ILLANA RAIA: THE EPIC MENTOR GUIDE
On Big Blend Radio: Illana Raia discusses her new book “The Epic Mentor Guide.” Watch here in the YouTube player or listen/download the podcast on Spreaker, PodBean, or SoundCloud.
Imagine if you found the perfect mentor before you actually started work? Now imagine you could ask her anything. “The Epic Mentor Guide” matches questions from girls eyeing and entering the workforce with answers from 180 boss women already there.
Featuring wisdom from women in a wide-range of fascinating fields – think astronauts and news anchors, CEOs and surgeons, engineers and Olympians, Wall Street wizards and world-renowned chefs, fashion designers and award-winning film directors – “The Epic Mentor Guide” is a first-of-its-kind mentorship book that connects girls with their perfect mentor, answers their pressing questions, and empowers them to reach their potential.
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Recently named one the first 250 entrepreneurs on the Forbes Next 1000 List, Illana Raia is the founder and CEO of Être – a mentorship platform for girls. Believing that mentors matter early, Illana brings girls directly into companies they choose (Spotify, Google, YouTube, NYSE…) to meet female leaders face to face. Illana is a member of the International Space Station National Lab Education Subcommittee, serves on the National Girls’ Collaborative Champions Board, and has authored 60+ articles for HuffPost, Ms. Magazine and Thrive Global. Her award-winning book “Être: Girls, Who Do You Want To Be?” was released on Day of the Girl 2019, featuring wisdom from 40 luminary women like Arianna Huffington, Debra Messing and Reshma Saujani alongside quotes from 50 girls. Prior to launching Être in 2016, Illana was a corporate attorney at Skadden Arps in NYC and a guest lecturer at Columbia University. She graduated from Smith College and the University of Chicago Law School, and remains unapologetically nerdy. More: https://www.etregirls.com/
