I aspire for a fulfilled life that does not require for me to switch off from any one of my roles but be able to move through each responsibility I have with fluidity.
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Art of Balance
Search for: Art of Balance career / home / Relationship / Self-care Art you in? I’ve been invited many times to speak on the concept of balance. I think when people look from outside in, they see this person who has it all figured out. As I type this,...
10 Tips For Starting Your Own Side Hustle
1. Analyse your time usage and where you can steal time or cut down activities to invest that time back into your side hustle Before deciding to start a side hustle, it is important to assess your schedule and look for moments in your day that can be...
Trust Your Gut: Gut & Liver Health
My Story I’ve always been one to listen to my body and allow it to cue me towards good health and function. But lately, no matter how much I tried, eating healthy, fasting, drinking plenty water, moving more… you name it, my body was just not happy. I was feeling...
Fallacy or Fact: Working From Home Is Productive
This past year was atrocious to the whole world and at the moment, no one wants to revisit the memories created during the height of the COVID19 pandemic. Nevertheless, that painful period educated many of us. We learnt new words like ‘Zoom dysmorphia,’ ‘Comorbidity,’...
Feb Editor’s Note: Growing in Love Where You Are Planted
Olwethu’s February Editor’s Note.
The Future Of Coding Is Female
Representation, participation, inclusion, and equality of women and girls in the ICT sector continue to become a huge challenge to overcome. Gender biases perpetuate perceived realities and thus limit interest and exposure in the industry. A report by UNESCO, called...
Young Africans Disrupting Generational Systems Through Activism
Our African continent currently has a lot going on. In South Africa right now, we are experiencing loadshedding, Nigerians recently lost access to Twitter, and Zimbabwe is grappling with the challenges of dealing with the COVID 19 pandemic. So much is happening! In...
Gen Z Is Ready For Work! Are Organisations Well-Suited?
A few weeks ago, my boss walked up to my desk with a brand new gadget and gave me the task of figuring out how to use it, leading up to shooting Season 3 of The Sit Down with Olwe2lesh. Being part of a tech-savvy generation, I immediately took on the task with...
Neo Mahlangu Paints The African Visual Arts Scene Red!
As a creative myself, I low-key harbour my own biases when it comes to other people’s career options. Which I admit is quite ironic because I have also had to defend my chosen career field. I had subconsciously put ranks on different professions in the creative...
Gearing Up For A Career Change
The sequence usually goes… go to school, graduate, get a job and build a career. But what happens when your ambitions aren’t aligning with the job you’re currently in? Well, if you thought you were alone, perhaps these stats may interest you - according to a report by...
Career Advice I Wish I Never Took
“A million girls would kill for this job“… a quote from one of my absolute favourite iconic movies (which I’ve probably watched more than ten times), The Devil Wears Prada - a 2006 film about a young woman who starts a new job as a second assistant to a demanding...
Purview of Side Hustles Through the Experiences of Women
Having multiple streams of income has never been more crucial than it is today. Olwethu Leshabane mentioned during the recording of an upcoming interview on The Sit Down with Olwe2lesh, that she doesn’t remember a single day when her mother ran out of money, because...
Why You Shouldn’t Put Your Head Down & Do The Work
“If you just keep your head down, work, and put it on the bottom line, sooner or later that takes care of everything else.” – Wayne Huizenga When I was starting out in the workplace, some of the most common advice I would get is to keep my head down and just do...
5 Platform To Get You Levelling Up
Coursera Coursera is an online learning platform founded by two Stanford University computer science professors. It offers thousands of online courses in partnership with over 200 of the world’s leading universities and companies,...
Your Schedule Holds A Key To Your Self-Care
For a lot of small business owners especially women owned small business owners, the idea of self-care and time management to accommodate self-care seems to be such a farfetched idea and unrealistic. But if you don’t exercise your self-care muscle, burnout will...
7 Lessons I Learnt From Shoe Dog For Business Growth
I recently finished reading Shoe Dog and was truly inspired to keep my head down and do the work as I'd also like to casually bump into my acquaintances Bill Gates and Warren Buffet as I leave the movie theatre in Palm Springs one day... So here are my 7 key...
Success Is Balance – Focus On Being Balanced
Ever felt completely out of flow and off balance? Success is balance – focus on being balanced. See... here's the thing with balance: When your life is in balanced, it's difficult to harbour jealousy or even create feelings of jealousy or negativity over...
