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Speaker 1: Welcome to Before Breakfast, a production of iHeartRadio. Good Morning,

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Speaker 1: This is Laura. Welcome to the Before Breakfast podcast. Today's

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Speaker 1: tip is that mentoring can be for a moment. Mentoring

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Speaker 1: doesn't have to be for life to be meaningful and influential.

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Speaker 1: So I recently encountered the concept of mentor for the

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Speaker 1: moment and Gallop's Strength Finder's Handbook. Regardless of your personal strengths,

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Speaker 1: appreciating the value of mentors for the moment can be wise.

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Speaker 1: You offer help when you can, and you take help

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Speaker 1: when you need it without feeling like any of this

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Speaker 1: needs to be permanent. Mentoring for the moment also allows

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Speaker 1: for casting a wider net for potential mentors and mentees.

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Speaker 1: For instance, maybe you've been out of the workforce for

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Speaker 1: several years, your next door neighbor is an executive at

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Speaker 1: a major corporation. You probably aren't giving this person professional advice.

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Speaker 1: But maybe you've just helped your two oldest children through

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Speaker 1: the college application process, and your neighbor has a high

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Speaker 1: school sophomore. You can mentor your neighbor through the process

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Speaker 1: as needed. Or maybe a summer intern on your team

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Speaker 1: has an opportunity to give an important presentation. You can

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Speaker 1: mentor her for the next few weeks as you teach

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Speaker 1: her how to be comfortable presenting in a higher stakes

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Speaker 1: professional situation. It's okay that this mentee may be going

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Speaker 1: on to a completely different field later. You are mentoring

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Speaker 1: for the moment. You can also seek out mentorship for

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Speaker 1: the moment. Maybe you've got a first book coming out

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Speaker 1: and someone has put you in touch with a veteran author.

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Speaker 1: You might arrange for a few meetups to chat and

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Speaker 1: ask questions without putting any obligation on that person to

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Speaker 1: keep doing these regular meetups long term. That makes it

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Speaker 1: a lot easier to say yes. In any case, mentorship

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Speaker 1: can wind up being made bigger and scarier than it

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Speaker 1: needs to be. In Cheryl Sandberg's book lean In, she

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Speaker 1: has a whole chapter on how younger people sometimes go

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Speaker 1: around hunting for the perfect mentor is going to make

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Speaker 1: their career. But the truth is that mentors often appear

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Speaker 1: when you are doing good work, because people get excited

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Speaker 1: about that and want to see you succeed. If you've

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Speaker 1: identified a specific need where you'd like someone's help, asking

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Speaker 1: for a very short term mentoring relationship makes it easier

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Speaker 1: for the person to say yes. You are not bound

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Speaker 1: for life. You are bound for the moment and you

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Speaker 1: can probably get a lot done during that time. In

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Speaker 1: the meantime, this is Laura. Thanks for listening, and here's

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Speaker 1: to making the most of our time. Thanks for listening

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Speaker 1: to Before Breakfast. If you've got questions, ideas, or feedback,

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Speaker 1: you can reach me at Laura at Laura vandercam dot com.

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