Six women describe how WINGS mentorship changed their lives, giving them confidence and revealing strengths they didn't know they had. Mentors gain as much as mentees. The program works because it's a real partnership, not just advice from above.
What it means to me, it's— I can't put it into words. It's my life, you know, and it's changed my life drastically. I didn't know what a mentor was.
Any one of us could be these women. I had mentors. I would not be where I am today if it had not been for a mentor relationship, many of them.
It's really a partnership between them and us. It's not just about us helping them with nothing in return. They're, they're very much helping themselves, and we're helping to just give them the wings to do that.
It empowered me. It strengthens your confidence as a woman, as a professional. They do it all through simple acts, simple selfless acts. There's nothing that they're gaining back besides the fact The fact that they know that they're helping another woman better, better themselves and ultimately push their growth.
It's a give-get. When you nurture and support someone's personal and professional growth, you grow too. You grow yourself.
WINGS is a program that really connects with you on a personal level, that it brings out the other side of you that you didn't even know existed.
The mentor relationship is transformative in the lives of women. We see what's inside them, and all we do through the mentoring is just unleash that. We surround them and encourage them to really become the woman they already are deep inside.
The things that I've learned from my mentor, it can't be taught in the classroom at school. Things that I didn't learn in high school, things that I haven't even learned along the way of being an adult and being a mother. Toni now is— I believe in myself. I'm more patient. And I'm just— I'm excited about my life. I'm excited about what comes next and very hopeful for it.
