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A
Great
well
thanks
all
for
joining
us.
This
is
our
first
of
three
kickoff
sessions
for
the
women
at
get
lab.
Mentorship
program
really
excited
to
have
you
all
here
today
to
have
a
discussion
about
mentorship
and
our
experiences
as
mentors
and
mentees.
I
think
it'll
be
a
cool
way
to
connect
and
share
experiences
to
get
excited
about
the
women
at
get
lab
mentorship
program.
A
I'm
going
to
welcome
liam
mcnally
to
the
call
liam
is
one
of
our
div
team
members
and
the
div
team
runs
all
of
the
tmrgs
at
git
lab,
and
so,
since
this
program
is
you
know,
partially
being
put
on
by
the
women's
tmrg,
I
would
like
to
welcome
liam
and
have
him
say
just
like
a
few
words
about
this
program
and
mentorship.
I
get
that.
B
Hi
everyone,
I'm
liam,
I'm
really
excited
about
this
program
and
I'm
I'm
really
excited
to
see
how
this
is
used
as
a
blueprint
for
other
underrepresented
groups.
Everything
get
that
and
how
we
can
utilize
mentorship
in
a
month
in
a
really
meaningful
way
and
use
it
as
a
career
development
tool
for
for
people
that
are,
I
get,
love
and
and
craving
that
extra
that
extra
mentorship.
B
I
know
for
me
personally
throughout
my
career,
I've
had
various
different
mentors
at
various
different
stages
of
my
career
and
it's
been
super
valuable
to
be
able
to
even
just
those
small
micro
conversations
to
be
able
to
bounce
ideas
of
people
about
your
career
progression
or
or
even
your
role
and
and
the
like.
So
I'm
super
excited
for
all
the
mentees
and
also
the
mentors
who
get
a
great
opportunity
to
to
connect
and
share
their
experience
with
others.
A
Great
thanks
liam
that
was
awesome.
Okay,
so
we
will
kick
off
our
panel.
We
have
three
panelists
joining
today
to
talk
about
their
experience
with
mentorship.
We
have
jane
amelia
and
flori.
A
So
before
we
get
into
the
questions,
I
would
love
if
each
one
of
you
could
just
take
a
second
to
introduce
yourself,
you
can
share
your
name,
your
role
at
gitlab,
your
location
and
also
just
anything
else
that
you
think
is
important.
That
people
know
about
you.
We
don't
have
a
specific
order,
so
anyone.
C
D
I
can
go
so
hi
everyone
thanks
for
you
know
the
opportunity
to
speak
familiar
based
in
sydney,
australia,
it's
now
306
for
those
in
the
other
parts
of
the
world.
So
I
guess
it's
good
good
evening
good
morning,
depending
on
where
you're
at
so
I'm
the
apac
channel
director
of
director,
so
I'm
everything
apac
channel
sales
and
in
in
this
part
of
the
world
and
nice
nice
to
be
here.
I
guess
that's
the
quick,
quick
introduction,
sam
yeah,
thanks
amelia.
C
So
I'm
jane-
and
I
normally
don't
say
my
last
name
because
it
just
distracts
everyone,
but
then
everyone
asked
me
how
to
pronounce
it.
So
my
last
name
is
gionee
sauce.
I
am
a
support
engineering
manager
based
in
auckland,
new
zealand,
where
I
get
to
look
out
on
beautiful
native
bush
from
my
home
office
every
day,
which
makes
me
very
happy.
I
I'm
looking
forward
to
celebrating
my
one
year
anniversary,
good
luck.
Next
week.
E
A
That
is
great
cool
thanks
lori,
I
didn't
know
you
were
part
of
that
program.
We'd
love
to
hear
more
later
on,
too
about
your
experience
in
that
program.
Cool,
okay!
Well,
thanks
for
that
everyone,
I
will
kick
it
off
with
the
first
question
and
similar
with
the
introductions,
we
don't
have
like
a
specific
order.
So
if
you
just
feel
like
compelled
to
answer,
go
ahead
and
also
if
someone
on
the
panel
doesn't
want
to
or
doesn't
feel
like,
there's
a
need
to
answer
the
question.
That's
no
problem
as
well!
A
We
can
move
on
to
the
next
one.
So
this
first
question
is:
what
was
your
biggest
accomplishment
key
learning
or
takeaway
that
you've
gained
from
participating
in
any
sort
of
mentorship
relationship.
E
I'm
happy
to
go
first
on
this
one.
I
think
the
main
thing
for
me
that
I've
learned
is
that
I
had
the
capacity
to
pass
down
knowledge.
E
It
definitely
built
up
my
confidence,
like
I
guess,
as
most
people,
I
have
imposter
syndrome,
which
is
usually
even
more
pronounced
with
women,
and
I
guess
it
was
good
to
see
myself
from
a
different
point
of
view.
Like
my
relationship
with
my
mentee
at
gitlab
was
quite
open,
like
it
was
kind
of
both
ways,
open
relationships
in
terms
of
communication,
and
I
constantly
got
feedback
from
him
as
well
and
understanding
how
he
saw
the
mentor,
the
mentorship
relationship.
E
From
his
point
of
view
and
what
I
had
to
give
him-
and
I
guess
my
biggest
accomplishment
is
that
he
got
hired
at
the
end
of
the
internship.
So
I
was
very
proud
that
I
could
teach
him
enough
that
he
was
trusted
to
be
a
full-time
engineer
at
gitlab.
C
That's
awesome,
you
can
imagine
how
how
good
that
felt.
That's
really
cool,
I'm
I'm!
Actually
what
I'm
sharing
refers
back
to
something
that
happened
like
about
16
years
ago.
In
my
career,
when
I
was,
I
just
moved
to
auckland
from
a
far
more
much
smaller
city,
much
slower-paced
city,
a
place
where
everything
you
had
to
be
a
generalist,
an
I.t,
not
a
specialist,
was
in
auckland.
C
You
needed
to
be
a
bit
more
specialized
and
it
was
my
first
role
where
I
was
truly
managing
people
and
rather
than
just
you
know,
de
facto
sort
of
being
the
leader,
because
I
had
a
lot
of
examples
of
really
bad
leadership
that
I'd
worked
with,
and
I'd
often
stepped
in
to
fill
that
gap
and
so
yeah.
I
was
in
a
leadership
role
for
the
first
time
very
little
to
refer
to
very
little
confidence,
and
I
was
really
fortunate
that
I
had
a.
C
I
found,
a
wonderful
mentor
and
an
individual
from
the
executive
group
at
the
company
I
was
working
for
and
the
key
learning
for
me
from
him
was
actually
about
self-acceptance,
and
he
I
was
so.
I
was
working
so
hard
to
work
out
what
I
needed
to
change
about
myself
in
order
to
appear
or
to
be
competent
and
credible
as
a
leader
and
I'd
come
to
him
each
week
and
I'd
share
these
things.
C
I'm
like
I
need
to
do
better
at
this,
and
I
did
a
really
bad
job
at
this,
and
I
just
I
was
really
awful
and
he
just
really
gently
but
kindly
led
me
on
a
journey
of
acceptance
and
going.
No,
you
don't
need
to
change
that.
Let's,
let's
seek
to
understand
more
about
you.
Why
did
you
feel
uncomfortable
in
that
situation?
C
What
was
it
about
it
that
was
uncomfortable?
What
would
have
been
more
ideal
for
you,
so
so
that
that
message
of
acceptance
of
going
it's
not
about
changing
me,
it's
about
learning
about
me
was
was
absolutely
enormous
and
it
you
know
16
years
on.
It
still
has
an
impact
on
me.
D
So
for
me
it's
so
I've.
I've
never
been
in
a
formal
mental
mentee
relationship,
but
I
would
say
that,
throughout
my
throughout
my
career,
I've
had
the
the
opportunity
and
the
benefit
of
you
know,
working
with
some
really
really
good
leaders
and
and
managers.
D
In
my
life,
where
there
was
an
informal,
if
you
will
mentor
mentee
health
relationship
and
and
the
biggest
biggest
learning
that
I
still,
this
was
with
one
of
the
companies
that
worked
at
eight
years
ago
called
autodesk
and
he
was
the
regional
director
at
a
point
in
time
in
office
asia,
one
of
the
biggest
learnings
that
I
had
you
know
working
with
him,
is
really
surrounding
yourself,
knowing
knowing
your
strengths
as
a
manager
and
a
leader
and
then
surrounding
yourself
with
people
who
have
the
strength
where
you're,
weak
and-
and
that
makes
for
a
very,
very
effective
team
and
a
leader
who
can
recognize
that
in
himself,
so
that
that
is
the
learning
that
I
have
that.
D
I
still
believe
in
that
you
know
I
I
practice
as
as
a
manager
in
my
current
work
right
so
yeah.
That's
that's
still.
That
to
me
was
something
that
is
something
that
I
really
believe
in.
A
Thanks
for
sharing
that
everyone,
it's
interesting
to
hear
how
each
of
your
learnings
is
very
different
from
each
other,
but
all
seems
to
have
like
a
really
strong
emotional
attachment.
I
think
that,
like
mentorship,
whether
it
be
formal
or
informal
becomes
a
really
personal
experience
and
that
I
think,
really
shows
based
on
what
you
all
just
shared.
So
thanks
for
being
open
to
share
that.
A
So
this
next
question
may
be
kind
of
like
the
the
flip
side.
Of
the
first
question
is:
what
was
the
biggest
challenge
that
you
faced
as
either
a
mentor
or
a
mentee.
D
I'll
start-
and
I
think
the
biggest
challenge
is
really
myself.
I
think
when,
when
we
try,
when,
like
I
mean
why
we
go
into
mentorment
relations,
because
we
want
to
improve
right,
we
want
to
you
know,
progress
in
a
career.
We
want
to
improve
or
become
better
versions
ourselves,
at
least
that's
one
of
the
main
reasons,
and
but
it
also
involves
you
know
putting
yourselves
in
sometimes
an
oftentimes
uncomfortable
situation,
challenging
yourself,
and
it
means
being
uncomfortable
doing
things
that
it's
not.
D
Is
it
in
your
comfort
zone
and
but
that's
when
you
learn
right,
so
I
found
for
me.
The
biggest
challenge
was
to
get
myself
the
comfort
zone
and
put
myself
in
an
uncomfortable
situation
based
on
the
feedback
that
I'm
sharing,
and
so
it
was
for
me
personal.
It
was
a
something
that,
within
myself,
I
had
to
challenge
myself
and
to
you
know
recognize
that
that
was
the
way
that
I.
D
C
Yeah,
similarly
to
that,
I
I
couldn't
have
called
it
impostor
syndrome
back
then
you
know
it
was
that
I
had
massive
self-doubt.
C
I'd
even
go
as
far
as
to
say
it
was
a
total
absence
of
self-belief
and
that
actually
became
really
complicated,
because
I
was
so
concerned
that
I
didn't
deserve
this
very
busy
very
accomplished
very
respected
executive
team
member.
I
didn't
believe
I
deserved
his
time,
so
it
was
really
hard
for
me
every
time
to
battle
going
back
and
engaging
and
going.
Surely
he
doesn't
want
to
do
this
anymore.
Surely
wait
wait
why
it
was.
C
It
was
debilitating
and
again
he
was
just
such
a
gentle
individual
that
it
helped,
but
so
yeah,
my
own
sense
of
self-doubt,
which
I
think
obviously
improved
through
that
relationship,
but
it
was
the
biggest
challenge
of
the
relationship.
Was
every
time
turning
up
and
going.
I
don't
know
if
I
deserve
to
be
here.
It
was
yeah.
It
was
really
hard.
E
That's
that's
very
relatable.
I,
if
that's
okay,
I'll,
have
one
challenge
as
a
mentee
and
one
as
a
mentor
and
they
kind
of
all
connect
together.
I
had
amazing
technical
mentors
mentors
when
I
was
getting
started,
but
on
a
confidence
and
personal
level
they
kind
of
crushed
me.
They
told
me.
I
was
too
arrogant
that
I
was
too
outspoken
and
it
took
me
a
really
long
time
to
get
it
back
like
I
guess,
imposter
syndrome.
For
me
it
wasn't
a
natural
thing.
E
It
was
given
to
me
by
people
telling
me
those
things,
and
so
originally
I
I'm
french.
So
I
studied
in
france-
and
I
worked
there
for
a
year
before
moving
to
australia,
and
that
was
a
huge
change
for
me.
Culturally,
the
workplace
is
so
different.
E
The
way
we
interact
with
people
the
way
we
are
treated
by
managers,
it
is
it's
completely
different
and
it
took
me
a
lot
of
adjusting,
but
also,
I
think,
the
australian
world
culture
is
much
more
adapted
to
my
personality
type
and
the
way
I
communicate,
because
I'm
quite
direct
and
honest
and-
and
I
and
maybe
I
didn't-
have
any
direct
mentor,
mentee
relationship
at
the
time
but
being
surrounded
by
people.
E
Who
would
tell
me
to
be
more
confident
that
I
was
actually
good
at
my
job
that
I
deserved
to
speak
up
and
tell
my
ideas.
It
really
helped
me
to
get
out
of
that
impostor
syndrome
cycle
where
my
previous
mentors
had
put
me
in
and
I
felt
like
it
was
really
beneficial
when
I
became
a
mentor
myself
and
actually
my
like
the
intern,
I
was
mentoring
at
the
time
he's.
E
He
told
me
that
one
of
the
things
that
he
learned
the
most
from
me
is
that
you
can
always
speak
up
as
long
as
you
have
the
knowledge
to
back
it
up.
It's
great
to
speak
up.
You
should
speak
up.
You
should
be
confident
about
your
knowledge,
and
especially
I
mean
especially
I
get
that
like
people,
it's
all
people
are
always
open
for
discussion.
E
They
will
never
shut
you
down
because
you're
being
arrogant,
it
makes
no
sense-
and
I
guess
that
was
the
cycle
of
like
being
crushed
and
then
growing
from
it
and
then
sharing
it
with
someone
making
sure
that
I
was
not
doing
that
to
him
and
I
was
actually
making
sure
that
he
knew
he
could
speak
up
even
though
he's
young
and
not
it
doesn't
necessarily
have
a
lot
of
experience.
I
still
value
his
opinion.
It's
actually
good
to
be
challenged,
especially
by
younger
people.
E
They
have
a
different
perspective,
they've
learned
things
differently
and
in
iit
things
evolve
all
the
time.
So
I
wanted
him
to
challenge
me.
He
and
he
did,
and
that
was
that
was
amazing
going
through
that,
even
though
it
was
there
was
a
few
difficult
years
for
me.
I
can
say
that
I
grew
out
of
it
and
I
made
the
best
day
out
of
it.
E
A
Think
yeah,
I
just
want
to
say
thank
you
to
all
three
of
you
for
sharing
that,
because
that's
like
a
really
brave
thing
to
do,
and
I
think
that
the
way
that
we
help
others
who
are
experiencing
imposter
syndrome
is
to
make
imposter
syndrome
normal
and
so
sharing
your
own
experiences
about.
It
is
really
powerful.
So
thank
you.
A
Okay.
We
have
about
five
minutes
left,
which
is
great
timing
for
this
last
question,
and
I
would
love
for
you
all
to
share
a
piece
of
advice
that
you
can
share
with
mentors
and
mentees
who
are
part
of
this
women
get
lab
mentorship
program.
Any
sort
of
advice
that
you
have
as
both
mentors
and
mentees
get
started
with
this
three-month
program
this
week
would
be
awesome.
C
I
really
appreciate
the
way
that
you
kind
of
summarized
before
samantha
about
the
the
emotional
component
of
the
key
to
takeaways
or
key
learnings,
and
for
me
that's
that's.
One
of
the
things
I
wanted
to
just
yeah
to
just
highlight
is
to
go.
There
is
a
connection
you
form
in
a
mental
mentee
relationship
and
it's
not
a
one-way
connection.
It's
not
a
mentee
forms,
a
connection
with
mentor.
It's
two-way,
you
are
both
gonna,
learn
and
grow
and
be
stretched.
C
There
are
things
you're,
both
gonna
learn
about
yourselves
and
about
each
other
there'll
be
revelations
that
you'll
both
have,
and
if
my
experience
is
anything
to
go
by
they
those
those
experiences.
Those
learnings
will
stick
with
you
for
a
really
long
time,
probably
for
your
entire
career,
so
yeah
really
just
enjoy
the
legacy
that
you're
going
to
leave
with
each
other
and
remember:
we
are
all
equal
in
this.
It's
not
about.
Oh
I've
got
a
mentor
they're
up
there.
No,
this
is
definitely
a
two-way
relationship
and
you're.
E
I
guess
I
don't
have
much
to
add
to
that,
I
would
say,
be
open-minded
and,
like,
like
jane
said,
we
have
things
to
learn
from
each
other,
like
even
a
mentor
will
learn
things
from
their
mentee.
Also,
like
don't
be
afraid
to
ask
questions,
there
are
no
stupid
questions
and
people
will
not
judge
we're
happy
to
help.
E
I
would
also
say
over
communicate
like
there
is
no
such
thing
as
over
communication
being
a
bad
thing,
especially
when
you
have
that
type
of
relationship
and
yes,
you'll
build
something
special
out
of
it,
and
when
I
was
in
doing
the
program
I
was
we
were
talking
every
day,
even
if
we
had
nothing
important
to
say
if
it's
just
about
talking
about
the
weather,
we
still
talked
every
day,
and
it's
not
just
about
there's
something.
That
is
also
that
I
could
have
mentioned
before.
E
It's
you
can
help
the
mentee
in
their
work,
but
let
them
keep
up
with
what
you're
doing
yourself
like,
because
the
way
that
like
they're
gonna,
observe
how
you
work
it
could
be
insanely
valuable.
Even
if
you
don't
see
it
that
way,
they
will
they
will.
They
will
gain
something
out
of
it
by
just
witnessing
what
you
do
and
how
you
do
it
and
how
you
communicate
with
people
and
and
all
of
that
and
that's
insanely
valuable
and
the
last
small
advice
is
enjoy
the
experience
because
it
is.
E
D
For
them
for
the
men's
tea,
I
take
ownership
right,
not
that
you
on,
but
definitely
take
ownership
of
it
is
it's
there
to
help
you
drive
it
take
ownership
of
it.
You
know,
don't
wait
for
the
mentor
to
reach
out
to
you.
You
know
reach
out
to
the
mentor
and
and
make
the
best
of
it
and
benefit
from
it.
A
Awesome,
that's
great
advice.
Well,
thank
you
all
for
joining
in
on
this
discussion.
A
We
only
have
about
one
minute
left,
and
so
I
just
want
to
close
things
out
and
say
if,
if
anyone
has
any
other
questions
that
they
want
to
discuss,
feel
free
to
add
it
to
this
agenda
document,
we
have
two
more
kickoff
sessions
happening
at
a
few
other
time
zones
later
on
today
and
probably
pushing
into
tomorrow.
For
you
all.
A
So,
if
you
have
other
questions,
I
am
happy
to
raise
those
for
the
two
other
panel
discussions
that
are
going
to
be
happening,
so
you
can
just
drop
them
in
the
document
and
we
can
bring
them
up
later
on
or
also
answer
asynchronously
in
the
doc.
But
I
just
wanted
to
say
again
thank
you.
This
has
been
a
really
great
discussion.
I
feel
like
really
lucky
to
work
with
all
of
you
and
to
have
the
chance
to
have
this
conversation.
A
So
thank
you
for
joining
and
I
hope
you
all
enjoy
the
rest
of
your
day
today.