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My biggest mentor has been the Benchmark partnership. We have six partners and a flat structure, and everyone is paid the exact same paycheck. It's a team model versus an individual model.

Mentors provide professional networks, outlets for frustration, college and career counseling, general life advice, and most importantly, an extra voice telling a student they are smart enough and capable enough to cross the stage at graduation and land their first paycheck from a career pathway job.

Being a mentor is something that's new for me but a role that I take very seriously.

Mentoring is a brain to pick, an ear to listen, and a push in the right direction.

It's wonderful to work with someone with mentor status.

Small businesses, you can give them capital, but what they often need as much is mentoring, advice and help with their business plan.

The biggest thing I want to see is that people have the drive to succeed. If they can 'take it or leave it,' I don't do business with them. I enjoy mentoring. I like people who want to learn.

Colleagues are a wonderful thing - but mentors, that's where the real work gets done.

I look at where I'm at today and realize that most of my success is owed to the mentors that was in my life.

I look up to people that are much older than me, so being a mentor is a full time job.