A good mentor challenges you

The speaker shares how Cathy Davitt played a crucial role in their personal and professional growth. Cathy helped normalize failures and encouraged problem-solving by requiring solutions alongside complaints. This approach taught the speaker valuable life lessons about responsibility and self-reliance, emphasizing the importance of being proactive in overcoming challenges and shaping one's destiny.

Describe how the speaker felt about complaining and how Cathy responded to it.

What does the speaker mean by being the 'master of my own sort of destiny'?