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#75: What Makes a Good Mentor?

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Stephanie Manka

Stephanie Manka, Ph.D. is a wildlife biologist with 20 years of experience in mammal ecology and conservation, education, and outreach. Read her story to find out how she went from the daughter of a jeweler to a Ph.D. in wildlife biology.

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Everyone should have a mentor when trying to achieve something difficult in life. In science, mentors are unavoidable. 

They play an essential role. You need research experience to become a scientist, and mentorship is a central part of that research experience. In fact, in graduate school, your training and research is really built off of your advisor (AKA your mentor) and not courses or classes. 

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Therefore, choosing a good mentor is crucial for your success as a scientist. And to be honest, being a scientist myself and having worked with many other scientists, finding a good one can be hard – it’s not the default. It’s also hard to tell if someone is going to be a good mentor before you start working with them. 

In this episode of the Fancy Scientist podcast, I offer you six key factors that I’ve found to make a great mentor. I reminisced on all of my past mentors – good and bad – and pulled out the characteristics that they had that helped me grow as a scientist the most. I also talk about what you can do to be a good mentor if you have students or oversee employees. 

Even if you aren’t in science, you can still benefit from this episode. Finding a good mentor has been critical to my own health and career as an entrepreneur. 

Specifically, I’ll talk about:

  • Why having a good mentor is crucial to your success and you can’t do it alone (or at least as fast)
  • The six things that are most important in a mentor – even if they are hard to take or you may not like them at first
  • My experiences dealing with mentors who were very honest with me
  • What you can do to be a good mentor yourself
  • and MORE!

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