This week, we’re talking about a specific variety of origin story:

Mentorship.

All summer, we’ve been talking about origin stories. This week, we’re digging into another kind of origin story: Mentoring. Advising your colleagues as they create their own PI origin stories. Sharing your own origins — including the good, bad, and ugly — for the benefit of others.

Stay tuned for more on this topic on Thursday at 11:30am CDT, in our free monthly webinar, featuring Angelica Brooks — a newly-minted PI whose origin story is still being written. She’ll share her path from criminal justice work to her dream of becoming a licensed PI and volunteering her skills to help families who have not found justice or closure. Check out her inspiring personal essay in Pursuit, then join our webinar conversation about the difficulties of launching an agency amidst a pandemic and global recession.

Share your hard-won wisdom! Be a mentor.

What about you? Have you ever been had a mentor, or mentored anyone? Tweet us @PursuitMag or submit a personal essay to Pursuit by clicking here.

Then join us on Thursday evening for our next virtual PI happy hour. Maybe you’ll meet your next mentor or mentee there…virtually.

And now, here’s the weekly briefing from me, the editor. —Hal