Mentoring Stories

[box]Recently, I was invited to write a guest post for the blog of Alex & Ani, a company that “offers eco-friendly, positive energy products [...]

  [box]So far, 2014 has been an exciting year for the Over My Shoulder Foundation. We discovered some amazing people who have agreed to [...]

  [box]“I did not know where my life would go…” That's one of the lyrics from the song that inspired this foundation, “Over My Shoulder.” [...]

A song gave birth to Over My Shoulder Foundation. Now Over My Shoulder Foundation (OMSF) is giving birth to a new song: “Half Filled Tear,” [...]

Marissa Ranahan tells the story of a young woman whose life was changed by a mentor, and immediately brought Malala Yousafzai to mind.

[box]We are lucky to have a teacher on our writing team and excited for her students, because Sarah Gross is NOT afraid to tackle difficult [...]

  [box] Today I just found out that Stevie Wonder (one of my mentors from afar) and Arsenio Hall will be there when our Over My Shoulder [...]

  Jean Stapleton passed away last Friday, May 31. Her time with us lasted for a fulfilling 90 years. We will probably best remember Jean [...]

[box] The magnetic pull of the ocean can be healing, spiritual and thought-provoking. It is a mentor. A crash of a wave, the cry of a gull or the [...]

  [box]Over My Shoulder Foundation (OMSF) is a non-profit organization co-founded by Patti Austin and Dawn Carroll to promote mentoring [...]

    Making huge strides in our efforts to unite the worlds of mentoring, music and design at the intersection of Over My Shoulder [...]

  Over My Shoulder Foundation Co-Founders Patti Austin and Dawn Carroll attended the Leaders of Design Council Conference in Berlin, [...]