I have already done an introduction about myself so no need to bore you with repetition. 😉 I need to get my ducks in a row with the new life events occurring in my life over the past couple of weeks before I can give this channel my all once again. 🦆As I kept saying in the video: 'this is not the end!' I just feel like I am not managing my time efficiently for all the things that I am involved within my life. Goals for the relaunch of this channel: - 15-20min interview bites - move this into a...
Apr 04, 2021•9 min
Ramona works at the intersection of investment, innovation, and emerging markets. Ramona is the former Chief Operating Officer of the Innogy Innovation Hub, which invested in businesses working in the future of renewable energy. She was formerly CEO of SPRING Accelerator in East Africa and South Asia and been a long-term early-stage investor in impact and technology start-ups as well as a several-time founder, most recently of an inclusive transport start-up. She is currently supporting two inve...
Apr 04, 2021•26 min
Nobukhosi Dlamini is a multi-award winning, female tech founder and social entrepreneur. She completed a degree in Computer Science at the University of Cape Town and has 15 years of professional experience in the corporate IT sector. She is the Founder of Bahati Tech (a data protection and cybersecurity company), and the GIFT Foundation (a non-profit that seeks to make technology skills and fintech careers accessible to teenagers and young women from poor backgrounds). Recent accolades include ...
Apr 04, 2021•33 min
Marsha has accumulated a wide range of experiences in both legal and Corporate Affairs capacities and has now just recently started up a creative legal and PR Agency, @ffclpr - to provide easily accessible and affordable innovative solutions that are customized and curated specifically for Freelancers, Creatives and Small Business Owners who are otherwise put off by standard legal fees and the complexity involved in acquiring legal services. She is the creator and host of @fiftyfirstcoffees, a p...
Apr 04, 2021•28 min
Cerina is the co-founder of Future Females. After writing her MBA thesis on the Lean Startup Principles, Cerina was motivated to work with entrepreneurs. With a background in Lean Operations, combined with the Lean Startup principles, Cerina believes that systems provide the structure to make employees feel safe, and allow companies to scale. She met Lauren, her co-founder, working as an associate in an accelerator - a lack of female founders and involvement, led to the birth of Future Females. ...
Apr 04, 2021•31 min
Philippa Dods manages the Marketing operations for the African region of global media intelligence company, Meltwater. She is also the Marketing Strategy Advisor and shareholder of Future Females and has recently become the Director of the, recently launched, Future Females Foundation. She is a member of the Global Shapers Community, an initiative of the World Economic Forum, which is a network of youth driving dialogue, action and change in their communities. Philippa was nominated for Inspirin...
Apr 04, 2021•29 min
Lauren Dallas is the Co-Founder of Future Females, a movement that exists to increase the number of and support the success of female entrepreneurs. Launching in August 2017 in Cape Town, Future Females is now in 35 cities globally, with 40,000 members, and also runs a three month online Business School that has supported over 470 entrepreneurs with tech-based business ideas, to turn them into profitable businesses, bringing expertise from global partners including the UK in South Africa Tech Hu...
Apr 04, 2021•30 min
Farzana Baduel is the CEO & Co-Founder of Curzon PR. She has been appointed as the Resident Public Relations expert and Ambassador for the Oxford Foundry, the University of Oxford’s entrepreneurship centre. As a passionate advocate of strategic communications, she champions the power of PR as a dynamic force for building bridges and unifying the world’s voices into a global narrative. She set up Curzon PR in 2009, having previously served as Vice-Chair of Business Relations for the UK Conser...
Apr 04, 2021•31 min
Lee den Hond is living proof that when the purpose is bigger than the challenge, nothing is impossible. She is an inspirational speaker, adventurer, athlete, entrepreneur, 2015 South African Businesswoman of the Year award-winner, and undeniable optimist. In addition to being the third South African woman to summit Mount Everest in 2013, Lee has also completed the Marathon des Sables in Morocco in 2017, a race known as the toughest footrace in the world. 6 Full Ironman endurance events and a 500...
Apr 04, 2021•31 min
Lesego Tlhabi is well known for her media persona: Coconut Kelz which is a growing satire/comedy figure. Lesego and Coconut Kelz released their debut novel; a satirical book- Coconut Kelz’ Guide To Surviving This Shithole in September 2019, which has since gone on to become a bestseller. She has regular features on various TV spots across the country. She also wrote, starred in, and was the executive producer for the Coconut Kelz Election Special on BET. She has added MC to her roster and has ho...
Apr 04, 2021•36 min
To ‘spill the tea’ means to disclose information, especially of a sensitive nature. So, Nicky (Me, Myself & I be used throughout this description) decided to create THE TEA with Nicky because I saw a gap in portraying authentic Feminine Leadership in business, on the sports field and even everyday life. It is evident that the world is progressing, and the gender gap is slowly, but surely, closing between men and women. The ‘opportunity gap’ for this content comes in is that businesses (and s...
Apr 04, 2021•24 min
Motshidisi Mohono is an awarding winning Sport Broadcaster – currently plying her trade at SuperSport International. Mohono made her TV break in 2011 when SuperSport rolled out the Lady Rugga presenter search, where she finished third. Mohono's work speaks for itself and she has been awarded the 2016 GSport4Girls Women in Media: TV award and was named the 2018 SA Sport Awards Journalist of the Year. In 2018 she was part of SuperSport’s production team for the England tour to South Africa, anchor...
Apr 04, 2021•36 min
Jessica Sutton is a born & bred Cape Tonian actress, who is now making a name for herself across the US (& the world!) She is Tally Craven on the new Teen series sensation (also, one of my personal favourites), Motherland: Fort Salem live on Freeform & NOW ALSO on Showmax in South Africa. Jess made her first international appearance in 2015 on the mini-series Saints & Strangers, but you may also recognise her from the Netflix film, The Kissing Booth, as the popular ring leader, M...
Apr 04, 2021•38 min
Paulette Neo Kaise is a fitness enthusiast with a BA in Media Studies and Industrial Psychology. Paulette found her love for fitness while she was studying and has now made it her career after she pursued a Personal Training Diploma. Paulette also has a burning passion to give back to her community and to assist those who find themselves in disadvantaged situations. That is how she founded EmpoweredToEmpower. She helps those who are looking to obtain fitness, mental health or business goals! Pau...
Apr 04, 2021•36 min
Romy Mayer is the only female Race Engineer on her team at Triple Eight Race Engineering. She is also part of the Red Bull Supercar Racing Series, but not only that, she is the lead engineer on an AMG GT3 in a race series in Asia where the driver is the Prince of Malaysia! Romy believes that it is important to have role models to help shape the minds of the next generation where we can and inspire them to believe in themselves. When Romy isn't working under the pressure of long hours and perform...
Apr 04, 2021•32 min
Lufuno Sathekge (also known by her IG handle as @_msbrownstyling) is a Wardrobe Stylist in the Media & Entertainment space. She has styled productions for V-Entertainment, MassiveMusic, SuperSport, TV commercials, Music videos, Private shoots, as well as offering Personal wardrobe makeovers! Lufuno stumbled into the stylist career by chance while working as an Account & Relationship Manager for Madlozi Entertainment and submitting other stylists for an opportunity her friend had come to ...
Apr 04, 2021•36 min
Onke Dumeko is the Editor-in-Chief & Group Publishing Director at The Bar Group, for DESTINY Connect and the magazine. She is an unshakeable woman who strives to lead a purposeful and impactful life and lives by the mantra that “Leadership is a privilege, not a right and it is to be earned in the arena of action because ultimately, leaders should not create great followers, they should create great leaders.” She has extensive experience in media & publishing, FMCG and the public sector. ...
Apr 04, 2021•46 min
Rachel Kolisi is a mother of 4, an entrepreneur and philanthropist. She co-founded RISE ( https://risewomen.org.za/ ) with business partner and personal trainer, Tammy Raustron. RISE is a movement dedicated to helping women live more purposeful lives, through health and fitness. Rachel believes that the Kolisi Foundation ( https://kolisifoundation.org/ ) is a vehicle through which many lives can be impacted on a much greater scale with a deep desire to see all South Africans afforded an equal op...
Apr 04, 2021•48 min
Noluvuyo is a Tech Company Founder, a social entrepreneur, author and 2019 Inspiring50 Winner. She is a technology professional and leader with a career that spans 11 years across the Telecommunications, Financial Services, Higher Education and Natural Energy sectors. She an alumnus of the University of Cape Town, where I am also a current MCom Information Systems candidate. She has founded public benefit organisations that have made an impact in the lives of the communities and sectors which th...
Apr 04, 2021•37 min
Tayla Sutherland is a born and bred Cape Tonian who now resides in Sydney, Australia. Tayla completed her Bachelors and Honours at Vega in Art Direction and in Brand Communication and moved to Sydney to pursue a Masters in Strategy, Entrepreneurship, and Marketing. While she was a student in Sydney, she realised that there was a gap in the South African market for “beautiful online boutiques”, which pushed Tayla to launch her eCommerce biz BLVD Boutique in 2017. BLVD Btq ships bespoke female clo...
Apr 04, 2021•41 min
Kate Nicholls is an author, educator, ex-lion researcher and ex-actress. Our interview was actually 1hr43min and (as much as it ached me) I managed to get it down to a bite-sized 38min. We touch on the value of sharing a story and breaking the wall of silence, how invaluable that can be for ourselves ad those around us; her unconventional schooling methods and her passion for feminism. She moved from the UK to Botswana in 1995 where she raised, and homeschooled, her five children in the Okavango...
Apr 04, 2021•42 min
Aviwe Funani is currently the Program Monitory Manager at Waves For Change ( https://www.waves-for-change.org/ ). Waves For Change (W4C) works in communities affected by violence, poverty and conflict, where mental health services are often stigmatized and under-resourced. W4C creates partnerships with local community members. They aim to identify, train and resource mentors, who work to help open programmes that service the youth of their own home communities. In this episode, we talk about the...
Apr 04, 2021•34 min
Dorita founded Skinesiology Skincare in 2018. She found kinesiology through her journey as an avid & professional runner, where she met kinesiologist, Ron Holder, who introduced her to this world of holistic healing. 🏃🏽♀️ Dorita has been a qualified and practising kinesiologist for about 20 years now. Through her many years of experience, as an in-depth body therapist taught her a language which accesses information held in the body, coupled with her motivation, true belief and perseveran...
Apr 04, 2021•34 min
