan.
How a mentor helps
Whether you are sixteen, in your first year of college or five years into a creative career, the core is the same: one mentor, a standing time and weekly goals small enough to finish. With permission, mentors share progress with family. Read about mentoring for young adults and how online mentoring works.
Related
- Online mentoring in Atlanta
- Online mentoring in St. Louis
- When a young adult feels stuck
- Money and life skills
Common questions
Can a mentor help with a music career?
A mentor helps with structure: schedules, goals, budgeting for uneven income and follow-through. Mentors are not managers, agents or producers.
Do you work with families in Franklin and Brentwood?
Yes. We work with clients across Nashville and Middle Tennessee, including Williamson County, all by video.
Do you meet in person in Nashville?
No. Our team is based in Los Angeles, and Nashville clients work with us entirely by video, with text and phone contact between sessions.
How do we get started?
Take the five-minute assessment on our Get Started page. Our team reviews it personally and sets up a free intro call.
Get started
Want to talk with our team about Nashville? Call (888) 305 5422, email contact@blackburnmentoring.com or start with a short assessment. A member of our team reviews every assessment personally and sets up a free intro call.