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This High School is Doing Whatever it Takes to Mentor First-Generation Students

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In Homer’s ancient story The Odyssey , the goddess Athena, disguised as old man Mentor, reveals to the hero’s son the right path to take. Skip forward several millennia and across the Atlantic to an urban high school preparing teens for life after graduation, and the image of mentor-as-lone-sage doesn’t quite paint the picture.

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SUCCESS’ 2024 Women of Influence

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Female entrepreneurs , CEOs and community leaders who mentor and support young women provide invaluable guidance, helping them overcome challenges and achieve their ambitions. Experienced women who guide and nurture the aspirations of the next generation play a pivotal role in ensuring a more gender-inclusive future.

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5 Tips for Aspiring Female Venture Capitalists

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Being a woman in the industry just gives me a very different outlook, and the skills that I’m able to provide are very different as well.” She says it’s not uncommon to be mistaken for somebody’s assistant or an intern at conferences—people have asked her to get them coffee. And yet, her numbers speak for themselves.

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Eliza VanCort Is Teaching Women How to Claim Space Shamelessly

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I surround myself with women who are just extraordinary… And I’ve also gotten very good at getting anti-mentors out of my life. After her accident, VanCort lost many of her communication skills, and she feared becoming “trapped in her own mind” like her mother, who developed paranoid schizophrenia in her late 20s.

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How a SWOT Analysis Can Help You Gain Self Awareness

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Gary Vee speaks often about internal self-awareness, which is clarity on how we perceive our values, vision, goals, reactions and expectations. As an entrepreneur, you need a mixture of both internal and external self-awareness to truly succeed in every aspect of your business and life. Where are my superpowers? Human resources?

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Introducing the SUCCESS 125

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And for the sixth time, we have done the research to find the 25 most influential leaders in this space: the coaches, speakers, authors, mentors and thought leaders to know in 2022. He is a teacher, a mentor, a coach, a convener, and a doer. Coach, mentor, creator. But this year, there’s more. Tom and Lisa Bilyeu.

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How Women Are Rising in Business

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Betsy Dougert, vice president of external relations for SCORE , which provides free mentoring service for small business owners, wants female entrepreneurs in all fields to know that SCORE’s more than 10,000 volunteer mentors have their backs every step of the way. And some organizations are looking to help change that.

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