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Careers
How well you perform in your career hinges on more than just your technical skill. You can tick all the boxes, complete your tasks to a T, and still find yourself struggling to advance, gain confidence, and step into your full potential. This becomes more apparent as people start to move…
13 October 2022
If you’re an avid podcast listener, it’s likely that you’ve heard guests introduced as polymaths. Polymaths feature a lot on the Tim Ferris podcast. A polymath also referred to as a Renaissance Man, are people whose knowledge spans several unrelated fields. As I was listening to a…
7 October 2022
Mentorship
Dive into the different ways networks and mentors can help women achieve their professional development goals We’re all familiar with the old saying “It’s not what you know, it’s who you know”. At its worst, it explains nepotism hires, while at its best it encapsulates the importance of…
8 September 2022
Mentors
Take a minute to think about the best mentor you’ve ever had. It could be your boss, a colleague, a parent, a friend, a coach, or a college professor. Then, you reach a point in your life where you have the chance to do the same for someone else. It can be both exciting, and…
7 July 2022
When we ask women who have an interest in being mentors, why they haven’t put themselves forward, one of the most common responses we hear is that they don’t think they have enough experience to share. You wouldn’t believe the credentials and experience of the women who are saying this.…
8 June 2022
Meet Hesha Irani, a truly inspiring businesswoman who immigrated from India to New Zealand with a clear life goal – to follow her dream and build a strong career in the finance industry. A series of exciting job experiences, including positions out of the finance industry to other…
12 April 2022
Mentoring
Mentoring is a two-way value exchange. The mentee gains benefit through the experience and knowledge the mentor shares. The mentor gets benefit by developing their skills as a leader and guide, as well as many other benefits, which you can read more about here: Providing feedback to the…
22 March 2022
Communication
At OneUpOneDown our mission is to transform the way people connect, by facilitating and teaching the profound practice of mentorship. A wonderful thing about mentorship is the rich learning experience it offers, not only from the direct advice that is shared but also through the…
16 February 2022
We all have a lot of mentors throughout our lives. Our first mentors are our parents – they show us what the world is and teach us how to walk, speak, express ourselves. Our mentors then become friends that are older than us, a brother, a sister, teachers in school, colleagues at work,…
12 January 2022
Meet Tatiana Tikhonova, a self-made Senior Business Analyst who works the data as well as the ambiguity of everyday life with equal enthusiasm. Living in New York for the past 10 years, she continues to pursue the never-ending path to growth and to develop herself and her skills. She is a…
13 December 2021
Meet Amanda Dutko, an avid weightlifter and runner and the newest addition to the OneUpOneDown team. She is originally from a Swiss town but currently lives in France, where she constantly develops herself. She has worked in different fields and now specializes in supporting and boosting…
13 October 2021
Meet Xuan Wang, mentee and mentor at OneUpOneDown and Software Engineer at a health tech company in the UK. Xuan started her career as a philosophy teacher, but after 7 years in the industry, she decided to follow her newborn passion for software engineering. She strongly believes that…
17 August 2021
