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Hard Thing #4: The 10x Mentor - by Anna Marie Wagner

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"Our greatness has always come from people who expect nothing and take nothing for granted -- folks who work hard for what they have then reach back and help others after them." - Michelle Obama

“I want to be you when I grow up…” I said, clarity unexpectedly dawning on me (a few years ago, at an age at which I fully expected to have been “grown up”). I was having coffee with a mentor of mine: the first female partner of a white shoe private equity firm who went on to launch a successful credit fund and then “retire” into becoming the most popular professor and a dean at one of the top business schools in the country. She’s a badass, yes, but my realization didn’t come from wanting to be a power broker on Wall Street (I had already quit that profession!) nor my desire to get back…

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