Advice for transition from student to mentor, too involved?

[liviamarrs]

Originally Posted by ay2b

- after everyone who was a student on your team while you were a student on that team has graduated, consider going back to help out there, if you want

Coming right out of winning our first RCA and graduating, this is the hardest advice for me as an alumnus to hear. There's so much potential in the team right now that I feel like I can help come to fruition in the form of wide culture change in our state. The idea of dropping the team while there's so much to accomplish hurts.

At the same time, I don't know if I can be an effective mentor to a group that was so recently my team and my committee (I was the head of outreach). I've let a full year go by without a lot of advising, but now I definitely want to come back.

So I was wondering if there was any advice for getting around the original advice. How do you make your friends respect you as an authority figure to some extent and focus on guidance rather than providing the solutions?