Babes On Bay Street

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Lauren. Advice, Wisdom, Courage and Inspiration

I asked Lauren what advice she would give to a young woman and she said her best advice was to pick your spot and be really conscious of the choices you are making. Lauren says she looks back at some of her job choices and knows she shouldn’t have made them, so she would advise a young woman to pick her spots. Lauren went on to say that this advice is particularly relevant with respect to choices about the people you are going to be working with and in this vein she added be true to yourself. Looking back, she said: “there’s a lot of crap out there and I think people…I think of some of the characters I was ...

Lauren. Relationships. Mentors, Role Models, Heroes and Leaders

I asked Lauren about the relationships in her life which have had the biggest impact on her work and career life. And she said: “I think my mentors had a big impact.” Lauren was very junior when her first mentor walked into her office, sat down and said: “you know Lauren, you just make sure that you tell them exactly where you want to go, don’t be in a job longer than two years at a junior level.” He was terribly senior and he took the time to encourage her, telling her “come on, you can do it, you can do it” and she has never forgotten it. At the time he walked into her office and sat down she says ...