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6 MAY 16, 2022 FEATURE BusinessWest
 Passing it On
For Mentors of Entrepreneurs, There are Many Kinds of Rewards
There are many components to the region’s entrepreneurship ecosystem, perhaps none more important than the small army
of mentors who are passing on what they know to a growing number of people looking to work for themselves instead of someone else. They impart to these entrepreneurs everything from the importance of understanding a spreadsheet to the notion that failure is ... well, not unexpected and something to be learned from.
By George O’Brien
When asked what she tries to impart to entrepreneurs as a mentor, or do for them as she counsels them, Kasey Corsello summed it all up
by saying that she tries to “normalize the emo- tional experience of it all, so they don’t feel like there’s something wrong with them.”
Anyone who has ever owned a business or tried to launch one — or mentored anyone who has, for that matter — knows exactly what she’s talking about.
“It is scary to be in the face of uncertainty, so
I help them access their own inner resources,
their own wisdom of lift experience to be able to make sound decisions,” said Corsello, a certified coach, co-owner, with her husband, of the Corsello Butcheria in Easthampton, and mentor with par- ticipants in EforAll Holyoke’s accelerator programs. “I help pull out their confidence and get them thinking that they can do this.”
With that, she described one of the many ways that mentors work with their clients and, while doing so, contribute in powerful ways to the vibrancy of the region’s business community.
Indeed, there are many components to the entrepreneurship ecosystem in Western Mass., and one of the most important is the small army of mentors who pass on what they know and pro- vide much-needed sets of eyes and ears (especially
 Kasey Corsello, a certified coach and co-owner of the Corsello Butcheria in Easthampton.
  



















































































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