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How to Find a Mentor When You Work in a Toxic Culture
Toxic workplaces can make networking feel risky, and conventional mentor advice often backfires. In this episode, Lucas and Luna explore a quieter, more strategic approach: finding mentors who operate outside your immediate reporting line or even outside your organization. They discuss why peer mentors and 'safe confidants' matter more than senior sponsors in a hostile environment, how to read the political landscape before reaching out, and the surprisingly simple question that can identify a potential ally. Drawing on the story of a compliance officer who quietly built a…
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