How do I find a mentor? | Episode 158
The Jess Connolly Podcast
Jess Connolly
4.9 • 872 Ratings
🗓️ 27 October 2022
⏱️ 38 minutes
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Summary
Welcome to the Go + Tell Gals Podcast! This season on the podcast, we want to answer the questions you’re already asking. This episode, we are demystifying mentorship through a seemingly simple question: How do I find a mentor? Jess and GATG team member, Caroline, sit down and break down the differences between discipleship, counseling, coaching and mentorship, and the value of the wisdom surrounding us through other women.
Whether you’ve been seeking a formal mentorship relationship or not, this episode strengthens our relationship with other women we hold closely. Each woman on mission has some kind of expertise, wisdom or insight in specific areas that you can humbly learn from, no matter your season of life.
In these relationships, find the places where you can be honest without buttoning up your life because we are looking to surround ourselves with women whose life leads you more in awe of God, not in awe of them. Formal or not, mentorship is just women walking each other home in the name of Jesus.
Let’s keep going. He is mighty in you.
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Transcript
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| 0:00.0 | Hi, I'm Jess Connolly, and you are listening to the Go and Tell Gals podcast. |
| 0:14.8 | We exist to equip and encourage kingdom women who are using their God-given gifts for the good of others and the glory of God. |
| 0:23.1 | If you are a mom, a student, an artist, a doctor, we are hoping that this episode will leave you |
| 0:30.0 | encouraged and ready to run. We're so glad you're here. Let's go. |
| 0:36.9 | Hello, friends. It's Jess and Caroline. Hi, guys. So excited. |
| 0:41.5 | Listen, let's dive right in. Today, we're talking about how do you find a mentor. Here are some of the |
| 0:47.6 | questions you guys asked. Where do I look for a mentor? How do I approach them? How do I ask them to |
| 0:51.9 | be my mentor? How do I get on the same page about the |
| 0:54.3 | relationship? How do I honor a mentor's time? And one of my favorite comments that wasn't really a |
| 1:01.9 | question that we heard on Instagram was, hey, I'm a little sad because I feel like coaching has |
| 1:07.6 | pushed mentorship out of the way. |
| 1:11.2 | And as women who consider ourselves coaching, we feel like that's what we do at Go |
| 1:15.0 | and Tell Gals, we grieve that too. |
| 1:17.2 | So we're going to dive in today and talk about it. |
| 1:20.3 | Caroline, let's just start off the bat. |
| 1:24.3 | Do you have a mentor right now? |
| 1:26.3 | Have you always had a mentor? Who was your first mentor? I want to hear the |
| 1:29.9 | whole thing. Yes, definitely. I think mentor for me has been common language. I cover from like |
| 1:37.2 | business school background. So that's like a common thing that almost people throw around is like, |
| 1:43.1 | who's your mentor? His mentoring you, |
| 1:45.1 | which is really interesting. Yeah. So you might be familiar with the word mentor and the framework of |
| 1:50.4 | career or college or education. And that's kind of where I first have gotten familiar with the term mentor. |
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