Mindful Mentoring w/Tom Martin
Mentors can play a critical role in our life journey. As a mentor yourself, you can change lives in profound ways. This 30-minute interview program focuses on successful leaders whose lives and careers have been shaped by mentoring relationships. It also provides useful tips for both mentors and mentees to make mentoring relationships more effective.
Episodes
23 episodes
Mindful Mentoring with Tom Martin- Episode Twenty Three: Marta Ronquillo Newhart- Board member, business executive, master mentor.
What is the difference between a mentor and a sponsor, and why are both important? What can we learn from Frederick Douglass the African-American orator who has been gone for over one hundred years? How do Latinos overcome unfair cultural stere...
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Season 1
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Episode 23
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22:27
Mindful Mentoring- Episode Twenty-Two: Lancie Affonso- Lessons from a Master Mentor
His journey began in Dar es Salaam, Tanzania, in east Africa. Lancie Affonso had never heard of the College of Charleston, but a single letter written by an honors student at the college drew him to become a first-generation student in 1992. Mo...
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Season 1
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Episode 22
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19:15
Mindful Mentoring with Tom Martin- Episode Twenty-One: Dr. Beth Goodier- What makes mentorships work?
Why do some mentoring relationships succeed, and others fail? What are the keys to a great mentoring experience? Thanks to groundbreaking research from the Martin Center for Mentorship, we are beginning to find the answers. In this episode, Dr....
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Season 1
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Episode 21
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20:57
Mindful Mentoring with Tom Martin- Episode Twenty: Nicole Moreo- How LinkedIn Can Help You Find Your Dream Job
Can LinkedIn help you find your dream job? "Absolutely yes," says Nicole Moreo, and she should know. Moreo is the head of Customer Insights for North America at LinkedIn. In this episode she shares some tips for how to make your LinkedIn...
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Season 1
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Episode 20
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25:35
Mindful Mentoring with Tom Martin- Episode Nineteen: MJ Biener, Palmetto Mentors
Can a college student create an effective mentoring program? Emphatically, yes! Just ask MJ Biener, a senior in the business school at the College of Charleston. He knew he had benefitted from the mentorship of other students, and he wanted to ...
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Season 1
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Episode 19
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12:31
Mindful Mentoring with Tom Martin- Episode Eighteen: Jamilla Harper, COO, Metanoia
How do you change communities for the better? How do you restore hope and belief to a community that had long felt forgotten? How do you empower the citizens of that community and their children to take charge in creating a new future? That's w...
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Season 1
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Episode 18
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19:17
Mindful Mentoring with Tom Martin- Episode Seventeen: Is graduate school right for you?
Graduate School, Is It Right for You? This is a question we hear all the time from current students about to graduate, as well as from those who have been in the workforce a few years but who are looking for a change. Will a graduate degree hel...
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Season 1
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Episode 17
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20:31
Mindful Mentoring with Tom Martin- Episode Sixteen: Making Career Decisions
How do you know when a job is right for you, and when it isn't? How do you get experience when all the job postings require that you already have experience? What are some ways to keep yourself "job read...
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Season 1
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Episode 16
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19:54
Mindful Mentoring with Tom Martin- Episode Fifteen- Andy Hilton, Communications Leader at Corporations and Agencies
“Think of your career as a lattice rather than a ladder. You progress through an interwoven network of mentors—both formal and informal. Be open to gaining new experiences that prepare you for the next challenge, and committing the time to ...
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Season 1
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Episode 15
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20:18
Mindful Mentoring with Tom Martin- Episode Fourteen: Linda Rutherford, Chief Administration Officer, Southwest Airlines
Be curious, never underestimate the importance of relationships, take care of your network, and admit your vulnerability. These are just a few of the life lessons Linda Rutherford shares on the latest episode. She is one of the senior leaders a...
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15:53
Mindful Mentoring with Tom Martin- Episode Thirteen: Jack Bartlett, Making it without Faking It
Should you fake it till you make it? Definitely not, according to Jack Bartlett on this episode. Jack, a Martin Scholar and Honors College student, graduated in 2023 from the College of Charleston. He is now an associate with Totem, a relations...
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22:13
Mindful Mentoring with Tom Martin- Episode Twelve: Bill Imada, Founder National Millennial and GenZ Community
Do you need an elevator speech when you're about to meet a roomful of new people? (Hint: maybe not). Why does networking matter and how can you get better at it? What is a "co-pilot" and how can they help you network? Our guest today, Bill Imad...
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15:26
Mindful Mentoring with Tom Martin- Episode Eleven: Chris Piedmont, Award-winning Mentor
How do you establish trust with a mentor? How do you know when the chemistry is right? What steps can you take to benefit the most from your mentor? In this episode we hear answers to these questions and others from the inaugural recipient of t...
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17:05
Mindful Mentoring with Tom Martin- Episode Ten: Improving Your Interviewing Skills
You've found your dream job. But only one obstacle remains...the dreaded interview. How do you nail it? What are the traps to avoid? How do you prepare? This episode focuses on Interviewing, a subject that should be of great interest to ...
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22:37
Mindful Mentoring with Tom Martin- Episode Nine: How Mentoring Matches are Made
This episode is unlike all the previous ones. Instead of focusing on just one mentor, or one mentee, we focus on one day, Wednesday, March 27. On that day, the Martin Center for Mentorship hosted a mentor-protege luncheon where members of our N...
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10:32
Mindful Mentoring with Tom Martin- Episode Eight: Bill Heyman, Founder, Heyman Associates
What does it take to be a successful mentor? What advice does an award-winning mentor have for students and recent graduates looking to benefit from a successful mentoring relationship? For answers, we turn to Bill Heyman, the founder of Heyman...
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13:56
Mindful Mentoring with Tom Martin- Episode Seven: Ann Barlow, Exec. V.P.- Peppercomm
At the Martin Center, we’re studying the keys to successful mentorships. What we’re finding is that both the mentor and the mentee enter a mentoring relationship with certain expectations about what they hope to get out of the experience. Some ...
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18:03
Mindful Mentoring with Tom Martin- Episode Six: Hayes Roth, Branding Expert and Mentor Extraordinaire
In the last episode, you met Taylor Shawver, a highly successful leader who was one of the first Martin Scholars. This episode you meet one of her mentors, Hayes Roth. Among other accomplishments, the firm he founded ten years ago, HA Rot...
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22:41
Mindful Mentoring with Tom Martin- Episode Five: Taylor Shawver, Senior V.P. and Co-founder, Integral
In this episode, Taylor Shawver, a College of Charleston graduate, Class of 2017, discusses her role both as a member of the inaugural class of Martin Scholars in 2016-17, and now on the other side of the table as a mentor to current Martin Sch...
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Season 1
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Episode 5
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23:57
Mindful Mentoring with Tom Martin- Episode Four: Anthony DeSanti, Network Sports Producer
Anthony "Tony" DeSanti has produced major league sports events for CBS, NBC, ESPN, Disney and the Big Ten Network. During his distinguished 30-year career he has covered the Olympics, the NFL, NCAA football and basketball, U.S. Open Tennis, Maj...
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16:25
Mindful Mentoring with Tom Martin- Episode Three: Jacquie Dalton, President Sparrow Exec. Jets
She was a high school dropout with little prospects for the future when she began hanging around a horse racing track in New Jersey, mucking horse stables and hoping she might one day get to ride. Someone took a chance on her and she ended up w...
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Season 1
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Episode 3
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25:07
Mindful Mentoring with Tom Martin- Episode Two: Steve Cody, Founder and CEO Peppercomm
Steve Cody has made a name for himself and Peppercomm, the agency he founded, by using humor in clever and creative ways. Steve's journey--from his early days at Hill and Knowlton, to his decision to start his own agency, to later try his hand ...
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Season 1
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Episode 2
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24:49
Mindful Mentoring- CofC President Andrew T. Hsu
The Mindful Mentoring podcast focuses on effective mentorship. In the program, we share compelling examples of successful mentoring relationships from those who were mentored as well as those who served as mentors. We have a very special guest ...
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