Was honestly so caught off-guard that I couldn’t do anything but sit there & try not to cry until she was done “coaching” me. With 10 years’ perspective, yeah -- it was sabotage.

In college, I had someone in a mentorship position tell me, “Everyone finds you off-putting” and it shattered me. I am an incredibly confident person with very healthy self-esteem, but it took me years to recover from that moment -- constantly second guessing myself in social situations. Even now, a decade later, I…