Many of us can remember mentors who shaped our careers and are responsible for the situations in which we currently work or reside.  Kirsten Greene, MD (Twitter: KGUROmd) discusses many of the wonderful mentors she experienced through her evolution from a general surgery intern at UCSF to the Chair of Urology at the University of Virginia.  Strong examples of female and male mentors are offered, concepts of mentoring up as well as down are discussed, and creating a community of surgeons interested in each other and our collective well-being is brought forth.  (Music Credit: Sunshine, Simon Jomphe Lepine.)