On October 20th, as part of the 2022 Champalimaud Research Symposium QuantOCancer took over the final session of the day to host an informal exploration around both finding and acting as a mentor throughout your working life, drawing on experiences from researchers with different lived experiences and at different career stages. We were kindly joined by invited speakers Neta Erez, Sarah-Maria Fendt, Gerard Evan and Ana Luísa Correia, who shared some wisdom and fielded questions from a highly involved in-house and online audience, with Adriana Sánchez-Danés and mentors Laura Silva and Francisco Azevedo also presenting the outcomes of the 2021/2022 edition of the Ciência di Noz Manera local high-school mentoring programme. Going forward, this programme is now funded and run through RAISE project.