Mentee and Mentor

Cinderella had her Fairy Godmother.

Pinocchio had Jiminy Cricket.

The Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles had Splinter.

Whether they live in the land of imagination and fantasy or the real world,
every person needs a mentor.

Cinderella's Fairy Godmother gave Cinderella hope by dressing her up for

the ball so she could meet her Prince Charming. Eventually, Cinderella
slipped her foot into a glass slipper and found her happy ending.

Pinocchio didn't know right from wrong. But with Jiminy Cricket as his
mentor and conscience, the little wooden puppet learned how to tell the
truth and be brave, earning his reward of becoming a real boy.

Splinter taught his young Ninja Turtles how to use their super powers for
good. The four mutants took his lessons to heart and became famous and
beloved superheroes.

In each story, a mentor took a person under his or her wing and then
helped that person soar.

Good evening, fellow toastmasters and guest

Mentorships in the toastmaster’s is not about holding up our finger and

taking us around in each role and asking doing in this way and that way and
make ourself dependent to that person.
it’s actually to hear out our goal, to hear out our vision and to hear out the
thing we want to improve in oneself and guide us towards it to help us being
somebody whom we look up to.
Each mentor we select in the toastmaster’s international was a mentee in his
time and had a mentor who was guiding him. The relationship and culture of
mentees and mentors is what actually drives us towards the toastmaster’s
meeting i.e somebody being unconditional and somebody without any agenda
is supporting us and lifting us up.
At times a mentor in toastmasters shift from role of mentor to coach. Mentor
is somebody who looks up to on our longer goal and helps to reach there but
coach is someone who works on your smaller goals.

Thus, mentorship is something so dear and main thing in the toastmasters

international that drives attraction towards toastmasters international where
there is unconditional support from our senior.

when we are speaking about mentors; I think just like a good fairy tale, a
mentoring relationship should have a happy ending. Each mentoring
relationship is different and has its own dynamics.

Fellow toastmasters if you were given chance to select your own mentor then
whom would you select? as we are familiar with various Toastmasters from
various clubs?

My Mentor in toastmaster is TM Shreeniwas Sharma president of Shangrila

toastmasters club; Who greeted me warmly in my initial days in toastmasters
club, who helped me, supported me and groomed me in each and every role
and introduced me to the website of toastmasters’ club, but may be due to
his personal reason or maybe there was some fault from my side, maybe I
couldn’t meet the standards of mentee; I lost him as a mentor for so long.

But my fellow toastmaster and guest I found mentors in my healer’s

toastmasters club like a magical ingredient to support me like TM Kalpana
Maharjan who guided me during my L2P1 speech just as a mentor should
and TM Souryaa supported me as a mentor during my L2P2 Speech and in
this speech as well. I am so blessed to have these various mentors in my life
and our healer’s toastmaster club.

In the storybook fables we know as “Fairy Tales”, characters identified as

Fairy Godmothers, represents divine intervention. They have a whole arsenal
of magical problem-solving tools at their disposal, and use them with their
favorite kid’s best interests at heart.In my life I also got my fairy Godmother
my mentor Prof.Dr Sarita Joshi who supported me unconditionally during my
postgraduate days helped me throughout my ups and downs, guided me and
led me to my better me today. I have been receiving her unconditional
support even today will be forever.

In this toastmaster club also, I am seeking for the mentor, not necessarily
like in a fairytale, but someone who brings a spark and magic in my journey
as a public speaker. This will definitely help me become a great mentor in the
future as well.

Fellow toastmasters and guest, as a concluding note, I want to share

something Charbel Tadros stated. “the relationship between mentee and
mentor is one of the most beautiful and most sacred relationships. In sharing
his wisdom with his mentee, the mentor discovers even more wisdom to
share.”