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April/May 2024

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W O M E N I N B U S I N E S S Our mission is to create and support one to one mentoring relationships that ignite the power and promise of youth. What services do you offer, and how do they meet a need for Central Georgians? Our mentoring programs empower the potential in every kid, helping them improve academically, graduate from high school, and setting them up for successful adult lives. I hope more women will step up and become a mentor to our youth. You can empower every young person to build key social and emotional skills they need to succeed in life and their career. What has been the most challenging part of being a professional woman? A challenge that I've always had was that some folks underestimated my abilities based on my gender and size (I'm really petite). What experiences led you to choosing this professional path? Meeting families from our marginalized communities and seeing first hand how they lived opened up my eyes up to a world that needed to be transformed. I changed my career path because I had the ability to help make a positive difference. What is the best advice you have ever received, business or otherwise? I am a harpist and pianist. In the music world, there is a saying that you are only as good as your last performance. This is true in everyday life as well. — Betsy Fitzgerald B i g B r o t h e r s B i g S i s te r s o f t h e H e a r t o f G e o r g i a Betsy Fitzgerald and Dr. Tatrabian Jackson 175 Emory Highway, Macon 478.745.3984 e: kids@bbbsga.org w: bbbsga.org

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