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welcome to shameless leadership i'm your host sarah dean this show is for women, transgender people, non-binary folks, as well as allies, who are committed to advancing their leadership while also advancing the leadership of those around them. In each episode, we will offer practical tips, leadership strategies, and inspiring stories to help you become a more confident, compassionate,

and inclusive leader. The truth is, you were born to lead. What might happen for you if you

were to wholeheartedly embrace that part of yourself? So let's start now, together.

Hello, shameless leaders. Today we're going to be talking about mentorship and in a little bit of a different

context than you might be used to. So when we think about mentorship in professional spaces,

we often think about people who are doing the thing that we want to do and we think about

how we can learn directly from them. And so maybe how they can help us develop a certain skill or how they can help us get ahead, which can be amazing and exciting and very

helpful and supportive. And sometimes those people are not immediately accessible to us. And so I

definitely talk to leaders all the time who are like, yeah, I want a mentor or I'm interested in mentorship and I don't have someone I can ask or the person that I want to ask or the person that I think would be a great mentor doesn't have the capacity to either mentor me at all or mentor me, you know, maybe in the way that I most need.

And I think that we often miss the opportunity

to open up space for other mentors in our lives when we have a limited view of what

mentorship can look like. So I think some of our most powerful mentors can actually be

from the people who are informal or unofficial mentors in our lives.

And so this can come from people who are who we know from outside of professional spaces.

So there's mentorship that can come within professional spaces. There's mentorship opportunities

that we can think of in terms of hiring a coach or hiring someone who does the thing that you want

to do. And I've certainly done this.

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