Guest Contributor – Alyssa Mages, BS, CVT
Mentorship is personal and tough to define. Alyssa Mages shares her experiences with mentors and their contributions.
My mentors were strong and fearless in my eyes. They looked for the potential in people and when they found it, whatever it was, they helped it to flourish, to grow, to become. They did not give up!”
Source: Mentorship, Empowering Veterinary Teams, June 2020. Link. A mentor is not someone who stands up on a soapbox or behind a podium to relay their pearls of wisdom. It’s a person who takes the mirror and turns it outward forcing us to look at and see our true selves. That individual often makes us uncomfortable at times, gets us gritting our teeth and pushing through to become that pearl we always could have been.
INSIGHTS: Throughout the pandemic and through their business, Empowering Veterinary Teams (EVT), Mages and partner Caitlin Keat, BS, MS, have worked to support and inspire veterinary team members taxed with myriad changes in how work and life are transpiring.