Feeling immense pressure to be a sponsor and mentor to every junior minority professional who reaches out. I want to help, but my own career needs attention too. Where's that balance?

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Maybe, create an Excel sheet where you can coordinate with other professionals and young professionals for mentorship.

Break it down into a few different categories and from there you can connect people who can help balance out the workload.

Share the sheet in other networks and hopefully, that helps you with even your career aspects. (A project you created)

You set the balance and your bandwidth. I was asked to do so for someone in our org which I did. It was cool for the first few months but as work picked up, I scaled it back

I flat-out say I have the bandwidth to do that once a quarter, then I take a break, then I do it again. But I have to be very clear and turn people and requests down when my plate is already full. I feel like the people I do mentor deserve my full attention and not fractional crumbs.

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