PEOPLE - How to be a role model

First you need to realise that it's a conscious choice, says Heleana QuarteyOne of the most disempowering assumptions about role models is that the role has to be assigned to you by society once you have "arrived", or that you have to wait to be deemed good enough to be one. This is simply untrue, although interestingly it is often once we become established in our careers that we feel compelled to give back.What no one told me when I started out ...

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