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With your host, Pete McKitis.

Hello and thanks so much for joining us here for episode 163 with Dr. Ellen

Encher. Professor Encher had so much good stuff to say about mentorship, mentors protég prodigies, making it all work.

So you're gonna learn one,

how Ellen applied mentorship wisdom

to double her income in one day,

two, the real meaning of mentorship, and three, two valuable things every

protégé can provide even the most senior mentor.

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right before you even finish listening to this. Now here's Ellen's story.

Ellen A. Ensher PhD is a professor of management at Loyola Marymount University in Los Angeles, California, and in 2017 received

LMU's Award for Distinguished Teaching

Ellen is a co-author of Power Mentoring,

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