Strength Like Silk
The Japanese Winter Cherry Blossom blooms through the harsh conditions of winter. Women, too, can bloom through uncertain times if they know how to reframe. I am on a mission to inspire women to be bold enough to step [...]
Happy Women’s Day to the crazy ones!
This Nike commercial, "It's only crazy until you do it," captures the conversation about gender bias -- a very powerful way to acknowledge Women's Day on 9 August. A real, everyday example of gender bias in action A [...]
Gender Should Not Determine Pay; Contribution Should
Gender should not determine pay; contribution should. Unfair pay practises are not accepted by children, so why are they accepted by adults? With so many years of programming and conditioning many men AND women don't even think to check if there is [...]
Financial planning for women 101: Buy the share, not the handbag!
Buy the share not the handbag! I'm not a financial adviser and this is not financial advice. Rather, it's uncommon commonsense that really only kicked in for me after I became a widow, a single mom and sole breadwinner. [...]
Leadership: Embrace Your Story and Find Your Voice
Have You Lost Your Voice? What are the stories, and whose voices keep you from speaking? If you don’t feel free to speak — and many of us don’t — there are reasons you feel that way. Those stories [...]
Raising The Volume On Gender Mainstreaming
Want to know how to create sustainable advancement of women, instead of just paying lip service to the women empowerment conversation? Join me for this podcast as I chat to Colleen Larsen, Chief Executive of Business Engage. She has [...]
The Rise Of A Powerful Woman, From The Bedroom Floor To An African Star
The Rise Of A Powerful Woman Want some inspiration from a powerful woman? Armed with just R1 000 in her pocket, a laptop and a cellphone, and sitting on her bedroom floor, this "can-do" woman, Farah Fortune famously started [...]
Women’s Day: Give Yourself Permission To Make a Change
Women's Day: The only permission you need is your own. If the wheels aren't turning quickly enough for you, then start turning the wheel yourself. While this may not be possible for the majority of women in our country, [...]
Re-Scripting Women’s Empowerment
Women's Empowerment. Who’s actually biased? Could it be, women, that you are? It’s 2022. We have electric cars, online shopping (and drones to deliver it), and artificial intelligence… Fantastic. But why, in this highly evolved environment, do we not [...]
You are an asset; how are you investing in you?
Only assets create wealth according to The Wealth Chef, Ann Wilson, and I believe that YOU are an asset in a class of your own. How are you investing in you, even when you don't feel like it? I was [...]