The Mentoring Lab Podcast: Recent Episodes
Sarah Wheat and Kelly Foster
We are taking our passion for mentoring out of the office and bringing it to you through The Mentoring Lab Podcast! We invite you to join us each week for a mentoring discussion between two work bff's where we discuss key topics that affect women's day-to-day work experiences, career and personal growth. Careers are challenging, mentoring shouldn't be! Let's all be strong women building each other up as work bff mentors.
In this season 2 finale episode, Sarah and Kelly take a walk down memory lane and reflect on the many powerful conversations they've had throughout the season. From mentoring youth to navigating imposter syndrome, from the power of regret to the complexities of discussions behind closed doors, they discuss the key moments that have stood out to them and the lessons they've taken away as mentors.
Join us for a heartfelt and insightful conversation as your work bff mentors share their personal stories of building confidence as mentors, navigating friendships at work, and overcoming the many challenges that come with mentoring others. Whether you're a seasoned mentor or just starting out, you won't want to miss this season finale episode filled with wisdom, reflection, and inspiration.
Did you know that a study by the University of Scranton found that 92% of people fail to achieve their New Year's resolutions? As we move into Spring, now is the perfect time to revisit or set new goals as this season represents growth, renewal, and fresh starts. In this episode, Sarah and Kelly dive into the power of creating goals through vision boards and the wheel of life. Whether you're new to the world of goal-setting or a seasoned pro looking to level up, this episode is packed with valuable insights, tips, and tools to help you harness the power within.
Happy New Year! Did you know that in our lifetime on average we will spend over 81,000 hours at work! It’s no wonder pre-pandemic that office mates were once an essential ingredient in adulthood friendships. In this week's episode, Sarah and Kelly have special guest and colleague Kevin Campbell join the discussion on friendships at work. Join them as they discuss personal experiences with work friendships, leadership advocating for work friendships and how work from home has impacted making work friends.
Have you ever wondered what leadership talked about behind closed doors? If so, you're not alone. In this week's episode, Sarah and Kelly have an engaging conversation with Dr. Lenora Gant about how closed discussions can impact our recognition, promotions, awards, and overall opportunities within our organizations.
Dr. Gant is a retired SNIS officer, where she served the Office of the Director of National Intelligence as the Assistant Deputy Director of National Intelligence for Human Capital. She currently serves at Howard University, School of Business as a National Security Executive Senior Advisor and Research Administrator.
"As an individual no matter where you sit be your own advocate" - Dr. Lenora Gant
In this week's episode, Sarah and Kelly continue to answer career questions from Reddit about accidentally lying about your salary, negotiating salary for a new job, and questions to ask when interviewing with a new company.
In this week's episode, Sarah and Kelly answer career questions from Reddit. They share personal experiences about abusive work environments, having no clue what to do in life, the pros and cons of writing your own letter of recommendation and tips on how to ask for a promotion.
In this week's episode, Sarah and Kelly talk all things mentoring with Julia Cline, Aerospace Engineer and mentor. Julia shares the experiences early in her career and the mentoring advice that greatly influenced her. She also provides insight into mentoring initiatives at NASA through M.E.R.G.E with the 3 C's (Connect, Cultivate, Collaborate) and wraps up with some pretty awesome mentoring advice.
In this week's episode, Sarah and Kelly talk mindset with Jill Heiman, Mindset Mentor & Vision Coach. Jill is the CEO of The Awake Journey. She brings insights to the power of knowing our own story, how to use curiosity to get to clarity, welcoming fear and what it means. Connect with Jill on LinkedIn https://www.linkedin.com/in/jillheiman/ and her website https://www.awakejourney.com/
"Everyone is on their own journey, they decide when to awaken". Jill Heiman
In this week's episode, Sarah and Kelly have an engaging discussion with Maryanna Lanham, Executive Director of Dream Queen Foundation based out of Southern Maryland. The foundation serves as both a mentoring and networking platform for women and teenage girls. To learn more about the foundation visit their website at https://dreamqueenfoundation.org Connect with Maryanna on LinkedIn https://www.linkedin.com/in/maryannalanham
In this week’s episode, Sarah and Kelly have a mentoring conversation about becoming a confident mentor. Most of us automatically think confidence is something that a mentor can help build in their mentee. But what happens when a lack of confidence prevents someone from becoming a mentor? Listen as they share insights on how mentoring others builds the confidence we need as mentors, how potential mentees reaching out means they already see our value (even if we can’t), and that its okay to not have all the answers!
In this week’s episode, Sarah and Kelly share stories and tips on bouncing back and burnout. Not just getting back up to where you were, getting up and moving forward to where you were meant to be. Listen as they share experiences with FOMO, people pleasing, being the “yes” person, seeking validation and how career burnout can sneak up on you similar to the analogy of the slowly boiled frog.
In this episode Sarah and Kelly talk about, author Dan Pink's theory of "How looking backward can help move you forward". We discuss tips on how to move out of "Regret City" and into a better future.
When thinking about your life - is there something that you wish you did or something you wish you did differently?
In this episode Sarah shares about her experience with burnout and the ONE question that shifted her mindset. This one question kept her from taking up residency in regret city and motivated her to take the leap.
The question, "If I don't do this now will I regret it?"
In this week's mentoring discussion, the 20th episode celebration continues with part-two, where Sarah introduces her long-time work bff. Sarah and Ashley discuss the evolution of their work friendship and how the dynamics have changed as Sarah became a supervisor in the same office.
In this week's mentoring discussion, we are celebrating our 20th episode with a special two-part where we introduce our real-life Work BFFs. In this episode, Kelly and Tracie Dean discuss the evolution of their work friendship.
In this week's mentoring discussion, we talk about our experiences and lessons learned from going to colleague to supervisor.
In this week's mentoring discussion, we discuss what it means to be too nice at work and the negative effects it can have on us.
In this week's mentoring discussion, we talk about communication and connectedness while working from home. We share tips on how to better communicate and advocate for yourself with your supervisor and connect with others.
In this mentor roundtable episode, we have guest Miya Smith share with us her experiences working from home over the last year while upholding her roles as a leader and mother, the challenges, the adaptions and what she doesn't miss about being in the office.
In this week's mentoring discussion, we talk about the future of work. We discuss the mindset shifts we need to think about now in terms of how we show up to work in a continued remote environment but also how we operate and conduct our work.
In this week's mentoring discussion, we have special guest Jennifer Catallo, Account Executive and Relationship Manager at LinkedIn Learning. Jennifer shares her tips about how to best leverage LinkedIn for building your tribe (network), understanding your why, and her belief of reciprocity for building networking relationships.
In this week's mentoring discussion "Just Say It," we talk about Ruinous Empathy and how it can hijack our ability to provide helpful feedback or criticism to others. Do you struggle with giving feedback? Do you sugarcoat it or beat around the bush? You are not alone. According to Kim Scott, author of Radical Candor, ruinous empathy is the most common mistake most of us make when giving feedback. Listen to learn more about ruinous empathy and for mentoring tips to just say what needs to be said.
In this week's mentoring discussion, we have special guests Claire Meany and Regina Miller, Founders of Culture-Ricfic, Executive Coaches, Consultants and Educators. We discuss navigating our inner critic, giving it a name and what we can learn from it. Visit https://culture-rific.com to learn more about Claire and Regina - and their "Impact for Good."
In this week's mentoring discussion, we talk about building your tribe of mentors without being creepy, the different ways to find mentors, and our "dinner or funeral" threshold for mentors and work friends.
In this week's episode, we had a very special guest John Lee Dumas, the founder and host of the award winning podcast Entrepreneurs On Fire. JLD has interviewed over 3,000 successful entrepreneurs, and generates over 1 million listens a month on his podcast. We talked about his upcoming book The Common Path to Uncommon Success and his advice on mentorship.
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In this week's mentoring discussion, we talk about burnout at work symptoms from those Brené Brown chandeliering moments a.k.a. Sarah's Paul Rudd moments, causes and advice for managing burnout.
In this week's two-part episode, we talk about the "Listen Linda" moments of communication. In part 2 Kelly continues the discussion with tips on how to be heard at work and addressing those "hepeating" moments (yes, this is a real thing).
In this week's two-part episode, we talk about the "Listen Linda" moments of communication from colleagues who don't listen, gaslight us, and don't read emails.
In this episode, your work bff mentor Sarah shares a story when she knew she outgrown her job. We discuss what she learned from that experience and how to better move forward by learning to let go.
In this episode we discuss having courage at work. Specifically, the courage to say yes to new opportunities or say no to assignments, projects, job offers, people and things that may not align with your career goals.
In this roundtable episode we discuss our experiences with being authentic in the workplace.
In this episode Kelly shares about the time when she was asked to leave a meeting. We refer to this as her "Blissfully UnSelf-Aware" moment in her career. We discuss the facets of self-awareness and tips on becoming more self-aware.
In this episode we put things in perspective as it pertains to resolutions and goals. They are not the same thing. They are closely related and both are intended to get you to where you commit to be or what you commit to do. Understanding how to unpack this concept will help you be one of the 8% that keeps their resolution and achieves their goals.
When YOU are the most knowledgeable person in the room and Imposter Syndrome shows up – Who am I to think I can do that?
In this episode, with our special guest mentor, Ms. Charneta Samms, co-owner of Honey Bear Tactical, we discuss what is commonly known as Imposter Syndrome. That feeling of self-doubt that can try to creep in when YOU are the most knowledgeable person in the room and how we push through those feelings.
We are taking the leap and pursuing our passion! Hi, we’re Sarah and Kelly. Mentoring has been a big part of our careers for the last 15 years. We we are taking our passion for mentoring out of the office and bringing it to you through The Mentoring Lab Podcast. In this episode we talk about our vision and why we created the Work BFF Mentoring Movement.
We are taking our passion for mentoring from out of the office and bringing it to you through The Mentoring Lab Podcast. We invite you to join us each week for a mentoring discussion between two work bff’s where we discuss key topics that affect women’s day-to-day work experiences, career and personal growth. Careers are challenging, mentoring shouldn’t be! Let’s all be strong women building each other up as work bff mentors.