Find Mentors That Treat You Like Family (w/ Paula Festas - Co-Founder & CEO, Huumans)

And So, She Left: Wisdom from Women Beyond the Corporate World

When Paula Festas was a young girl in Mozambique, her father was her greatest mentor. He taught her many important lessons about mentorship, but one stood out: treat your employees like family and friends. It’s a piece of wisdom that saved his life.

Today, Paula’s the Co-Founder and CEO of Huumans, a financial services and cloud accounting company for small businesses. And her passion for mentorship is stronger than ever. Discover why Paula is fiercely committed to mentoring others, how she excels at it, and the unbelievable story of how learning about mentorship has changed the course of her life.

Paula talks about:

• Challenges she faced in a male-dominated industry and how she overcame them
• The importance of mentorship in your career as a young professional
• Advice on finding passion and pursuing it in one's career
• Her approach to building meaningful relationships within her remote team
• How a key mentorship lesson saved her father’s life during wartime in Mozambique

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Hosted by Katherin Vasilopoulos. Made by Cansulta and Ethan Lee.

Music by © Chris Zabriskie, published by You've Been a Wonderful Laugh Track (ASCAP).

Songs used in this episode include: "Air Hockey Saloon," "Perhaps It Was Not Properly Manufactured," "Cylinder Four," "Heliograph," "I Am Running Down the Long Hallway of Viewmont Elementary," "I Knew My Way Downtown and Walking Was Deluxe," "Itasca, It's Glowing Red Hot," "Short Song 011123," "Short Song 020323," "Short Song 020523," "Short Song 021023," "Short Song 021123," "Short Song 021423," "Short Song 030623," "Land On the Golden Gate," "Rewound."

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