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Imagine if you found the perfect mentor before you actually started work Now imagine you could ask her anything.The Epic Mentor Guidematches questions from girls eyeing and entering the workforce with answers from 180 boss women already there.Wondering what it's like to be the first female coach or general manager of any men's professional sports team AskNancy LiebermanorKim Ng. Want to know whatVeronica Beardthinks you should wear to work, whyTyra Banksover-prepares for every meeting, howHaben Girmagraduated Harvard Law School deaf and blind, or whatBobbi Brownwants you to do when you hear the wordnoat work We did too. Thinking about careers in media, medicine, or metadata Wish you could interviewTheSkimmfounders, NASA astronauts, Olympic athletes, or execs at companies likeBillboard, Spotify, ESPN, NIKE, LEGO, TikTok, Google,and theNYSE We felt the same way.
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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 as early as middle school, Illana brings girls directly into companies they select to meet female leaders face to face. Illana is a member of the International Space Station U.S. National Lab Education Subcommittee and serves on the National Girls' Collaborative Champions Board. She has appeared on TV, radio and podcasts and speaks on topics including mentorship, leadership and what girls eyeing - and entering - the workforce are thinking. Illana has also authored 60 articles for HuffPost, Ms. Magazine, Worth and Thrive Global, and her award-winning book Être: Girls, Who Do You Want To Be, was released on Day of the Girl 2019, and her newest bestselling book, The Epic Mentor Guide, hit shelves in March 2022 and is available now. Prior to launching Être, Illana was a corporate attorney at Skadden Arps and a guest lecturer at Columbia University. She graduated from Smith College and the University of Chicago Law School, and lives happily in NYC.
