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Mentor Talks with Tracy
Trust, Humanity, and Learning Beyond the Classroom
Mentor Talks is an ongoing interview series by Bali Internships that captures the voices of mentors across disciplines, cultures, and life paths. From business owners to practitioners, educators, and community leaders, Mentor Talks explores what mentorship means beyond instruction. These conversations reflect on trust, responsibility, failure, care, and curiosity as essential elements of learning. As the series expands across programs and fields, Mentor Talks becomes an evolving archive of perspectives that challenge narrow definitions of success and invite learners to think more broadly about their own paths.
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Mentor Talks is our way of introducing the people behind our internship programs. Not through job titles or company names, but through their values, experience, and approach to mentorship. In this edition, we speak with Tracy, a founder and senior professional working with expatriates and international businesses in Indonesia. Her work spans compliance, legal processes, advisory services, and business operations. While technical by nature, her approach is deeply human.
Trust as a foundation
Tracy builds her work around trust. Internally, this means creating an environment where team members feel safe to ask questions, admit mistakes, and learn openly. Externally, it means understanding clients as people first, not just cases or transactions. For interns, this exposure is formative. Many arrive having experienced rigid or fear driven work environments. Tracy wants them to leave knowing what healthy professional standards look like and to carry those standards forward into their careers.
Learning beyond theory
Interns working alongside Tracy experience a dynamic professional environment where priorities change constantly. Client needs, regulatory shifts, and real time decision making demand adaptability, critical thinking, and perspective. While universities teach theory and research, they cannot replicate the lived experience of applying knowledge under real conditions. Interns develop the ability to problem solve, think ahead, and respond with intention rather than reaction.
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Cultural exchange as growth
Having interns from different countries is not a one way learning process. Tracy describes how international perspectives expand how teams communicate, listen, and reflect on their own assumptions. Often, those looking in from the outside see things more clearly than those immersed in daily routines. This exchange benefits everyone involved.
Mentorship as possibility
For Tracy, mentorship is a privilege. She sees her role as helping people recognize pathways they may not yet see. Interns often arrive with a narrow view of what their future profession looks like. Exposure to diverse career experiences broadens that understanding. Watching interns leave with expanded thinking and confidence is, for her, one of the most rewarding parts of mentorship.
What young talent brings back
Young professionals bring curiosity, energy, and unfiltered ideas. Their presence reminds experienced professionals to stay open, continue learning, and look beyond routines. This exchange keeps organizations alive and evolving. Mentor Talks exist to highlight exactly this, the people, values, and environments that shape meaningful professional growth.
By LK
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